lol you are hilarious. Even though this is a bbs and the internet,cyberspace etc.. the desperation from you is tangible. very entertaining. Between listening to rush limbaugh ,hannity ,and berry today and reading your posts.. it has been a pretty funny laugh. thank you. I feel like I owe you something for laughing at you so much.
ok, i lied. forget that this one needed to be made too. Course, maybe Mitt's face needs to be chopped onto this.
I think it's clearly wrong for a company to have a policy that they will offer a man $X for a job and a woman only $0.7X for the same job. However, my issue with the call for "equal pay for equal work" is that if fully enforced, it would kill employees' abilities to negotiate for themselves. If two people are in the same job and one of them was either a more aggressive negotiator or was able to leverage a competing offer into a better package, they deserve it. So to some degree, yes, screw equal pay.
The better negotiator should negotiate for the sum then, and both employees will receive it. Or people should be paid based on their work and value to the company rather than their negotiating skill. The pay should be equal. Someone being an aggressive negotiator doesn't really warrant extra pay in my book.
So all employees in equal positions should be paid the same? What if in the recruiting process the employer wants X Smith really badly because they know X does a better than average job? Are they not allowed to offer more money to X because Y Johnson doesn't make that much?
I couldn't disagree more with you about negotiating skills not warranting extra pay. But leaving that aside for a second, do you really believe that if an employer offers someone a pay raise (or extra benefits) to keep him/her from taking a better offer somewhere else, that employer should then have to give every comparable employee the same pay raise? In my opinion, if these other people are also worth the extra money, they can find a way to get it for themselves.
Or he should let the other employee go where the bigger offer is and not match it. The bottom line is that people who do the same level or work for a company deserve to be paid the same amount for doing it. I have much less problem with companies giving the other employees a raise, than I do with companies paying people unequal amounts for doing the same work.
