This post doesnt define "work". If an average person clocks in at a job and works just hard/smart enough to not get fired, they deserves exactly that level of care/compensation from the employer. If they worked for me they would be replaced with someone who understands that employment is a mutually beneficial relationship.
You're right. This doesn't define work!
Are they talking about office slackers or big city emergency personal?
Truckers or soldiers?
Really, judging work by hours over importanceand effort is just plain stupid.
Riddle me this. A home care nurse works 60+ hours a week no overtime often not getting any days off or gets called into work yet only makes $8 an hour talking care of elderly people so they can stay in their homes. Sound fair?
Thank you. A home health aid makes so little.. My mother works as one, always complains. I cant believe people downvoted you on it. She always tells me about the things she has to do to keep us alive really, and I dont really think the senator really understands it, seeing that he is a senator. Oh well, its just the world. :)
I commend your mother and others like her! Please believe me when i say that because what im about to say can be taken the wrong way if a person isnt open minded. I'm 100% with Mike Rowe on the value of getting your hands dirty, i have only recently moved from a diesel technician to a leadership one myselfe. But on the flip side, nobody is forcing these hard working people to stay at their crappy jobs. There are a pile of crappy companies and bosses out there. There are some good ones too. If a person is under paid and over worked there is only 1 person in the world who can do anything about it. THEY are choosing to stay, if they feel they should be treated better or paid more its up to them to change their lives. FYI the really good places to work who genuinely realize the value of their employees and care about their wellbeing; those companies arent looking to hire people who think that it the responsibility of the employer to make sure the employees are happy.
They dont want anything to do with 'victim' mentality people. Ultimately YOU choose your additude! If you attempt to go through life expecting everyone else to fix your problems its going to be a mizerable road. Again please dont think im cutting down your mother, i have no idea what her story is or what crappy things life threw at her. Working incredibly hard at something you hate in order to get your children a beter life than you had is probably the most honorable thing a person can do. I just want young people to approach life with an additude that will lead them to sucess. Sorry for the long post.
If we're expecting jobs to get done, then when people spend 40 hours a week doing them (even if it's just warming up fast food burgers), they should be able to afford to care for themselves. If people aren't doing enough to account for that, then they should get fired. Maybe they stay because they like where they work, or because they can't get a job somewhere else. There are lots of reasons people have to stay at a job, and those jobs still need people working there. No, we shouldn't encourage people to think that it's their employer's job to take care of them, but it IS our country's job to take care of its citizens.
Just because some people aren't honestly working doesn't mean no one is. My mom works as a waitress, and she can barely get by. She doesn't have any savings, yet she works 6 days a week
Are they talking about office slackers or big city emergency personal?
Truckers or soldiers?
Really, judging work by hours over importanceand effort is just plain stupid.