My Amazon boycott is over

[*michaelsean*]

(10-02-2018, 02:06 PM)Benton Wrote: Not disagreeing on reducing staff due to technology (rather, I agree it happens in nearly every industry), but I don't think the trend is to pay the two remaining employees 50% more. That's part of why the economy is floundering. Companies are reducing staff and, mostly, keeping wages flat while receiving more and more tax breaks (paid for by workers earning less).

Like Reagan said, the problem with (corporate) socialism is eventually companies run out of taxpayers money to prop them up. 


From my experience, it's still an efforts across most industries to have fewer jobs at lesser pay. I'm on a couple regional workforce boards/economic development groups, and the thing I continually hear is "we can't get skilled people to work for X wages and pass a drug screen." One local employer has around 300 jobs and has maintained about 60 openings since January. It's hurt production, and they end up paying tons of overtime, but the company won't budge off the starting wage (I think it's around $12-13 an hour).

I know my wife at her last job had to fill in at HR for a while, and she had to hire people for their call center.  The bosses would say how come you hired this person?  They have a marijuana charge or whatever.  She'd say you are starting at $12.00 an hour.  You're not going to get a college graduate with a clean record.