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ID is like crack to cops 

Just now, Anler said:

All democrats 

Clearly. Lol. 

Yeah sometimes those regulators have a porous screen in them and that'll clog with shit and it'll make your pressure look right but flow will suck. We used to remove them before we installed new ones for gas lift systems and such. A flat head screwdriver and a hammer will knock it loose.

43 minutes ago, ACE said:

Likely posted, screen shotted, then deleted. 
 

Quit being guthooked 

Use of the n word is up 500% since musky  

1 hour ago, DriftBusta said:

don't have to imagine anything.  The pendulum swing right now is glorious.  

Ah yes, I love watching it swing from red fascism to blue fascism and back again.

Congrats to UofM for not letting a 3-4 Spartan team ruin their season for once lol

4 minutes ago, Sleepr2 said:

Yes! It’s astonishing how many people are ok with ANTFA and BLMS fascist tactics.

Antifreeze is the real freeze...

Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

You know, those who struggle the most usually come out on top.  We lose when it's all to easy.

Not so. Very few who struggle actually make it out of the rat race. Those who do, seem to want to maintain the rat race the most. These folks made it DESPITE the struggle, not because of it. 

5 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

Yeah cuz that doesn't engender an entitlement attitude, which also manifests itself in lazy, perpetually aggrieved snowflakes, which will eventually metasticize and destroy a business.  Look at Twitter for this weeks example.

This is the kind of management mentality I'm talking about. 

You have to treat people like dogshit or they'll start thinking they're valuable or something, and we can't have that...

And Twitter isn't a real business. 

1 minute ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Tell that to my customers.

Automotive/Plastics/Food/Mining/Pharma etc etc.  You get the point, it won't last.  There will be a down cycle.  Maybe not in your field.

But in most.  It they get paid more it won't make a difference overall.

We're in a down cycle. Pounds went from 3k to 1k over the last 3 years. We're at the bottom. The poorly run ops are going out of business but the legit quality ops who saw this coming are doing just fine. 

Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

Sure, but what happens when things go south like many companies over the past two years.  Cash flow gets tight, you can't ask employees to hold off wages and you shouldn't.  

The risks are different, there is also nothing stopping anyone to pay what they want above the standard.  People need to enjoy what they do or they will wander regardless.

Cash flow isn't tight. We sell weed at a higher margins than almost every other industry. Soap companies pay better and THEY SELL FUCKING SOAP. 

Why am I not shocked that the US is ok with fascists?

Just now, Sleepr2 said:

Like the UAW? 

If we keep it up, we'll be union before '23 is over. Then they'll really fuckin hate it. 

1 minute ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Let me ask you this.  What will paying them more do for the owners?

What will be the net benefit to the company if any.

Nobody is gonna give out 50% increases in wages with zero return.

That's how companies go bankrupt, unfortunately.

Happy workers are more productive. Productive workers make the company more money. We should pay people enough so they're not worried about the money and can focus entirely on the work. 

Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

I believe in profit sharing.  Nobody at my company nets under 100k.

But that might not be achievable every year and they will likely take the company over.

I get what your saying but it's just a pipe dream on a grand scale and people for the most part are greedy.

Just the way it is.

No, it's not "just the way it is" and the resistance to higher wages really isn't about greed, per se. Some of our managers have massive contempt for our workers. These same people come from families who struggled and were dirt ass poor for generations.

It's a weird phenomenon to witness. You'd think they would be more conscious of how hard it is to make it and how much little things make a huge difference to workers, but it seems the more they get comfortable, the more comfortable they are with watching others struggle like they did.

1 minute ago, Sleepr2 said:

So you don’t pay a livable wage but took in big bucks when you sold the company? 

When did that happen? 

Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

Everyone is free to pay what they want.  My company pays out a nice bonus if we make our targets and we have save for last year but it was less.

 

What happens then when the company Financials can't support it anymore?

I've seen it first hand with billion $$$ corps.

Stay on the sidelines irrelevant where you belong.

Places that make and sell car parts and fast food pay as much or better than we do with a much lower profit margin. We can afford it. 

3 minutes ago, J. Jackson said:

My guess is that you have no financial skin in the game with your "business partners". 

I own a very small piece of the entire operation. I am one of 4 members of the executive/c-level management team. 

I also quit my job and spent my last dollar making a very risky go of it in the traditional market before being brought into the legal, licensed system.

9 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

See nobody here actually questions that, cause we get it.

You on the otherhand . . .

There's nothing to get. We can afford to pay a lot more, but we don't because someone thinks that because they struggled, so should everyone.

We should be breaking that cycle, not repeating it. It may even lead to making us a better company. 

3 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Yet you expect others to do so?

Just calling out a fucking hypocrite.

I expect others to do what?

1 minute ago, Ez ryder said:

Bull shit my lowest paid guy is now 50 bucks . How about yours ? 

Directly under me? $18.50 for someone who's been with us for a little over a year, would pay more if they would allow it. 

At the company? $15 for entry level folks. Not my choice, I would pay more, but it's not up to me, it's up to a guy who watched his parents struggle and struggled himself. It's one of those "I suffered, so you should too" kind of deals and I don't like it at all and have said as much. 

10 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

In others words you're full of shit so stfu.

I'm risking the health of my relationship with my long time business partners for people I don't even know, so no...