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rolling rock
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 Posted: 03/11/03 - 11:00 Post subject:
maybe it's that ME stuff from the 80s, but mr & I also bought into the blood sweat and tears=financial security BS as well.
he's always worked 55 hour weeks (his choice). 20 years ago, we watched the execs in his company get half million dollar bonuses every year and maybe that's when the seed was planted 
enter the struggling US economy which slammed into the mfg industry 10 years ago -- it's been years since he's had a raise above 3%; no corporate 401K match for years; no bonus or what might have been considered a fraction of one; and when the wallstreet guys say "ANTE UP"--we lose a week's pay. No questions asked. it's corporate wide and it's immediate. Last year, he lost two consecutive weeks' pay to meet the numbers---between Christmas and New Years. Christmas bonus!!!!
on the plus side -- our take home pay was so much lower last year than previous one, that our federal tax return is actually very nice this year. probably poor planning, but who the heck has time to plan? we're too busy watching those yuppies from Goldman Sachs fly their private jet into Marlboro Country and yank our pay. sucksrocksbutwhatcanyado????
i just say God Bless him for his effort--something in me still wants to believe that is is not all in vain. but, we hear ya Genie.
cue the joni mitchell -- those were the days, my friend 
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purple hayes
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Posted: 03/11/03 - 11:00 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | I'll do my bestest. But I think you already pretty much know what Thai food looks like...  |
Don't make me send the Gregcam out on patrol while he's supposed to be resting. 
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airehead
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Posted: 03/11/03 - 11:01 Post subject:
| genie wrote: | Thai!!!! Oh, the wound just gets deeper and deeper.....anyone have any salt?  |
Hey girlie, you were invited. But you had some lame-o excuse like "It's too far!!"
Had I been Bruce Willis....I think the song would have been different, no?
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genie
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Posted: 03/11/03 - 11:02 Post subject:
Bruce? Prolly not. But Mel??? Hoooyeah.....errr..I mean....NO! I would never diss my girlfriends for a mere man.....no way..... 
No, really, you guys have fun and I'll just heat up some leftover soup or a pack of instant oatmeal or something.....
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airehead
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Posted: 03/11/03 - 11:03 Post subject:
| genie wrote: | Bruce? Prolly not. But Mel??? Hoooyeah.....errr..I mean....NO! I would never diss my girlfriends for a mere man.....no way.....
No, really, you guys have fun and I'll just heat up some leftover soup or a pack of instant oatmeal or something..... |
Don't forget the worms, ya gotta eat worms...Or is that a Scottish/Irish thing?
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genie
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Posted: 03/11/03 - 11:07 Post subject:
Now there's an idea. I'll just mosey on out to the other side of the Posse territory for some of Keltic's famous worm souffle.....mmmmm
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robp
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Posted: 03/11/03 - 11:41 Post subject:
I got the good performance appraisal, met 100% of goals plus some, work o.t. when it's req'd and I got handed a whopping 2.76% raise this year. Seems as if raises are based on how much "casual" (read that unpaid) overtime you put in. Sorry dudes, I don't do overtime unless there is a need for it. Some of these yingyangs put in a boatload of o.t. for no reason other than "to be seen". I.E., the boss thinks you're ultra dedicated because you're spending megahours in this place accomplishing what everybody else can accomplish in 8 or 8.5 hrs. Tis a crock du crappola.
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genie
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Posted: 03/11/03 - 11:44 Post subject:
Yingyang, hmmm.....
Ms. Yingyang
Madame Yingyang
Dr. Yingyang
Sigh. I'm thinking the REAL yingyangs are the ones who put in the OT, paid or not, to keep their own sanity, actually thinking it will do them some good in the end. Well, we all got it "in the end" that's fer shure!
You are SO right, rob!
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kristin31
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Posted: 03/11/03 - 12:57 Post subject:
Well you have the option of doing what they are bginning to implement there. They are implanting a Xanax pump/chip and monitor. Everytime you get upset about the injustice heaped upon you by the upper establishment (which here consists of white, conservative, men) the monitor detects the emotion and feeds you more Xanax. Good performance review and no raise? Budgets cuts? DOn't worry, the monitor will sense the change in blood pressure and the pump will feed you more Xanax. No need to feel anything, ever again
Pefect way to keep us all subservient wage slaves and continue the oppression/elimination of the middle class.
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genie
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Posted: 03/11/03 - 14:47 Post subject:
Yeah, but at least you get to be at work stoned, that HAS to help a little..... 
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Soigneur
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Posted: 03/11/03 - 16:02 Post subject: Re: Work hard & you'll get ahead and other childhood lie
| genie wrote: | [corporateamericasucksrocks rant]
Dontcha love getting to be an adult and finding out that all those lessons that were forced down your throat as a child were total CRAP?
I had my yearly review right before I left for surgery. It was pretty good, or it would have been had I not been covering two jobs, working 12 hour days and weekends, not eating or sleeping for days at a time from the stress, but it was decent. Today, my first day back from leave, we get our award letters, which basically tell you what your raise, bonus and stock option awards are if you get them. Guess who, after all that, got the most pitiful raise in her worklife history, like why even bother giving me one....NO bonus and NO stock options. Nada, zip, zilch, pitooie......all that *$#&$^*#^ing work and misery for practically nothing. When I gave my boss the raised eyebrow, he told me the VP did the group that I fall under administratively himself and that the actual bosses were allowed to give input but not make the final decision, and that "the pool of $ just wasn't there for your group this year."
Excuse me? Did someone say, "oh, look at the time....5:00...what? Can I work late tonight? Ummmmm, lemme put it this way.....I'd rather clean up a steaming pile of cat puke!"
Keep your nose clean and work hard and you'll get somewhere my sweet white runner's butt.  I can't wait to get out of this corporate hellhole and out into the real world. At least working to help people is worth the extra time and effort you put into it.
[/corporateamericasucksrocks rant] |
Its been about three years now and this is exactly why I so don't miss the corporate world only the salary sometimes  .
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