Deja Q (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-03-09 12:22 PM
Original message
Cut my pay... please!
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/28/news/economy/paycuts/in...
As the number of layoffs mount, more workers are ready and willing to take significant pay cuts
to find employment.
With unemployment as high as 9.4% and job prospects scarce, job seekers are willing to accept
as little as half of what they were making before, if it means finding a job.
In a recent survey, 65% of out-of-work respondents reported willingness to accept wages
up to 30% lower than their previous compensation. And, 3% and 4%, respectively, said
they would accept up to 40% and 50% of prior wages, according
to the 2009 Annual Career Fair Survey released by Next Steps Career Solutions.
"My hope is that as companies start to feel more confident about the economy, then I will be
able to find something better."
Hope does not pay the bills.
Keep pimping yourselves as cheap hos, folks... then wonder why nobody has any money to
spend, which in turn fixes the economy...
Here's a fun tangent: Will CEOs, such as AT&T's, take a pay cut? Hell, will AT&T ever fix their
service? (barely a profit? When AT&T charges $10/mo more for their data plan than T-Mobile
and doesn't provide the bandwidth they promise, combined with the number of iphones sold,
and there's no profit? Really? What ever happened to CEOs who put money back into their
business? Credit cards are not good, but companies making promises and delivering later on,
if not defaulting on their promises is worse.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6454327Clearly, DUmmy Deja Q has an overdue cell phone bill.
liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-03-09 12:26 PM
1. The employees that do the work take the hit financially while the CEO
who sits at his desk and reads the Wall Street Journal and meets with a few local officials
and has coffee with them makes huge gains in their personal incomes.
Society is all ****ed up.
DUmmy liberal N proud spent his teens and twenties smoking dope instead of getting
a marketable education. He's now in his forties, sliding Chinese junk across a barcode
reader at a Dollar General store, and blaming his plight on the people who run the
company.
laughingliberal (204 posts) Thu Sep-03-09 12:35 PM
2. Yes. Some years back there was a revolution around workers' rights
We've seen the gains by labor eroded over the past 30 years and are rapidly heading back
to the conditions as they were before this happened.
liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-03-09 12:37 PM
4. That turning point was call the Reagan Administration
Yes, it was a turning point. That was when DUmmy liberal N proud should have been
studying for a useful education, instead of screwing skanky hippie chicks.
Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-03-09 12:37 PM
3. I'm in a job right now that pays 60% of what I used to make.
I'm having to short sell my house, I owe the IRS a shitload of money, my credit is in the toilet,
and the chances that I'll be buying anything major like a car in the next few years are nil. My
new employers are pretty decent but they know they have us over a barrel and the pressures
and the petty little indignities they subject us to are mounting.
Is it time for the guillotines yet?
I would say that yes, it is time, but I was recently designated asshole of the day. Most of the
bleeding hearts here would give deadbeats like Hello_Kitty another chance.
