Post #20632 by thebaxdog on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 10:54 PM

It must be nice to have the luxury to have employees long enough to trust them. And just who does set the bar on what is fair pay or paying them what their worth.
It seems to me in the transient world of retail and (my world) construction, you rarely have anyone around long enough to trust. And now in this economy if I pay the ones I like more, I cannot make a dime on them because the home owners won't pay that much. I mean a Plumber and an Electrician can charge $80.00 an hour, but if I take a finish carpenter that is a total artist, that takes a bunch of lines on paper and makes a master piece out of it. Now I try to charge $46.00 an hour for him, I am "raping" the owners. So for a guy that put major time in the trenchs, I am always on the side of the trenches. But in the world I work in, and seeing tons of friends in retail, it is hard to have the surreal world you talk of. The market just won't bare that cost. I am glad you can create the world you talk about, and maybe someday when I grow up I to can be the boss I always wanted. And just like most people that THINK they are funny, I might have stretched things a little. But until that glorious day that I can walk on water,
GET BACK TO WORK
Because I have fifty other losers to take your job at half the cost.