Praise them daily, pay them weekly . . . very weekly.

Dean Hardknocks 30 May 2007

I just helped my 22 yr old intern land her first full time job after college with a company I freelance for. She actually complained to me about their ridiculous first offer of $37K. (!) She told them that was barely enough to live on and they bought it. WTF have I been doing wrong?!? Someone give me a gold star for this post and tell me I'm pretty, okay?

liz 30 May 2007

How about giving employees free tickets to the new Creation Museum which opened on May 28th!?
Don't mind those foreign journalists laughing at you for entering.

ou can get all of the historical praise you want, but don't forget to praise the Lord. He should get employee of the week every week - after all he created the world 6000 years ago in just 7 days!!! Yeehaw!

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070529/NEWS01/705290355

Markus Arelius 30 May 2007

Granted this is ancient history, Liz, but it took me about 12 years to get from minimum wage to the measly 37K your intern scoffed at.

I'm still under the impression that you have to pay your dues and prove your value before you go around demanding big bucks for a position you may or may not be suited for. Let me quantify this my saying that I've never been fired, laid off or even demoted.

Just trying to keep it real.

Carl 30 May 2007

Carl: "...I've never been fired, laid off or even demoted."

You're just not applying yourself. People put in years of hard work for a good demotion.

Jpeg 30 May 2007

Don't we have a war going on to thin this generation out???

Nora 30 May 2007

There was a news item last week titled "30 Year Old Men not as Wealthy as their Fathers Were." Apparently salary deflation only happens to men. Pretty sexist story for this late in the game. And yesterday the new conservative, business-friendly Supreme Court dictated that if you received less pay than your male co-workers for the same work you get only 180 days to file a suit.

jpeg 30 May 2007

When I was listening to this piece, I noted that esteem that comes from external (& meaningless) praise is decidedly not SELF-esteem.

jpeg 30 May 2007

Re: "30 Year Old Men not as Wealthy as their Fathers Were"

When you consider the poor quality of, say, new home construction . . . what you CAN buy with an enemic wage/US dollar is scarcely worth having.

Carl 30 May 2007

I actually don't think this story JPEG mentioned about 30 year old men is sexist.

The baby boomers are the first real generation to have women working, so we as the generation after that, probably make more money then they did....Now the next generation after ours most likely will not make more, but with the on going war and global warming, hopefully that generation will be thinned out a little and then there will be less poor complainers.

Yeah and I saw that article about the Supreme Court decision....Wish someone would thin that court out after 2008.

Nora 30 May 2007

3 words: appointed... for... life. You thought I was just being my usual complainy self when liberals paid no attention while Alito was being confirmed. Nope. That was the last chance to prevent a neocon dynasty at the top of the food-chain. It was a major moment that no one noted. Everything from wages to impeachment has to go through the Supes. Oh well, see you in 2029.

jpeg 30 May 2007

Did I miss something, what does "appointed for life" have to do with this topic?

Maybe you have France on the brain and envision yourself on the receiving end of a CDI?

Carl 31 May 2007

ouch.

Nora wrote: "Yeah and I saw that article about the Supreme Court decision....Wish someone would thin that court out after 2008."

How do we so frequently end up back at french-bashing, and me being the proxy for France? Quelle est le problem? I smack you with a wedge of bris and challenege you to a duel.

monsieur_jpeg 01 Jun 2007