Time and a Half
In days of yore I was in the retail business.I still have many friends and aquaintences in retail. One of the happy things about the Christmas season was that instead of hiring additional workers for the longer hours that I must have stayed open in order to be competative, I extended the hours of my current help, paying them time and a half for working over the 40 hour week. Now, keep in mind that it would have been considerably cheaper for me to hire additional part-time help. Keep in mind that the additional moneyearned by my regular help, paid for their Christmas and was looked forward by them in order to purchase many things without the need to finance them that they have been waiting all year to get. But there has been a radical change in the outlook of employees since I was in business. According to my friends still laboring in the management side of retailing, the help would rather stick to their regular hours than put in the extra work in order to get the extra pay. What? If I proposed this when I was in business the help would likely have gone on strike. I inquired do yo still pay them more for the extra hours? Yes, they sure do. then what is the problem. It turns out that there simply is bot enough payment to entice them to work the extra hours. This, to me explains everything one needs to know about the current labor situation in America. I think that every worker in every industry except in the USA welecomes the opportunity to make the extra money during the holidays.Thi really saddens me.
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A. Bone lazy and B. has been inculcated with the Idea that they can never get ahead...so why try!
Not the go-getter attitude of previous generations but the best kind of attitude for big government controlled drones.
Another factor here is the progressive nature of the tax system, the worker perceives that the more he works the more his taxes are. this is a clear damper on the notion of working extra. At the level of a store employee, this is not so much the case, but they think that this is the case. Welfare benefits are subject to this same curse, don't do too well or you will loose your benefits.
There is something I have put a lot of time and effort into, one inwhich I'll share if successful, it's been just over a year now and getting close to finding out if I have wasted that time or not.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained and nothing but skin in this game. No monetary investments thus far.
What you describe reminds me of Atlas Shrugged.
As the story unfolded it was more and more difficult for the producers to find quality employees to get the job done. When a conscious
Worker became involved they shined like a bright star and even were invited to the gulch.
I have never had an hourly wage or a salary. I work 2 jobs one that I love and the other pays the
Bills I never consider a starting or ending to the day, week or month for that matter. I am not a workaholic but when I can make some dough that is my focus.
I basically fit my life in between my work and sleep. Just like most of the gulchers I suspect.
Zayn blyendik ir ale.
Sure, after some point, I am only feeding the "Beast" (our expression for government) but I am only making a little more than half the income I once earned when working for DeWalt Power Tools, which ended in 09.
In every field I ever worked...there are just no jobs over 6 figures anymore.
There are many others in my company who do their very best to avoid working more than 20 hours a week.
I am constantly appalled by the work ethic of those around me.
My salary was just over $7K but I made $13K due to the OT. In 1964 you could do a lot with that and since we were newlyweds, we made a down payment on a house and bought a lot of furniture. I guess that if your people don't want any extra money, you must be paying them too much for their 40 hours.