by Goose » Sun Apr 04, 2010 7:19 pm
I see your point Leody and sure, there are genuine small businesses who cannot afford to pay their staff good wages or are struggling and going out of businesses.
But on the flip side, there are plenty businesses who pay pay their staff a pittance and owners earn tons of money from said business.
I used to work in one of Alan Sugars companies, the pay was awful in relation to what we were doing and generating as sales people.
The production staff were ALL Polish and probably paid minimum wage, they used to work mad overtime to make ends meet and were kept on a seperate part o the building which we could not access, so we could not even associate.
One of the directors used to buy a new car every couple of months, he had an Aston Martin DB9, a DB7, a Porsche Carrera 911, a Porsche Cayenne and loads of other cars, I was struggling to put petrol in my car and he had tons of them.
We hada meeting and were told we wouldnt get a pay rise as the company had to make cut backs, people were being made redundant and he told us he hadnt had a pay rise for years himself, everyone was saying, yeah its ok for him, hes a millionaire.
He then went on to tell us not to bother looking for a job elsewhere as there are none and we wont find any and it was better to stay for at least a year or two more before we looked elsewhere, I found it a piss take.
Some businesses are using the recession as an excuse to shaft their staff, while other businesses are generally struggling.