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I was working a minimum wage factory job in an area where it is very easy to get a job not that long ago, (it took 4 days from the phone call) and I asked my li

I was working a minimum wage factory job in an area where it is very easy to get a job not that long ago, (it took 4 days from the phone call) and I asked my line manager if they had problems hiring. 'Yes', I was told, hiring was a major problem and keeping staff on was really difficult. I asked why they though that was. Apparently they think it is because state benefits are too high. edit - I'm still working it, I am rubbish with cash. They are not bad people, but they honestly cannot see that they may actually save money by paying slightly more. I am planning to point this out in the next week or two, but luckily I have nearly sorted my cash-flow issue, so I can afford the license.

zanny 12y ago
I always have fun telling executives "how much are you spending each week?" "oh, so you aren't paying your employees even half that, and that is before taxes, rent, etc" "you have a labor shortage why, again?"
- Terr_ 12y ago
  CTO flies back and forth from home every 2-3 weeks... Rest of company has travel freeze. Bah.
marincounty 12y ago
I'm curious about the town you are talking about. I've seen the finances of people who rely on state benefits, and in the Bay Area--unless you have a bunch of kids(afdc) and were lucky enough to find section 8 housing; the state benefits are not enough to keep a room--you can eat though. I know too many homeless people who tried to get state benefits, and the help they recieved was tiny, and had a time limit. My best friend who passed away was on SSDI. He knew he was lucky he qualified for SSDI, but he was always broke. I saw his checks and it was just enough to get through the month. People used to rib him about buying a cup of coffee at Starbucks, at the expense of The Federal Government, but they had no idea just how little money he was receiving.
- lotsofmangos 12y ago
  Am in the south west of the UK. 2 to 3 days a week of crap work covers my rent and most of my food and gives me loads of free time for pissing about on my own stuff. I avoid benefits, not through any particular ideology but more because I find them more trouble than they are worth. I sometimes earn decent money, but I find I get stressed as hell in offices and I don't get motivated enough by money to make up for it, so I am avoiding those kind of jobs for a bit.

zanny 12y ago

I always have fun telling executives "how much are you spending each week?" "oh, so you aren't paying your employees even half that, and that is before taxes, rent, etc" "you have a labor shortage why, again?"

Terr_ 12y ago
CTO flies back and forth from home every 2-3 weeks... Rest of company has travel freeze. Bah.

marincounty 12y ago

I'm curious about the town you are talking about. I've seen the finances of people who rely on state benefits, and in the Bay Area--unless you have a bunch of kids(afdc) and were lucky enough to find section 8 housing; the state benefits are not enough to keep a room--you can eat though. I know too many homeless people who tried to get state benefits, and the help they recieved was tiny, and had a time limit. My best friend who passed away was on SSDI. He knew he was lucky he qualified for SSDI, but he was always broke. I saw his checks and it was just enough to get through the month. People used to rib him about buying a cup of coffee at Starbucks, at the expense of The Federal Government, but they had no idea just how little money he was receiving.

lotsofmangos 12y ago
Am in the south west of the UK. 2 to 3 days a week of crap work covers my rent and most of my food and gives me loads of free time for pissing about on my own stuff. I avoid benefits, not through any particular ideology but more because I find them more trouble than they are worth. I sometimes earn decent money, but I find I get stressed as hell in offices and I don't get motivated enough by money to make up for it, so I am avoiding those kind of jobs for a bit.