Behold!! The cancerous growth of Wal Mart!!!

tater · 04-12-10, 10:53 AM

Huh? It's a fact. Government workers are less productive, but make more money. Every few years a TV news reporter will follow city employees in an unmarked car and film them. They hit a drive-through, drive to the middle of no place and hang out talking on the phone, etc. And on average they do get paid more. A recent study just confirmed this (again). It's not vastly more, but enough to make a real difference.

Where is the prejudice in sending a letter to walmart saying you'll not shop there until they do X, Y, and Z where perhaps one condition is that they pay low-end workers 2X more? Maybe I'm just being clueless.

I can sort of see the prejudice in me saying that lazy, government (redundant, sorry) employees getting paid more is good for the employees. The prejudice being that they are lazy. Of course, I know many people who have worked for the State here, and they all told me everyone was lazy. I used to do a lot of work with and for a museum here professionally. I was friends with a few guys that really wanted to improve the museum. They worked quite hard. They were constantly beating up against the wall of the bulk of their coworkers slowing them down. Why finish a project when you can do white paper after white paper to decide what to do? Or taking it to the next step and spending years testing out an idea, spending as much as the project would actually take to complete if they just did it? My prejudice is based on experience.

04-12-10, 10:53 AM	#11
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Huh? It's a fact. Government workers are less productive, but make more money. Every few years a TV news reporter will follow city employees in an unmarked car and film them. They hit a drive-through, drive to the middle of no place and hang out talking on the phone, etc. And on average they do get paid more. A recent study just confirmed this (again). It's not vastly more, but enough to make a real difference. Where is the prejudice in sending a letter to walmart saying you'll not shop there until they do X, Y, and Z where perhaps one condition is that they pay low-end workers 2X more? Maybe I'm just being clueless. I can sort of see the prejudice in me saying that lazy, government (redundant, sorry) employees getting paid more is good for the employees. The prejudice being that they are lazy. Of course, I know many people who have worked for the State here, and they all told me everyone was lazy. I used to do a lot of work with and for a museum here professionally. I was friends with a few guys that really wanted to improve the museum. They worked quite hard. They were constantly beating up against the wall of the bulk of their coworkers slowing them down. Why finish a project when you can do white paper after white paper to decide what to do? Or taking it to the next step and spending years testing out an idea, spending as much as the project would actually take to complete if they just did it? My prejudice is based on experience.