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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Some people have earned the privilage of being written off.
In that $8 to $12 dollar range, why do you think an employer would let a good employee go, have an opening, hire an unknown person, train them and let the cycle happen again and again. Seems like an inefficient way to do business. If I were one of those employees, and was being treated poorly, I would be happy to leave and go to work for a company that treated me and other employees with dignity and respect and had a long-term outlook.
Good people don't have to put up with bullsh**. But, they first have to believe they are "good" and perform accordingly.  |
It happens all the bloody time, especially in large chain stores where managers are under pressure from the top to keep wages down. If total wages get too high, they start looking for excuses to let high-salaried people go, even if they're good and experienced.
Or you can do what managers at Walmart do, and actually wipe hours from peoples' electronic timesheets. Top management says this isn't company policy, but managers do it to keep costs down, and nobody ever gets fired for it _unless_ some employees file a lawsuit.
Yes, good people do put up with bullshit, every day. Because they have no choice, no other jobs, no education that'll get them past the initial barriers in HR for a better job.
Put it to you this way: if everybody was able to get ahead, _where would they all get ahead to?_ There are only so many good-paying slots, so many opportunities for prosperous entrepreneurism in a finite economy. There'll always be good people on the bottom, people who try, people who have handicaps of one type or another or just bad luck.
Life isn't a Heinlein novel. Good people get crushed all the time. And saying, "If they were _really_ good, they wouldn't be crushed," is just wishful thinking.