Harry Krause wrote:

krj wrote:

Harry Krause wrote:


krj wrote:


P. Fritz wrote:


"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Unless your company went bankrupt, use your cobra.

There is plenty of reasonable priced insurance out there, if you look.
The problem is that the socialist crowd feels they are entitled to
everything.

And anybody that thinks that 100% employment would be utopia doesn't have
many brain cells connecting.

Companies are not in business to provide jobs and benefits. They are in
business to provide a return on investment to their share holders.



If we cannot re-establish a compact between corporations and workers,
the best thing to do is **** the shareholders. A man or woman's hours,
days, weeks, months, and years of labor are worth as much as anyone's
money.

There is no "compact" between corporations and workers. That may have
been true 30 years ago, but not now. Workers are the "disposable dipers"
of the corporations. Companies expect todays workers to move on after
2-3 years and as a result of the lack of loyaltity to the company, the
conpany has no requirement to display loyaltity to the worker. The old
days of working for a company from "cradle to grave" are gone.



Well, then, I guess the answer for workers is to screw the company at
every opportunity, take what you can get, and then move on to the next
company. Turnabout is fair play, eh?

Actually, it is a bit beyond that. There are some companies in metro
Washington, where unemployment isn't high, that cannot attact workers,
period. They have reputations as the kinds of companies you
describe...and now they are going nowhere because they can't attract a
decent workforce. Perhaps they'll go belly up soon, and their
shareholders will suffer the financial fate they so deserve.

Actually I think it was the baby boomer worker attitude that precipated
the company disregard for the worker. I was a manager for many years and
saw quite a few workers come in, get trained at company expense for
high skill jobs, then move on after 2-3 years because they could expect
an average yearly increase of 5-8% and could jump to another company
(with their training) and get 15-25% increase. then do it again in
another 2-3 years.