--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 12:36 27-1-01 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
>
>It doesn't matter if you have 4 or 40 people on the cleaning crew -- >if
>they don't work for a week, you end up with a rather dirty >office. Would
>you want to work in such an office? I certainly >wouldn't.
It does matter because the time they spend cleaning my office every night is
close to zero. They emptied my trash can every night and vacumed every week
or two. If there was a central trash can, I could have emptied it at need.
Vacuuming once per week would have taken me about one minute.
Yes, that's not a sensible use of time, and it was probably cheaper for the
company to hire a cleaning service.
>
>You can do that when you have your office at home, or perhaps when >you own
> some small store. But in general, businesses can't "get >their kids to
>come in after school" -- you know, laws against child >labor and things
>like that...
Well, my kids are older...My younger daughter is 16 and makes $6.50/hour at
the local grocery store. She would be willing to clean for $8.00 per hour.
My son who is 14 could work if we signed papers, but he can definately work
when he turns 15. He'd be very happy with $8.00/hour too.
>It rarely ever happens that employees make coffee themselves, >especially
>if they're skilled, well-paid workers. This, of course, >because they are
>too expensive to let them spend time on such >unskilled tasks like making
>coffee.
Well, its really a social thing here. When I make coffee in the morning at
work, it takes me about 20 seconds. That's to knock the old grounds and
filter in the trash, get a new filter, put it under the dispencer and pull
the lever once, put it back, and push the brew button. It took me about
that much time going to get my coffee. Anyways, I'm usually thinking about
a problem while doing it, so no time is wasted.
Here, its not the big offices that employ minimum wage workers. Big
companies usually have very good benefits and have a higher salary package.
Its retail and fast food that hires for $5.50/hour. Also, jobs with
intangables...like postdocs in high energy physics, or non-salary tangibles,
like working for an airline. My wife started at just above minimum wage,
but we didn't care with the flight benefits.
But, to repeat, most minimum wage jobs are not in the same companies with
the high paying jobs.
Dan M.
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