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Or unless they just don't go up.Which SHOULD drive up wages.
Unless you can employ kids the way Republicans are desperately hoping.
Move into parents basement. Ignore health care needs. Stop driving (legally). Basic poverty stuff.Or unless they just don't go up.
What are people going to do? Not work and starve? lol
I'm sure that employers have enough reserves to hunger the poor people into working for a wage that is too much to starve, but too little to live. Maybe not the mum and pop store at the corner or small factories, but those are on their way out, anyway.Move into parents basement. Ignore health care needs. Stop driving (legally). Basic poverty stuff.
Could be. Ive sure seen a lot of people in the US choose the camping with a shopping cart by the river option tho.I'm sure that employers have enough reserves to hunger the poor people into working for a wage that is too much to starve, but too little to live. Maybe not the mum and pop store at the corner or small factories, but those are on their way out, anyway.
A key point that people need to keep in mind is that there's a regional component at play when it comes to the aforementioned labor shortages in certain fields.Which SHOULD drive up wages.
I'd complain too if I had demonstrated that I could do my job equally effectively in my pajamas from the comfort of my home as I could in business casual at the office and my employer told me that I had to start coming in again.As employers seek to bring people back to the office, employees complain.
Taking perks away from people just because they're desperate for a job and can't afford to quit is a great way to inspire loyalty in your employees! It ensures that they'll take the first path out that comes their way. Then you can go back to complaining about how "nobody wants to work".Specialized benefits and allowances are going away.
In some industries, maybe. Job growth is still pretty high overall though: Strong US job growth persists; wage inflation shows signs of slowdownEmployers are entering a time when they realize they don't need all those people.
"Quiet quitting" is just a new, TikTok-friendly term for the same old phenomenon - employee disengagement. The trend of disengagement has been pretty much flat for the past 30 years: https://www.theatlantic.com/newslet...quitting-trend-employee-disengagement/671436/The days of quiet quitting are soon going to end as thy quiet quitters, the lazy employees find themselves out if a job. The entitlement at work employee philosophy is going to come to a close and competition for jobs is going to be more prevelent.
Listening to managers tell me what makes a successful person doesn't really cut it to me. That's just a manager wanting to get more work out of me without necessarily any benefit to ME as a person.
Managers, if you want your workers to stick around and perform better, it's WAY easier than you think: Pay well and give good benefits. People will work at place where they know they are valued. And if their pay does not indicate that they are valued (because they can't afford housing or basic necessities even though they are working 40hrs a week) why should they work hard?
Why should they work hard to not get enough?
It's not about the pay. It's about managers expecting employees to go outside of their job description.My work ethic goes like this: You knew how much the job paid when you accepted it. You should perform as well as you would at a job that pays more because you accepted the position you are in knowing what it paid. I am of the creed you should always do your best.
Yeah, it's amazing how workers are supposed to be content with abiding by the terms of the agreement while employers are free to change those terms at a whim.It's not about the pay. It's about managers expecting employees to go outside of their job description.
If you hired me with the expectation that I would be working 40 hours a week, I'm not interested in working 50 hours for what you were paying me to work 40. If you wanted someone to work 50 hours, you should have put that in the job description. If you hired me for 40 hours and now want me to work 50, you should offer additional compensation (and not be offended if I say no - for some people, time is more valuable than money).
If you hired me as an analyst, I'm not going to do IT as well. I was hired as an analyst, so I will do analysis - if you wanted someone to do analysis and IT, then that should have been in the job description. If you want to add IT to my workload, then we're going to have to renegotiate my salary, and if we can't come to an agreement, I'm going to say no.
Have you ever been in a position where you had very few skills and you could only get jobs that would not support you living a very simple life?My work ethic goes like this: You knew how much the job paid when you accepted it. You should perform as well as you would at a job that pays more because you accepted the position you are in knowing what it paid. I am of the creed you should always do your best.
Everyone should get a living wage, but if you accept a job, you should do your best until you obtain another job,
Yes, I have been in that position before. I have worked in fast food and been a busser at an all-you-can-eat buffet. I worked one where the promotion they offered included a merit raise and the increased responsibility of being a key holder at an auto parts store where I would have to close, by myself, at midnight. The merit raise and promotion increase was 10 cents added together; I declined the promotion due to where I worked was not a safe neighborhood, and 10 cents an hour was not worth literally risking my life. I was earning minimum wage at the time.Have you ever been in a position where you had very few skills and you could only get jobs that would not support you living a very simple life?
And to be clear, I never advocated not "doing your best". I simply meant your work output should match your salary...
and yet on the macroscale, it does the opposite if you think about it. Most people I know who have done it have said that working fast food (or generally, retail) was by FAR the hardest job they've ever worked. There are many, MANY CEOs, board members, managers and owners who practically, do very little work. Who have the luxury of calling an afternoon playing golf, "work" because they were golfing with "partners" and "talked business for a while".
"Giving your best" does not mean allowing your employer to walk all over you though. You agreed to work there in a specific capacity. The job you applied for had a description, and hopefully you discussed hours at some point before hiring if they weren't in the description. If your employer asks you to do something outside of what you agreed to do, there should be no reason to include that under the heading of "giving your best."I have worked numerous low-paying almost no-appreciation jobs while I obtained an education. I gave every job my best regardless of my situation at home and the lack of pay because I agreed to work there for the wage I was paid.
I beg to differ. Quiet quitting is most often laziness. Doing the bare minimum to get by. If it's not completely laziness it definitely fosters it. It doesn't help you succeed or increase your success. You may go your bosses for a while but they will figure it out. It's negativity, it does not foster team work and it does not make you, your team or your company better. Quiet quitting is at best average work and at worst poor work.
Yes when I go to a restaurant I want average or less than average service, with average or less than average meal. When I hire a plumber in want them to only provide me with average service and do an average job. When I hire a company to provide me a product I want an average job done. I want my kids to be taught by average or less than average teachers who only have an average care about my kids. I want my doctor to be an average doctor and when I need surgery I want an average or less than average surgeon who went to an average school and got average grades.
Are you an average teacher who only care an average amount for the kids? Do you only give an average effort in teaching the kids?
It's not about giving away work hours. Employers shouldn't expect or demand that their employees give away all thier free time or work 50 hours a week and only be paid for 40 every week. That's not right either.
I'm not buying this actually. I believe it is against the law to do that. You cannot require someone to work more than 40 hours without paying them. It's a violation of labor law.Tell that to the many businesses that have employees work extra hours over 40 to get their work done and then only pay them for 40 hours.
I understand businesses have to stay competitive but not at the expense of overworking their employees daily. Sorry to say but here in America capitalism needs some fine tuning to make it work for all workers.
Abuse of exempt "management" designations is rampant.I'm not buying this actually. I believe it is against the law to do that. You cannot require someone to work more than 40 hours without paying them. It's a violation of labor law.
As is just breaking the law and having employees not report it out of fear of losing their livelyhood.Abuse of exempt "management" designations is rampant.
Or out of ignorance. American workers in general are pretty poorly-educated on their rights.As is just breaking the law and having employees not report it out of fear of losing their livelyhood.
If the employee is classified as salaried exempt, it's perfectly legal.I'm not buying this actually. I believe it is against the law to do that. You cannot require someone to work more than 40 hours without paying them. It's a violation of labor law.
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