Comments by steve42
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Posted on July 22 at 1:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)
DR, you are purporting to know how I or others feel about the situation of a woman we've never met who works in a nursing home.
My loved one who was in the nursing home was not elderly. I brought him home to stay with me when I was 23 years old. How many people would do that? Unfortunately, he was too vulnerable to medical problems that we couldn't treat for us to be able to keep him at home anymore. Plus the nurses we paid to come to our home to sit with him while we worked and took care of all the other needs of a household commanded WELL above minimum wage, and a minimum of a 4-hour stay.
I never suggested "this woman" go back to school. You can learn to do plenty of new things without going to school. I know plenty of folks who have learned to assemble computers by getting old ones from people and replacing parts from other scrap computers. Eventually, they learned what they were doing and were good enough to get an entry level computer job at better than minimum wage.
You said "I think people like this deserve to be paid at least min wage and it should be at least $10 an hour!!"
I agree that people who care for our loved ones in nursing homes should be able to earn at least $10 an hour if they do it well. But I disagree that they should be *guaranteed* that wage regardless of their work ethic.
RICH people who own businesses don't get that way by being cheap and stingy. That's class envy talking. They get rich by being frugal and by putting people they can trust in charge of their businesses.
If someone starts out pushing a broom, but they come in on time and work hard, if they volunteer to help others when their work is done, and if they are friendly and cordial to everyone they see at work, one of two things will happen: they'll be recognized for it by leadership and opportunities will follow or they'll be noticed by a visitor who will offer them a job at his or her business because of the work ethic they portray. I've seen that happen, too.
Posted on July 22 at 9:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)
kwsr, obviously you read the message I posted elsewhere on this site that I did get laid off and I did get help from others, though it was not in the late 90s. I got laid off in December 2001 when the post 9/11 hysteria caused the military and local businesses to pull back on the training funding that allowed my employer to keep us gainfully employed. But during that time, I never stopped working. I worked a minimum wage job, started my own business that is still going strong today, and volunteered during my free time to help others.
I used skills I honed doing that minimum wage job to increase my marketability and now earn a very good wage. THAT'S one reason I disagree with increasing minimum wages, because there are people who will never strive to do any better as long as they feel they can get raises for being mediocre.
And I'm not attacking... I'm stirring the pot and making people think. Sound familiar? When comments are made that poke fun at you, you react with the "attack" accusations, but when you make derogatory comments about anyone else on here and they react, then it's because they are citizens of the United States of the OFFENDED! If you're going to embrace your self-appointed role of Clanton Antagonist, then you're going to have to learn to deal with the reactions. Otherwise, you're just a convenient caricature for people to laugh at.
Posted on July 22 at 9:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)
That's ok. I just can't believe he typed that many words in a row without reminding us of his six figure UNION job.
Posted on July 21 at 7:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Do some reading people."
And when you're done, do some thinking. If you read well and think well, you might learn that the whole thing is a sham.
Posted on July 21 at 11:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Penandpaper, what you (and many others on this site) neglect to realize is that libel and slander are illegal. The police officers in other areas that Justin referred to are investigating web posts as a result of charges being filed in libel or slander cases. That's hardly a waste of time.
Now if you want to use that argument because you are guilty of making false claims and you don't think that should be a crime, then say so. Right now, you sound like a speeder complaining that the police didn't have anything better to do than pull you over for it.
Posted on July 21 at 11:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I understand that people are struggling right now, and I have been laid off in the past, but minimum wage (aka the going rate for mediocrity) was never designed for raising a family.
It was originally created to protect relatively unskilled workers from sweat shop conditions. It should still be used to protect relatively unskilled workers. If you are performing anything more than routine tasks, you should have earned the right to do better than minimum wage, and you shouldn't be waiting on those increases to raise your income.
The mininum wage was created in 1938 and was 25 cents. It is now $7.25 61 years later. That is a 2800% increase over 61 years, or an average of 45% per year by my rather weak math skills.
I've worked minimum wage jobs when that was all that was available to me, but the idea that the only way to get ahead is for the Department of Labor to grace you with yet another increase in the minimum wage is a sure sign of a lack of ambition.
The fact that the register biscuits who refuse to look the customers in the eye and who can't get an order right unless it's placed using a number ("I'll have a number 3") are now making what I did as an IT worker for a mid-sized company in 1995 is disgusting.
If you are working for minimum wage after having been with an employer for more than 90 days, you have made some mistakes. Either you didn't let them know you expected to earn merit raises for excellent work, or you're not performing excellent work.
When I interview for a job, the first thing I do is find out if there's a 90 day review, and if so, what I have to do to earn a raise at that review. If there's not a way, then I will look elsewhere. I don't need the mayor, the governor, the president or anyone else to tell my employer to give me more money.
I worked one job where the salary didn't increase for 3 years due to the way the government wrote the contract. I knew that was a possibility, but the pay was light years ahead of the averages for this community, so I took the chance. When a better opportunity presented itself, I took it.
Again, I *know* sometimes you have to settle for a starter job with starter wages, but if you work for decent folks and you set out to be the best employee they've got, you'll get raises.
Posted on July 21 at 10:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Somebody bump kwsr, his record's skipping again.
UNION <tick> UNION <tick> UNION <tick> UNION <tick> UNION <tick> UNI -- <SCREECH> benefits.
Posted on July 16 at 8:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Some of you need to learn what the internet community refers to a "trolls". See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph... to see if you fit in. (WARNING: there's some spicy language there).
By those definitions, some of the folks here who enjoy sitrring the pot will qualify. And yes, the folks whou comment on al.com will too.
What Justin should have expounded upon is that allowing folks to make statements about other individuals can make the Advertiser party to a slander or libel suit. I'd venture to say that anyone with more than 25 comments on this site has fallen victim to that. And if they stand up for themselves, they are officially dubbed citizens of the "US of O" by our high-ranking subject matter experts.
Posted on July 16 at 8:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Justin, I'll echo the others. The executive session thing has been abused by the CoCo for years. "Executive Session" is a frequent codeword for "we don't want his to get out or our butts will be in the sling."
How many people are actually employed by the county? If every executive session were personnel related, the county would have a 500% turnover rate.
I know that a conservative definition of "good name and character" could be applied to more than just employee discussions, but the number of these things that are called is ridiculous.
It will be interesting to see how many more "hard-hitting" questions Justin is allowed to ask before he gets relegated to the 100th birthday celbration and kiddie pageant beats?
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Posted on July 22 at 1:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Kwsr, my "overpriced rat wagon" cost me less than $4000 5 years ago and it now has 275,000 miles on it. As for my grass... it gets mowed every week with a tractor I paid cash for from a local tractor dealer who was glad to accept it. Sometimes my wife mows the lawn because it gives her time to be alone with God and nature, sometimes I do it, and sometimes my oldest child does it. I've got more coming up who are chomping at the bit to be able to mow.
I have no reason to be jealous. I have a well paying job that I got based on my reputation, and I got a raise this year for doing it well, and it allows me to be at home every night. I have a family that loves and respects me. I have a roof over my head and two cars in the driveway, and most of all, I have a Savior who provides it all.
If you resent the fact that He used you to provide things for me in my time of need, then for that I am truly sorry. I'll still pray for you and your family, as we have so many times during YOUR hardships.
That is all.
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