My Amazon boycott is over

[Benton]

(10-02-2018, 03:30 PM)michaelsean Wrote: 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.

It still amazes me how disconnected some people (usually upper management in medium to large companies) can be. That was the case in my last company, and in a lot of the companies I deal with. I had an opening for three years because the company thought sports writers were only worth $9 an hour to cover high school games, or $25 per story, but no benefits. During quarterly meetings I would cite advertisers who had pulled because there was little to no sports coverage at that property and upper management would just shrug and say "well, find a customer to replace them." They lost tens of thousands of dollars in the course of two years, not even factoring in lost rack sales. But it didn't fit their spreadsheet perception to pay more than $9.