Jackson Jambalaya

Never work harder than your wage

5:13 - Flawed mentality. This country was built on the extra miles that committed people were and are willing to walk to ensure quality. The me, me me mentality is what's eroding it all today.

Are you a Christian? I have something you should read, and obey.

Colossians 3:23-24: Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

If an employer truly values a good worker they will pay them a good wage. If not then only work as hard as they pay you

Who is more motivated to work a poorly paid employee or a well paid employee

I've started with lower wages and applied my own ethic to what falls within my purview. I have also taken other tasks on that were outside of it to get them out of my way. As I gained credibility as a person who was willing to go out of their way to do things right, I became an asset and when that happened, my wages started to go up swiftly. It's worked throughout my entire career and still occurs to this day. The wage-whiners usually don't last because they're the ones that walk out the door in the midst of a problem that needs to be resolved because "quittin' time" is all they care about. Loyalty and commitment is still valued highly.

Anon at 8:41, nope, a “good employee” takes pride in his work, sets goals isn’t doing it for his employer. He’ll go far and probably not with an ungrateful boss.

Like my daddy said “you do t always get what you want but you always get what you paid for”. Same with workers pay good wages get good workers. Pay low wages get crappy workers

The problem lies in the common thought that ones pay is not commensurate with his skill level. People tend to think of themselves as 'worth more than they're paid'. That's rarely true.

There are always those who scream that they need to be paid a living wage. Your wage is the employer's cost to hire you and retain you. If you're not retained, it's the cost to replace you. No employer has any obligation to pay you what you think you're worth or to pay you what you think is a living wage.

If you're unhappy with your wage, move on down the road and find out that you were wrong. Your wage is the amount it will cost the employer to replace you, typically.

Your skill is a commodity. Your pay is the value the employer determines is the cost of the commodity.

View your skill as a head of lettuce. If lettuce heads in your community are selling for $1.69 and the store has them priced at $5.50, they're not going to be bought. Either they'll sit in the vegetable area until they spoil and are tossed or the store will reduce the price to the price of lettuce in the area.

It matters not what the produce manager thinks his lettuce heads are worth. They're worth only what the customer is willing to pay.

If an employer pays the market rate meaning what the pay is in the area for a job. Then the worker should only work the market amount of work matching the amount of work a worker does in there area. No more and no less what an average worker does for a job.

If an employer pays a higher wage then the worker knowing they would have a hard time finding the same pay at another employer would place more value on there job. Better work. However if a employer pays a low or average wage the worker knowing other employers pay the same would do average amount of work knowing finding another job for the same amount of money would be easy to find You get what you pay for