Raising the Minimum Wage

AlJazeera

Seattle restaurant workers report 'serious problems' despite $15 wage law

PJ Media

Seattle $15 an Hour Phased-In Minimum Wage Law Has Cost 700 jobs

Western Journalism

Seattle Raised Minimum Wage To $15- What Immediately Happened Will Have Them Regretting It

Independent Journal

Seattle’s Minimum Wage Hike Is Underway. A Damning Chart Shows How That’s Working Out…

Economic Policy Instutite

Employment and the Minimum Wage—Evidence from Recent State Labor Market Trends AND What Families Need to Get By

Civic Skunk Works

YOU SHOULD READ THIS STORY ABOUT SEATTLE’S “MINIMUM WAGE MELTDOWN THAT NEVER HAPPENED”

The Stranger

How a $15 Minimum Wage Would Make Everyone Richer

One Seattle Coalition

OneSeattle Coalition is a growing and diverse coalition of local businesses, non-profits, manufacturers and restaurants.

I recently started a poll at Google+ asking "what if every minimum wage worker had an extra $7 per hour to spend?" It sparked a discussion about costs of doing business, inflation and potential reduction in employment.

I decided to collect some articles about it and I was not really surprised where the line was drawn on opinions and research "findings."

If you ever wanted to know which media source was liberal or conservative, looking up their opinions about raising the minimum wage is a glaring test.

Direct hostile communication in the workplace.

I work at a hospital as a security officer. I work for an outside company contracted by the hospital and I am not directly under the authority of the hospital's hierarchy.

A maintenance employee who is directly under the authority of the hospital's hierarchy is apparently under the misguided impression that the security officers are parking lot attendants. On one occasion the maintenance employee complained to a security officer about other employees who parked in the Emergency Department patient parking lot. On August 5, 2011 at 6:15 A.M. the maintenance person directly confronted a security officer who was parked in a space designated for a Senior, close to the entrance to the Emergency Department. The security officer is a Senior, and as a security officer is required to be close to his vehicle for emergency purposes.

The correct action when one sees another employee or contractor violating rules is to write a detailed report of the incident and submit it to your supervisor or the administration safety officer. It is for management to decide the course of action that follows the report.

The purpose for this procedure is to avoid creating a hostile work environment. This procedure is part of regular training for employees at this hospital. The maintenance employee receives this training, indicated by his continued employment at the hospital, therefore, the actions of the maintenance employee are symptomatic of more important personal issues that create frustration that must be vented opportunistically.

Opportunistic aggravation, delusional vindication and self-fulfilled validation: Creating the reason for the way you feel after the feeling.

When someone seeks to create an outlet for frustration, or seeks to create a situation where one feels vindication or validation for the way one feels, by attempting to aggravate another person into action, this person has unresolved feelings of anger or frustration. This emotional state is a chemical imbalance in the brain that is incorrectly attributed to outside causes.

That is why the terms "glass is half-full" and "glass is half-empty" is commonly accepted for describing certain types of personality. Some people remain either optimistic or pessimistic in different situations precisely because their brain chemistry hasn't changed with outside events.

The chemical imbalance is mostly genetic, but frequently the result of consuming substances like alcohol or other drugs.

An employee who receives regular annual training on the subject of workplace cooperation and communication, yet cannot constrain behavior to within the recommended parameters, will eventually become a safety risk to fellow employees and must seek treatment or be removed from the environment.

Can you bring your computer to work?

An employee who has a lot of down-time was allowed to bring her laptop to work to alleviate boredom. One day she was logged on to the public wireless network on her laptop when someone brought her some extra work to do.

She logged onto the office computer and spent about four hours completing the assignment, but her laptop was set aside, still logged onto the public network.

Because she left her laptop logged on for four hours, the I.T. department reported that she was on the Internet for four hours. Because of this, management told her she couldn't bring her laptop to work anymore.

Who should be punished?

A. The person leaving the laptop logged onto a public network while doing work on another computer on a secure network?

B. Management for not making additional inquiries to determine the truth of the situation, instead of simply assuming that the employee was only on the Internet for four hours and not logged onto the office computer actually doing work during that time?

C. The I.T. department for cherry-picking only damaging information and using data to insinuate that the employee was wasting time on the Internet for four hours?

By the way, this really happened, but I'm withholding the name of the company.

Career Services at UIS

I received an email from the Career Services office at the University of Illinois at Springfield about the wonderful opportunities to print my resume for FREE!

The Subject: FREE Resume Printing

Option #1:

On March 10, 2009 FedEx Office, locations (formerly FedEx Kinko's) will host a Free Resume Printing Day , reports Yahoo! . Each customer will be able to print or copy their resume up to 25 times on resume-quality paper for free. For more information visit: http://dealnews.com/Upcoming-Fed-Ex-Office-Free-Resume-Printing-Day/282900.html.



Option #2:

The IL Worknet Center at 1300 S. 9th Street (9th & S. Grand) offers FREE resume paper. (Limit 10 copies per day). Their office hours are 8:30am-5pm, Monday – Friday.


UIS Career Development Center
Student Affairs Building, Room 50
One University Plaza, MS SAB 50
Springfield, Illinois 62703-5407
217)206-6508
careerservices@uis.edu
www.uis.edu/careerservices

I received this email through my student email address.

I think it's nice. What was option zero? Getting help directly at the UIS Career Development Center?

Someone justify their salaries, please!

Day 3

It's only been three days since I got the notice. The notice said "immediately." and I was done.

I was told that it was not a performance issue, and I accept that. I'm not unhappy about having all this extra time off around the holidays but I am right now in a position where I must make some crucial decisions.

I tried to build a career on creating multimedia presentations and putting together the technology for those presentations, and it turns out that most of the people who need media technology to help them persuade the public one way or another, are assholes.

I thought about journalism, but the newspapers are crumbling under the weight of the Internet, and I wouldn't know how to get paid for blogging. I have some Google ads on my blogs, but so far they have not paid a penny.

This blog has been floating around in Limbo for quite a while. It even had it's own website at one point, but I let it lapse for lack of activity.

Well now it's back. So, what I'm going to do is create a Google calendar and embed it into this blog. If I receive notices about job fairs or seminars, I'll try to keep the calendar up to date. I may add some other widgets such as Digg which can be quite helpful.