Think again. If you work for private industry (which means you do NOT work for the government) and you have received word that you’re being downsized “but not right now – we just want you to be aware, so you can take the time to find a new job” and you think this action means the company you work for is being benevolent and generous, think again.
They want as few hits on their unemployment insurance as possible. They’re not telling you in advance for YOUR benefit. They’re telling you for THEIR benefit.
Did they say you can take the time you need for interviews? And when you finally got an interview and it was at month-end, were you graciously given the time off to go to said interview? Jus’ sayin…
Do you think your company is being fabulous to you by saying that you can stay ’til they close the office? Think again. You can absolutely stay til they close the office. Know why? Cuz they can’t close it without you. Well, yes, they can, but it would cost them a buttload more money and the management folks would be REALLY pissed off at having to do it themselves.
I’ve said this more than once and I’ll say it again (although I doubt many will listen): Private industry exists for one purpose:
Class? What is that purpose?
TO MAKE MONEY.
They do not exist to support you and your family, to help you in any way or to have your back the way they require that you have theirs.
Please peeps. Don’t delude yourself into thinking your company deserves your loyalty in any way. They don’t. They could give two flying red shits about you. As long as the guys at the top are pulling down their millions, you, my little worker-bee friend, are nothing to them. They paid more for their last vacation than you made in a year.
Jus’ sayin’ folks. Don’t believe a word that is told you by any corporate management person when there are layoffs. If their lips move, they are lying. Why are they lying? Why, they’re lying because HR has told them if they don’t lie, they will lose THEIR jobs. (which they will lose, anyway, but they’ll have more perks when they lose than you’ll EVER see.)
YOU DO NOT OWE YOUR EMPLOYER ANYTHING OTHER THAN AN HONEST DAY’S WORK FOR AN HONEST DAY’S PAY. That’s IT. They pay you do do a job. Do your job, do it well, but do NOT fall into the “loyalty” trap.
Loyalty will not feed, clothe or shelter your children. Loyalty will not provide you with job security. Loyalty to Corporate America, as it is run today, is evil propaganda perpetrated on the unsuspecting by those at the top who want more and more for less and less.
My sister is the last of a dying breed. She has worked for her company for 35 years. She will be okay when she retires. The only reason she hasn’t been downsized yet is because of her seniority and age. To do so would mean the company takes a gun and publicly shoots itself in the foot. She could only be downsized through attrition, but golly gee whiz, her position is absolutely necessary. So no attrition. When she retires you better believe they will hire someone at a far lower salary and will not offer the pension, profit sharing and other retirement benefits my sister will get.
No one gets that kind of care from a corporate entity any longer.
No one except those at the very top of that ivory tower.
I say bring back the unions. Bring ’em back NOW. If Corporate America won’t regulate itself and stop destroying “we the people” then I say it’s time “we the people” fight back.
It’s hard out there. Jobs are scarce. What I’m about to recommend might horrify many of you who are unemployed. I advocate that NO ONE who is unemployed take a job with a company that will not allow a union. I advocate that we all – and I mean ALL – learn to live small. We learn to live with one vehicle; we teach our children to use their imaginations instead of letting their brains rot with X-Box and cable TV. I say we eat in-season produce, we buy all of what we need and very little of what we want. We SAVE for what we want and when we have CASH, then we go buy the very BEST, and make sure it’s made in America, by a union worker.
Wanna hear truly radical? Our economy needs to be completely destroyed, AS IT IS NOW, and rebuilt. Why should we be denied excellent healthcare – that which is necessary for a good quality of life, simply because the greed of Corporate America says we can’t have it if we can’t afford it?
Do I believe I am entitled to someone else’s money? Do I believe that the rich should be divested entirely of their wealth so the poor can be fed? No. I believe that our government has a responsibility to US. I believe that corporate executive salaries and compensation packages should have a cap. I believe that outsourced jobs need to be brought back into our country and provided to our starving workers and their families. I believe that we should all be paid a LIVING wage for an honest day’s work.
I do not believe that your tax money, my tax money or Joe The Plumber’s tax money should have to go to feed the poverty-stricken when there is so much idle wealth in this country. I believe that those who HAVE have a moral responsibility to help those who have NOT. Instead, those who HAVE are given even MORE tax breaks so they can send even MORE money off shore.
Next time you are in the company of a corporate executive look closely at his clothing; look particularly at his shoes. They will not be scuffed, worn at the heels, and will probably be well-shined cap-toes or italian wingtips. Perhaps on a casual day they will be kiltie tassel loafers. They will have cost more than $250 a pair. Note that his shirt will be unwrinkled, his tie will have an expensive sheen but not a shine. There’s a difference. Check the cut of his trousers and see where they fall on the top of his shoes. Note that they do not bunch up on his shoes, nor do they trail the ground. Note that his belt matches his shoes, and that his pockets do not pull at the seams. Check his jacket sleeves and note that he can shoot his cuffs easily and those shirt cuffs are probably starched and held together with lovely cufflinks. Note his shirt collar. Note that it has not been turned and that there is no fraying on the collar. Note that you will not even be able to see the outline of the collar stays. That’s a very expensive shirt and I’ll guarantee he has a closet full of them. Note that there are no creases down the sleeve arms. This is a dead giveaway that he is paying a laundry or a dry cleaner to do his shirts. His wife (or god forbid, himself) is not starching and ironing them for him.
Note that the cost of the entire get-up you are viewing costs more than you earn in a month. I know this to be true – and that’s on a conservative estimate. I was married to a wealthy man. I know what the clothing costs.
Look at his watch. You won’t see a watch. You’ll see a chronometer. Thousands of dollars difference between a mere watch and a chronometer.
And if you dare, ask him where he got his tan. I’ll be it was at his private country club while using custom-made golf clubs, or on that recent vacation that cost more than you earn in a year.
Why would you, or anyone, want to work for a company that presents material wealth as more important than people? No, they don’t present it in their documentation, their mission statement or in any of their company meetings (not the ones YOU attend). They don’t have to do that. Their presence reeks of it.
So next time you think your company is being so damned generous and good to you by giving you “time” to find a new job before they divest you of your current job, remember that they do nothing that doesn’t first benefit themselves.
Never forget that.
Let your loyalty be to YOU and YOUR FAMILY. That’s where it is deserved.
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