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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on December 03, 2009, 02:14:58 PM
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In this thread, the DUmmies whine and moan about having to work, even though half the whining consists of lies by unemployable drones. They blame it all on this lousy O-conomy, but it seems to me they complained just as much about working during the Bush boom.
SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-03-09 02:02 PM
Original message
Productivity is up, so why would employers hire more people?
If you run a business and have 50 employees who are getting the job done, would you hire 10 more people, if you're are having a hard time selling the goods that 50 people produce now?
Once you are used to having those 50 people work really hard, and accept pay cuts, and losses of benefits, will company morale suffer if you hire 10 new people, instead of giving back to the employees you already have, their lost wages & benefits?
How can you get more people to buy more "stuff"?
If you are barely hanging on, will more advertising convince people to buy your product?
It's a lot "easier" to unwind a business than it is to re-build it.
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Mugweed (690 posts) Thu Dec-03-09 02:20 PM
1. I was thinking the same thing this morning.
And yesterday, the day before, and the day before. I didn't think about it on the weekend because I wasn't working. It's usually around 6AM on weekdays when I am sitting at my desk to start the day that I get to think about it. Why should my employers hire back four of my professional staff and my only administrative assistant/accountant/marketing coordinator if the two professionals left (me and my "staff") are getting the job done at 18% pay cuts? Why should they care if I have to work from 6AM to 6PM just to get the work done, yet only get paid for 40 hours per week at 82% percent of the salary I was getting this time last year? It's not like I'm jumping ship any time soon. All the other ships have sunk and we're one of the few still floating.
At least I can take a short break for lunch and rant a little.
SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-03-09 02:25 PM
3. I hear you.. My son is having to drive to SanDiego, and often has to stay over
When he was hired a year ago, he was told he would be hiring 4 people, and he would be supervising them..and their work would be local (Riverside-San Bernardino area)..within a month, the hiring freeze happened, but the work still had to get done. they consolidated his territory, and it meant that some days he has to drive upwards of 85 miles just to GET to work.. The main reason he took the job was because it was a 10 minute commute and the hours were 6-3PM.. M-F.. But with the economy the way it is, he just has to suck it up and hope things get better soon..
CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-03-09 02:34 PM
4. My husband is in the same boat...
He works in upper management for an internet-service provider. They were supposed to hire more people under
him, so he could manage and take care of the higher-level tech stuff. Then, the shineola hit the fan. Those
people were never hired. We took a 20 percent paycut, but he's doing the jobs of four people. He's about
ready to lose his mind. The current economic climate has workers over a barrel. People are afraid of losing their jobs when jobs are so
scarce--so no one is going to complain about the long hours and work overload. Everyone is hanging on by their
fingernails.
This type of sweating-blood situation---doesn't make me want to run right out and buy a big-screen television, like
the media says we should all be doing.
Such.a.crock.
Hey, that's cool. It has been a long time since I've noticed a DUmmy using the Pittian style of a period after every word in a sentence. It. Gives. One. Gravitas.
DUmmy cbdo concisely states the democrat theory of economic success:
cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-03-09 02:56 PM
..the first rule of having a job is that if they lay off people, do the same amount of work as you did before. You dont want the boss to know how much work you can really accomplish when you're not on DU all day.
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It doesn't embarass them that it looks like they have been "screwin' the pooch" on company time? I mean c'mon, if they can do it now, why weren't they savin' the company the money before?
What a bunch of dishonest, lazy, anti-loyal, assholes!
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It doesn't embarass them that it looks like they have been "screwin' the pooch" on company time? I mean c'mon, if they can do it now, why weren't they savin' the company the money before?
What a bunch of dishonest, lazy, anti-loyal, assholes!
Exactly.
Plus this "doing the jobs of four people" it a load of shit. You can only do so much during your shift...if you have time to do the work of four people, then that is what you are getting paid for. I hate the "it's not my job" mentality.