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Old 07-11-2008, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Oregon Elephant View Post
Actually, on the company level, cutting one or even a few people's pay checks way down will not help all that much. They'd have to slash just about everyone's paycheck, including the little guys doing baggage, so then they would get negative reps and it wouldn't do them any good.
If your intention is to maintain proportionality, i.e. the proportion of senior executive pay to baggage handler and other low-skilled labor pay, then you would have to cut all the way down the line. Of course, cutting all the way down the line would be "fair" in a sense but then you'd see a lot of people jumping ship.
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