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   Dennis Wiles said, 7 months ago

   I love Rita . She always makes my day.
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   paulproteus48640 said, 7 months ago

   @Dennis Wiles

   you voting for Mitt?
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   Michael said, 7 months ago

   Sounds like IBM… most people have not had a raise in a numbers years even with good performance reviews
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   vwdualnomand said, 7 months ago

   no wonder the income gap is so wide between the rich and the rest.
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, 7 months ago

   The rich get raises and bonuses and every kind of gift they can give themselves. The rest of us are supposed to be glad we have jobs.
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   bpullin said, 7 months ago

   Start your own business and hire someone. Then you can make that person glad they have a job.
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   Notsoastute said, 7 months ago

   Executive management gets their bonuses by cutting expenses….that is; no ( or small) pay raises nor bonuses for those under their control. Been there, done that, but the T-shirt didn’t fit.
   However, we all know that there are a lot of people that think they deserve a raise or bonus just for showing up.
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   Clark Kent said, 7 months ago

   A certain giant global communications corporation that I won’t name (it has 3 letters and an ampersand) is paying the new techs less than half what us older techs made B4 we retired and they get fewer benefits. Both the IBEW and the CWA got crushed and had to agree to it.
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, 7 months ago

   @Notsoastute

   Sure, there will always be deadbeats at every level. I’ve also worked where workplace goof-offs get ahead because they’re on the company softball team, while hardworking people who don’t participate in activities that have absolutely nothing to do with the business itself stay in one place. Those ‘players’ are also allowed to stroll in late, leave early and take days off with no repercussions.
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    Notsoastute said, 7 months ago

    @Thomas Scott Roberts

    I worked at a place where they were hired just for their softball skills. Enough was said about it that the corporation simply stopped all sponsorship of all company leisure activities. I am quite certain that the execs thought " Why didn’t we think of that before? We just saved a bunch of money !"
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    Notsoastute said, 7 months ago

    @Clark Kent

    I retired from what is now the #3 comm company in the country that is home based in Louisianna. After acquiring us, they bought the western child of the company that you speak of. They are in negotiations with those unions now getting ready to do the same thing to them.
    In this economy, the standard corporate motto is :
    “Floggings will continue until moral improves.”
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    Notsoastute said, 7 months ago

    oooopsie, “morale”
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    Thomas Scott Roberts said, 7 months ago

    This weekend! Management Seminar. Topics discussed: “How to Treat Your Employees Like Freakin’ Three Year Olds.” followed by “10 Most Reliable Ways To Demand Respect Without Ever Earning It.”
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    phritzg said, 7 months ago

    @Thomas Scott Roberts

    So true; there’s a high paid guy in my wife’s office who seems to be reading local newspapers or playing solitaire openly on his computer every time she has to walk by his office to get to the office printer. Recently they gave him a Blackberry, so instead of using the computer, he can play his games on that instead. He is for some reason protected by management (and this is a unionized municipal government office!). They have scheduled a week where all the office workers have to document what they are doing every 15 minutes of their workdays for a week. It was conveniently scheduled during his vacation week, and he is allowed to use the following week for his diary, when, of course, he will have a backlog of work to do and appear to be the busiest worker they have.
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    Thomas Scott Roberts said, 7 months ago

    @phritzg

    My Dad worked for an ad agency with that guy. Well, okay, one just like him. Like Ed, he actually spent time with his feet up on his desk, or he would wander around pestering other people- who were trying to work. But he had a degree, so he had to be worth holding onto.
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