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Yes, actually, everyone is in a strong enough bargaining position to do that. You can teach people they're helpless or you can teach people how to negotiate.
by maxk42 9y ago
Yes, actually, everyone is in a strong enough bargaining position to do that.
You can teach people they're helpless or you can teach people how to negotiate. California seems intent on teaching people to be helpless.
- bertil 9y agoI'm going to assume you are not employed as a cleaner.
- maxk42 9y agoNot anymore. But I have been. I've also been a day-laborer. A retail clerk. A Christmas elf. A soldier. And a developer. When somebody is trying to hire you, you are the one with the negotiating power.
- s73ver_ 9y agoNo, they're not. To say otherwise betrays either an enormous ignorance of other people's situations, or a complete lack of empathy for them.