Reply #58: OK, here we go. [View All]

[mbperrin]

Get a job. It's pretty obvious that you're too young to have had an actual career, so get a good job, the one you want at a good salary for a Fortune 500 company.

Now 3 years later, have your boss come in and tell you that need to take a 20% pay cut and do your job just as well as before. Because you have such a great bargaining position by yourself vs a multibillion dollar conglomerate, you'll stay, and because you're doing more for less, "productivity" will rise! And so will the company stock! Your bosses will be so happy that they'll sell some of it to buy their 12th houses.

Then they'll come to you and say you need to give up what's left of your health coverage, and because the two of you are such equals, you'll do it, because in a bad economy like this, you'll need to explain to your wife why you quit a job without another one and are you crazy? Then "productivity" will rise again! More work from fewer people for less money! Stock prices will soar! Your bosses will piss on themselves for joy!

And so on....

And when you have the 37 years in the workforce that I have, and all but 15 of them for major corporations, you are free to tell me that this just couldn't (or hasn't happened!)

There's your consensual agreement! It's sorta like rape - submit or die! (See - we did give you a free choice; it's just that all the choices suck!)