SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-22-10 08:03 AM
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9. They make vitamins. I am not sure exactly what HIS job is there
He said he's miserable, just knowing, but at least he does have some time to plan ahead. At his age, it's very hard to find a decent job though, and that worries him. The company said they would "flesh out" the bonus plan, and that may help him decide how long to stay.
When my son's company did that, he got a $46K "bonus" for staying..and then was "rehired" immediately by the company that bought them out & got a raise to boot..but that was 5 years ago.
Seems in the vitamin business, Texacon.
Javaman (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-22-10 10:16 AM
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23. But hey! the recession is over and has been for almost a year!!!
This, sadly, is the new normal.
Cheerleaders at the end of the empire.
I feel for your friend. I'm 47 and hanging onto my job like grim death. Doing everything I can to make myself more "marketable". We have slowly been downsizing and all have been charged with taking on many rolls.[/i] Tasks that we were never trained for, have no experience doing or in our job descriptions, yet we do them to hold off certain lay off fears.
The republicans don't need to destroy SS, they are doing it by age discrimination. They lay off enough of the older workers, the stress alone will kill these folks, thus decreasing the SS rolls.
If I didn't have dark sarcasm/reality type humor, I would have none at all. It's the only thing that keeps me sane.
Peace to your friend.
Well I know this one isn’t a writer or editor, although I suppose he could be working in a bakery. He could always find a job as a schoolteacher, though.
Right. “Republicans†are laying people off. Because he knows the party affiliation of the vitamin company owners. Jeeze, what a scheisskopf.
Listen, brainless—that’s you, Javaman, with all those many
roles you’ve had to assume—outsourcing to cheap foreign labor will always be somewhat attractive to any business that can afford a move of that kind. But add to that 9 million pages of onerous regulations and crippling taxes—you know, those corporate taxes you love so much—and place it all in the context of a damaged economy, and the chances of a company making a move like this increase tremendously. What are they supposed to do, wait to go out of business?
So there’ll always be the carrot of cheap foreign labor. What there DOESN’T have to be is the stick of punishing tax rates and structures, and absurd overregulation, nearly all of which are Democrat creations.
Good luck with that sarcastic, reality-based humor, because it’s the
only part of your mind that’s rooted in reality.
