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The context of cheapness in compensation is what matters. - Scrooges ought not wish employees...

Posted: Dec 26th, 2017 - 2:36 am In Reply to: Got my warm and fuzzy Christmas card yesterday. - Advice to MTSOs...

"Merry Christmas" at all, because it isn't sincere to wish people a happy holiday when you've done everything you can to see to it that their holiday will be much more bleak than it would have been if you had been decent enough to pay them properly.

Instead, every time a client ground YOU down on your PRICE, you didn't resist. You didn't say, "No, I can't pay my people properly at that rate." No, you went along with it. And then the next company did the same thing, but at a slightly lower rate.

...and a slightly lower rate.

...and a slightly lower rate.

...and it was YOUR PEOPLE who got the stuffing squished out of their paychecks.

All because most of our companies are run by utterly inept business people, who have no idea how to compete on any basis OTHER than price. All they know is "the race to the bottom."

Which makes them like whores standing on opposite sides of the road, yelling "I'll do it for $20!"..."No, I'll do it for $15!"..."I'll do it for $12 and throw in my sister!"...

It's not what management does at Christmas that tells employees what they really "wish" for them or how they are valued...it's what management does the rest of the year that sends the real "Christmas message."

So, the "Grinch" here isn't the OP any more than a dog barking at a burglar is the burglar. The OP didn't steal anyone's Christmas, but I certainly know who did...and so do you.

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Got my warm and fuzzy Christmas card yesterday. - Advice to MTSOs... (Views: 1184, 2017-12-24, 3:57 am)
- I work for a company that didn't bother to send cards. I'd - rather get a card than no thought at all. nm (Views: 695, 2017-12-24, 11:10 am)
  - Not me. I'd rather get nothing, and I'm never disappointed. - nm (Views: 736, 2017-12-24, 12:58 pm)
- Bah humbug to you too - Really not that bad (Views: 892, 2017-12-24, 12:37 pm)
- I worked in management for an MTSO and MT's like you are the reason that ... - LongTime MT (Views: 1175, 2017-12-24, 4:44 pm)
  - So what. Doesn't matter, Christmas is the time of giving and - anon (Views: 717, 2017-12-28, 7:53 am)
    - MTSOs do not make what you think they do, thanks to offshore and companies undercutting. sm - ex-MTSO (Views: 459, 2018-01-01, 6:34 pm)
- At least you got something.... - MT (Views: 770, 2017-12-24, 6:40 pm)
- The context of cheapness in compensation is what matters. - Scrooges ought not wish employees...
  - Well Said - nm (Views: 563, 2017-12-26, 6:40 am)
    - Good points - Cheapness in compensation (Views: 735, 2017-12-27, 6:22 am)
      - Uuh, no. It's not about the Christmas card. - Picked right up on that did you? (Views: 1033, 2017-12-30, 6:34 am)
        Allowed ourselves? - MT (Views: 554, 2017-12-30, 10:20 am)
        Wait though...this president is going to bring back jobs. - anon (Views: 666, 2017-12-30, 1:55 pm)
- Proscript doesn't even send us an email - we are dog crap to them (Views: 624, 2017-12-31, 4:05 am)
  - Proscript - Grandy (Views: 676, 2017-12-31, 8:54 pm)