Auction goers: Tip your helpers? (rant)

[Cornychick]

Kids also have no concept of the fact that food costs money. I would venture to guess he has never purchased his own groceries.

 

[Katy]

I guess I think there's a difference between your kid's friend helping out with a project around your home compared to working in connection with your business. Next time it would probably be a good idea to set the wage ground rules up front...if they think it's not fair then you can look for someone else to do the job for you and there's no hard feelings after the fact.

 

[sourland]

Katy, just want to say that your suggestions are always logical and make common sense. All this in a world where it sometimes seems that logic and common sense shall not prevail.

 

[Katy]

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Why, thank you! I think you are one of the few that feel that way about my comments.

I certainly agree there seems to be a lack of common sense in this world anymore.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I scrapped cars for a long time. I paid my one guy 25 dollars a car to strip them. It took about an hour of his time. I was not paying him that much for doing the work but for being on call as I needed him. I could have got several people to do it for less than $10 a car but when you want someone to come when you call you pay more for that. I would not think of paying less than $70 under the table for 7 hours. Less than minimum wage plus food for what was a days work on a momuntes notice is insulting to anyone. Time is money. You take someones time you pay for that time. I'm sure that I would have never said anything to you for paying $40 for 7 hours but I know unless I was hurting for cash I would say I was busy if you asked for my help again. Dont think him being a teen should have anything to do with it.

I also think of food as an insensitive to help again an not part of pay.

 

[SarahFair]

A friend (not so much friend anymore) of my SOs was hired 4-5 years ago to help them in logging. He had to run a chainsaw ALL day for maybe $8/hr. Did an awesome job, got promoted to operating equipment, got a couple raises, and now they are lucking if they can get him to come to work before 9 AM, not leave before 3 PM, stay off the phone all day, not break the equipment, throw temper tantrums and leave, expect 2 40hr checks in advance (and not work the 80hrs), etc...

They would have fired by now but he owes my SOs dad a large sum of money for the truck he just HAD to have (which just got totaled today so he got to take my SOs truck

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This all was a friend.






You have to be careful who you hire these days..

 

[Funky Feathers]

When I was 18 I was making $3.35 an hour (1985), and I worked hard 40 hours a week for that. Then I moved up (different jobs) to $5 an hour, $6, $7, the most I ever made (after a 10 year career as a Registered (A.A. Degree) Vet Tech was $9 an hour. I never made it to my dream salary of $10 an hour. I would have been in heaven working for $12!! Once I had a job at a riding stable, working VERY hard labor, 12 hours a day, and the drunken, druggie boss would throw us each a $20 bill (for the day) if she was in the mood to pay us at all. What is that, $2 an hour?? Any of you have this experience? That is why I am SICK of working for others and now I work for myself.

ETA: typo: I can't spell when I'm mad.

 

[Funky Feathers]

Never again will I work for someone who thinks I'm worth much less than the average bear.

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[Tala]

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The thing is, being a teenager, it's highly unlikely that he had better, more profitable things to do that he was giving up to do this job. He probably would have wasted the day playing some kind of video game, if I know a teenage boy. If that's what he wants to do with his day, well that's his choice, but I know if it were me... $0 doing nothing vs. $40 working, well, I'm taking the $40 and being happy about it.
ESPECIALLY if I agreed to do the work without setting a price first, because that means I was essentially volunteering for the job.

 

[Funky Feathers]

Oh, back to the topic- tip? Tip? I'd break the TIP of my shoe off in they old crazy
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