Wearing the Kilt at Work - Like Pulling Teeth

**TheKiltedWonder** · 28th August 08, 02:37 PM

That sounds somewhat like my company. Yet they allow shorts! Grrr. If an HR department is involved, you know sense and logic will lose out.

**Jack Daw** · 28th August 08, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by TheKiltedWonder

That sounds somewhat like my company. Yet they allow shorts! Grrr. If an HR department is involved, you know sense and logic will lose out.

Yes, HR. Marvelous people where I work they are. The department performed a market survey to determine if our pay scales should be revised. THEY DID! They changed the pay ranges! But, our salaries stay the same.

**Frank McGrath** · 29th August 08, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by Jack Daw

Yes, HR. Marvelous people where I work they are. The department performed a market survey to determine if our pay scales should be revised. THEY DID! They changed the pay ranges! But, our salaries stay the same.

My darling wife, being in HR all her career, does not know everything. She was working a consulting job for a large institution in the NE. We started talking about what the tradesman were earning. Painters were making 5.00 an hour more than electricians. I told her this is no good. We argued for days until I took her to see a friend that was an electrician. She now knows about High wattage panels, and if pressed she could probably change a breaker if she had to. (she has me to do that kind of work, though). The electricians got a good raise and I received a nice gift from the group. Every good HR person still needs a blue collar consultant now and then.