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this is good for a rant.
"In essence, youre being ripped off, and those responsible are taking everyones money while assuming very little risk."
This has been going on for decades. There are so many manipulative and nasty little lies and tricks that they can't be counted. At the top of any given corporation, the individuals do as they please to line their own pockets with vast wealth and then bald-facedly lie about why the company isn't making money and why workers can't be given at minimum the expected cost-of-living raises or anything else for that matter. In fact, these big dogs will fly first class all over the world at $4K a pop, but they will not spend a pound to replace work-equiment, leaving it to managers to blame problems on employees. It's a rigged game ftom top to bottom. I have no objection to them making money. I object to the constant stream of lies and lack of ethics.
The cost of living scheme is one very obvious method by which human beings are slowly put through the grinder. Why should cost-of-living raises be demanded? because.. if you are hired for an arbitrary $50K a year, and after 10 years of 1% raises for all hardworking employees, it is $54,684. But the cost of living went up 4% each year, so the pay should properly be $74,102 (not including any raises for merit) See how the workers at all levels are actually given large gross pay cuts every year? The pay is not raised by 1% each year (as your manager says, apologizing that the company has no money) with those little raises, but it is effectively cut by 3% each year and no one talks about the fact that ther cost of labor isn't being paid as it should. Distractions from the important numbers. So, after the 10 years, the employee's real pay has been cut to 73.8% of the hire wage. Sure, this can be brought up to one's managers, etc, but they can't do anything about it.. They get the same.. Only the top boys make out, with big bonuses and non-publicized incentives most of the rest never find out about.
The only way to stay above the cost of living any more is to fire your employer, take your experience and knowledge, and move on up to that new hiring offer at a competitor, 10-20% more.
Employers have no idea how much intellectual property they throw out the window and into the waiting arms of competitors because of the top boys' personal greed and failure to properly compensate employees. penny wise and pound foolish. I have seen this many, many times.
Another example of this two-faced destructive behavior is the way subscriber agreements are wrtten. The provider is not responsible for anything and does not suffer if they fail to deliver, but woe to the guy who is a day late with a payment. It may be that some people actually prefer to have bad credit, because then there is nothing they can be threatened with when they default on payments or make bills late.
These are only a few reasons why many people do not "consume" any more, they do not buy things except what is absolutely necessary, will not assume debt, etc.. They are sick of it. Why give these servants of Mammon, the great satan, the abominal grinder of human beings, even more? Why be subject to insane customer agreements any more than absolutely necessary? No. Let them go to scratch.
This has been going on for decades. There are so many manipulative and nasty little lies and tricks that they can't be counted. At the top of any given corporation, the individuals do as they please to line their own pockets with vast wealth and then bald-facedly lie about why the company isn't making money and why workers can't be given at minimum the expected cost-of-living raises or anything else for that matter. In fact, these big dogs will fly first class all over the world at $4K a pop, but they will not spend a pound to replace work-equiment, leaving it to managers to blame problems on employees. It's a rigged game ftom top to bottom. I have no objection to them making money. I object to the constant stream of lies and lack of ethics.
The cost of living scheme is one very obvious method by which human beings are slowly put through the grinder. Why should cost-of-living raises be demanded? because.. if you are hired for an arbitrary $50K a year, and after 10 years of 1% raises for all hardworking employees, it is $54,684. But the cost of living went up 4% each year, so the pay should properly be $74,102 (not including any raises for merit) See how the workers at all levels are actually given large gross pay cuts every year? The pay is not raised by 1% each year (as your manager says, apologizing that the company has no money) with those little raises, but it is effectively cut by 3% each year and no one talks about the fact that ther cost of labor isn't being paid as it should. Distractions from the important numbers. So, after the 10 years, the employee's real pay has been cut to 73.8% of the hire wage. Sure, this can be brought up to one's managers, etc, but they can't do anything about it.. They get the same.. Only the top boys make out, with big bonuses and non-publicized incentives most of the rest never find out about.
The only way to stay above the cost of living any more is to fire your employer, take your experience and knowledge, and move on up to that new hiring offer at a competitor, 10-20% more.
Employers have no idea how much intellectual property they throw out the window and into the waiting arms of competitors because of the top boys' personal greed and failure to properly compensate employees. penny wise and pound foolish. I have seen this many, many times.
Another example of this two-faced destructive behavior is the way subscriber agreements are wrtten. The provider is not responsible for anything and does not suffer if they fail to deliver, but woe to the guy who is a day late with a payment. It may be that some people actually prefer to have bad credit, because then there is nothing they can be threatened with when they default on payments or make bills late.
These are only a few reasons why many people do not "consume" any more, they do not buy things except what is absolutely necessary, will not assume debt, etc.. They are sick of it. Why give these servants of Mammon, the great satan, the abominal grinder of human beings, even more? Why be subject to insane customer agreements any more than absolutely necessary? No. Let them go to scratch.
Posted by opcom
16th Oct