This hits kind of close to home for me. So here's my two cents.
I've been on both sides of the equation, employer and employee. I never worked long for anyone I didn't enjoy working for, no matter how much they paid me. I can think of three or four guys I'd love to work for again. The problem was that they weren't in a position to pay me any more money. These guys I worked for when I was much younger. But family responsibilities can get pretty expensive and so I had to look for a way to make more money and I left.....
As an employer, I've had people working for me that I would sell a kidney to keep, but they were such good, intelligent workers that they moved on to better paying jobs....Then I had other kinds of employees that just frustrated me. Acted like they were doing me a favor by showing up. The trouble was they were! I didn't own the company and couldn't set the wages for my employees beyond a very tight margin. But I still needed a certain number of warm bodies in order to do business.
Now, twenty years ago I would have been glad to have worked for $10/hr. But I'd have a hard time convincing my wife that it would be a good career move now!
I guess I'm just talking, and you've got my sympathy. You're kind of stuck in the middle. Can't afford to pay more, but the amount you can afford to pay does not attract the best candidates.
Yeah, we'll probably all wind up eating Chinese imports, just like the big shots in industry and government want us to.....at least until the Chinese decide that they tired of working for nothing and demand more. Then we'll be in trouble.
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