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01-26-2005, 01:14 PM

People are humans first, not workers.

I can't belive anyone would argue for a company being able to dictate a workers lifestyle. What if they decided next you need to save more money and withheld 1/2 your paycheck in a mandatory savings fund? Or your wife does not meet the educational or financial standards of the company? You spent more then the company felt necisary on christmas gifts? We live on a continent of great freedom, it is unacceptable for a company to take a didactic role for how you can and can not choose to live.

The Ford motorcopy had an entire department around the 20's that would personaly visit their workers homes, inspect their lawns, wife, children and lifesyle to decide wheather they met Ford standards for the legendary $5 dollar a day wage. Not even Ford though would fire workers who did not meet their standards, they simply did not receive the enter income and were left at a base wage around $2.50 a day.

I know someone here will retort with mandatory drug testing, which I don't oppose. I think you limit yourwork force to a certain type of people, not necisarly drug users but people who are willing to accept that kind of involvment. It makes far for more sense to me to have a zero tolernce policy for employee's personal lives affecting their work. Elimenting any need to have testing or policys.

01-26-2005, 01:14 PM	#49 (permalink)
NotMVH Guest	People are humans first, not workers. I can't belive anyone would argue for a company being able to dictate a workers lifestyle. What if they decided next you need to save more money and withheld 1/2 your paycheck in a mandatory savings fund? Or your wife does not meet the educational or financial standards of the company? You spent more then the company felt necisary on christmas gifts? We live on a continent of great freedom, it is unacceptable for a company to take a didactic role for how you can and can not choose to live. The Ford motorcopy had an entire department around the 20's that would personaly visit their workers homes, inspect their lawns, wife, children and lifesyle to decide wheather they met Ford standards for the legendary $5 dollar a day wage. Not even Ford though would fire workers who did not meet their standards, they simply did not receive the enter income and were left at a base wage around $2.50 a day. I know someone here will retort with mandatory drug testing, which I don't oppose. I think you limit yourwork force to a certain type of people, not necisarly drug users but people who are willing to accept that kind of involvment. It makes far for more sense to me to have a zero tolernce policy for employee's personal lives affecting their work. Elimenting any need to have testing or policys.