VioletR wrote: that sir is true. I think
its a bit rude. How about if your boss did that too?
"Hey, I know you work 12hrs a day never calling in sick or are late but can I pay you 1/4th of your salary this week? " you know you would walk and find another job so fast .
That sort of stuff has been happening for quite a while now. The pizza job I work at, the drivers get paid minimum plus
mileage plus tips, and for a time we got to enjoy vacation pay and 401(k)s. The economy tanked and we lost those perks. There's still talk about changing us from minimum to tip wages. And a regional supervisor who had been with the franchise for a good thirty years was given the choice of a demotion to store manager (and less pay) or
he'd have to find a new job.
When I worked in the Twin Cities, after the company completed a reorganization with the bank, the top five dogs of the company gave themselves an average of a 30% raise plus bonuses of a million-plus. Two months later, the workers were given an average of a 1% raise, and a month after that, four dozen of us were laid off. Never mind that, up until that point, scores of us were working fewer hours and cashing in our vacation pay (per the management's requests) to help keep the company solvent.
In Atlanta, my brother's work week went from 40-45 hours/week to 32-35.
And a buddy of mine in the Cities has taken two pay cuts (that I know of) to keep his job and to help keep his company solvent.
A lot of companies have been tightening their belts -- around the necks of the workers. V, trust me, if we could afford to walk, we would, but unfortunately not now, not the way the economy is.