Your Tax Dollars Are Subsidizing Low Wages?!!

Truth Detector said:
It’s apparent from the efforts I have made to communicate with the dullard that she really is a Democrat; she really is that dumb.

I am pretty done with her; it is obvious she is clueless and merely wants to engage in a circle of stupidity.
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heh heh heh

translation: she kicked my ass, I'll back off now.


np, carry on.
 
christiefan915 said:
Sometimes they do. It's not black and white. Check out this article from today's paper. This woman didn't have a fast-food job. Nice way for the company to put her between a rock and a hard place. If she decides to move on, who's to say the next employer won't do what this one did?

If no raise, is it still promotion?

October 25, 2013 10:07 PM

Rosie Hernandez found herself standing in her manager's office in disbelief. He was offering her supervision of a larger team and a title that reflected her new role. What he wasn't giving her was a raise. "That will come when we all reach our goals," he told her.

Ms. Hernandez hesitated. She was a mother of two young children and a marketing representative at a Miami medical sales firm. The added responsibility would require more hours devoted to work and wreak havoc with her work/life balance. Turning down the offer, though, might be viewed as a lack of career ambition.

Such dilemmas are becoming more commonplace at workplaces as employers continue to cautiously guard their salary budgets. New research from CareerBuilder found that nearly two-thirds of employers said that a promotion at their firms doesn't always entail a pay raise. And, according to an OfficeTeam survey of 433 office workers, 55 percent polled said they would be willing to accept a promotion that doesn't include a raise.

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http://www.post-gazette.com/business/employment/2013/10/27/If-no-raise-is-it-still-promotion.html
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"If no raise, still a promotion?"

Depends. For *me*, if that was my only option (change in title AND responsibilities), I'd probably take it to expand my skill set, bump up my resume...and then use that to move on.
 
I don't understand. The right wing is always going off about how the free market automatically corrects wages to value. If an employee is already getting correctly compensated for the value they offer the company, how is it reflecting the free market to have an employee give more value to the company without getting more compensation? That's not a promotion, it's a demotion. It literally translates as "Sorry, Jim, but you haven't been offering enough value to the company for the wages you're getting -- you have to give more now."
 
Essence said:
I don't understand. The right wing is always going off about how the free market automatically corrects wages to value. If an employee is already getting correctly compensated for the value they offer the company, how is it reflecting the free market to have an employee give more value to the company without getting more compensation? That's not a promotion, it's a demotion. It literally translates as "Sorry, Jim, but you haven't been offering enough value to the company for the wages you're getting -- you have to give more now."
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Here's my opinion:
It's supply and demand. The employee has made her labor too easy to get. Her supply of labor is outweighing the demand for her labor. This is because there are either too many other people who can do her job and they are easily found, or the employee is afraid to withdraw some supply in the face of market conditions. Everyone would agree that a manufacturer would be stupid to produce the same amount when experiencing diminshing returns, so why does an employee get a pass for showing up when getting taken advantage of?

Her correct move would be to find another job after refusing the promotion. When you show up to work the day after someone has screwed you, you are telling them you accept their treatment of you.
 
Of course raising min wage helps overall, teabaggers have zero facts to the contrary!
That said the poverty rate is the huge guilt wool pulled over your eyes.
It's a percentage of median income.
Which is why our poor are so fat.
Like kings of past the are well fed.
 
There's an easy enough compromise to be reached here; compensate for any minimum wage increase with an earned income tax credit decrease.

That's the spirit of compromise Democrats are always preaching, but the mere suggestion of it will have them squealing like stuck pigs.
 
Lorca said:
heh heh heh

translation: she kicked my ass, I'll back off now.


np, carry on.
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Wrong....translation; she just might be THAT stupid so there's no further gain to engage her. I think you are borderline intelligent; but not quite there. ;)
 
Essence said:
The Declaration of Independence.
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How does one arrive at this incredibly dense conclusion? Can you identify what part of the Declaration states that the Federal Government should be in the business of determining what is a fair and minimum acceptable wage?

You do realize that the Declaration of Independence is not a document for Governing right? That would be our Constitution.

Dimwit.
 
The Dude said:
Of course raising min wage helps overall, teabaggers have zero facts to the contrary!
That said the poverty rate is the huge guilt wool pulled over your eyes.
It's a percentage of median income.
Which is why our poor are so fat.
Like kings of past the are well fed.
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No its because CHEAP processed food makes you sick which includes fucking up your metablism
 
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