Working and Jobs
- Work controls your time and life. (Be well compensated or enjoy what you are doing to have a full and happy life.)
- They give you 2 weeks of your time to enjoy for the entire year.
- If you kids get sick you have to ask permission to stay home and take care of them
- If you are late some employers will Dock your pay.
- They penalize you for being a minute late but don’t want to pay you for working a little late or working on your own time.
- Make you work Days, Nights and weekends with no regard for your family or life situation. (Changes anytime they want)
- Work 25 – 30 years (40-50 hours week) – Retire with benefits and a Pension then the Company wants to save money and (takes away or reduces your retirement benefits that you worked your entire life for.) The Ultimate Slap in the FACE!!
- Parent gets Sick or Dies. Your job gives you 3 days to grieve and then get back to work and don’t’ be late.
- Your Childhood Best Friend dies, but you can’t take time off work because work has determined that this is not an immediate family member. To them it’s more important to have you at work then spending time morning with you family.
We work all our lives for someone else and for what benefit? For some this is good, they have and need the perceived security of a corporate job.
I was always under the impression that when you worked for a company, you were entering into a “Contract” between yourself (the employee) and the Employer. This “Contract” is supposed to lay out the details of the agreement between the two of you. What duties and responsibilities you are to be responsible and accountable for and how much the company will compensate you and the details of your benefits under this contract.
Somewhere in the past 5 – 10 years the employer has been changing his part of the contract without notice or renegotiating this “contract”. They have been steadily increasing the employee’s workload without any additional compensation or benefits. In many cases they have actually been reducing both the compensation and benefits through hiring younger workers for much less money. Older, better compensated employees are being pushed out or systematically fired in an effort to reduce cost and maximize gains for the company.
Many people have complained about the AIG bonuses and say “how can they break this contract to pay these people there bonuses”. Well I say until the average workers contract is honored and upheld and properly renegotiated then the AIG contracts should not matter either.
