Why No Wage Increases Explained: Tales From Normal, Mn.: FICTION

Recently employers have been not only omitting any raises, but if they give one, just make it a substitution for a holiday or some switch like that. At all costs employers want to hire a lot of entry level folks even if they know squat, and then adjust like a surfer, and have a little work slowdown in the morning and maybe call in folks for a couple hours if it gets busy. Very hour to hour employment.

I asked my old friend Herman, from Normal, Mn. about this deal, and he just quipped: "The deal is that if ya don't go nowhere or do nothin ya don't need no raise."

I took a little quibble with this....like as if you cannot drive or eat? Herman replied that bikes are cheap. Stay tuned.