Never A Dull Moment From This Girl

[August West]

What I can't understand is why these people want to make our country like every other country of their desire instead of just moving to one of those glorious places. The problem is there is only one USA. Once they F this place up by turning into all the others, there is no other USA to move to after we realize our mistake.

I`ll try to help you understand although it may not be easy. My wife and I have adult children and a grandson living in this country so our family ties keep us here. Otherwise I would`ve made an effort to move to Costa Rica or Canada when I retired 12 years ago. We`re Democrats aka family values people. Any other dumb questions? This place would really be effed up if we had healthcare for all and weren`t at war continuously Mr. knuckle dragger?

 

[Dick Foster]

What I can't understand is why these people want to make our country like every other country of their desire instead of just moving to one of those glorious places. The problem is there is only one USA. Once they F this place up by turning into all the others, there is no other USA to move to after we realize our mistake.

Corporate America is fucking-up the United States.

In that case get off of your dumb lazy ass and move to another country, dummy. It's not like we'll miss you or anything. Heck I'll even buy your ticket as long as it's one way, you renounce your citizenship and agree under penalty of death to never ever even try to return.

 

[sparky]

If I'm having a bad day at work, once I punch out, my troubles are over until the next day. That's not true of my boss. His troubles take him into the night and into the next day. All I have to worry about is doing my job. I don't have to pay his bills, I don't have to deal with the government, I don't have to worry about unexpected expenses, I don't have to worry about being sued, I don't have to worry about collecting bills. I simply drive.

and like most wage slaves , you're more than comfortably numb with your daily affair, never needing or wanting to investigate your next job

which employers dog down daily.

but this gets better, in that one cultivates a sense of things economic, call it that 'little inner voice', or what you will, w/out such introspect many fail

so, you'll start reading things economic, maybe even delve into economic history,along with all it's icons, asking, investigating....

after riding out a few economic cycles , the movers and shakers become clearer, the motivations cloaked in the guise of marketing schemes all look and sound phoney , the talking heads on TV all parrots, and pols all shill

~S~

 

[Cecilie1200]

It's a pretty simple concept to anyone who's actually a business owner (instead of one that pretends to be one like yourself!)...wages are determined by supply and demand. Right now we have record unemployment which means that there are more jobs out there than there are people to fill them. It's a situation where employees are in a stronger bargaining position because if they are skilled at what they do...then there are other employers out there that would LOVE to hire them away from their present employer! In order to keep those good employees as an employer I'm forced to give more to retain them. If I don't then I will lose good employees.

Absolutely. As a local truck driver I spend much time in industrial areas. For the last several years, companies in these areas are loaded with HELP WANTED signs. They are actually in competition with each other just in their complex alone.

While I cannot state what they are offering, I can bet my dollar to anybody's dime it's not minimum wage. I would also bet that most of these places offer plenty of opportunity for advancement.

My company is always looking for contractors, because we can't find people with the self-discipline to actually sit down and WORK for their money.

I wrangle two kinds of contractors, and the division is sharp and clear: the people who are forever needing their assignments reassigned because they "decided to take the weekend off" or had sixteen different excuses why they needed extension after extension, and who are getting MAYBE $500 a month from us; and the people who have their stuff in a week early and are pestering me for more assignments, and are getting bigger monthly paychecks than I do.

BULLSHIT! It puts more money in your bosses pocket and he doesn't have to do the work.....YOU DO!

YOU NEED A RAISE!!!!!

What the fuck are you babbling about NOW? What "it" are you referring to? And what, besides your kneejerk envy and hatred of anyone more successful than you, makes you think my boss doesn't work?

"It" is contractors that YOU were discussing. Since you deal with contractors, I'm sure you know what a form SS-8 is and how it cost Knight-Swift $100M.

No, dumbass, employment and payroll paperwork are not my department, and your "example" is utterly irrelevant to my employer OR the discussion, however much you want to shoehorn it in in the asinine belief that it somehow enobles your BS and makes it sound marginally less fucked.

Whatever screwed-in-the-head thing you've concocted in your "Everyone should be paid $30 an hour to breathe!" imagination to hate and revile the concept of independent contractors, I can assure you that you are NOT "championing" the best interests of our transcribers and proofreaders as far as they themselves are concerned. And every one of them is a damned sight smarter and better-informed about both their jobs and working in general than you are.

Why don't you try ASKING about how people's companies work, rather than confidently - and ignorantly - asserting how they work without the slightest atom of knowledge about the field, or even which company you're talking about?

 

[Cecilie1200]

So why doesn't the employee leave for better pay?

Where are they going to go? Another employer that pays fresh fish (market price)?

It's a pretty simple concept to anyone who's actually a business owner (instead of one that pretends to be one like yourself!)...wages are determined by supply and demand. Right now we have record unemployment which means that there are more jobs out there than there are people to fill them. It's a situation where employees are in a stronger bargaining position because if they are skilled at what they do...then there are other employers out there that would LOVE to hire them away from their present employer! In order to keep those good employees as an employer I'm forced to give more to retain them. If I don't then I will lose good employees.

If you believe that, read this; This CEO Took A Pay Cut To Give Employees $70,000 A Year. Now He’s Battling Amazon. | HuffPost

Yeah, he's battling Amazon, but not in company success.

I did some reading (your link and others) about this guy. He created a tech company which usually does very well and with little competition. In any case, he nearly lost everything during the recession by his own admission. Also, as a CEO of a small company (less than 120 employees) he was paying himself up to three times what a CEO normally makes for a company that size before he began this crusade; this according to a Bloomberg report.

Afterwards he became a celebrity. He was on talk shows and even scored a half-mil book deal. He now gets much of his business through that popularity than the service itself. However from what I read, here is what I see the problem as:

If we do go into another recession, I doubt this company will survive unless he does cut employees pay. I see the same problem once the limelight is off for a while and he is just another credit card processing company. A true story about the recession:

At the heart of the recession, my employer almost closed up like many transportation companies did at the time. He didn't confess this to me until much later on long after the recession ended. Anyway, he was able to stay afloat by using rainy day funds he saved for many years; something his competitors didn't do. What his competitors did that he didn't do was spend every last dime on pay increases while times were good, nor did he ever layoff one driver. There were many times at the heart of the recession we just came in and had BS sessions. We had four, five and at times six drivers just sitting outside at a nearby dead end street we go to when there is not much to do.

You can't stay in business very long paying your workers to do nothing, but my employer did. Not only did he never layoff a driver, he kept his promise of an 8 hour pay no if's and's or but's about it. He didn't rescind that policy until things started looking grim. It was my idea he only pay us for the hours we work. He refused to accept my offer, but had no choice later on as the recession kept hold.

What this guy (Dan Price) is doing is the same thing our failed competitors did. He's not building any reserve for bad times. He's a young guy and only experienced one recession in his adult life whereas my employer survived several and learned each time.

So I too learned from that experience. I have a rainy day fund just in case. Sure, my tenants could all use things: new windows, new carpeting, central AC, more parking area, but I'm conservative in what I spend so if times do get bad again, I don't have to worry about selling out and losing a lot of money in the process.

"In times of peace--prepare for war."
Author unknown.

WOW! Anything to bash employers that pay a living wage. How Putinbot of you!

You admit on a public forum that you are a slumlord? How stupid of you.

Wow, anything to bash people who refuse to pay you for the "pleasure" of having your worthless ass sitting around doing nothing.

You admit on a public forum that you're a liar and an imbecile every time you post, but that doesn't seem to bother YOU.

 

[Oldstyle]

The more I read what 1%er posts here...the more I'm convinced that he's never EVER owned let alone run a business! He's the prototypical low skill worker who resents the fact that his boss makes more than he does...even though HE'S never put in hundreds of hours of work that he didn't get paid for like most business owners do while they're trying to grow a business!

I'm not a Putinbot that propagated fast food can't afford to pay a living wage. Chick blew that lie.

Was that supposed to make sense?

 

[Oldstyle]

So why doesn't the employee leave for better pay?

Where are they going to go? Another employer that pays fresh fish (market price)?

They can go to trade school for one and learn how to be worth more money. They can join the military and retire in 20 years with full pay. They can take a job with on site training such as construction or truck driving. Most of us had low paying or minimum wage jobs. We didn't expect the employer to overpay us, we went out and did other things instead.

You still are paid a low wage.

Send you boss this link: This CEO Took A Pay Cut To Give Employees $70,000 A Year. Now He’s Battling Amazon. | HuffPost

We are a small family owned operation. We don't have any CEOs. My employer comes in just like the rest of us and puts in a minimum 9 hour day.

I'm paid a low wage? And you don't even know what I'm paid.

If you're not paid at least $25.00/hr plus benefits you are underpaid.

Really? You think an entry level employee who's being taught skills in order to do a job...should be pulling down $25 and hour plus benefits? Once again...there is no way that you own a business. The more you post...the more you make that PAINFULLY obvious!

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

What I can't understand is why these people want to make our country like every other country of their desire instead of just moving to one of those glorious places. The problem is there is only one USA. Once they F this place up by turning into all the others, there is no other USA to move to after we realize our mistake.

I`ll try to help you understand although it may not be easy. My wife and I have adult children and a grandson living in this country so our family ties keep us here. Otherwise I would`ve made an effort to move to Costa Rica or Canada when I retired 12 years ago. We`re Democrats aka family values people. Any other dumb questions? This place would really be effed up if we had healthcare for all and weren`t at war continuously Mr. knuckle dragger?

Yeah, sure you would have. Ever heard of Skype?

And what if your children moved across the country? What would you do then?

Democrats? Family values people?

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The more I read what 1%er posts here...the more I'm convinced that he's never EVER owned let alone run a business! He's the prototypical low skill worker who resents the fact that his boss makes more than he does...even though HE'S never put in hundreds of hours of work that he didn't get paid for like most business owners do while they're trying to grow a business!

If he does own any businesses (and I doubt he does) he must have inherited them.

Several of my family members own their own businesses, and each one will tell you it was hard work night and day, huge risks, many troublesome times, and many sleepless nights.

If I'm having a bad day at work, once I punch out, my troubles are over until the next day. That's not true of my boss. His troubles take him into the night and into the next day. All I have to worry about is doing my job. I don't have to pay his bills, I don't have to deal with the government, I don't have to worry about unexpected expenses, I don't have to worry about being sued, I don't have to worry about collecting bills. I simply drive.

One-Percneter talks like an outsider looking in, not an insider looking out. That's how I know he's a pure phony, because every other business owner discusses their situation from both sides.

What are you talking about, you stated that you don't making enough to put new windows in your rentals. If your employer paid you a living wage, you wouldn't have your tenants living in squaller. (Extremely disgusting conditions related to living conditions)

Not having new windows is squaller? What about not having rain showers in the bathroom or a 120" television in each apartment?

My tenants are plenty happy. They have an affordable place to live, close to a bus line, close to the highway, a beautiful backyard with a fireplace, and I don't have annual rent increases.

If there were better deals elsewhere, I would not have long-term tenants as I have today.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

So why doesn't the employee leave for better pay?

Where are they going to go? Another employer that pays fresh fish (market price)?

It's a pretty simple concept to anyone who's actually a business owner (instead of one that pretends to be one like yourself!)...wages are determined by supply and demand. Right now we have record unemployment which means that there are more jobs out there than there are people to fill them. It's a situation where employees are in a stronger bargaining position because if they are skilled at what they do...then there are other employers out there that would LOVE to hire them away from their present employer! In order to keep those good employees as an employer I'm forced to give more to retain them. If I don't then I will lose good employees.

If you believe that, read this; This CEO Took A Pay Cut To Give Employees $70,000 A Year. Now He’s Battling Amazon. | HuffPost

Yeah, he's battling Amazon, but not in company success.

I did some reading (your link and others) about this guy. He created a tech company which usually does very well and with little competition. In any case, he nearly lost everything during the recession by his own admission. Also, as a CEO of a small company (less than 120 employees) he was paying himself up to three times what a CEO normally makes for a company that size before he began this crusade; this according to a Bloomberg report.

Afterwards he became a celebrity. He was on talk shows and even scored a half-mil book deal. He now gets much of his business through that popularity than the service itself. However from what I read, here is what I see the problem as:

If we do go into another recession, I doubt this company will survive unless he does cut employees pay. I see the same problem once the limelight is off for a while and he is just another credit card processing company. A true story about the recession:

At the heart of the recession, my employer almost closed up like many transportation companies did at the time. He didn't confess this to me until much later on long after the recession ended. Anyway, he was able to stay afloat by using rainy day funds he saved for many years; something his competitors didn't do. What his competitors did that he didn't do was spend every last dime on pay increases while times were good, nor did he ever layoff one driver. There were many times at the heart of the recession we just came in and had BS sessions. We had four, five and at times six drivers just sitting outside at a nearby dead end street we go to when there is not much to do.

You can't stay in business very long paying your workers to do nothing, but my employer did. Not only did he never layoff a driver, he kept his promise of an 8 hour pay no if's and's or but's about it. He didn't rescind that policy until things started looking grim. It was my idea he only pay us for the hours we work. He refused to accept my offer, but had no choice later on as the recession kept hold.

What this guy (Dan Price) is doing is the same thing our failed competitors did. He's not building any reserve for bad times. He's a young guy and only experienced one recession in his adult life whereas my employer survived several and learned each time.

So I too learned from that experience. I have a rainy day fund just in case. Sure, my tenants could all use things: new windows, new carpeting, central AC, more parking area, but I'm conservative in what I spend so if times do get bad again, I don't have to worry about selling out and losing a lot of money in the process.

"In times of peace--prepare for war."
Author unknown.

WOW! Anything to bash employers that pay a living wage. How Putinbot of you!

You admit on a public forum that you are a slumlord? How stupid of you.

What I admitted to is that unlike irresponsible liberals like you, I invested my money. I work hard to ensure I'm not one of you losers on the news one night complaining about what taxpayers didn't give me for things I didn't provide for myself.. I don't cry on the radio or television that I'm not being paid enough because screwing bolts onto nuts for a living doesn't pay the bills.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

So why doesn't the employee leave for better pay?

Where are they going to go? Another employer that pays fresh fish (market price)?

They can go to trade school for one and learn how to be worth more money. They can join the military and retire in 20 years with full pay. They can take a job with on site training such as construction or truck driving. Most of us had low paying or minimum wage jobs. We didn't expect the employer to overpay us, we went out and did other things instead.

You still are paid a low wage.

Send you boss this link: This CEO Took A Pay Cut To Give Employees $70,000 A Year. Now He’s Battling Amazon. | HuffPost

We are a small family owned operation. We don't have any CEOs. My employer comes in just like the rest of us and puts in a minimum 9 hour day.

I'm paid a low wage? And you don't even know what I'm paid.

If you're not paid at least $25.00/hr plus benefits you are underpaid.

Really? If you sell bananas for a living, and not able to sell them for $35.00 a bunch, you are being underpaid.

Where do you get this notion that anybody working for a living is being underpaid if they don't make at least $25.00 an hour? The stupidity of your statement is that you don't even know the work, talent or experience required to do the job. If you make french fries for a living, or sweep floors at Walmart, you are being underpaid by your standards.

 

[Theowl32]

Nothing else to say other than they think she is smart and we are intimidated by this....

 

[Pogo]

Nothing else to say other than they think she is smart and we are intimidated by this....

I see the Crusade continues.

Despite the obvious rent-free space let out by the AOCDS obsessed, we DO hope y'all will let us know when she:refers to the "Indian" countries of "Button" and "Nipple", orders a hamberder and a Diet Covfefe, spells "tap" with 18 Ps, calls people in foreign countries in the middle of the night because what's a time zone, refers to the year "twenty thousand fourteen" or "Obamna", thinks company CEOs carry the last name of what they do like "Tim Apple", "Chris Response" and "Marilyn Lockeed (who all go by both "DJ" and "CJ") , lauds the abolition of civil rights, finds the prow-wess to stop the Skorj, and most recently declares that sounds cause cancer.

Should be a hoot.

 

[Cecilie1200]

The more I read what 1%er posts here...the more I'm convinced that he's never EVER owned let alone run a business! He's the prototypical low skill worker who resents the fact that his boss makes more than he does...even though HE'S never put in hundreds of hours of work that he didn't get paid for like most business owners do while they're trying to grow a business!

If he does own any businesses (and I doubt he does) he must have inherited them.

Several of my family members own their own businesses, and each one will tell you it was hard work night and day, huge risks, many troublesome times, and many sleepless nights.

If I'm having a bad day at work, once I punch out, my troubles are over until the next day. That's not true of my boss. His troubles take him into the night and into the next day. All I have to worry about is doing my job. I don't have to pay his bills, I don't have to deal with the government, I don't have to worry about unexpected expenses, I don't have to worry about being sued, I don't have to worry about collecting bills. I simply drive.

One-Percneter talks like an outsider looking in, not an insider looking out. That's how I know he's a pure phony, because every other business owner discusses their situation from both sides.

What are you talking about, you stated that you don't making enough to put new windows in your rentals. If your employer paid you a living wage, you wouldn't have your tenants living in squaller. (Extremely disgusting conditions related to living conditions)

Not having new windows is squaller? What about not having rain showers in the bathroom or a 120" television in each apartment?

My tenants are plenty happy. They have an affordable place to live, close to a bus line, close to the highway, a beautiful backyard with a fireplace, and I don't have annual rent increases.

If there were better deals elsewhere, I would not have long-term tenants as I have today.

As long as the windows are still intact and functioning and you promptly replace them if they get damaged, I can see not giving much of a crap about getting new ones all the time. Ditto carpets. If I can get damage repaired and have them cleaned once in a while, I'm perfectly happy to make that trade-off for a low rent, accessibility, and being left alone. So will most people. And I don't believe for a second that One actually applies the unreasonable standards he pretends to advocate to his own life.

By the way, guys, the word is "squalor".

 

[OnePercenter]

What I can't understand is why these people want to make our country like every other country of their desire instead of just moving to one of those glorious places. The problem is there is only one USA. Once they F this place up by turning into all the others, there is no other USA to move to after we realize our mistake.

Corporate America is fucking-up the United States.

In that case get off of your dumb lazy ass and move to another country, dummy. It's not like we'll miss you or anything. Heck I'll even buy your ticket as long as it's one way, you renounce your citizenship and agree under penalty of death to never ever even try to return.

So you think that it's proper for a corporation that nets billions quarterly to DEMAND taxpayer subsidies to buy land, build buildings, and pay for multi-year operations while paying their employees so little that they qualify for taxpayer subsidies. As a taxpayer you should be pissed!

 

[OnePercenter]

Absolutely. As a local truck driver I spend much time in industrial areas. For the last several years, companies in these areas are loaded with HELP WANTED signs. They are actually in competition with each other just in their complex alone.

While I cannot state what they are offering, I can bet my dollar to anybody's dime it's not minimum wage. I would also bet that most of these places offer plenty of opportunity for advancement.

My company is always looking for contractors, because we can't find people with the self-discipline to actually sit down and WORK for their money.

I wrangle two kinds of contractors, and the division is sharp and clear: the people who are forever needing their assignments reassigned because they "decided to take the weekend off" or had sixteen different excuses why they needed extension after extension, and who are getting MAYBE $500 a month from us; and the people who have their stuff in a week early and are pestering me for more assignments, and are getting bigger monthly paychecks than I do.

BULLSHIT! It puts more money in your bosses pocket and he doesn't have to do the work.....YOU DO!

YOU NEED A RAISE!!!!!

What the fuck are you babbling about NOW? What "it" are you referring to? And what, besides your kneejerk envy and hatred of anyone more successful than you, makes you think my boss doesn't work?

"It" is contractors that YOU were discussing. Since you deal with contractors, I'm sure you know what a form SS-8 is and how it cost Knight-Swift $100M.

No, dumbass, employment and payroll paperwork are not my department, and your "example" is utterly irrelevant to my employer OR the discussion, however much you want to shoehorn it in in the asinine belief that it somehow enobles your BS and makes it sound marginally less fucked.

Whatever screwed-in-the-head thing you've concocted in your "Everyone should be paid $30 an hour to breathe!" imagination to hate and revile the concept of independent contractors, I can assure you that you are NOT "championing" the best interests of our transcribers and proofreaders as far as they themselves are concerned. And every one of them is a damned sight smarter and better-informed about both their jobs and working in general than you are.

Why don't you try ASKING about how people's companies work, rather than confidently - and ignorantly - asserting how they work without the slightest atom of knowledge about the field, or even which company you're talking about?

My company is always looking for contractors, because we can't find people with the self-discipline to actually sit down and WORK for their money.

I wrangle two kinds of contractors, and the division is sharp and clear: the people who are forever needing their assignments reassigned because they "decided to take the weekend off" or had sixteen different excuses why they needed extension after extension, and who are getting MAYBE $500 a month from us; and the people who have their stuff in a week early and are pestering me for more assignments, and are getting bigger monthly paychecks than I do.

Thanks for clearing that up. If your company had weekly contractual goals wouldn't your life be easier?

And again, your company contracts because it's cheaper than hiring folks.

And again, watch out for SS-8 violations.

 

[OnePercenter]

Where are they going to go? Another employer that pays fresh fish (market price)?

It's a pretty simple concept to anyone who's actually a business owner (instead of one that pretends to be one like yourself!)...wages are determined by supply and demand. Right now we have record unemployment which means that there are more jobs out there than there are people to fill them. It's a situation where employees are in a stronger bargaining position because if they are skilled at what they do...then there are other employers out there that would LOVE to hire them away from their present employer! In order to keep those good employees as an employer I'm forced to give more to retain them. If I don't then I will lose good employees.

If you believe that, read this; This CEO Took A Pay Cut To Give Employees $70,000 A Year. Now He’s Battling Amazon. | HuffPost

Yeah, he's battling Amazon, but not in company success.

I did some reading (your link and others) about this guy. He created a tech company which usually does very well and with little competition. In any case, he nearly lost everything during the recession by his own admission. Also, as a CEO of a small company (less than 120 employees) he was paying himself up to three times what a CEO normally makes for a company that size before he began this crusade; this according to a Bloomberg report.

Afterwards he became a celebrity. He was on talk shows and even scored a half-mil book deal. He now gets much of his business through that popularity than the service itself. However from what I read, here is what I see the problem as:

If we do go into another recession, I doubt this company will survive unless he does cut employees pay. I see the same problem once the limelight is off for a while and he is just another credit card processing company. A true story about the recession:

At the heart of the recession, my employer almost closed up like many transportation companies did at the time. He didn't confess this to me until much later on long after the recession ended. Anyway, he was able to stay afloat by using rainy day funds he saved for many years; something his competitors didn't do. What his competitors did that he didn't do was spend every last dime on pay increases while times were good, nor did he ever layoff one driver. There were many times at the heart of the recession we just came in and had BS sessions. We had four, five and at times six drivers just sitting outside at a nearby dead end street we go to when there is not much to do.

You can't stay in business very long paying your workers to do nothing, but my employer did. Not only did he never layoff a driver, he kept his promise of an 8 hour pay no if's and's or but's about it. He didn't rescind that policy until things started looking grim. It was my idea he only pay us for the hours we work. He refused to accept my offer, but had no choice later on as the recession kept hold.

What this guy (Dan Price) is doing is the same thing our failed competitors did. He's not building any reserve for bad times. He's a young guy and only experienced one recession in his adult life whereas my employer survived several and learned each time.

So I too learned from that experience. I have a rainy day fund just in case. Sure, my tenants could all use things: new windows, new carpeting, central AC, more parking area, but I'm conservative in what I spend so if times do get bad again, I don't have to worry about selling out and losing a lot of money in the process.

"In times of peace--prepare for war."
Author unknown.

WOW! Anything to bash employers that pay a living wage. How Putinbot of you!

You admit on a public forum that you are a slumlord? How stupid of you.

Wow, anything to bash people who refuse to pay you for the "pleasure" of having your worthless ass sitting around doing nothing.

You admit on a public forum that you're a liar and an imbecile every time you post, but that doesn't seem to bother YOU.

So now you're calling the American Worker....."worthless asses?" How Putinbot of you!

 

[OnePercenter]

The more I read what 1%er posts here...the more I'm convinced that he's never EVER owned let alone run a business! He's the prototypical low skill worker who resents the fact that his boss makes more than he does...even though HE'S never put in hundreds of hours of work that he didn't get paid for like most business owners do while they're trying to grow a business!

I'm not a Putinbot that propagated fast food can't afford to pay a living wage. Chick blew that lie.

Was that supposed to make sense?

Since you and yours propagated the lie, yes.

 

[OnePercenter]

Where are they going to go? Another employer that pays fresh fish (market price)?

They can go to trade school for one and learn how to be worth more money. They can join the military and retire in 20 years with full pay. They can take a job with on site training such as construction or truck driving. Most of us had low paying or minimum wage jobs. We didn't expect the employer to overpay us, we went out and did other things instead.

You still are paid a low wage.

Send you boss this link: This CEO Took A Pay Cut To Give Employees $70,000 A Year. Now He’s Battling Amazon. | HuffPost

We are a small family owned operation. We don't have any CEOs. My employer comes in just like the rest of us and puts in a minimum 9 hour day.

I'm paid a low wage? And you don't even know what I'm paid.

If you're not paid at least $25.00/hr plus benefits you are underpaid.

Really? You think an entry level employee who's being taught skills in order to do a job...should be pulling down $25 and hour plus benefits? Once again...there is no way that you own a business. The more you post...the more you make that PAINFULLY obvious!

Ray for Cleveland is "entry level?"

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The more I read what 1%er posts here...the more I'm convinced that he's never EVER owned let alone run a business! He's the prototypical low skill worker who resents the fact that his boss makes more than he does...even though HE'S never put in hundreds of hours of work that he didn't get paid for like most business owners do while they're trying to grow a business!

If he does own any businesses (and I doubt he does) he must have inherited them.

Several of my family members own their own businesses, and each one will tell you it was hard work night and day, huge risks, many troublesome times, and many sleepless nights.

If I'm having a bad day at work, once I punch out, my troubles are over until the next day. That's not true of my boss. His troubles take him into the night and into the next day. All I have to worry about is doing my job. I don't have to pay his bills, I don't have to deal with the government, I don't have to worry about unexpected expenses, I don't have to worry about being sued, I don't have to worry about collecting bills. I simply drive.

One-Percneter talks like an outsider looking in, not an insider looking out. That's how I know he's a pure phony, because every other business owner discusses their situation from both sides.

What are you talking about, you stated that you don't making enough to put new windows in your rentals. If your employer paid you a living wage, you wouldn't have your tenants living in squaller. (Extremely disgusting conditions related to living conditions)

Not having new windows is squaller? What about not having rain showers in the bathroom or a 120" television in each apartment?

My tenants are plenty happy. They have an affordable place to live, close to a bus line, close to the highway, a beautiful backyard with a fireplace, and I don't have annual rent increases.

If there were better deals elsewhere, I would not have long-term tenants as I have today.

As long as the windows are still intact and functioning and you promptly replace them if they get damaged, I can see not giving much of a crap about getting new ones all the time. Ditto carpets. If I can get damage repaired and have them cleaned once in a while, I'm perfectly happy to make that trade-off for a low rent, accessibility, and being left alone. So will most people. And I don't believe for a second that One actually applies the unreasonable standards he pretends to advocate to his own life.

By the way, guys, the word is "squalor".

What fake one-percenter doesn't know is that by law, the city mandates an inspection of every apartment before each occupation. This is a cost to me of $225.00. They inspect the inside of the apartment, the property itself, any associated area the tenant may be using such as the basement for laundry, the garage for parking, the hallways for exiting and entering the building.

You cannot allow a new tenant to move in unless that inspection passes all city and state codes. Furthermore, if a tenant has an issue that the landlord will not address, the tenant can submit their monthly rent to the city to hold in escrow, and the city will not release that money to the landlord until the issue is resolved.