I had an opportunity to talk to a few young and very talented people who don’t think Enbridge is attractive at all. The younger generations want something completely different. Whether Enbridge will adapt to new generations and their preferences is questionable
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"chill out and flip burgers"
Har har. I would bet my house that you wouldn't last a week working at a fast food restaurant.
I guess we're just going to flat-out disagree on this one. Once you escape the low-to-no skill jobs, things stop being comparable. I've never seen a software developer's salary get bumped because the admin assistant got a raise.
"Believing that the changes in minimum wage should cause changes at higher level wages is... odd."
You are misinformed. Check out some YouTube videos on the topic.
Scenario:
Burger flipper wage goes up to $25
Now a warehouse worker has a choice, break their body moving boxes for $18-20 or chill out and flip burgers for a $25 wage. So they tell their boss they will go flip burgers for more money if they don't get a raise.
So now the factory worker is making $28/h.
The C.E.T working at the factory making $33/h hears the laborer got a raise to $28/h so is now demanding more, as their role has more responsibility and education required. And $28 vs $33/h doesn't reflect that. They ask for $38/h.
The engineer for the company typically makes $15 more than the CET's so now their wage gets bumped up to $48.
These numbers obviously aren't perfectly accurate, but it shows how a wage increase at the bottom of the scale puts pressure on all levels. It just takes some time.
Believing that the changes in minimum wage should cause changes at higher level wages is... odd. Raising the subsistence wage doesn't raise all boats equally. You're not competing with them. You're also not competing with inflation. You're competing against your own class of employee and nobody else.
Inflation in the US is 7.5% and forecast to go up. Canada is mirroring this. Our official numbers are lower, but the reality is similar.
A truly 'competitive salary' that we are on right now is from the 2018-2019 world. This is no longer competitive. Fast food workers in the US are making 20+ bucks an hour. The first company to start offering real benefits and a competitive salary based off this new reality is going to take all the talent.
Those refusing will be left in the dust. And so be it. If you as a company refuse to adapt to the new reality I'm glad that you're doomed.
People are leaving for much better companies and pay
I just used the mens room and it now smells like an elephant enclosure. Apologies.
You folks are caught in between what Enbridge tells you it wants, and what it really wants. Enbridge pays lip service to innovation, but isn't really interested in paying for it.
Good luck getting to net zero without innovation. You must be part of the clueless middle management at LUG
No need for innovation centric approach. You sit, are the ideal Enbridge employee
No, they aren't attractive to younger employees. I don't know why that's considered a problem. The long term future of the company isn't dependent on an innovation-centric approach. Where Enbridge is at in its life cycle is all about operational cost efficiency, not transformation.
They do provide an actual competitive salary though.
Any young talented worker is demanding 2 things. An ACTUAL competitive salary, and proper remote work flexibility. Not this 2 days a week on days we specify and only for non union employees.
As an employer, if you aren't offering both of these at a minimum, you're going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for talent.
Unfortunately ENB sees absolutely no problems with this, they're happy to destroy the company in the long term in order to prop up next quarters numbers.
Unless you're related.