06-30-2008, 01:28 PM
Once I was sent to Kona to train and manage a crew of temporary hires on an agricultural job. During the course of the job I found out they were making about $3/hr more than I was.
When I got back and asked the owner about it, he just shrugged and said: "There's a different scale over there".
Related story:
A small business owner went out on the loading dock to discover a guy sitting on a pallet smoking a cigerette. He says to the guy: "How much do you get paid?". The guy answers: "$300 bucks a week".
The boss pulls out three hundred dollar bills, hands them to the guy and says: "Now get out of here". The guy leaves.
Still angry, the boss goes up to the foreman and asks how long the guy has worked there. The forman says: He doesn't work here, he was making a delivery.
When I got back and asked the owner about it, he just shrugged and said: "There's a different scale over there".
Related story:
A small business owner went out on the loading dock to discover a guy sitting on a pallet smoking a cigerette. He says to the guy: "How much do you get paid?". The guy answers: "$300 bucks a week".
The boss pulls out three hundred dollar bills, hands them to the guy and says: "Now get out of here". The guy leaves.
Still angry, the boss goes up to the foreman and asks how long the guy has worked there. The forman says: He doesn't work here, he was making a delivery.