Don't the rest of you work for a living collect a paycheck that is based on inflation. and not how hard you work. Look in the mirror and see the working stiff. you guys crack me up You would think you are all owners of some company.
Yes, I'm a working stiff. Each of my non-union merit-based raises in the past decade have exceeded inflation (usually by a substantial amount). But then again by your standards maybe I don't deserve it. In a previous post you basically said that the amount of sweat should determine pay so I guess as a software engineer I should make minimum wage. It wouldn't matter to you that for a period of four years in the past I worked an average of between 50 and 55 hours a week with some weeks over 60 hours. It also probably doesn't matter to you that the stress of deadlines, lack of sleep, and the occassional 65-70 hour week can actually make you hear people talking in the empty office at 2 AM. No, it doesn't matter because Real Workers sweat and everything else is pansy-assed, not as "hard" as driving that truck.
I really don't give a damn that the UPS driver has to put in the occassional short stretch of overtime at time and a half or better. You see, I get straight time for my overtime only because my employer has decided to pay it, not as a matter of law. If the UPS driver doesn't like his job or his pay he's perfectly free to find another job he likes. I've held two jobs in the past 12 years. The first one I walked from after 2 years because I found it unacceptable. Your precious UPS driver has the same option.
Instead of whining about business owners and declaring myself hopelessly dependent on a Union I'm doing what I can to get to the point were I'll no longer be a working stiff. I do this by becoming an owner, no matter how small my share of the businesses I own are.
What's really funny is the Union-brainwashed attitude toward owning anything for a profit. Let a person own his own home and, by God, that's the American dream! Let him prosper enough so that he can afford to buy another home and instead of selling his old one he rents it out and now he's the evil landlord who we have to pass laws to protect people against. Same guy, but now he owns something with that sinister motive to profit.
Leave your sanctimonious BS at the door. |
