@JennyG wrote:
IMO no CEO deserves to make over $20 Million when the people who are doing the "field work" have to take a pay cut. Loyalty is a 2-way street.
@JennyG wrote:
IMO no CEO deserves to make over $20 Million when the people who are doing the "field work" have to take a pay cut. Loyalty is a 2-way street.
@jrwb6e wrote:
Sorry jroby1, the MSC is not loyal to its independent contractors and does have a "my way or the highway" policy. I've been a contractor with them for 4 years and have taken on numerous extra shops out of my way when the scheduler had a hard time filling them.
This month I respectfully declined my shops and was canned the same day. Where was my break?
Apparently the company has no intention of returning its fees otherwise I would have been kept, but that's the name of the game.
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@kenasch wrote:
Since they don't intend to change the fees, I can understand them deactivating you. Why should they continue to offer you shops if you told them you would not do them. That would only cause extra scheduling hassles for them.
@jrwb6e wrote:
Forgive me for being a little upset at the time.
@roflwofl wrote:
A little upset sounds like an understatement .... and it sounds like you're still pretty upset.......
@msimon-2000 wrote:
The CEO pay structure has gotten so out-of-kilter in the past 30-40 years or so. CEOs and other executives making millions upon millions in salary, bonuses, and golden parachute packages is simply highway robbery.
Up until the 70s or so, there was an unwritten rule of thumb that the CEO and other executives would not make more than 50 times the wages of the lowest paid employee within that company. Many used this as a benchmark of sorts when evaluating the health, morality, and execution of a company. By using this formula, in order for the upper management to make more money, they had to bring the employees along with them money-wise. I think the saying that 'A rising tide raises all ships.' is aptly appropriate in this situation.
Since then, greed has been the mantra and CEOs have become some of the worst when it comes to making insane amounts of money on the shoulders of shareholders and lower-level employees.
@SoCalMama wrote:
Did you see that the CEO makes over 1000x the wage of their lowest paid employee?
@msimon-2000 wrote:
The CEO pay structure has gotten so out-of-kilter in the past 30-40 years or so. CEOs and other executives making millions upon millions in salary, bonuses, and golden parachute packages is simply highway robbery.
Up until the 70s or so, there was an unwritten rule of thumb that the CEO and other executives would not make more than 50 times the wages of the lowest paid employee within that company. Many used this as a benchmark of sorts when evaluating the health, morality, and execution of a company. By using this formula, in order for the upper management to make more money, they had to bring the employees along with them money-wise. I think the saying that 'A rising tide raises all ships.' is aptly appropriate in this situation.
Since then, greed has been the mantra and CEOs have become some of the worst when it comes to making insane amounts of money on the shoulders of shareholders and lower-level employees.
@roflwofl wrote:
Did you know that NBA players are the highest-paid athletes in the world with the average player making $4.6 million in the 2014-15 season. Unbelievable. Why?
@jrwb6e wrote:
This month I respectfully declined my shops and was canned the same day. Where was my break?
Apparently the company has no intention of returning its fees otherwise I would have been kept, but that's the name of the game.
Never take a company's explanation for changes at face value. The victim mentality the MSC plays is a ruse to get to you to make an emotionally based decision instead of a rational one. If you feel the company's pay is inadequate, don't take the shops. If the con of being canned with no pay outweighs the negative of low pay, then by all means take the shops.
But whatever you do, don't make your decisions to shop by feeling sorry for a MSC that is using a facade.
@roflwofl wrote:
I agree that CEO pay for many companies is outrageous. Why would a company pay that much? Why do they ALL pay that much? And why do we pay sports figures so much? Outrageous. Did you know that NBA players are the highest-paid athletes in the world with the average player making $4.6 million in the 2014-15 season. Unbelievable. Why?
We have a society of "Haves" and "Have Nots." Some jobs are valued at huge salaries. Most are not.
Just as comparison, entry level requirement to be hired by Chipotle is at least 16 years old. No high school diploma or GED is required. In my area of the country, there is no requirement to be able to speak English.
@Lady Marius wrote:
I respectfully disagree with you jrwb6e. If you declined your shops, after getting assigned them, you were leaving the scheduler on the hook to reschedule those shops. Now if you gave the scheduler advanced notice, that is another story. We were given' advanced notice of the decrease in pay. And it had been discussed in great length on here. So I would have canned your arse too, if you had left me on the hook, without giving me time to reassigned those assignments, before the beginning of February. Now if you did give advance notice, then that would be considered Respectfully declining to shop for the MSC. That being said, this MSC will erase your account, if you decline all your assignments, in consecutive months (not sure the number of consecutive months), thus they may have been, being proactive; you would have been canned eventually anyways.