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<blockquote data-quote="LongTimeComing" data-source="post: 1084467" data-attributes="member: 45493"><p>The only counter-argument to any of this is that the starting pay doesn't necessarily mean we will automatically get perfect people. For example...Amazon.com just opened two large distribution centers near us. Those warehouse folks start at something like $12 an hour. We lost about 3 relatively lower seniority part-timers to them. One of those employees was keeping in contact with me. He had applied for a supervisor-type position that paid about $15.50 an hour and promised more hours. He would repeatedly tell me how horrible the work-group was. How he was threatened by female employees about 'beating his ass in the parking lot' after work. How much theft there was. How generally 'ghetto' the employees were. Mind you, this particular individual would have never made it to part-time supervision at UPS, even if he wanted to...but it's just one (probably of many) examples how higher starting rate doesn't directly produce better applicants.</p><p></p><p>I think, hopefully, that raising the starting pay would provide SOME better candidates, but more importantly, allow the company to feel they can be slightly more picky about what they accept through the door at those base level part time positions.</p><p></p><p>Here at the airport, all new employees have to submit to a 10 year federal backround check for badge purposes. Any felony is a no-go. Any violent misdemeanor is a no-go. Granted, these are airport commission rules, but effective nonetheless. Maybe something to be looked at for our ground buildings....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LongTimeComing, post: 1084467, member: 45493"] The only counter-argument to any of this is that the starting pay doesn't necessarily mean we will automatically get perfect people. For example...Amazon.com just opened two large distribution centers near us. Those warehouse folks start at something like $12 an hour. We lost about 3 relatively lower seniority part-timers to them. One of those employees was keeping in contact with me. He had applied for a supervisor-type position that paid about $15.50 an hour and promised more hours. He would repeatedly tell me how horrible the work-group was. How he was threatened by female employees about 'beating his ass in the parking lot' after work. How much theft there was. How generally 'ghetto' the employees were. Mind you, this particular individual would have never made it to part-time supervision at UPS, even if he wanted to...but it's just one (probably of many) examples how higher starting rate doesn't directly produce better applicants. I think, hopefully, that raising the starting pay would provide SOME better candidates, but more importantly, allow the company to feel they can be slightly more picky about what they accept through the door at those base level part time positions. Here at the airport, all new employees have to submit to a 10 year federal backround check for badge purposes. Any felony is a no-go. Any violent misdemeanor is a no-go. Granted, these are airport commission rules, but effective nonetheless. Maybe something to be looked at for our ground buildings.... [/QUOTE]
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