Am I the only one here who thinks this is just wrong?

[OKTexas]

End entitlements.

This isn't about entitlements. It's about unfair wage and benefit practices.

So you're saying it's about a liberal invention and not the reality that the market sets the proper wage for an individual, they are only worth what they can produce for the employer.

 

[OKTexas]

ATM's on line banking need I say more?

How much edgerkashun you need to be a bank teller...is that harder than cooking burgers?

And now days they don't wear much better clothes either.

 

[PredFan]

Aren't the rest of you just a LITTLE outraged that the bank executives are cleaning up while the TAXPAYERS are paying part of their labor costs?

I'm ticked off if it's true that the bank tellers are receiving assistance. I don't give a rat's ass how much bank execs make.

 

[PredFan]

So, just to be clear, the consensus among the righties responding to this thread is that it's everyone's fault (but particularly the tellers themselves) except the executives running the banks who give themselves 26% increases in compensation while trashing the economy in 2007. Got it.

Boy, you sure have reading comprehension problems. That's probably why you believe the stupid shit you believe.

 

[PredFan]

I have a friend who started out as a teller at SunBank here in Orlando. Now she's a finance officer and makes pretty good bucks.

It's an entry level position people.

 

[Jughead]

The skill level required for a bank teller is no different than that of a cashier working at a retail store. The salary should match the skill level required. On the other hand, those with the talent and skill level required to handle a job as a bank manager get an excellent salary, and deserve every cent.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I think it is wrong...

Seriously a bank tellers can't support themselves??? WTF. Time for banks to pay better as they simply have the resources to do so.

 

[Old Rocks]

Aren't the rest of you just a LITTLE outraged that the bank executives are cleaning up while the TAXPAYERS are paying part of their labor costs?

No, they are not outraged at all. In fact, they think that the bank execs deserve more pay for finding ways for their business to socialize the costs and privatize the profits.

 

[OKTexas]

Aren't the rest of you just a LITTLE outraged that the bank executives are cleaning up while the TAXPAYERS are paying part of their labor costs?

If you don't like the way a business conducts itself just don't do business with them, very simple concept. I haven't done business with a bank in years.

 

[PredFan]

Aren't the rest of you just a LITTLE outraged that the bank executives are cleaning up while the TAXPAYERS are paying part of their labor costs?

No, they are not outraged at all. In fact, they think that the bank execs deserve more pay for finding ways for their business to socialize the costs and privatize the profits.

That only exists in your alleged mind.

 

[Old Rocks]

The banks make very large profits, and don't pay a living wage to their employees. And the assholes on this board find that to be just all right. It is a damned shame on the banks and the people that run them. Any job that society finds neccessary should pay a living wage.

 

[CaféAuLait]

One-third of bank tellers rely on public assistance - CBS News

Taxpayers spend $899 million annually in state and federal benefits to support bank tellers and their families, according to a new report from The Committee for Better Banks.

One-third of bank tellers receive some sort of public assistance, ranging from Medicaid to food stamps, the financial industry employee advocacy group found, citing research from the University of California-Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. In New York state, almost 40 percent of bank tellers and their family members are enrolled in public assistance programs, costing the state and federal governments $112 million in benefits.

“Bank workers in New York, across the nation and around the globe are being squeezed, very much as other hourly workers in the economy are,” the report noted. “Banks’ internal employment practices, just like their external practices, increasingly drive inequality.”

It’s not as if banks can’t afford to pay their tellers more, judging from a surge in executive pay: Compensation for the top 50 financial chief executives rose by 20 percent in 2011 and 26 percent in 2010, the study notes.

Can't wait to read the justifications from conservatives.

I'm waiting on the justification from ANYONE as to why our military members, willing to give up their lives are getting more than 130 million in FOOD AID alone! On top of that now they want to close the commissary's which are a benefit to military members for lower cost foods in many areas.

WASHINGTON -- While the House of Representatives considers cutting more than $20 billion from the food stamps program this week, it may want to consider a startling statistic: military families are on a pace this year to redeem more than $100 million in food aid on military bases.

Food Stamps: Military Families Redeem $100 Million A Year In SNAP Benefits

 

[PredFan]

The banks make very large profits, and don't pay a living wage to their employees. And the assholes on this board find that to be just all right. It is a damned shame on the banks and the people that run them. Any job that society finds neccessary should pay a living wage.

The concept of a "living Wage" is stupid in the extreme.

 

[ScienceRocks]

So you republicans now support welfare?

 

[AVG-JOE]

We're talking about an entry level position here.

The only variation in this particular instance is that it's not the standard Wal Mart hater thread.

'Cept the cashier at WallyWorld doesn't have access to databases full of personal information.

You get what you pay for... unless of course you can get the government to cover part of it.

It surprises me that there's not more anger at the top 10% for figuring out how to get the rest of you schmucks to pay 30% of their labor costs.

Yet there aren't massive ID theft problems. Seems the screening processes of the banks are pretty reliable.

What I'm paying for is an entry level employee. If they're any good at the banking business, they'll get a better paying job. If not, they'll get a job elsewhere.

*yawn*

If the underpaid bank teller and the underpaid Walmart cashier are relying on food stamps and medicaid to make ends meet, you, the tax payer, are subsidizing part of the labor costs that help keep the the Walton family and the bank execs part of the upper-crust.

That doesn't gall you just a little?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

One-third of bank tellers rely on public assistance - CBS News

Taxpayers spend $899 million annually in state and federal benefits to support bank tellers and their families, according to a new report from The Committee for Better Banks.

One-third of bank tellers receive some sort of public assistance, ranging from Medicaid to food stamps, the financial industry employee advocacy group found, citing research from the University of California-Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. In New York state, almost 40 percent of bank tellers and their family members are enrolled in public assistance programs, costing the state and federal governments $112 million in benefits.

“Bank workers in New York, across the nation and around the globe are being squeezed, very much as other hourly workers in the economy are,” the report noted. “Banks’ internal employment practices, just like their external practices, increasingly drive inequality.”

It’s not as if banks can’t afford to pay their tellers more, judging from a surge in executive pay: Compensation for the top 50 financial chief executives rose by 20 percent in 2011 and 26 percent in 2010, the study notes.

Can't wait to read the justifications from conservatives.

Internet banking will make bank tellers irrelevant

 

[PredFan]

One-third of bank tellers rely on public assistance - CBS News

Taxpayers spend $899 million annually in state and federal benefits to support bank tellers and their families, according to a new report from The Committee for Better Banks.

One-third of bank tellers receive some sort of public assistance, ranging from Medicaid to food stamps, the financial industry employee advocacy group found, citing research from the University of California-Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. In New York state, almost 40 percent of bank tellers and their family members are enrolled in public assistance programs, costing the state and federal governments $112 million in benefits.

“Bank workers in New York, across the nation and around the globe are being squeezed, very much as other hourly workers in the economy are,” the report noted. “Banks’ internal employment practices, just like their external practices, increasingly drive inequality.”

It’s not as if banks can’t afford to pay their tellers more, judging from a surge in executive pay: Compensation for the top 50 financial chief executives rose by 20 percent in 2011 and 26 percent in 2010, the study notes.

Can't wait to read the justifications from conservatives.

I'm waiting on the justification from ANYONE as to why our military members, willing to give up their lives are getting more than 130 million in FOOD AID alone! On top of that now they want to close the commissary's which are a benefit to military members for lower cost foods in many areas.

WASHINGTON -- While the House of Representatives considers cutting more than $20 billion from the food stamps program this week, it may want to consider a startling statistic: military families are on a pace this year to redeem more than $100 million in food aid on military bases.

Food Stamps: Military Families Redeem $100 Million A Year In SNAP Benefits

So because they were in the military, they deserve to be paid more than what they are worth? I say bull shit, and I'm a vet.

 

[PredFan]

So you republicans now support welfare?

Nope, where would you get such a stupid idea? Do you have reading comprehension problems?

 

[PredFan]

'Cept the cashier at WallyWorld doesn't have access to databases full of personal information.

You get what you pay for... unless of course you can get the government to cover part of it.

It surprises me that there's not more anger at the top 10% for figuring out how to get the rest of you schmucks to pay 30% of their labor costs.

Yet there aren't massive ID theft problems. Seems the screening processes of the banks are pretty reliable.

What I'm paying for is an entry level employee. If they're any good at the banking business, they'll get a better paying job. If not, they'll get a job elsewhere.

*yawn*

If the underpaid bank teller and the underpaid Walmart cashier are relying on food stamps and medicaid to make ends meet, you, the tax payer, are subsidizing part of the labor costs that help keep the the Walton family and the bank execs part of the upper-crust.

That doesn't gall you just a little?

It galls me a lot. We need to end entitlements.

 

[AVG-JOE]

Aren't the rest of you just a LITTLE outraged that the bank executives are cleaning up while the TAXPAYERS are paying part of their labor costs?

If you don't like the way a business conducts itself just don't do business with them, very simple concept. I haven't done business with a bank in years.

Same concept applies to ALL businesses who rely on the taxpayer to subsidize their workforce with food stamps, welfare and Medicaid.

Chumps, every fucking one of us.

Scratch that... only the bottom 90% or so are truly chumps.​