Young lefty work ethic is, "If you pay me minimum wage, I'm only gonna do a shit job." And that's how you stay at minimum wage forever! If you show you can't do good work at a lower level, why would anyone promote you, or want to pay you more?

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[–]zephyranthes 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Gonna stop you right here:

For example, if you wanted to choose someone to be manager, who would you pick? The employee that is lazy, and creates problems, or the one that works hard, and does his best even at a minimum wage?

An outsider. The stats have been out for quite some time. People don't get promoted. When a vacancy opens up, employers overwhelmingly choose to hire a new worker rather than promote. Wagies stay in cages.

[–]jet199 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Personally I've always changed job every couple of years to take advantage of this. You move up so much more quickly and learn so much more. The idea that you stay in the same job for 5 or 10 years and just wait for your bosses to decide your lifepath for your seems crazy to me.

[–]insta 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Exactly. I don't know a single person who's been with a company for an extended period of time who wasn't hurt by that decision (outside of bullshit government unions jobs). So tired of hearing these bullshit boomer takes on the workforce. Larger companies will knowingly take a hit on good employees leaving to avoid paying them more. This idea that you just have to take all shit shoveled at you with a smile while working for shit and one day you'll be in middle management is bullshit.

[–]jet199 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Everyone is replaceable. I leant that very early on. No company cares for you.

[–]RedditExPat69 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Larger companies will knowingly take a hit on good employees leaving to avoid paying them more.

That's exactly what happened to me.
Got a job offer for a 20% raise doing same thing, turned in my resignation to old company
old company: "Noooo! Here's 4% to stay! please!!".
Me: eyeroll. I left. This is a LARGE multi-billion-$$$ corporation.

[–]insta 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. I know friend's of mine who have left positions for a positions with less responsibility with better pay and their employer didn't give a shit. They basically left whole teams or departments fall apart of a few months (at the very least) rather than give someone a raise. It's insane to me.