tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post8550575862225350377..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Bernie Sanders' War on RealitySiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-3348963405472559932018-06-11T10:55:39.298-04:002018-06-11T10:55:39.298-04:00Bernie and the Dems are at war with reality every ...Bernie and the Dems are at war with reality every day. _revjen45Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-45075771164054582322018-06-11T05:29:46.928-04:002018-06-11T05:29:46.928-04:00JC:
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I...JC:<br /><br />IIRC, that was ---DISNEY---<br />---------------<br />I was in a similar situation, although not H1b related. When the new guy realized that he had been hired to replace his trainer, he decided that he didn't want to work for a company that would do that to an employee. He decided to accept a late offer from another company he had applied at. My company even offered to created a new job title to allow them to pay him more than the original offer, but he still walked. <br />I laughed and laughed. They still tossed me when my contract ended. Management had gotten really stupid after the original CEO had left to move into Venture Capital. The parent Corp tossed the company a couple years later for poor performance.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-65342749152445277402018-06-11T00:20:50.688-04:002018-06-11T00:20:50.688-04:00Don't I remember a certain company a couple ye...Don't I remember a certain company a couple years ago, replacing every single American in the IT department, and making them train the new H1B hires? JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02448124833598565813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-56956369808130604572018-06-09T23:32:04.914-04:002018-06-09T23:32:04.914-04:00Now the voters have also given (taken) a gracious ...Now the voters have also given (taken) a gracious 1 hour for 40 "sick/family care". There's something else coming next year too.<br />Animal Farm wasn't fiction.<br />Jerry<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-62751676530749841092018-06-09T23:18:31.230-04:002018-06-09T23:18:31.230-04:00I'm missing a connection of "cheap slave ...I'm missing a connection of "cheap slave Labor". Do you mean people who pay less than minimum? Cash wage, not reporting nor claiming wage expense? Please explain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-78250563758920013862018-06-09T13:44:37.432-04:002018-06-09T13:44:37.432-04:00"There are far more business owners who went ..."There are far more business owners who went without pay in a pinch than their employees ever did. They'll arrest you if you don't pay employees."<br /><br />I was that guy in 2009. Didn't know they'd arrest me if I didn't pay. It just seemed like the right thing to do. I'd gotten rewards for my financial risks earlier when my employee only got small bonuses. It only seemed fair that I would take the hit when it went bad instead of him taking the hit.<br /><br />"These are folks who worked their butts off to get training and get something better than minimum wage."<br /><br />Some CEO, I forget which, decided to signal his virtue by raising everyone's salary to $75,000 (?). He was shortly out of business as those people you mentioned moved on and left him with the people who weren't worth that much. Hard to legislate against that.Weetabixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106614092497408546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-47499485897190052092018-06-09T12:02:23.398-04:002018-06-09T12:02:23.398-04:00I've maintained for years that the real losers...I've maintained for years that the real losers in this are going to be the thousands of occupations that make between the existing minimum wage and $15/hr. These are folks who worked their butts off to get training and get something better than minimum wage. Say someone went to get tech school, or cosmetology or something that pays them $13 when min wage is $7.50. When the sweep up to $15 starts, I'll bet that they don't end up ahead. If they do end up ahead, I'll bet it's not the same percentage-wise. <br /><br />Talk about demotivation! They work hard to get ahead in life and have it wiped out. And within six months, all the costs will go up so that they're worse off than they are now.<br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-19352209847027222752018-06-09T11:57:02.185-04:002018-06-09T11:57:02.185-04:00The thing about those laws is that "it doesn&...The thing about those laws is that "it doesn't take a Ph.D. in economics or business" to see that's what's going to happen. <br /><br />There are far more business owners who went without pay in a pinch than their employees ever did. They'll arrest you if you don't pay employees. They don't care if you don't pay yourself. <br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-5197571091344027102018-06-09T08:43:52.939-04:002018-06-09T08:43:52.939-04:00The idea that Big Biz is actually pushing some of ...The idea that Big Biz is actually pushing some of these ideas because they KNOW that it will cripple or destroy small biz that they compete against is true. <br /><br />One of the things that shocked me when I found out about it is the current anti-America bias within the US Chamber of Commerce. I had assumed that they would be pro-Republican and Pro-America and free enterprise. Well they may be pro-republican but not so much on the rest of it. If you ever wonder why we still have a crop of pro-amnesty Rino's infesting our government then simply follow the money. The Chamber of Commerce spends a LOT of money buying politicians so that they will support the importation of ultra cheap slave labor. The Rino's have the cash to fight against any conservative challenger and will support the Rino party line even to the point of rubber stamping the treason's committed by obama for eight years. Obama never broke faith with the Chamber of Commerce and advocated and imported millions of cheap slave laborers with the help and approval of the republican party.<br /><br />One other thing that is in the playbook of Silly Sanders, the minimum wage is just the opening, the actual goal is for the American people to demand that there be a Maximum wage, that government gets to say what is the maximum anyone can earn. Because? Equality, absolute guarantied miserable Equality.<br /><br />MSG Grumpy Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-55870494500932741922018-06-08T23:51:56.630-04:002018-06-08T23:51:56.630-04:00As a small business owner in Washington state, whe...As a small business owner in Washington state, where minimum wage laws mandate yearly increases to reach $15/hr in a few years, I can tell you that I hire only part time help and work them only when I absolutely must. No time for extra training or mentoring them in new skills. I have to cut them loose the minute it slows down, and lay them off during the slow season. And yes, they make more per hour than I do.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05920772209272112515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-76636923626313323152018-06-08T22:36:18.569-04:002018-06-08T22:36:18.569-04:00X2X2LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-85645363866892065552018-06-08T22:08:44.638-04:002018-06-08T22:08:44.638-04:00Disney has always been one of the best companies t...Disney has always been one of the best companies to start a working life at. They treat their workers far better than the typical convenience store or grocery store. <br /><br />By forcing Disney to increase wages, all they will do is eliminate a number of entry level jobs that train normal people for the workforce. Disney will happily replace people with automation. And then where will the unions be? <br /><br />If Sanders was a true practicing socialist, he would move into a 1 bedroom apartment with his wife and their maid and sell his houses and cars and use most of his salary and give all his money to the poor and downtrodden. But he isn't a true socialist. He's just a stupid elitist.<br />Andrewnoreply@blogger.com