Bill,
Highly intelligent people simply will not take low-wage employment except
when they're in school. That is the connection between intelligence and pay.
I worked shit jobs like that as a college student, and like many students
who work retail, I discovered that the harder you work the more the managers
of those stores spit on you. Employers that pay low wages don't simply pay
low wages, they cultivate a management culture of disrespect for the
humanity of the employees. The employees are, after all, just trash. If they
were better they wouldn't make $7 an hour. That belief pervades the culture
of the retail industry. I suspect that you have either never worked such a
job, or that you did so many decades ago as a student and have forgotten the
experience. Note also, that older people I met in retail who had worked in
that industry for decades tell me that retail clerks were once paid a lot
better and treated as valued team members rather than slaves. This is 30-40
yrs ag0. When I was an assistant manager of a Walgreens drug store, there
were a couple of old women who had each worked for the company more than 45
years! They were disgusted by the way the younger employees were treated and
they told me in no uncertain terms that it wasn't like that in their earlier
days at Walgreens. These women only made $8 an hour after 45 years.
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On 2/24/09 4:49 PM, "NSURIT@xxxxxxx" <NSURIT@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 2/24/2009 2:10:05 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> When you are served
> by people who are literally hungry because they cannot afford food, you
> simply cannot expect them to work hard, be intelligent, or respect you.
>
> Chris, I will not argue the point of the difficulty of living on a minimal
> wage and I would suggest that perhaps the way out of that job, is to do it to
> the best of your ability, treat every customer with respect and to look for
> ways to increase your value to any employer. Not sure what the connection is
> between what you are paid and your intelligence. Additionally, if an
> employee is upset with what they are being paid, I fail to see how acting
> dumb,
> disrespectful and lazy is going to improve their lot in life.
>
> Bill Barber
>
>
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