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HELENA, Mont. — The owner of a fast food joint in Montana's booming oil patch found himself outsourcing the drive-thru window to a Texas telemarketing firm, not because it's cheaper but because he can't find workers.
Wow! Ten bucks an hour! I could work 80 hours a week at that rate and still not afford an apt or trailer. The only people that can afford that are kids living with their parents; empty nesters or retired folk looking for a little spare change. Classic fast food industry (plus Wal-mart) subsidized labor pool.
Too bad if the labor prices go up when there is a shortage. That is a market in action. Maybe he will get some workers if he offers $12 per hour.
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I live in Montana and I cannot tell you how many people I have met that have 2-3 jobs because the wages are so low here. If employers paid a decent wage they could stop their whining about a labor shortage.
HELENA, Mont. — The owner of a fast food joint in Montana's booming oil patch found himself outsourcing the drive-thru window to a Texas telemarketing firm, not because it's cheaper but because he can't find workers.
Record low unemployment across parts of the West has created tough working conditions for business owners, who in places are being forced to boost wages or be creative to fill their jobs.
You know my solution - Send the Lindsay Lohans and Paris Hiltons to Montana to work off a full sentence at a fast food drive in. We've got all of these people getting truncated sentences because of prison overcrowding. Let them fry hamburgers and pick lettuce and do "the jobs Americans won't do" to work off their time.
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I have a friend that lives in GJ Colarado. I thought about moving out there. I could easily get one of those oil field jobs at 20.00 bucks an hour but I dont want to pay 300k for a 3 bedroom ranch either. Who knows how long the oil and gas boom will last.
I live in Montana and I cannot tell you how many people I have met that have 2-3 jobs because the wages are so low here. If employers paid a decent wage they could stop their whining about a labor shortage.
Excellent point. This applies to many jobs, and not just in Montana.
I agree with something CITIGIRL said! The world is coming to an end.
Employers, as consumers of labor, should realize that you get what you pay for. Pay more and get better and more productive employees. The increases in productivity compensate for the higher cost and can, if properly managed, result in higher profits. Mismanaging employees kills productivity and profit.
Dilbert's pointy hair manager is an extream example.
Employers have been spoiled for a very long time. I wouldn't be surprised to see some employers have to close their doors. That's what happens when you base your business on the availability of illegal alien labor.
The solution is simple. Pay market wages and obey the labor law. Employers just don't want to cut into their profit margins.
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"CEO compensation swelled from 85 times what workers earned in 1990, to 209 times in 1996, and 326 times the following year. In 1999, CEO pay surged to a record 419 times the average worker's wage, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. "
Now we couldn't expect those poor CEOs to live the 'good life' if their compensation was reduced to a mere 400 times that of a worker, could we?
Maybe what we need is a movement to outsource CEO jobs to India and pass the savings on to the workers
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"CEO compensation swelled from 85 times what workers earned in 1990, to 209 times in 1996, and 326 times the following year. In 1999, CEO pay surged to a record 419 times the average worker's wage, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. "
Now we couldn't expect those poor CEOs to live the 'good life' if their compensation was reduced to a mere 400 times that of a worker, could we?
Maybe what we need is a movement to outsource CEO jobs to India and pass the savings on to the workers
Like that would ever happen.......but it's a nice dream.
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