When I was in high school I worked at a sand mine in the summer. The task we were working on required that someone get into the dredge pond and use a wrench, while treading water, to tighten a turnbuckle which positioned the pump barge. A new employee refused to do that saying he wasn't a strong swimmer. For me at 16, a chance to go swimming in the hot summer and get paid for it was a win/win, so I did it. The owner's son, my contemporary, remarked that the guy who wouldn't do the work was paid more than I. Implying that he was wrong in his judgement and it was his responsibility to do the task. The guy overheard it and responded that he wasn't paid enough to drown. One of the other guys, about 60 yrs old I'd guess, threw in with this, "we don't make much money and the employer doesn't care about us much so we just steal in order to break even". The next day we couldn't find the wrench we'd used, a typical circumstance which usually ended up leaving the crew idle for a couple of hours while the owner went to buy a new one. The older guy explained under his breath that "it only brought $5.00" at the hock shop.
Selling workers short is ALWAYS a losing proposition. It's a culture thing. From my experience, South Carolinian employers embrace such a culture. Lindsay speaks for his supporters with words which they'd approve.
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