I didnt read any responses yet but in my experience from working for a highly profitable company & owning 2 businesses for 30 plus yrs profits come 1st , then a smart employer fits ethics into what he has to work with , here are some examples .
When i was a union roofing foreman the company would bid work dirt cheap to make sure the men worked atleast 250 days a year , production levels were set at maximum levels & the breaking point for some men , as a foreman i'd pay the men their full 8 hrs pay & send them home early if they hit their production & finished early , every couple of jobs we'd get one that was supposed to be hard & ended up easy where we tripled daily production making the company alot of extra money , at xmas time the owner distributed all profits over his expected 20% margin to the men & thats where i learned my ethics with my employees .
When i buy a house to flip & do the math for the remodel i cut it close as fuk , then my trusted brothers in law use their skills to finish the home in less time than i gave them to finish in , any extra labor savings are passed on to the employees , when we sell the home our target is 40% profit & sometimes homes sell where were over 40% profit , that extra money goes to the workers in xmas bonuses untaxed .
Theres a member here who thinks employees are replacable & of low value , im of the mind without out trusted long term employees our businesses are going to fail so we make sure all of them earn middle class wages ,even if their wages have to come out of profits cause we know somewhere down the road they'll earn that money & raise our profit margins .
