>outstanding arrest warrants, inability to resolve past DUI
>offenses with the courts, domestic violence that spreads into
>the workplace, absenteeism, etc. -- all actual issues we have
>had to deal with.
Umm...maybe you just need to pay higher wages. Pay monkey wages, get monkeys.
Most of our production workers earn over $21/hr, up to $45-50/hr depending on the position. There are a few doing very basic manual labor (stacking small objects) that are more in the $14/hr rate, but I'm not really referring to them in the post.
It's a common mistake to think that in the skilled trades, people automatically behave much more professionally. Often very skilled welders or machinists have some interesting quirks to them, but they still get paid well and do a good job. We would only let them go if they started creating a dysfunctional team environment for others, and could not correct it.
I hope you're just Russian and incorrectly composed an aphorism. "Pay peanuts and you get monkeys" is I think what you were going for. Unfortunately, it came off as extremely classist.
That said, even your central thesis, pay higher wages, misses the fact that in a functioning market economy, higher wages isn't always possible, or even productive.
