Regards,
@stonevintage It makes sense, everybody who knows something can be sold on eBay or online for a little more are getting their cut at the counter. Consignment shops are worse ... not sure what those people are thinking at the ones around here ... one place in particular that I go through about once a month STILL has most of what I saw back in March!?! I would love for the booth owners to be there when I go through, would make offers ... there is one section of old vintage toys that still have most of what was there last year with very little new inventory. The sad part is 75% of what I see would be sold in 6 months on eBay or other online venues ... money just sitting there wasting away.
emerald40 wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-hrabe/the-worst-corporation-in-_b_1876905.html
An American multi-national corporation, which accepts millions of dollars in government funds, pays its top executives more than half a million dollars per year in total compensation, while simultaneously paying some of its employees less than the federal minimum wage.
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The only thing I can add to this thread is - read the link above and then decide if you want to give.
And in answer to the above poster, apparently they are well compensated in government funds.
LOL! That *half-a-million* dollar annual salary paid to top executives of a multi-national corporation is piddly chicken feed compared to what those positions normally pay in America today! Good Heavens!
And those *employees* who aren't being paid federal minimum wage? If they are anything like those souls in training at my local Goodwill center, many of them don't actually or remotely qualify as employees and are outstanding if they turn out five pieces of effort in an hour. And those who ARE trainable and educable, are working the stores and ARE being paid at that minimum wage AND ABOVE!!
Yes, I know because a family member was IN that program! 
@mistwomandancing wrote:
@emerald40 wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-hrabe/the-worst-corporation-in-_b_1876905.html
An American multi-national corporation, which accepts millions of dollars in government funds, pays its top executives more than half a million dollars per year in total compensation, while simultaneously paying some of its employees less than the federal minimum wage.
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The only thing I can add to this thread is - read the link above and then decide if you want to give.
And in answer to the above poster, apparently they are well compensated in government funds.
LOL! That *half-a-million* dollar annual salary paid to top executives of a multi-national corporation is piddly chicken feed compared to what those positions normally pay in America today! Good Heavens!
And those *employees* who aren't being paid federal minimum wage? If they are anything like those souls in training at my local Goodwill center, many of them don't actually or remotely qualify as employees and are outstanding if they turn out five pieces of effort in an hour. And those who ARE trainable and educable, are working the stores and ARE being paid at that minimum wage AND ABOVE!!
Yes, I know because a family member was IN that program!
Then some of them should be fired because they are not earning their salary. And in a for proft business they would have been a long time ago.
I have a nephew who has Down's Syndrom. He works in a sheltered work shop and is paid minimum wage.
@emerald40 wrote:
mistwomandancing wrote:.....And those *employees* who aren't being paid federal minimum wage? If they are anything like those souls in training at my local Goodwill center, many of them don't actually or remotely qualify as employees and are outstanding if they turn out five pieces of effort in an hour. And those who ARE trainable and educable, are working the stores and ARE being paid at that minimum wage AND ABOVE!!
Yes, I know because a family member was IN that program!
Then some of them should be fired because they are not earning their salary. And in a for proft business they would have been a long time ago.
I have a nephew who has Down's Syndrom. He works in a sheltered work shop and is paid minimum wage.
I don't think those trainers working with these who can barely understand and are so slow to learn would even think of firing them because they aren't worth paying! They aren't even truly *hired*... they are training, being taught as patiently and kindly as can be, and they are PROUD of what they are learning and doing, even if it is Oh, So Little. They may only be earning 50¢ per piece done, and then do half of them so poorly that they have to be discarded, but they are happy. No, they would never be FIRED because they are unable to actually work a minumum wage job, nor any job. They are happy to be gathered into the fold, so to speak.
So happy to hear of the work your nephew is able to do! It gives folks who need this little added care a way to contribute to LIFE in their own way, earn at their own level, have a right to hold their heads up with pride at their effort and results! Not all are even up to this level, so good to hear your nephew is. Some just need to receive a bit more care, but aren't able to earn even at minimum wage in their training program. But they don't deserve to be fired!
