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It doesn't matter if they cant kick your ass.

I have the best friends in the world. Even KW ain't half bad.

Sort of thought you yanks would be familiar with that feeling, with dems being at polling stations.

That's how the free market works. Old boss got complacent and didn't keep up with the going labor rate. If the going rate for a particular skill is $20 an hour, you can probably find someone for $18, but you can bet he won't be worth a chit. Best bet is to pay just above $20 and get someone passable. Still you have to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Why was the guy working for less than he thought he was worth in the first place? I approached a local business about working part time as a machinist to supplement my income from teaching auto mechanics in a public school system where I was taking a pretty severe pay cut to have good health insurance for family members with expensive, chronic illnesses. We discussed the job and its responsibilities, and I asked for what I considered to be a fair wage. The business owner agreed, and I worked there for a little over three years. Yes, I had a key to the building and the alarm code, and I usually worked my own hours after closing time without any supervision. Quite by accident, I discovered that my "part time" wage was more than some of the full time employees were making. I'm very sure the work I was doing was making the business a profit, or they would not have kept paying me. When I owned a business I had some very simple rules for my employees- - - -"Get to work on time, earn your pay, and don't steal from me!" When a pay raise was appropriate I offered it before a good employee got around to asking. The ones who only worked enough to "break even" and didn't contribute to the success of the business didn't stay around long.
Jerry

The best time for an employee to get more money is BEFORE accepting a job offer.

What hotrod said.

A dollar raise is indeed a lot of money when you reward a promising employee who is still on probation. Now you have ten other employees who have been with you longer and feel they need a raise to. The older employees are training the new guy.

I don't know what it costs others to bring a new employee on line but it cost us a lot. Safety clothing, training in procedures, special tool training and factory schools for specialized work. It will be months before a new employee becomes truly productive and the training never stops. Invest time and money into an employee and you're competitor steals him because he wants a different shift. Six Months later the employee wants to come back to work a different shift of because he thinks the benefits are better with you.

Some employees will stay for years and turn down offers because we treat them right. Some will jump ship for a plate of barbeque and a cold beer.
You get to where you watch an employee closely in probation. Establish goals and discuss the successes and the failures to meet those goals. Don't tell the employee there is a raise coming out of probation and don't promise specific amounts of money. Everyone needs a pleasant surprise.

Anyone ever think about your dead relatives watchin you from heaven while youre jerkin off? There's really no where to hide.

I'm sure the Good Lord runs a commercial during those episodes.

I've seen so much incompetence in management of companies that it's ridiculous.

One machine shop I where I worked designed and built automated machines for factories.

Engineering designed a machine. Management quoted it at 800 hours. Us toolmakers built a beautiful representation of the machine,...but it didn't work. It was a bad design. By the time it got debugged and "sort of" worked, there was 3200 hours in it.

Management called the shop foreman in and dressed him down for taking 3200 hours to "build" the machine.

It didn't take 3200 hours to build the machine. It took 3200 hours to unfug the design that was produced by engineering.

The shop foreman came out,..packed his tools,..shook hands all around, then left,...opened his own shop.

Put the shop he quit out of business. The people who ran the shop that he quit eventually got in trouble with the IRS and lost *everything* they owned.

Everybody working there saw it coming and started looking around for other jobs. I left about 6 months before the IRS hammer came down on the place.

The trick is a Tin Foil tent............Just an FYI.

Hopefully it's an infomercial

I hate to be rushed

Think about your mom watching and wondering if you washed up afterward. Or your third-grade teacher watching and saying: "see Johnny, I told you you'd be a jerkoff."

You're reminding me of my dad, he would never allow inflation to have a bearing in his decisions.

If you think about how many years ago it was for you to get that amount inflation adjusted, it would help you and the people in your world. In the 1950's for example a dollar was quite a lot when a hamburger was 25 cents, and fries were 20 cents, a gallon of gas 21 cents.

I'd hate to work for one of those old "Cokes were a nickel" guys.

You work up to the battery charger set on 70 amp jump start yet? What do you use on the corn cob? Asking for a friend.

So that's what happened to David Carradine...I'll be durn.

Only you guys could take a thread about a scroogey fugger and his business practices and turn into a thread about chokin your chiggun.

nyrifleman would be appalled

Sounds to me as though the guy felt he knew what he was worth, and just decided to move on to where somebody was willing to pay it.
An employer should never get sore eyes looking at someone he thinks is overpaid.
And thesame can be said of those who choose not to be self employed.