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Originally Posted by Profits of Doom
None of those employees are making $10 an hour, so I don't know who pulled that out of their ass. I used to pay my porn store cashiers above minimum wage because they had to work in a bad neighborhood and it was tough to get quality workers in that area, and on several occasions I recruited Wal-Mart employees to come work for me. They make minimum wage, and the vast majority of them are lucky to get 20 hours a week since Wal-Mart doesn't want to have to give full-time employees benefits. Maybe the managers make more, but most of the cashiers and such make minimum wage plus whatever raise they have received for however long they have been employed...
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Hell even we paid our guys more.. earlier this year when we had these clowns working for us we started them at $7/hr and the better they did, the more they got.. Ended up letting them have $12/hr straight after they had proven themselves. If these companies would be more generous with their employees, they'd get alot more out of them. Greed pisses me off. It's counter productive.
Say the first week or so I'd owe them $84 each for the day.
They worked hard, all day, never were late with a delivery, didn't do anything stupid or play with themselves.. gave them $125... you should have seen the look on their faces. The one guy had three kids and had been laid off from a high paying job he'd worked half of his life to get somewhere in.
It created a huge sense of loyalty. Once I could see that they were good workers I made it a straight $12/hr.. so that same twelve hour day was now worth $144 in cash. I made twice that and more back on their first delivery of the day and it was well worth it... Sure, I could keep guys around for $7/hr, but, look at the turnover I'd have, and I'd have made about half as much money every day. To save $70.
What's more, either one of those two guys would have killed someone for me. They were protective as hell of us any time we were anywhere. Some guy pushed his way through and almost knocked me over at QT one day, I wasn't going to make a big deal of it, and Tim got all over the motherfucker and made him apologize.
These companies give the average worker NO INCENTIVE to perform.
NONE.
That's why they slack off, play with themselves, and whine all of the time.