Dumping a giant turd on the doorstep of my Benefits...

[Selwynn]

Yes, I will be invoking that phrase every chance I get a for a few more months as it is the funniest quote I've ever read (the original one, not my paraphrased one).

I just got my information on Benefts in the mail this week. I am a supervising manager of a managed service group. For anyone that doesn't know what that is, it is a kind of sophisticated domestic outsourcing option - we are basically an entirely separate company working on site for a major corporation. In my particular group we are treated much more like consultants only paid eighty times less. :eyes:

Aside from the horrors of outsourcing resulting in jobs shipped overseas, the other horror of oursourcing is that it has terrible benefits. Companyies outsource becasue its cheaper, and the only reason its cheaper is because compensation and benefts are a fraction of what they would be if working directly for the company...

...anyway, I hope you're not disappointed for reading this far, because this post is just a rant. I opened my benefits "package" to fine the price on my totally crappy health care went up again - by almost 30%. In the three years I've worked here, the cost to me for health care coverage (yes we pay for our own health care) has gone up by literally 300%. It is now so pathetic that I can literaly get better deals through some of the most basic independant health insurance providers. Not that I know how to start looking or who to go with, but..

It makes me so furious because last year, after a near doubling in health insurance costs, and halving vacation time (down to 1 week) and ending other benefits, the coproration I work for posted record profits. People who scoff at those of us who sound like marxists and talk about alienating the laborer from the labor or people getting rich by exploiting the working class obviously don't work in the coprorate sector -- clarification -- obiviously don't work in the lower or middle wrungs of the corporate sector.

[izzie]

1. Is this like standard for now? This is why

Lady in town said where she works they gave them a tee shirt with the companys name and 'let' them have a party. The number of items finished in an hr. had to go up and standard stay then same or they were out. I do not know what the company makes but the profits were way up this women said. She makes near $18 an hr and that sounds good for a women in this state.I know so little about this but you would think even the people who run these businesses and are taken so much of the profits for them selfs that they would see the company can not do both, pay workers and pay their great big pay. It is a two way street. No workers no items so not profits. Just what do all these great compamies do when there are no workers to buy?I have so much trouble with what is going on. This small city I live next to just folded when the mills went South 40 or so years ago and turned to tech stuff and now that is going and the very business that left for the South are now leaving the South and going out of the country.Is this pay back time? Once this town was filled with people from Can and Eng and they came because of their skills in the mills. Maybe we should go to these countries and see what they did? Another thing the owners of these mills lived in the town and put so mush of the money they made back into the very city they lived in. This town is still filled and is using what these people built. That seems to be gone.

[Syncronaut Seven]

2. The rate of descent increases by

32 feet per second, per second in freefall. Hopefully we'll hit the concrete head first before their done forging the chains.

I dropped out of the labor market shortly after Selection 2000. cut our expenses to the bone to survive & we are just coasting on what's left of our savings.

I will not, can not, support this agenda with the sweat of my brow. It's the only legal way I know of to be a tax protester. Make nothing they can tax.

I hope we get this country turned around soon or we'll be living in the van after '04.