All I did was point out how the worker feel. Both you and jared were totally blind to the other side, even insulting me, because I was just pointing you the obvious. And I just talked about reality, things I had gone through, employers I knew, companies I've seen here. I don't assume to know the reality of the US market, or Singapore, but I do know a bit about the Argentinian one, specially from the worker side.
I'm sorry to tell you its your responsibility to do your proper research. You cant expect the workers to absorb the differences between your business model and reality.
Inflation in Argentina shouldn't surprise anyone. You are going to make that big of an investment without looking at past numbers? Read independent analysis?
Beware of "El cuento del tío"!
You keep trying to apply global conditions to local workforce living in local conditions, paid with local salaries. It doesn't make any sense.
If you decide to set up shop somewhere, you should be ready to handle it, both the good (cheaper labor) and the bad (inflation and worker rights) because otherwise you will fail.
There were times when the US was having a great economic time, and Argentina was waaaaaaay down (say, 2001/2002). The other way around.
At that time, you wouldn't have applied the US conditions to here. You would have tried to make the best out of the oportunity. That's probably when a bunch of companies jumped into the country, to make a nice profit off the exchange rate.
That's why its called local conditions, they are local!. You cant expect the world to change as you walk though it. The fact that the US is in recession means nothing to me, and probably will mean nothing for your local workers, specially when they go buy food.
If you are expecting to have the same conditions that in the US, but at a much lower price, I'm sorry to tell you it will be a waste of money. If you cannot handle inflation, you will fail. If you dont respect local labor laws, you will also fail.
You can complain all you want about things being different to the US, but that's the main reason why it might be cheaper to operate from here.
I'm not expecting charity from my employeer. You should expect it from your employees.
You cant ignore the culture of people in a company, much less in a whole country. You can decide that the unionized-worker, "socialist" model sucks and must go, but don't count on it happening anytime soon. Workers wont accept to be stripped of their rights.
No silver bullet.
The same postures you saw here (the worker trying to defend their interests, and the employer trying to defend theirs) are going to show up no matter what.
And stop dreaming that the worker goal will be to grow your business, because that will just not happen, in the same way that yours is not to make all your employees rich.
On the other hand, both of us will be totally ok with those things happening as a side effect of our respective goals.
. I do not know anyone who earns 2200 pesos per month for teaching fulltime .This is not the award wages and certainly if you take into consideration the bonuses by law wages are fair by international standards. We all know that porters get high wages that is equivalent to international standards for relatively easy work.
