Originally Posted by
Canadian Visitor
While I think your engaging in gross over-generalization......
I will ask a serious question in reply.
"Why would any worker, of any age work for anything close to Michigan minimum wage"?
If the offer is under $16USD an hour, the appropriate response is an obscene gesture.
I will never fail to be amazed that people think you can cut/restrain[[spending) to success.
It almost never works, when it does, its rarely sustainable.
You need people to want to work for you; to enjoy their jobs, to see a future with your company.
That requires good wages, benefits, training, and full-time and promotion opportunities.
If you wont' offer those, people will not choose to work for you; generally not even when desperately poor.
After all, if you can barely make rent, need a food bank / food pantry in order to eat, can't afford to insure your car, and are behind on your taxes while working 30 hours a week; why not be exactly the same and sit on your duff?
To be clear, I've never been on gov't assistance and hope I never have cause to be; I've done decent in life; but I also realize my good fortune in that; a bit of hard work, a few connections, an excellent education, a family that helped w/tuition and learning etc.
For people who either haven't had that; or for that matter, people who have, a job that pays miserly and offers no material opportunity for advancement is pretty easy to take a pass on.