[QUOTE="ScreamDream"][QUOTE="Murderstyle75"] These companies can afford it. They just choose to exploit the workforce instead. Funny now Kroger pays my girlfriend almost 18.00 an hour with full benifits while their competition pays their employees with similar experience, 8.00. Ironically because of such good customer service, they also have a huge and loyal customer base and their prices are cheaper as a result. The 10.00 six pack of regional craft beer rang up by a minimum wage Walmart worker with little training or experience is only $8.00 and rang up by somebody who has been working there five to ten years with a maximum wage topping off at over $15 an hour with full benefits at Kroger. And companies who pay a low wage have a much higher turn over than a company that offers a good wage or at least exceptional incentives, raises and promotions. That's much less money spent on constant training, less money spent on employee theft, less money spent on damages, cashier errors, customers not returning to the store, etc, etc, etc. And it also raises the morale and motivation of other employees as well. And just look at Costco. The average worker makes 45k a year. Yet they still manage a net income of 1.7 billion a year.Murderstyle75
You didn't answer my question, here it is again. So it's acceptable if you were an employer and could only pay slighter higher than minimum wage for employees to act like this.
And like I said. You get what you pay for. Pay 8.00 an hour and you are going to get 8.00 in quality. If you can't handle that or are not able to expand your business to pay more, perhaps being a business owner isn't for you if you can't accept the low quality. For that amount of money, you are going to attract two kinds of people. People who are incapable or else they wouldn't be working for 8.00 an hour to begin with or people who just don't care but are in a temporary rut. And why should they care? Your paycheck is not doing anything to bring them above poverty level. Don't act like you are doing them any favors. Minimum wage jobs are a dime a dozen unless you truely live in a rural area outside of civilization. Why should they do you any favors while still having to cash a welfare check even when working full time or are losing sleep about their gas bill? And these same 7.40 to 8.00 an hour employers would be paying their workers 4.50 to 5.00 if the government allowed it.It's perfectly possible to live on 8/hr, problem is you cannot drive escalades and buy new $150 jeans every week.
It's like when that supermarket closed down, and everyone wanted to rush over and take the left-over food. They were wearing real nice clothing, driving BMW's, yet they're crying about how their children are starving and it's a rough life for them.
Food and Shelter > BMW's and Air Jordans.
Do we need to take more tax dollars from working citizens to educate people of that little fact?
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