justin_o_guy2
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What happened?
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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right now employees have a hell of a time negotiating with their employer, there's pretty much one move "give me a raise or I quit" which actually puts the employee in a pretty desperate scenario.
That's true in a bunch of jobs. In places where each employee actually bills the customer or does jobs that are of known value, like copier and cash register repair, where I could document earnings and bodywork, where the job had a total dollar figure and my hours on it were on my time card, I could show the boss that I was making him enough money to justify a raise. Even then,though, I was forced to threaten to quit one guy. I eventually did quit, after the third time. Yes, I got the raise, but quit anyway. I told him that if he forced me to threaten to quit to get treated right, after he finally did what I had earned, I would quit. And I still went to the shop lake trips and Christmas parties for three years, because I was friends with the guys. I stopped going because of personnel changes. But how can an employee document meritorious and more profitable work if he's flipping burgers?
I was able to negotiate better pay, because I understand Business. Employees are generally not aware that the employer pays for their unemployment insurance and half of the social security, and the labor and delivery resultant earnings of the employees is the source of That money. Someone has to earn the money for the electric bill, phone bill, pay for the Secretary, the accountant, insurance on the building, and contents, and the boss's paycheck. It's not a sweet, kind world. And governmental regulations and taxes are not making it easier for the employer, which means that the employees are more heavily burdened.
Step one, slash corporate income taxes, they are only Paid by the customers and employees. Without customers and employees, no corporation generates a dollar, so where are the tax dollars coming from? We would have more jobs if we didn't cut the throats of the entrepreneurs. How many people Would open up a small enterprise IF they weren't going to be immediately bankrupted by a government Telling them that they would Have to pay employees more than they can afford? Why not let people decide if they want to work at a job and accept what the owner can afford to pay? They Could contract with him and agree to accept a low wage, help him get it going, then get paid for building the business up.
People seem to think a business owner is making tons of money. Some are, and are greedy. Some aren't, and go broke. And some are making good money and pay their people well. Henry Ford was the right guy to work for. My dad believed in paying his people well. Turnover is expensive and morale is good,
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