Pay threshold for managers to rise to 50K

I could make deadline 1,000 days in a row. Anybody can. Just don't wait for anything that would brush you up against that deadline. Product would suffer. It would be unfair to the readers. But anybody can hit a metric if you make that metric the be-all and end-all of success. It's trying to do both (make deadline and get the story in that was filed 4 minutes to deadline) that makes this job difficult.

 

As I always tell my bosses when they ask about moving up deadline for one reason or another, "I can get the paper out whenever you want, as long as you don't care what's in it."

 

More on how Obamacare has just destroyed America -- especially California.

Obamacare rates to rise 4% in California for 2016 - LA Times

 

http://gawker.com/your-pay-is-about-to-go-up-1772937935

 

Wish that law was in effect about 15 years ago.

 

Thanks, Obama.
No, really. Thank you, Obama. I'll give credit where it's due for a good law. Still not a fan, but kudos.

 

From the linked Gawker article:

Is that really what writing for the web is like? Sheesh. I thought that kind of prose was reserved for the comments section.

 

Yep, this is much needed. I especially felt sorry for restaurant managers or assistant managers who made like 26K a year and were expected/required to work 60 hours a week or more.

 

Or for Vice Presidents.

 

Last summer (when I was still in a management position) I worked 28 of 31 days in August, and with responsibility for a weekly arts section, often went well beyond eight hours a day.
If we had this last summer, I could've set myself up real nice for retirement.

 

If that's what 60 hours of their work is worth, no stroke of a pen is going to change how much money they make.

 

Then pay them 20k for 40 hours and they can take another part-time job. This is pretty common in restaurants.