[Rhodes22-list] Failure or success?

[Herb Parsons]

Brad,

This is a true story. We are in the process of converting all of our 
paper documents to electronic format. Today, as I was scanning in some 
of the ex-employees (I've taken on theirs, because they're not pressing, 
and I can do them when I have spare time), and came across an email that 
was printed and saved, as a CYA.

The employee has received a .50 an hour raise. Not much, but it wasn't 
even an eval raise, it was just a "You're doing a good job" thing. She 
was asking her supervisor to rescind it.

Why? Because it put her in a different income bracket, and she would not 
longer be able to get lunch subsidies. That .50 an hour, $20 a week, was 
going to cos her $30 a week for her three kids (single mother).

This was NOT a minimum wage employee we're talking about. She was making 
well over triple the minimum wage. She had also left the company and 
come back because her wages were higher here.

However, she didn't see how turning down .50 an hour now costs her from 
now until she no longer holds this job, and likely beyond, since often 
the new job makes an offer based largely on what the old job paid. Not 
only that, but she effectively froze her wages to wherever she works to 
whatever this portion of the nanny state has dictated is her "limit" 
before cutting off the freebies.

That's what the nannny-state does for us.


Brad Haslett wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Why don't you come down to the Gulf Coast and be our human resources
> manager for a week for our little company.  We don't need one because
> we don't need to hire anyone, but it would be fun to video you
> answering the phone and listening to people who want to work for cash
> because they're drawing disability.  WPA?  Doesn't the W stand for
> work?  Ain't gonna happen buddy.  Welcome to the 21st Century in
> America.  Maybe in China - not happening here.
>
> Brad
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Robert Skinner
> <Robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:
>   
>> Looks as if the neocon Republicans have
>> failed to socialize Wall Street's losses.
>>
>> Democrats are standing fast to let the
>> results of greed find their way back to
>> those who promoted and profited from it.
>>
>> Success will be the failure of the
>> companies who overextended their loan
>> positions.
>>
>> It is going to be a rough ride, and we
>> will have to help out our neighbors who
>> made foolish borrowing decisions.
>>
>> That is truly conservative behavior.
>>
>> How curious it is that so many Democrats
>> are joining with old-line Republicans to
>> restrain the modern go-go neocons.
>>
>> The people are not willing to allow the
>> nouveau rich CEOs to keep their
>> multimillion bail-out packages - the
>> packages designed to insulate them from
>> the consequences of their decisions.
>>
>> Perhaps we will need another WPA/CCC to
>> recover from this experiment in economic
>> deregulation.
>>
>> What the Hell -- most of our really
>> beautiful parkways and rural public
>> structures cam from the last depression.
>>
>> Makes the head spin...
>>
>> /Robert
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