[aridiculous]

I'm really perplexed by this common attitude.

Employees are sometimes happy. Sometimes they're miserable. Sometimes they're in-between — for complicated reasons, that may lie outside of work.

Firing any employee that asks for a raise is so unbelievably short-sighted, binary, sociopathic, and potentially bad for business (morale, replacement costs, unknown costs), it's cartoonishly villainous.

You sir, appear to have authoritarian tendencies.

[johnward]

Yeah sounds like exactly the kind of place I wouldn't want to work anyway.

[hnriot]

nobody said anything about firing anyone. That would be illegal for one thing.