aquascoot wrote on Aug 10
th, 2018 at 7:19am:
wage growth is a no brainer.
if a worker makes himself "more valuable", then he goes to the boss and says "i am more valuable" and the boss acknowledges this fact and a higher wage is applied commensurate with the increased value of the worker.
now if you are "fat steve ' from the CFMEU and you think you should get a wage rise
because
because
well just because !!!!
then you are a bloody moron
Must be nice to go through life with a firm belief in the principals of year 9 economics.
Fact is that for a lot of employees going to the boss is just as likely to result in having no job.
I recently worked for a company that wanted to cut costs. They restructured - when going through their grades they made all the highest paid employees redundant.
The problem is that the highest paid all got that way because the out performed the others, they got small pay increases every year based on their performance assessments. In the end their good performance had cost them their jobs.
Not only that but they also identified that the lower paid were in the grades not being paid enough. They got this way because they had routinely and in many cases exclusively produced poor or even terribly performance results.
They were given a catch up wage increase.
This is more like how it works in the real world.
In real private industry nepotism and friendship dominates the pay scales in many businesses and most management teams would have no idea of who there best workers are.
I worked in a different company where the OIC firmly believed that the best performer was the guy who drank black beer with him on Friday afternoon.
This guy worked in my department and I always bypassed him for important work as he would never get it done.
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