Why do people quote specific parts of people's posts and then talk about something else entirely. YOU made the statement that YOU do all the work, clearly you have responsibilities, and YOU also assume the the executives basically do nothing.
The problem is you have never put yourself in an owners shoes. You've never looked at things from their prespective. Pretend you own and operate a business for one second. Your business consists of you and your one employee that you need to operate the business. Now pretend your one employee says he wants a raise. You and said employee at some point agreed you would pay him x amount to do some job. So naturally you ask said employee 'Why are you asking me for a raise'? He says to you 'because I need a cost of living adjustment'. Let that sink in for a minute. You are the primary investor in your business, you cover all the expenses of operating your business essentially out of your own pocket. You can't exactly afford to be throwing money around for no good reason. Yet here you have your employee asking you to incur additional expenses at zero benefit to you or the business.
It's just a concept you don't grasp I guess. If you have incured more responsibilities without be duely compensated that's one thing. But to cite your bills or a cost of living adjustment and actually have the balls to tell your employer that is why you need a raise is asanine. Your employer or any employer enters a contract with you when you are hired that essentially states we will pay you this do do this. When you agreed to be hired you agreed to those terms. There is NOTHING in that contract that says part of this agreement is for your employer to essentailly pay for your shit regardless of what you do or don't do.
YOU are not getting it. My boss' boss sits back and reads the paper all day and goes to meetings. I do all the dirty work. He is not the owner. The "owner" is in Japan. Why does my boss deserve a raise and a bonus but those under him doing the actual dirty work do not? I am not referring to people who OWN their own business, and never have I in all these posts. Good god... can you comprehend anything you read???
If you really are so busy doing all the time how is it you also have all this time to monitor what your boss is doing? I can't comprehend what you don't tell me. And really what this boils to it appears as a beef with your perceived to be lazy boss and you projecting on to how you think the rest of the world is. It isn't. And I doubt your boss does nothing. This is a global recesson. No owner of a business is going to keep dead weight around, especially in this economy.
I comprehend quite well. It wasn't me who quoted some snipet out of a post then proceeded to write something that had nothing to do with it.