dannyboy
From the promised LAND
Interesting thing about being a small business person. You get a whole lot of real life experience that you dont get while working for big brother brown.
Take this last week in Charlotte. Had to meet a deadline on the project, so I needed a small manning boost. Needless to say, the pickings are a bit slim for an out of towner, so I asked one of the guys on another project where I could find some help.
Of course he knew several guys. I asked what the rate of pay would be for them to work a couple of days, 8-9 hours each.
He responded by telling me that the guy had been working for 12 bucks an hour a couple of years ago, and would have to have at least that much. When I balked at paying that much for unskilled labor, I agreed that I would pay them that amount.
After they got through working, I proceeded to pay them the 12 an hour. The one guy objected (though a translator) that he was expecting 16 bucks an hour. Anything less and he would be better off not working.
Im sorry. 12 bucks an hour cash, no taxes withheld. And that was not enough?
And we expect our part timers to hang in there working like dogs for 3-4 hours at a start rate of 8.50 an hour? When undocumented workers who dont pay taxes, dont speak English, but yet receive benefits under our generous gooberment rules?
Hey Atlanta, its time to wake up. It used to be you could attract the cream of the crop as part timers who then were thinned out to become drivers, but without any incentive to begin at below what Wendie's pays in our area, what are we left with.
Heck, its no wonder that we have whole buildings where the turnover rate is greater than 600% per year.
Get real Atlanta. Get a grip on reality. Pay the part timers a decent wage again.
d
Take this last week in Charlotte. Had to meet a deadline on the project, so I needed a small manning boost. Needless to say, the pickings are a bit slim for an out of towner, so I asked one of the guys on another project where I could find some help.
Of course he knew several guys. I asked what the rate of pay would be for them to work a couple of days, 8-9 hours each.
He responded by telling me that the guy had been working for 12 bucks an hour a couple of years ago, and would have to have at least that much. When I balked at paying that much for unskilled labor, I agreed that I would pay them that amount.
After they got through working, I proceeded to pay them the 12 an hour. The one guy objected (though a translator) that he was expecting 16 bucks an hour. Anything less and he would be better off not working.
Im sorry. 12 bucks an hour cash, no taxes withheld. And that was not enough?
And we expect our part timers to hang in there working like dogs for 3-4 hours at a start rate of 8.50 an hour? When undocumented workers who dont pay taxes, dont speak English, but yet receive benefits under our generous gooberment rules?
Hey Atlanta, its time to wake up. It used to be you could attract the cream of the crop as part timers who then were thinned out to become drivers, but without any incentive to begin at below what Wendie's pays in our area, what are we left with.
Heck, its no wonder that we have whole buildings where the turnover rate is greater than 600% per year.
Get real Atlanta. Get a grip on reality. Pay the part timers a decent wage again.
d