-We offer a competitive salary.
-Places X, Y and Z offer much more.
-We don't compete with them.
Stupidly enough - not satire. I've had this conversation with three different companies. They struggle to attract talent for some weird reason.
We don't compete with them
"Yes you do, and you're losing." Then walk out.
One of them was my current employer when I was arguing about not managing to keep people on my team.
And I said exactly that, except didn't walk out naturally. In another frustrated discussion I almost yelled "You can't CHOOSE not to compete with them!"
I’ve heard this a million times.
That’s why we want passionate people. If they’re not passionate about the product, they’ll just leave us for somewhere that pays more.
So… pay more?
Why should you stay when we don’t pay competitively? We have difficult problems to solve.
Sure, will my landlady accept that as legal tender? Because they also have those at the other company.
Middle class wages, adjusted, start at $83.17/hr. If you're making less than that and call yourself middle class you're only fooling yourself. There's a reason you're not told what that line is.
Based on which definition?
I feel like by most commonly used definitions I would be. About half my income (before taxes) goes into savings, my position is considered management, I make between 75%-200% of median national income, I have a graduate degree.
I don't make half that rate though.
Not sure I think middle class is a useful method of classification though, but still curious why that specific number.
It's area dependent, I just picked one that wasn't too high or too low.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/07/23/are-you-in-the-american-middle-class/
Based on a date you don't tell us
Did you miss the whole first sentence somehow?
Hang on hang on hang on let me spend $100,000 on consultants to tell me what I want to think.
Add a zero bud. That's when you know you're getting truly valuable power point content.
Not only that, but also under these conditions. Blaming others for one's own problems used to be a sign of mental unhealth, but now it is considered a sign of "proper management"!:-P
You know, it always makes me laugh when I see restaurant owners or similar bosses try to say they can’t find people because nobody wants to work.
Damn bro, nobody wants to work as hard as a concrete guy for minimum wage.
The part I add is "for me". Cause if NOBODY wants to work for you, the only thing they have in common is YOU. You need to start considering that you might be the problem.
Get your shit together.
I was talking to a business owner the other day, and she offered me a wearhouse job out of the blue. Talking about how she can't find good help, and how everyone slacks off or stops showing up on time. I refused but before I left I asked her maybe she has been looking for employees in the wrong place. If they're all dumb and lazy, the common element is either her or wherever she's looking. Needless to say she did not agree with my analysis and then called me dumb and lazy, but hey sometimes it's just a failure to communicate. Some men, you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it! And, now I don't like, it anymore than you men.
I consider it a great business tactic to hire the good people from my competitors for $2 more, treat them well, and then watch the competition slowly flame out and crash.
MINIMUM WAGE MINIMUM EFFORT
