it comes down to HOW much can you work 5 people over 10 people to clean up and maintain your OFFICES. 1 person gets sick, and SPIT happens.

Knock off your sales force, and what happens to the BOSS’s wages?

Tell those numbers to the person making $5, when the person making $50+ per hour is still working..

Yes, I understand that the person making $5 per hour is getting Employer paid fees to state and fed. Which is about 1/2 of his wage. But those Fees ARENT THERE if you figure he is UNDER 32 hours. Only thing that is extra is the Workers trying to figure out his hours, at the office that are getting $12 per hour.

You have 500 people working:
200 make $5 an hour
200 make $10 an hour
100 make $15 an hour

It costs the corp $1000 + $2000 + $1500 = $4500 per hour to employ these 500 people. The average worker makes $9 per hour ($4500/500)

It lay off time. Let’s say all 200 people making $5 an hour are let go. Now the labour costs are $2000 + $1500 = $3500 per hour to employee 300 people.

Guess what! Average wage for those 300 people is $11.67 per hour. So, the average wage has gone up but no one is making more money.

WRONG..

Tell that to the corp and they will LAUGH AT YOU, they might even bust open and fall on the floor and DIE(WISH)..

Tell that to FRED Meyers in the 90′s when we went from 500 workers to 300 in 2 years..TELL me I got a Larger wage…PLEASE tell me I didnt get CUT back to 32hours or LESS…and lost my benefits..

“Do I have to look for a job?”

It used to be that we could afford to have 1 person making money to feed the family.
When 2 persons worked there was alittle bit to save and use to make a better living.
Corps wish 2 things.
THEY WANT YOUR MONEY.
THEY WANT TO DO IT CHEAP.
As quality has gone down, Prices have gone up.
They are getting MORE profit with LESS. and where is the money going?
OWNERS/CEO/Major wage earners POCKETS and STOCKS. The WHOLE market is inflated.
If a Corp would fire 1-3 Major Earners you could save a WHOLE work force of the lower paid worker, 200-1000 very easily.
Some IDIOT economist awhile back made a statement, but DIDNT explain it well.
“If the economy rises 3% per year, thats a good thing”.
HE DIDNT SAY the price of goods/services could go up. but they have.
A few things THE USA did has also made it WORSE. Tariff on Wood products from Canada, 25%.. AFTER we sell off our wood to CHINA, then charge the USA tax payer MORE for the goods we SOLD to another nation, raising Building prices.
Sending METALS to china, at 3 times the going PRICE on an international TRADE, and THEN raising prices NATIONALLY to match. Raised Building and car prices thru the ROOF.
Corps trying to make MORE profit the SAME OLD WAY.. Cutting the lower wage workers TO/FOR even LOWER PAID WORKERS. And thinking that it saves money, when all they NEED DO, is FIRE 2-3 of the HIGHER PAID BOSS’S. But those FOLKS have CONTRACTS that make UNION LABOR look like FIRST YEAR LAWYERS.
So why not SEND the WHOLE company OUT OF THE USA. To the same place they sent OUR WORK. Boss’s over there make 1/10the what they do in the USA. And in China, if you SCREW UP, they chop off your head.

The whines of choice for the unemployed (and unemployable) are Thunderbird and Night Train.

The specific anecdote you are looking for goes something like this…

If you ask a mathematician what the sum of 1 + 1 is they will respond 2.

If you ask a good accountant what the sum of 1 + 1 is they will respond with, “what number did you have in mind?”

I thought Obama was pulling out no matter what even if it meant Iran or somebody took over?

I mean we don’t care about the price of oil any more do we? I thought cap and trade was going to fix that?

That last was sarcasm just in case you missed it.