Well it appears that the doormen of New York have won. According to DNAinfo.com an agreement has been reached that will grant a 10% wage increase along with a 20% increase to their benefits. It seems those who live in buildings that have doormen won’t have to sort through mail, screen guests, or take out their own trash. For those of us who don’t live in buildings that have doormen we might find this entire situation amusing. I admit that I do. But let me shed a different light on the subject.
Perhaps if we looked at it from viewpoint of employees losing the services of a group of people they depended on and they now have to do the work of that group. It may be that they can do the work but is it a good use of their time? Is it cost effective to have them take on this additional responsibility? If you have a group that is highly productive, what happens to that productivity by adding a set of disjointed responsibilities to the mix?
Ok am I reaching here? Yes I am I just find this story downright funny. Regardless of what these people are used to or that having a doorman is included in their rent or condo fees, it’s just downright funny to me to think this people are worried about having to take out their own trash, sort their mail, or hail their own cab. But as I’ve already said in an earlier post, only in New York.
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