garagerock
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Re: The Dalles?
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RadioDoc
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said by oliphant  : said by RadioDoc : And people willing to work for nothing, and local governments willing to give them tax breaks to employ people at minimum wage. Fiber is just the cover story... Yeah, probably would have been better to build the call center in India and leave those people unemployed.  What employees seem to forget is while they think they're underpaid and God's gift to their employer, in reality they're only worth in pay what it costs to replace them. If they get minimum wage it's only because they can be easily replaced by someone else at minimum wage. And when unions and the like try to artificially inflate those 'fair' wages, they just end up sending those jobs overseas. Of course people will flame me for point out the obvious, but if they ran their own business they would run it exactly the same. First off I do run my own business. Three of them in fact. If employees make me money I hire them. If they don't they're gone. Simple Economics 101. If I can get incentives to locate in an area which gains me a significant short-term windfall I would consider it, especially when there is no downside of leaving the suckers locals high and dry in five years. I am not the local employment office nor do I have any obligation to pay anyone a cent more than I have to.
There are a lot of "incentives" given to lure company Q to location Z and many of them are justified by dangling the carrot of "future tax revenue" in front of desperate local governments. When all those promised $60,000 jobs do not materialize, or they are moved elsewhere the day after whatever term commitment the company signs is over, the town or county is stuck with all of this nice infrastructure nobody wants but the local taxing authority issued tax anticipation bonds to finance and is now up a fast-moving creek without an outboard motor. The same forces which lure a vagabond company to an area just as easily lures them out.
Nobody learned anything from the employment-stealing state, county and local government antics of the late 1980's and early '90s I guess.
I wish all of them success. Too bad they won't get it.
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garagerock
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I'm sorry your business has had such poor luck in hiring employees. Those of us who work for everybody else are just trying to raise families, not get rich. Most people aren't as lucky as you and don't run their own businesses, so their truth isn't your truth.
I don't think any of those things you mentioned, and feel lucky and blessed to have what I have...nor do I belong to any union. Obviously, you've had some bad experiences with employees. Not knowing what your business is, I can't speculate as to why.
Google seems to think otherwise, and is investing in this community. Good for them. |
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Transmaster
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And when unions and the like try to artificially inflate those 'fair' wages, they just end up sending those jobs overseas. Of course people will flame me for point out the obvious, but if they ran their own business they would run it exactly the same.
You are correct, this is a unforunate fact.
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oliphant
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said by RadioDoc : And people willing to work for nothing, and local governments willing to give them tax breaks to employ people at minimum wage. Fiber is just the cover story... Yeah, probably would have been better to build the call center in India and leave those people unemployed.
What employees seem to forget is while they think they're underpaid and God's gift to their employer, in reality they're only worth in pay what it costs to replace them. If they get minimum wage it's only because they can be easily replaced by someone else at minimum wage. And when unions and the like try to artificially inflate those 'fair' wages, they just end up sending those jobs overseas. Of course people will flame me for point out the obvious, but if they ran their own business they would run it exactly the same.
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