Mr. Peepers
Senior Member
They can no longer afford to even think of giving you a raise, because guess what? Thats right their taxes have gone up too, along with their responsiblity for offering healthcare in a system that does not allow true competition, especially now that the Fed has gotten involved and severly taken away a level playing field.
Nope, I would say for an American company, gotta coddle those "shareholders". Thus, the employee's salary and benefits go bye bye to keep those profits up. That and to keep and the CEO/executives paid. I work for a Japanese company, and they're much more humane. The highest paid executive makes no more than 70x the lowest worker and the benefits are great.
The Fed needs to get involved after the lovely hijinks perpetrated by Wall Street and mortgages lenders due to deregulation. Seriously.