Re: [Amc-list] Sins

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Soapbox indeed.
In 2001 WVU payed big bucks for a salary study for classified paygrade workers.
It is now 2007 and that schedule has still not been implemented. Talk about some big time stupidity. Tell a worker how much he/she should be paid, the not pay them that! 
 They give administration, incoming faculty respectable money becasue other wise they can't hire or keep them, but those of us on Staff aren't worth it or so it seems.
  At my current rate of pay and judging by the raises I have received since starting. I will actually reach the supposed starting point for my pay grade at the 7 YEAR point! Currently I am $4500 under the salary schedule. The good point is it allowed my to get the job. They asked for college graduates with 3-5 years experience. No-one with those qualifications applied!!! The job didn't pay enough, even here in Westvirginia! My co-worker likewise does not have the "required" college degree. 
  We went to the school of hard work. Go figure.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5

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From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)
> " From: Don Johnson <donjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> " 
> " Superimpose that wage line with the wage line of management and you begin to 
> see where I believe the problem is. 
> " Hold on while I get up on my soapbox.
> 
> let me join you...
> 
> " I believe there is no morality in today's boardrooms. I think they believe 
> they deserve the compensation packages that they get. When the workers see what 
> is happening with the bosses pay package, whether the company is doing well or 
> not, they are more than reluctant to give up some of their wages to support 
> that. 
> " I read recently that some expert was saying that management compensation 
> should be in the 40 times the average worker wage, but right now it is running 
> near 400 times.
> 
> i think also that none of the upper mgmt has any sort of commitment to
> the companies they manage.  they're trained to manage widgets - and
> hey, it's all widgets, right?  gm's, ge's, hp's, verizon's...
> 
> " I was in the airline industry and when Continental Airlines was next to dead a 
> man named Bethune took over and promptly declared that he would not take any 
> compensation (except for $1 per year) until the airline made money. The 
> employees saw what he was willing to do and they got behind him and turned the 
> airline around. The workers need a leadership that is willing to share the pain 
> and not just the gain.
> 
> the president of [iirc] bolivia did something like this too.  what's
> doubly significant is that there's a federal law that no civil servant
> can earn more than el presidente - so, instant pay cuts for the
> bloated ministers too, and a measurable tax cut for the citizens.
> [actually i think much of the savings is being redirected into
> infrastructure - public health, schools, etc]  no surprise he's a
> socialist, but he's putting his money where his mouth is.
> 
> " Maybe when the guy on the line begins to feel like he's part of team where 
> everyone from the top down sinks or swims with the company, the answers to some 
> hard questions will be different.
> 
> hear, hear!
> 
> " Getting down off the soapbox.
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