Bloody Tradies! For those looking for an excuse to use “gobsmacked.” An X-post video clip from Tuesday: Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become “arrogant” since COVID and “We’ve got to kill that attitude.” Financial Review: The current unemployment rate needs to rise by 40 per cent to 50 per cent to boost the Australian economy’s productivity, Tim Gurner has said. “In my view, we need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around,” he said. Gurner told the Summit that the cultural shift towards a more pro-employee climate had led to tradies pulling back on productivity. “When there’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them as opposed to the other way around it’s a dynamic that has to change. We’ve got to kill that attitude.” Gurner has received some blowback over his remarks about “tradies.” “Just a reminder corporate profits and CEO pay are at historic highs,” wrote Greens MP Stephen Bates. “Workers deserve a fairer slice of the pie.” (The Guardian): The Labor MP Jerome Laxale wrote the comments were what you’d “associate with a cartoon supervillain, not the ceo of a company in 2023”. “Reminder that major CEOs have skyrocketed their own pay so much that the ratio of CEO-to-worker pay is now at some of the highest levels *ever* recorded,” shot back Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. There were…