Are Employers Using The Great Recession To Drive Down Wages=You Tell Me

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Great CPA Needed

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Date: 2010-10-20, 2:42AM EDT
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Aself oriented Chief CPA is in need of a nice subordinate that is good in the area of accounting that can handle high volume A/P and A/R. Must be familar with Quickbooks or ready to learn. Benefit inclused monthly bonus for a hard working worker and reimbursment for the money incured on the working kit.
Please email resume. Include salary expectations and a bit about yourself in a cover letter to [e-mail]


•Compensation: $1200 monthly
•Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
•Please, no phone calls about this job!
•Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.



PostingID: 201XXXXXXX


$14,400,00 a year for a CPA in 2010????? In Orlando??????? Orlando isn't L.A. or N.Y. or even Miami but a decent two bedroom apartment will set you back $1,100.00 a month. That's $13,200.00 a year. Where's the money for food, utilities, medical care, a car, et cetera.

F-------K

[Tippy]

1. This is exactly what is happening...K&R

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. The More I Read The Ad The Less I Think It Is Legitimate

I might not be the English professor but that clown should be arrested for his assault on the English language.

[Donnachaidh]

21. the poster didn't mention anything about degrees needed

He's probably a CPA looking for some poor schlub who is good with numbers but hasn't got the degree to get the real job. LOTS of those out there, with all the banks going under. :shrug:

[BeFree]

3. Yeah, but

If you can snag a great job like that you can get a credit card to buy everything else. Ain't that America? Ain't that how it works?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. That Job Will Net You Less Than $12,000.00

You better live alone.

[BeFree]

10. The Future

Company towns. Communism. Dictatorial communism. Republican styled communism.

Yep, best to live alone. Neighbors are a PITA.

[HelenWheels]

4. Sitting on their money

Corporations are wallowing in profits yet refuse to use it to hire people or increase their business. They continue to make money by dumping employees, cutting back on benefits and outsourcing. Now they are investing in elections. They just put over $300,000 into our community to influence our local elections.

[littlewolf]

13. true there our company stopped merit raises 2 years

ago along with COLA ... this year they started COLA again ... but merit raises are gone for good ....
as well as cuts in benefits ... when someone sez something ... the reply is ... no one has a gun to
your head ... go get a better job ....

[vssmith]

5. Employers love unemployment--it drives down the cost of labor

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. There's A Pardox In That

If you drive down wages folks won't have enough money to buy their goods.

[vssmith]

22. Henry Ford understood when he said, "the more money they have the more Fords they buy"

[rucky]

6. this has got to be part time...

or a nominee for fuckthisjob.com

[TheKentuckian]

7. "Sensible centrists" and "Pragmatic progressives" will continue to miss it until they get crushed

The absurd trade policies, union busting, stupid tax policy, and growing wealth disparity combined with increased corporate power, influence over government, and worship of riches is going to make "middle" and "working" class mean poverty with a job for the lucky and the trash heap for the rest.

This paradigm is killing us as a land of opportunity for the many and it will suck democracy down with it. You can't maintain a democracy at this levels of resource disparity or corporate influence.

[AwakeAtLast]

11. Isn't that below minimum wage?

:shrug:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Minimum Wage Is $7.25 I Believe

~

[Arkansas Granny]

15. It certainly is. $1,200 a month comes out to less than $7.00 an hour.

Edit to add: This is based on a 40 hour week.

[slackmaster]

14. Employers always have and always will exploit soft job markets

Just as workers who have skill sets that are in demand but scarce, can demand higher salaries than can people who don't have highly-valued skills.

[Newsjock]

16. Never trust a boss who calls himself '[e-mail]'

Wouldn't matter what this "person" paid; that's a giant huge red flag right there.

[krispos42]

17. Only if bears shit in the woods, the pope is catholic, water is wet, and Bush is a dumbass n/t

[LiberalEsto]

18. I've seen ads for freelance writers

offering miniscule pay, sometimes just a few dollars, for 600-word articles. Worse yet, no pay at all, just "experience". It's sickening to see businesses take advantage of desperate unemployed people.

[lumberjack_jeff]

19. On the other hand...

The applicant could go to college to learn bookkeeping. That pays even less.

Within a year or two, the successful applicant can apply for better jobs. In Washington, the median salary for bookkeepers is $17.70.

[PVnRT]

20. Do species in family Ursidae pass waste in heavily forested areas?

[minavasht]

23. Are homebuyers using the Great Recession to drive down house prices?

It is a basic rule of supply and demand - you have too many CPA's, their demand goes down, the employers can find some who will work cheaper. Are you suggesting that all CPA's that graduate have to get a well paying job?
Are you suggesting that given a choice of two identical hoses, sitting on the same street, you will buy the one with the pre-recession prices? Honestly?