Friday, June 26, 2009

Management in Venezuela

El Presidente (for life?) first grabbed the guns (suppressing dissent is easy if only your supporters have guns), and then paid off those who supported him:
... my friend from Venezuela manages a factory, and told me 8 years ago Chavez made a law that you cannot fire anyone who makes 3-times minimum wage or less. So he has some employees who literally do nothing, and he can't fire them. Another one had a night shift and caused a lot of problems, so they put him on the day shift so they could better supervise him; he went to the department of labor to complain, and now my friend has to hire a lawyer to deal with this.

1 comment:

  1. Anything prohibiting giving the trouble employee a raise to a wage above the minimum, then firing him?

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