Prog-LOLS! CEO Who Cut His Pay To Give Employees ‘$70k Minimum Wage’ Pretty Much RUINED HIS BUSINESS
When Dan Price announced that he would cut his million dollar pay in order to give his employees a $70,000 minimum wage, all the stupid little progressive morons rushed out to praise his “inspiring” move:
I praise CEO Dan Price for raising the minimum wage of his workers to $70,000 and taking a pay cut himself: http://t.co/FllujlS6EN
— Matthew P. Buckley (@docbuckley) May 25, 2015
#Inspiring: Dan Price, CEO of @GravityPymts, cut his own salary so that he could pay every employee a minimum of $70,000 a year. Way to go!!
— Yannick Jacob (@Yannick_Jacob) June 1, 2015
So as it turns out, guaranteeing employees a $70,000 salary is great for business. Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price… http://t.co/eOV0kguA5X — TheCareerEngineer (@careerengineer) May 22, 2015
Its a good thing what Dan Price of Gravity Payments is doing for his company. Paying a minimum salary of $70,000. Good idea in bad market
— David Bocek (@davebocekwriter) April 21, 2015
CEO Dan Price, to their surprise, told his workers "that he thinks a $70,000 minimum wage is what everyone deserves."
— Tommy (@TommyGMeadeJr) April 17, 2015
Not so fast, proggies!!! Just a few months later, that dude’s business is falling apart! LOL!
Dan Price, 31, tells the New York Times that things have gotten so bad he’s been forced to rent out his house.
Only three months ago Price was generating headlines—and accusations of being a socialist — when he announced the new salary minimum for all 120 employees at his Gravity Payments credit card processing firm. Price said he was doing it, and slashing his $1 million pay package to pay for it, to address the wealth gap.
“I’m working as hard as I ever worked to make it work,” he told the Times in a video that shows him sitting on a plastic bucket in the garage of his house. “I’m renting out my house right now to try and make ends meet myself.”
The Times article said Price’s decision ended up costing him a few customers and two of his “most valued” employees, who quit after newer employees ended up with bigger salary hikes than older ones.
“He gave raises to people who have the least skills and are the least equipped to do the job, and the ones who were taking on the most didn’t get much of a bump,” Gravity financial manager Maisey McMaster, 26, told the paper.
She said when she talked to Price about it, he treated her as if she was being selfish and only thinking about herself.
“That really hurt me,” she said. “I was talking about not only me, but about everyone in my position.”
Approaching burnout, she quit.
Grant Moran, 29, also quit, saying the new pay-scale was disconcerting
“Now the people who were just clocking in and out were making the same as me,” he told the paper. “It shackles high performers to less motivated team members.”
Price said McMaster and Moran, or even critic Rush Limbaugh, the talk show host, were not wrong.
“There’s no perfect way to do this and no way to handle complex workplace issues that doesn’t have any downsides or trade-offs,” he said.
The Times said customers who left were dismayed at what Price did, viewing it as a political statement. Others left fearful Gravity would soon hike fees to pay for salary increases.
LOL! I LOVE IT! This is almost as good as the Seattle minimum wage debacle! I really can’t say which is more satisfying – if y’all want to debate in the comments, be my guest. Now excuse me, I have a glass of delicious liberal tears to enjoy.
Just kidding, that would probably be disease-ridden.