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20-06-2016, 05:58 PM | #61 | ||
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I only have one thing to say. As someone who earns under 40k, when I see miners (who I acknowledge work long shifts) get 2/1 or as my mums partner 1/1 rotations, get over 100k per year complain about being offered less pay. I have no sympathy at all, try working 9-5 for 1/4 what your paid, then you might appreciate the money you get and acknowledge that your paid well and stop complaining. So you can only fly to bali 3 times instead of 6, you have to hold off on modifying your car or upgrading to a new one again.
I manage a business ffs and I get **** all for doing so, but I don't complain, I do my job, get my pay and look after the family (yes my partner also works). If it is that bad, come and do my job at my pay for a month and I will do yours, then I gurantee you will have an understanding of just how good you have it. |
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20-06-2016, 07:14 PM | #62 | |||
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Problem is these essential services don't earn a profit. Well not as much as the costs anyway. Working in a mine is like working in any private business. They entire point of the company is to sell a product for a profit. If those profits are high, they have the money to pay employees a good wage. I get paid double the amount my missus does, but she works harder than I do. I work for a private company while she works an essential service for the government. I guess the government could increase the wages of all their employees by increasing taxes, but no one would want more taxes. 1/1 sounds good in theory, but terrible in practice. I would want a few days off in a row. One on, one off would be a nightmare. You could never go away for the weekend because you would never get one. |
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20-06-2016, 07:31 PM | #63 | |||
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Also I think he was referring to week on/week off not day on/day off.
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20-06-2016, 07:37 PM | #64 | |||
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A lot of our coal is exported, so guess that means we are also increasing the cost of living in foreign countries. |
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20-06-2016, 07:41 PM | #65 | ||
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Which bounces back as an increase in the cost of the product they constructed using the power generated by that coal. Any increase in the wages of staff increases the cost of production, this increases the cost of the product which is paid for by the consumer.
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20-06-2016, 07:49 PM | #66 | ||
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21-06-2016, 08:02 AM | #67 | ||
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Poor choice of words on my behalf but agreed.
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But I see your issue here. Your parents went through hard times financially whilst the workers went through good times from an employment perspective. Quote:
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So the shareholders, particularly the little guys, aren't evil as such but they can be destructive through butterfly-effect actions. I reserve most of my stink-eye for the execs at the top of the chain who gamble with a company (or are greedy) rather than the share-holders. |
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