New York Times Goes With Unsupported Opinion

Stonewall · Jan 18, 2013

Protectionist said:
What the customers were paying had NOTHING to do with what the sales reps (contractors not "employees") were paid. You're injecting YOUR ideas about business into this. I ran my business MY way, not YOUR way.

You paid your sales reps 312,000 a year and what the custoemrs were paying had nothing to to with such a salary?

Uhhhhhh...yeah.

Selling bridges to Hawaii or something?

Imagine had this been the average salary at Exxon, or GM, or Walmart....and them trying to explain to Protectionist here that their salaries don't have anything to do with your gas prices, automobile costs, or retail goods.......their CEOs would be strung up by the media, Protectionist would be crying foul.

What in the world?

Stonewall · Jan 18, 2013

myp said:
Actually it probably did. Labor is an input cost. Obviously that is going to have an affect on the sales price. Let's put it this way: if you didn't have the labor cost, you could have reduced the cost for the consumer by what you paid your salesmen and still made the same profit.

Exactly! Labor is always your largest input cost, especially long term input cost, it is any business's primary cost of doing business.

Protectionist · Jan 21, 2013

Stonewall said:
You paid your sales reps 312,000 a year and what the custoemrs were paying had nothing to to with such a salary?

Uhhhhhh...yeah.

Selling bridges to Hawaii or something?

Imagine had this been the average salary at Exxon, or GM, or Walmart....and them trying to explain to Protectionist here that their salaries don't have anything to do with your gas prices, automobile costs, or retail goods.......their CEOs would be strung up by the media, Protectionist would be crying foul.

What in the world?

What's the matter ? You don't read the thread ? - enough to know you had ALREADY BEEN CORRECTED. Here was that correction. Reprinted from Post # 36.

"1. NO, $150/hr (in my business) was NOT $312,000 a year. It's $150/hour, which might have been one or two or three hours a week (whenever a customer was coming into one of the offices distant from me) Helps to know what you're talking about."

What in the world ? What in the world are you talking about ? :giggle:

Protectionist · Jan 21, 2013

Stonewall said:
Exactly! Labor is always your largest input cost, especially long term input cost, it is any business's primary cost of doing business.

Exactly WRONG! And now, you just compounded his wrong. Your wrong however, is far worse than his, because he did not have the benefit of the correction I provided in Post # 40 , which you did have the benefit of, and still foolishly went ahead and ignored. So now, that correction applies to you too.

As for your tendency to agree with wrong posts which have already been corrected, you'll have to work on that on your own.

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