Been doing that since start of last summer, one day off a week (32 hrs). Plus a 10% pay cut, no 401 K match. The real biggie is the wife lost her job, there goes 50% of our income. Oh ya, plus there’re shutting down our lab and moving cross town to another lab. Glad to see all the stockbrokers and bankers are getting their bonuses, I was really worried about them.
Snowdoggie
I feel bad for the folks who have hit layoffs etc,.,...I am lucky enough to have not seen that ....yet.
That said, and not to start anything....
.....but dont hate on the "stockbrokers and bankers". Most of them are people just like you and me with families etc and are looking out for themselves.
Its a free market and the financial firms paying these guys are in business like anyone else...what the firms pay their people really shouldnt matter to anyone UNLESS they are proven to have gotten their money thru ill means. No one should care except for the shareholders of that company who are, in effect, the ones paying them.
Funny, how no one seems to mind professional athletes and rock stars making millions of dollars.....yet everyone gasps in shock and awe when the news reports how some executiive is making a million bucks a year.
We are all big boys and girls and we could have been a mean old banker or stockbroker , or a footbal player for that matter, if we REALLY wanted to.....we choose our own occupations and directions.....and we are ALL out for ourselves and our security when it comes down to it......why shouldnt a guy make big $$ by being a banker if he can do it well and get paid for it?
Dont jump on the "jealousy bandwagon" that our liberal president and congress has set the stage for.....villifying anyone who makes some money....because the next group classified and condemned as "overpaid" could end up being you.
In the meantime, hope things improve for ya somehow.
