Re: [Amc-list] Sins

[Keleigh Hardie <keleigh3000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe you should put in your notice, then apply for your job?

Kelly

Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> 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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