Your Opinion: Setting salaries for state workers

Dear Editor:

These are bits and pieces of topics that appear to be on the scene today.

Since when has it become customary for members of the state Legislature to make decisions about the salaries of the state employees. Shouldn't they be minding their own store; surely they have enough to take care of in the form of their own members misdeeds and other matters.

This procedure, the looking into the salaries of other government work forces, has always been left up to the discretion of each department supervisor who was the employee's boss.

He or she had a working knowledge of the work habits and jobs of those under his (her) jurisdiction. It is a known fact that not all employees in the workplace are good workers.

It seems to this writer that legislators should tend to their own job and work habits without interfering in state government in this fashion. And it seems they aren't able to get good laws passed for the citizens. And they reap bad publicity on national network shows when they overturn laws passed by the citizens of Missouri.

Perhaps some of these lawmakers should take a long-lasting siesta. Employees should be paid according to their abilities and not because those sitting next to them and busy working receive higher salaries. And at one time employees did not go around bragging about their salaries to others.

This is surely one sure-fire reason why things are in such a mess in jobs; too many bosses not capable in their jobs and not enough good workers.

The first thing on the employees' agenda should be to quit complaining and filing complaints in newspapers and, most of all, to be happy they still have a job.