Posted on 05/11/2005 by mainmanwalkin
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I work at a company with only two employees: me and my assistant. I get paid a very decent salary as the manager, but over time I've noticed its been harder and harder to find an assistant that it's dependable or even hireable. The reason is simply that our company offers them the same hourly wage rate today that it did ten years ago.
I tried explaining to the owner that to get better reliable help we need to offer more money. I mentioned that the price of gas has doubled in the past ten years. I mentioned that the cost of living has gone up considerably over that period of time. And to drive the point home I mentioned that back in 1995 minimum wage was $4.25 and we were paying $8.00, and now minimum wage is $6.15 and we are still paying $8.00.
His response to that was "that means we were paying them too much back in 95"
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