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What I wanna know is, where do old pay phones go when they are taken out of service and removed from their installations (shopping centers, supermarkets etc). Are there warehouses full of pay phones?
What I wanna know is, where do old pay phones go when they are taken out of service and removed from their installations (shopping centers, supermarkets etc). Are there warehouses full of pay phones?
Junkyards or in scrap metal facilities. I think some are used as collectibles as well...
It comes from the same place it has always come from where I worked, the revenues. Where I've worked in the past, the better the company did, the better we did as employees. I'm not saying 15 an hour, I'm saying there is nothing wrong if a company decides to pay above minimum wage, the average McDonalds worker makes 9.00 an hour already.
It comes from the same place it has always come from where I worked, the revenues. Where I've worked in the past, the better the company did, the better we did as employees. I'm not saying 15 an hour, I'm saying there is nothing wrong if a company decides to pay above minimum wage, the average McDonalds worker makes 9.00 an hour already.
I don't think anyone said it was wrong for people to make more money...they said it was wrong to force people to pay more money than the market value. Now if you are talking profit sharing, then I guess the employees would all have to invest in the company to be entitled to that...
It comes from the same place it has always come from where I worked, the revenues. Where I've worked in the past, the better the company did, the better we did as employees. I'm not saying 15 an hour, I'm saying there is nothing wrong if a company decides to pay above minimum wage, the average McDonalds worker makes 9.00 an hour already.
So the employers need to fork out more money basically? Where do you think they would get their money from?
So the employers need to fork out more money basically? Where do you think they would get their money from?
From their unlimited profits of course (and some of them think that they are entitled to a "share" of the profits too like Stalin is in charge around here...)
I don't think anyone said it was wrong for people to make more money...they said it was wrong to force people to pay more money than the market value. Now if you are talking profit sharing, then I guess the employees would all have to invest in the company to be entitled to that...
I don't think they should be forced either, but the more successful the store is, the more successful the employee usually is. Not even profit sharing, just a higher wage. Through personal experience most employers will keep a good employee and give him or her raises by performance of said employee and the store where they work.
Market values are different from store to store, if I own two franchises one store kicks butt and brings in 8.5 million a year, my employees are gonna make more money than my other store doing 1.5 million a year.
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I don't think they should be forced either, but the more successful the store is, the more successful the employee usually is. Not even profit sharing, just a higher wage. Through personal experience most employers will keep a good employee and give him or her raises by performance of said employee and the store where they work.
Market values are different from store to store, if I own two franchises one store kicks butt and brings in 8.5 million a year, my employees are gonna make more money than my other store doing 1.5 million a year.
Okay, cool. You are not advocating force, so there is nothing wrong with what you are saying. I would think that a smart business person would reward employees for doing a good job or increasing profits, but I don't think anyone should be forced to...it is their business after all.
EXACTLY. Let's remember, payphones were fairly common and most places had one bank per shopping center until the late 1990's/early 2000's because everyone had a cell phone so a cell phone isn't a luxury itself, it's the latest Android, iPhone, Fire Phone or Windows phone that is the luxury. In many cases, cell phones can be just as expensive as a landline AND much more convenient. Remember me talking about payphones earlier, 20 years ago you could have called your place of work at about every other mile on a highway if you got in a wreck. Now if you don't have a phone, you have to borrow one because the phones are much more rare. This is why a BASIC cell phone plan and a BASIC phone is indeed a need.
Need? Well, if you NEED it, maybe you should work to GET it. Isn't food a NEED? How long until the folks that love to give away other people's money start demanding a liveable grocery allowance?
Need? Well, if you NEED it, maybe you should work to GET it. Isn't food a NEED? How long until the folks that love to give away other people's money start demanding a liveable grocery allowance?
Well grocery allowance is known as food stamps. The only issue is it goes to just poverty levels so it is rather easy on a minimum wage job to no longer qualify for it (just like Medicaid prior to the Obamacare expansion.) Also from what I've seen, it is pretty hard to get on. That and people would assume that and rent are the #1 & 2 sources of spent paychecks from jobs or (Godforbid) unemployment and SSD checks.
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(and some of them think that they are entitled to a "share" of the profits too like Stalin is in charge around here...)
