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[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 months ago (3 children)

-We offer a competitive salary.

-Places X, Y and Z offer much more.

-We don't compete with them.

Stupidly enough - not satire. I've had this conversation with three different companies. They struggle to attract talent for some weird reason.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We don't compete with them

"Yes you do, and you're losing." Then walk out.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

One of them was my current employer when I was arguing about not managing to keep people on my team.

And I said exactly that, except didn't walk out naturally. In another frustrated discussion I almost yelled "You can't CHOOSE not to compete with them!"

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I’ve heard this a million times.

That’s why we want passionate people. If they’re not passionate about the product, they’ll just leave us for somewhere that pays more.

So… pay more?

Why should you stay when we don’t pay competitively? We have difficult problems to solve.

Sure, will my landlady accept that as legal tender? Because they also have those at the other company.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A capitalist company with a CEO earning what CEOs earn, and a board of directors maximizing profit, does not get to shame me for wanting to get paid as much as I can.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well they get paid more to shame you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

True. But also I get paid more by taking my employment elsewhere. So win?win? I guess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

--We don't compete with them.

Yes you do; you compete with them for employees. Walks out of interview

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Middle class wages, adjusted, start at $83.17/hr. If you're making less than that and call yourself middle class you're only fooling yourself. There's a reason you're not told what that line is.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The “middle class” is a myth man.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Middle class" was a (very successful) psyops campaign to get people to stop thinking in terms of 'working class' vs 'owning class'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I too have read books by Michael Parenti lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That was more for the sake of other commenters/readers, I figured you knew :P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Never assume I know anything. I’m famously stupid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed, as are generational lines like millennial or zoomer. But it's still used for now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

They exist but are used out of context.

Generation changes are when birth rates show a shift in increasing or decreasing. Usually this is in line with the national economy. Because of globalisation, we tend to see large groups of nations have birth rates shift within several years of each other as their economies are quite intertwined and do the same things. And that's also why people always argue about what year a new generation started. It is different for each country.

Outside of (mostly) economical context, they have little purpose in discussion. And even then, they're more used to refer to an era of economical positive or negative in households, which was reflected in birth rates.

90% of the time people use them in everyday conversation, it's "old" and "new", which can be easily said without mention of generations since that's how society has always been as time goes on.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Based on which definition?

I feel like by most commonly used definitions I would be. About half my income (before taxes) goes into savings, my position is considered management, I make between 75%-200% of median national income, I have a graduate degree.

I don't make half that rate though.

Not sure I think middle class is a useful method of classification though, but still curious why that specific number.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Picked my area and 29K puts you in the middle class, which is like $13/hr, and its pretty close to the national average for COL.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Based on a date you don't tell us

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Did you miss the whole first sentence somehow?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hang on hang on hang on let me spend $100,000 on consultants to tell me what I want to think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Not only that, but also under these conditions. Blaming others for one's own problems used to be a sign of mental unhealth, but now it is considered a sign of "proper management"!:-P

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

You know, it always makes me laugh when I see restaurant owners or similar bosses try to say they can’t find people because nobody wants to work.

Damn bro, nobody wants to work as hard as a concrete guy for minimum wage.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The part I add is "for me". Cause if NOBODY wants to work for you, the only thing they have in common is YOU. You need to start considering that you might be the problem.

Get your shit together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I was talking to a business owner the other day, and she offered me a wearhouse job out of the blue. Talking about how she can't find good help, and how everyone slacks off or stops showing up on time. I refused but before I left I asked her maybe she has been looking for employees in the wrong place. If they're all dumb and lazy, the common element is either her or wherever she's looking. Needless to say she did not agree with my analysis and then called me dumb and lazy, but hey sometimes it's just a failure to communicate. Some men, you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it! And, now I don't like, it anymore than you men.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I consider it a great business tactic to hire the good people from my competitors for $2 more, treat them well, and then watch the competition slowly flame out and crash.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There's also a trap I think people get stuck in about earning more. It doesn't make the job any less shit. If I had to choose, I'd take conditions and culture over pay any day. I'm at a point in life where I earn a good living. But last year I turned down a higher paying job because I didn't want to deal with the shit I knew was going to be involved. $30K more a year and I definitely could do with that, but none of that means anything when you've hit the third month and you're miserable and anxious and know this is what you're in for now, everyday

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Okay, but now what about the people that have this part,

none of that means anything when you’ve hit the third month and you’re miserable and anxious and know this is what you’re in for now, everyday

But not this part,

** I’m** at a point in life where I earn a good living

(Emphasis mine)

Unless I misread the tone of your message, its frankly useless and more than little insulting. No shit some jobs suck, but if its the difference between homelessness, or going hungry that's not a choice at all.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, you misread it. Somehow quite terribly...

Unsurprisingly, I didn't start life earning a good living. In order to earn a good living, a point after the start obviously is reached. As I said, that is now the point I am at—at least by my own personal standards. Nor am I lacking the experience of working my ass off so much I burn out and hate living. Thus the value of enjoying my time spent is more valuable than the financial compensation for my time spent. People that think otherwise seem to be naive of their innevitable end and what that actually means.

And in my experience, homelessness is actually quite liberating the moment you accept it and stop worrying about the things you don't have and start paying attention to yourself and what you do have. It's a very profound chapter in life and why I still go out alone into the wilderness so often whenever I miss it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

MINIMUM WAGE MINIMUM EFFORT