Employees asking to be laid off

Hasn’t happened to me yet, but one of our biggest customers has had 3 employees ask to be laid off because they would make more money. He won’t do it because he needs them to work.

This perverse incentive has three paths when people want to do this:

1. Lay employee off. Saves you money, but crippled you if you are fortunate enough to have the business that needs that work. Only winner is the employee.

2. Keep them there, but then they go “Union Gangster” on you and still don’t do the work. Now you are paying them for crappy or non-existent output. Again, employee wins.

3. They quit, and get no bennies. No winners. This won’t happen.

Yet Bernie Sanders casts this as mean business owners who resent an employee who has made less than the benefit amount for a long time now having a chance to finally put more in his pocket. Never fricking mind how it precipitates less productivity and more costs for everybody, much less the perversion of the incentive itself.

This is just bad, and anybody with a lick of business sense could see it coming from a mile away.