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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Well if said employee feels exploited then he/she should look for a new job. There is always that option. Does it motivate? In most cases yes. In commission work does it motivate the employee to drum up work that does not need to be done so as to get paid commission? In the auto industry...certainly. At any rate, the folks knew the deal going into accepting the job. I worked as a bus boy for three friggin days and dumped that job like a bad habit. Really, it is what they want to make of it. I did well as a mechanic. I repaired what needed to be repaired and did it right the first time. Customers returned for other work and requested me. The only thing about commission work is attempting to balance a home budget. You can not when your week to week pay changes. Lets look at this way, if the tips really sucked there would not be any waiters/waitress'. There are plenty and I think the generosity is there concerning tips.
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That choice of freely take and leave jobs - is not a given for more and more people. they must just take what is available - if there is something available. In Germany we have the phenomenen of socalled 1-Euro-jobs. that are jobs recevers of social wellfare that have not managed to find oridnary, regular payed jobs are allowed to pick up (in order to not exceed the limits below which they can receive social wellfare, or as we call it: Hartz-IV payments. You are right, there are comynies that let them do their work and pay them one Euro per hour. That borders slavery. Now the point is that due to this siotuation, more and more comanies kill regular jobs, and declare 1-Euro-jobs. regular jobs get ikilled, 1-Euro jobs boom. Economic structures get established that depend on being allowed to just pay 1 euro in order to prosper, else they could not survuve and maintain these jobs. "That kills jobs!" that way becomes the argument why regular payed jobs shall not be supported by legislation, and why more 1 euzro jobs should be allowed. It is a vicious circle: people cannot afford not to work for just one lousy euro per hour, what they ened additonally is payed by public taxes, taxes shring because more and mor epeople cannot pay taxes, because more and more they work in cheap labour or 1-Euro jobs, who kill regular jobs.... The structural integrity of social communties get destroyed this way, ironically for that reason of - creating jobs. 1-Euro jobs. Fan-tas-tic. Even more, people in such jobs rightfully feel like slaves, and exploited, and many of their employers make a win by exploiting them. they do not have the freedom to just quit, and try something else, even more so if there have been better times when they had founded families for which they still are responsible after their jobs by which they have fed them got killed. which only confirms what I have said in various context often now: that there is no freedom if you are not strong in options between you can choose. People who have no options, are weak. And they are not free to reject a job just becasue they don't like it. It is a dependence of theirs that often - and more and more often - gets shamelessly exploited. And you have the nerve to generalise and just tell people not having a choice they should quit and find another job? One needs to be able to afford that, you know. And many can't. That'S why they do lousy work for one shabby Euro per hour. the government said when they invented this insane rule that they hope it would pave the way for people into regular jobs again. We know by now that this is wrong in the overwhelking majority of cases. Not only does it not pavve the way into regular contracts - it even kills regular contracts and replaces them with more modern slavery like this. Whole economic branches, especially in the service industry, are parasyting from this constellation without any scruples.