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Old 02-16-2013, 12:24 PM  
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Originally Posted by Minte View Post
You really see the bad side of business when the owners don't work at the same locations as their employees. I am there everyday. I know many of the team by their first names. And I have worked closely with the staff over the years to not forget that it is the direct labor that makes the money. We are all just overhead. It makes a difference. When you have large corporations where the management is in some golden tower there is nothing personal about the labor force. They get to be just a number on a spreadsheet.
That's VERY true and only gets worse when the people running a business are not the people who built the business. It's also exactly the reason why things like minimum wage are so important. You'd have a hard time finding any business with an actively engaged owner paying people under $9.00 per hour... this law isn't about them. It's about the bean counters in a central management accounting department who think paying $6.25 would look good on a spreadsheet and get them a promotion at a meeting about quarterly profits.
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