Employment tip
If you're thinking about taking a job somewhere, and the company promises you something (for instance, a pension) but isn't under a legal obligation to pay it, don't count on it being there when you need it. I guess I should say: don't need it. If you would work for company A, but company B has a nice pension plan... go with company A. It's that simple.
As for the CEO's making millions, billions, or gazillions of dollars, what is that to you? If company A offers you $50,000/year, and B offers you $40,000/year, and benefits are the same, working environment the same - are you going to work for company B because the CEO there makes only half as much?
I get so sick of hearing people talk about how CEO's are overpaid and congress should do something to stop it and help the little guy whose pension is being raided or whatever. Yeah, the government really helped us out a lot in 1930's. The government's help turned a market correction into the Great Depression. And the government sure solved the gas crisis of the 1970's. The solution was gas lines and another major recession. So what will the government's help be in making CEO's more fair to their workers? Smart money's on unemployment, but nationalization of industry offers nice-looking odds.
How about this: solve your own problems! Find another company to work for. Or if there isn't one that suits you, make your own! I know it's hard, what with all the regulations and red tape that (who was it again - oh yeah!) the government imposes. But you can do it. And you can make yourself the CEO. And if you can make your company compete successfully with the big boys, you can pay yourself whatever you want. And live happily ever after.
SRS
As for the CEO's making millions, billions, or gazillions of dollars, what is that to you? If company A offers you $50,000/year, and B offers you $40,000/year, and benefits are the same, working environment the same - are you going to work for company B because the CEO there makes only half as much?
I get so sick of hearing people talk about how CEO's are overpaid and congress should do something to stop it and help the little guy whose pension is being raided or whatever. Yeah, the government really helped us out a lot in 1930's. The government's help turned a market correction into the Great Depression. And the government sure solved the gas crisis of the 1970's. The solution was gas lines and another major recession. So what will the government's help be in making CEO's more fair to their workers? Smart money's on unemployment, but nationalization of industry offers nice-looking odds.
How about this: solve your own problems! Find another company to work for. Or if there isn't one that suits you, make your own! I know it's hard, what with all the regulations and red tape that (who was it again - oh yeah!) the government imposes. But you can do it. And you can make yourself the CEO. And if you can make your company compete successfully with the big boys, you can pay yourself whatever you want. And live happily ever after.
SRS
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