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100 Best Companies To Work For
Misha writes "Fortune.com is publishing a list of 100 Best Companies to Work for. Quite a few tech companies, with a few semi-startups, like Xilinx, who 'protected its employees from a nasty downturn in the industry by refusing to abandon a no-layoff policy. Workers took a 6 percent pay cut, but the CEO led the way with a 20 percent cut.'"
That's something that's always pissed me off.
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I want you (and anyone else that cares) to know that at least in sane areas of farming (incl. most of california, with certain areas deficient, or certain farmer's being bigots/racists), produce pickers, whether they're in a union or not, recieve fair compensation. Not just minimum wage, in this area, the standard pay for farm workers (santa maria, CA) is approximately 8.50~12.50/hr. This is for non-illegal immigrants.
My grandfather is a farmer, and I've worked with these people, some of them have been out there since he started farming these lands-- 25 years, and they're still picking for him. That doesn't happen on accident, they're some of the best paying jobs in this area.
And not to disrespect your comfy chair, and I'm sure the field workers would like a comfy chair too, but in one on one interviews with these people, many said they were proud of the job they did. It's harder than you can imagine doing what they do the speed that they do it for the length that they're out there. They're proud that they're that hearty, and they do such an important job for the world (because hey, everyone needs to eat)
Not picking on you, but this really ticks me off (mostly due to a class I had up in Santa Cruz that said basically all farmers, So. Cal., and technology companies is evil.)
"May I have some of whatever it is you're smoking?"
You don't really want to smoke something that makes you am imbecile, do you?