Originally Posted by
ebl14
All they need is a big mirror angled down so we can see where to stop, then we can get off and let all the angry pax wait around for someone to come out of the break room and take thier gate checked bags out of cargo before they run to catch a 20 minute connection in the A concourse. Those guys chose thier job, does it suck working outside in the winter, or course, but they are no better in the summer. Its still no excuse. $8 an hour isn't bad for that type of work, just chill in a nice warm break room till ops calls for the third time to tell you a plane is there, go thrash a couple bags and head back for the break room to catch some more MTV.
Actually, $8.00 hour really IS that bad for the kind of work they are doing. Back breaking physical labor should pay somewhere in the teens or twenties, at least. The proof that $8/hr isn't enough is right there in front of our eyes, every day we go to work. Furthermore, in this day and age, the suggestion that those who don't like it should quit and find other work is laughably ridiculous.
People know how much they should be getting paid for a given job, and if their actual pay is a little, or a lot less, many people calibrate down their job performance to match their pay.
Management knows this, and the reason they don't do anything about it is that they have run their spreadsheets and determined that the present performance (and turnover) is good enough. Otherwise, they would pay more.