Uncle C
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If so, what percentage of your salary would you be willing to give up?
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Would you take a pay cut to save other workers?
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mcshane in the 79th
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- Nov 4, 2005
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Ooooh good question
Marshy
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Not nessecarily to save other workers....but if I was asked to take a 10% cut to keep my job i probably would at the moment.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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Yep, this- if other people are clearly under performing then they should go but if everyones under budget etc and it's a toss up, of course. Maybe slightly selfish but whelp.
Effectively, I have done, for each of the last 3 years. The company came out very openly, and said "We don't want to lay anyone off [20,000 worldwide], so you all have to share the pain. No pay rise". We haven't had any increase at all in those three years, so allowing for inflation, we are effectively taking a hit, for the common good.
Not that we actually have a CHOICE about it though! Pretty sure I still would though.
Not that we actually have a CHOICE about it though! Pretty sure I still would though.
Kalimantan Gull
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Oooh thats a good question.
Well, as the boss, I definitely would if it meant I didn't have to lay any of my staff off, so I guess yes.
Well, as the boss, I definitely would if it meant I didn't have to lay any of my staff off, so I guess yes.
Publius Ovidius
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This..
Stumpy Tim
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I went part-time on half my wage to save someone last year
Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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That's about right, IMHO, and I would take a small pay cut in those circumstances to keep the company afloat or prevent mass redundancies.
However, that would come with the caveat that those at the top are doing their bit. If the directors decide to keep all their pay, bonuses and dividends, and heap all the pain on the workforce, then forget it.
Football_Friends
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Same as hans kray......and as bad as it sounds I would prefer they chop the dead wood. We have some poor engineers who can ONLY service gas appliances earning £120 a day! And others on £80 a day doing servicing, repairs and installation work.
Soo get rid of the un-skilled, not flexible staff and make everyone more productive then those who deserve it can get a pay rise.
Soo get rid of the un-skilled, not flexible staff and make everyone more productive then those who deserve it can get a pay rise.
Gordon Bennett
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- Sep 7, 2010
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I had to take a 30% cut in income a couple of months ago by being made to go part time. They wanted to make it 40% but I wasn't prepared to accept THAT much. It means no one gets the chop and the company can plan for the next 12 months with a little bit more confidence regarding its cash flow etc but who knows what will happen after 12 months. It effectively means all my income goes on bills etc but its better than job seekers allowance so what can you do except accept it and start looking for something else?!
withdeanwombat
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Best forget it ,then.
Yeah I already did last year 10%.
However, I don't really think you are ever given the choice asked in your question, you have to presume your job could be one of those at risk.
If the boss had said to me, look your job is safe but would you be prepared to take a drop in rate so that we can keep Wayne Wasteaspace over there employed, then my answer might have been different.
However, I don't really think you are ever given the choice asked in your question, you have to presume your job could be one of those at risk.
If the boss had said to me, look your job is safe but would you be prepared to take a drop in rate so that we can keep Wayne Wasteaspace over there employed, then my answer might have been different.
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1066gull
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If they were good team players who actually were good workers, saw when something needed to be done, than YES. but if they are only doing what they are told, do not use their own initiative, say they will do something for me and then never turn up, id much prefer to change my job.
Guy Fawkes
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- Sep 29, 2007
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There is a lot of dead wood where i work, often as i have gone around the site, I've seen people reading papers or surfing the web just to kill time or others who have come up with pet projects which have absolutely no benefit to what we do but are done to look busy and give themselves something to show for their wages. (eg. spending a lot of time and money on getting people to liftshare, but the organisation doesn't pay for anyone to get to work so surely how we all get there has no consequence to us or our budget, so why are we wasting resources on this?) Their goals seem at odds with what we are doing and therefore counter productive.
We also have people whose job is basically to check the work of other employees who are there to check the work of other employees. There are too many management types, far more than there ever used to be and more than are needed, the cuts will help to get rid of this unnecessary excess that built up over the years and hopefully refocus everyone onto what we do.
I wouldn't be too happy if i had to give up a % of my wage to keep this dead wood employed but if the dead wood was cleared and my giving up a small % meant we kept important workers then i would.
However there is plenty of money to be saved before job cuts are needed but i expect there will still be a lot going, i just hope they are all the dead wood and not those who serve a useful and valuable function.
The issue of giving up a percentage of your wage to save someone else's job depends surely on how much you earn, those who earn high wages can more easily cope with a cut without affecting their lifestyle that much, whereas those on low wages will struggle more as more of their wage as a % goes on basic requirements such as food, rent, water and electricity / gas - all things they can't easily cut back on if their wages drop (especially as the cost of living keeps rising)
We also have people whose job is basically to check the work of other employees who are there to check the work of other employees. There are too many management types, far more than there ever used to be and more than are needed, the cuts will help to get rid of this unnecessary excess that built up over the years and hopefully refocus everyone onto what we do.
I wouldn't be too happy if i had to give up a % of my wage to keep this dead wood employed but if the dead wood was cleared and my giving up a small % meant we kept important workers then i would.
However there is plenty of money to be saved before job cuts are needed but i expect there will still be a lot going, i just hope they are all the dead wood and not those who serve a useful and valuable function.
The issue of giving up a percentage of your wage to save someone else's job depends surely on how much you earn, those who earn high wages can more easily cope with a cut without affecting their lifestyle that much, whereas those on low wages will struggle more as more of their wage as a % goes on basic requirements such as food, rent, water and electricity / gas - all things they can't easily cut back on if their wages drop (especially as the cost of living keeps rising)
sir albion
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I was discussing this last night and would happilly take a 5% pay cut
Took a 12.5% paycut for ten months to 'save your job', then got made redundant anyway – two weeks short of qualifying for a year's redundancy pay. And had to work out my notice on the paycut salary too. Shafted + shafted + shafted + shafted. Cnuts.
RexCathedra
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Can and did, during the '89-91 recession. Between wages and benefits, in the neighborhood of 10%.