(June 10, 2021 at 2:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Quote:No problem - START YOUR OWN BUSINESS - and you can pay all the slackjawed idiots that show up looking for a job top wages.... Don't forget a 401k and comprehensive medical......
Long term, those things - higher wages, better benefits, etc - are a net plus for a business. Employees who are paid and perked properly tend to be happier and give better service. It also reduces tardiness, absenteeism and (most importantly) turnover, and attracts better applicants. Given that it costs in the neighbourhood of $5K to add a single new employee, it’s in the boss’s best interest to make the available job as attractive as possible.
Yes, companies hire people to make money. Not surprisingly, people go to work for the same reason.
Boru
Over the course of a long career, I have hired and fired many. Always on merit. I could have gone the min wage route with plenty. I never have. And it has always been a win to avoid that BS.
The problem is that OLB thinks that other people are mere things to be used and abused at will. I and most others here think other people are exactly that. Other people. PEOPLE. With lives of there own that they are simply trying to live as best they can manage.
To put an example, at one time, I had an employee, hard worker, well above min wage and what not. Word filtered up to those in the so called upper echelons that his mother was at deaths door while he was working like mad on the production line. So, we summoned him to the office and asked him why on earth was he here, he should have been in the hospital at his mother's side.
I, and my business partners told him a few truths.
1. You need to be at your dying mother's side.
2. We will pay you in full for whatever time.
3. Your job sill still be here however it pans out.
4. If it takes us rolling up shirtsleeves and filling in while you are missing, we will do it, the company or job is not your life.
5. Why are you still here? Get thee hence to where you need to be.
Thirty years later, the guy is still around and I am glad of it. He would have a good shout at best employee ever.
OLB would have chucked him under a bus and enjoyed it.
