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Not really. You'd be surprised at how many employees get REAL creative in finding ways to avoid doing any work. They wanted 'jobs'. They didn't want 'work'.
The Peter Principle.
Unfortunately, few unions are left. The company bosses convinced most of their employees that unions were bad. Same as they convinced them that the dems were responsible for republican company owners closing shop and moving them overseas. People are stupid.
Too much work to be realistic. They changed job performance reviews back in the early 80's to focus on ever improving performance rather than work quality. There was no part of the evaluation that deemed the work satisfactory. It was all basically 'capable of improvement'.
Where is that? https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-sales-tax
You're leaving out all the little 'add in' taxes. Each county charges sales tax, too, so it winds up being over 8% .
Their goal is to eliminate anyone who's managed to get incremental raises over a long period. I was told by management years ago that they factor in 'the law of diminishing returns' in employee performance; the max value an employer can get is a 5 year employee, who is very good at their job but hasn't been there long enough to gain increased wages. After that, it's better to find a way to fire them or lay them off. Then they can reapply at the base pay again. Capitalism at it's finest.
The only thing that matters in that position, is keeping labor costs down as much as possible without sacrificing too much quality in product.
^that works if the person giving the recommendation is responsible for how the person who gets hired, works out. I got positions because people knew I did good work and didn't slack off. No one who recommended me ever got reamed by the boss for the recommendation. It's simply a way to narrow down the field of potential employees in an attempt to try to avoid crappy ones. When I was in a position to hire, I routinely asked not only my good employees, but other managers in my company as well as friends in other competing companies if they had someone that they wanted to hire or promote, that they didn't have a position for. Rather than lose that person to some unknown competitor, they gave him to me. And I did the same when my jobs were full. The networking system exists because it works for a lot of us. And people know it exists, and ask for referrals. If they're good, they get them. If they stink, they get the standard 'yeah, he was here in [xyz]capacity for [n] years'. The code phrase on the phone was said in an upbeat tone, "You'll be lucky to get him to work for you", only it was pretty common knowledge that the real meaning was, you'll be lucky to get him to work at all.
That said, I've had numerous people ask me to write them a letter of recommendation. Those who I really wanted to support, I included my phone number for the hiring manager to call me.
