[rengerts]

What a load from all sides, as usual.


I know this sounds bad, but where do some of these guys come off thinking that they deserve a raise for doing nothing but being there for a long time?

Is it fair to expect this kind of thing? How proficient can you be at mopping a subway platform? How much experience is needed to become the Uber-Engineer?

Granted that the first few years are essential to various workers, and as they learn and become more proficient, everyone benefits, but at what point do they just become older?

The whole mindset of our workforce nowadays has lost touch with where it came from. It used to be that someone with more experience was valued on the talents they had because of it. Someone who did leatherwork for 20 years could probably do better than someone who just started. But we have taken the # of years away from the actual professions proficiency. We are rating employees not on what they can do, but merely on how long they have been there.


I know it is not far to simply cap people. Inflation is one of the things that should be taken into account, but I think it would probably be better fror everyone if the pay-tables were rethought. Low in the beginning, with a steeper rise to a capped top. Inflation slider and proficiency guidelines also being needed. Maybe like passing grades or something....



Oh, and it is kind of funny about the sick day thing. We just had ours "combined" with our vacation. WHOOPIE! Take two days away because too many people were getting "sick" on fridays... :P