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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Yep.
However, you and I are talking about two different things. Macro vs. Micro. At your level, I understand what you're saying and agree completely. Way above you and I, where people choose to shut down entire industries and offshore the work is an entirely different world, with different motivations.
They see the "hungrier" aspect too, and, the hungrier we are, the better. When unemployment is low, wages rise. Do they not? Finding good people to do the work at salaries that are more palatable to them becomes almost impossible. Payrolls swell and cut into profits. So unemployment must rise in order to "correct" the market. Hello, Mexico, China, or wherever. Get it?
Dave
P.s.
And before Chas chimes in, NO, I'm not talking about the guy who remodels bathrooms with a handfull of employees, if any. That also is something entirely different.
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Easy now Slick...I still have one employee.
And if I take off my exalted "corporate executive/chairman of the board hat", I'm just another stoopid sumbitch working for the "man".
What I do, besides trying to please my customers, is to take the unemployable, give them with a job, and furnish them with enough skills and pocket change so that they can to tell me to go fuck myself. And the job is so shitty that none of them would show up unless I paid them.
US Steel I ain't.
Why don't you go fix a fucking coffee grinder or something. Any dumb bastard can do that.
One dumb bastard to another...it looks easy on paper. All it requires is a set of specialized skills. Which takes years to learn.
Personally, if I weren't dealing with the dregs of society, I'd just check a prospective employees credit rating.
If he has a good credit rating, he's a responsible sort. And I'd hire 'em.
If I were US Steel.
Down here in the trenches, I hire people I like and I think I can trust. And my crew can veto my decision...they're the one's who have to deal with 'em.
Chas