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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Who said anything about it being equal? It's about managing the extremes. If the CEO has to make $15m a year instead of $17m so that the lower escelons of the company can move closer to a living wage and as such the company can avoid labor disputes, it would be time for some decision making that includes weighing the value of the CEO with the value of the work force. This is business 101.
That's exactly what I'm saying. Don't starve the employees so that you can get that hotshot CEO by giving him more food that he can possibly eat.
I was a good manager because I was able to prevent the ignorant people around me from abusing the underlings. Abused underlings, to quote Office Space, work just hard enough not to get fired.
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It was hyperbole, but it's intended to demonstrate a real concern. When I did landscaping as a teenager, I made $6 an hour. I was a foreman (1 of 4 in the small company), I spoke fluent English, I knew the trade backwards and forwards and was a demonstrated leader. My boss, the owner, made $270k+ a year. Do you think that made me want to work harder, or do you think it's why I started talking about forming a union?
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Again, the BoD sets the criteria for compensation for the CEO and upper management.
You worked for a private company. You worked for a small company. What the OWNER decides to make as salary was probably not that amount at all. Not to mention that it is the OWNERS choice as to what to pay his employees.
I'd also state that forming a union is noble but hey great! I'm a small business owner. I've got lots of ways to prevent my employees from unionizing. From outsourcing human resources to firing employees who talked about unionizing. See it's all great to say and do these things, the reality is, the guy who signs the checks decides who stays employed. Again, the quality of the food, I'd choose to not give you any food.
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