# Erie County Legislature votes 71k in raises for sewer executives

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**Created:** [July 16, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/erie-county-legislature-votes-71k-in-raises-for-sewer-executives/14682 "2006-07-16T20:06:40Z")
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### Author: ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/erie-county-legislature-votes-71k-in-raises-for-sewer-executives/14682/36 "2006-07-17T13:38:54Z")

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> [@AWDrifter](#):
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> If employees give you an ultimatum and you give in, you are doomed.  
> Now EVERY county employee can extort the county and threaten to quit unless given more money.  
> In the long run this could be very costly for the county.

Only the ones who have jobs that costs a lot to train new workers. If you run a business and have never had someone threaten to quit unless they get a raise you either don’t have valuable employees, their jobs are non-skilled, or you pay them too much :lol:

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