34 years into cubicle life (I've worked 33 of those years… spent the one looking for the next job after layoffs). Wife stayed home for 4 years to raise our babes… worked the other 30 years (sometimes 2 or 3 jobs at once). She owns no jewelry, we've never owned a boat/bikes/time shares. Helping our young adult kids survive in a broke world.
We find/obtain what jobs we can and simply survive. It's hard and not the future I had imagined for us or our kids, but I'm thankful we are together.
That said, I'm confident what we are experiencing is a managed/controlled/intentional collapse of our society. Our shitbag leaders have spent us into destitution, beyond any recompense. They have to collapse it so they can reset "it."
I was fortunate enough to have (unwittingly) selected a career that built skills for independent consulting. When the firings came, we all went into business for ourselves. That was pure luck. It was never our intention to do so.
If I were giving career advice, I would suggest people consider careers that you can do without a big corporation behind you. Professional athlete would be a bad example. Professional services would be a good example.
I worked for a company for 15 years. I did three times the work of any other person in my position with other companies I became sick and had to go out on disability. It’s been two years and I never even received a sympathy card
Corporations need more regulations not less regulations because with less regulation and their financial power, average citizens has no chance of slowly being turned into legal slaves…
The ethical issue was not firing more young people?! Instead, the ethical thing to have do was to keep on the people who’ve had their entire lives to earn a savings and build a network. That’s crazy to me.
There's a reason why it's a fictional story because none of the corporations are ever going to subject themselves to ethical scrutiny in the real world.
And this is why the bad guys win in real life. Instead of using their knowledge of law to protect their employees, they use their knowledge of law to destroy .
We have the same problem within our government and law enforcement.
Welcome to neo feudalism.
"We're not breaking any laws"
Somebody does not understand what the word ethical means.
thx god labour laws exist in every decent contry on the planet
I love his eye shifts that just scream scumbag
True
As though they actually know and consider people when making these decisions, it's all just numbers on a spreadsheet
"I guess I always assumed we were trying for a higher standard than that" Think about that for awhile.
34 years into cubicle life (I've worked 33 of those years… spent the one looking for the next job after layoffs). Wife stayed home for 4 years to raise our babes… worked the other 30 years (sometimes 2 or 3 jobs at once). She owns no jewelry, we've never owned a boat/bikes/time shares. Helping our young adult kids survive in a broke world.
We find/obtain what jobs we can and simply survive. It's hard and not the future I had imagined for us or our kids, but I'm thankful we are together.
That said, I'm confident what we are experiencing is a managed/controlled/intentional collapse of our society. Our shitbag leaders have spent us into destitution, beyond any recompense. They have to collapse it so they can reset "it."
I was fortunate enough to have (unwittingly) selected a career that built skills for independent consulting. When the firings came, we all went into business for ourselves. That was pure luck. It was never our intention to do so.
If I were giving career advice, I would suggest people consider careers that you can do without a big corporation behind you. Professional athlete would be a bad example. Professional services would be a good example.
I worked for a company for 15 years. I did three times the work of any other person in my position with other companies I became sick and had to go out on disability. It’s been two years and I never even received a sympathy card
Corporations need more regulations not less regulations because with less regulation and their financial power, average citizens has no chance of slowly being turned into legal slaves…
If I had boys, I'd tell them to save for retirement as if your last paycheck will be at 50.
White male + middle management is a risky proposition after age 45.
“We were trying for a higher standard than that”
Higher than what? The absolute bare minimum of not breaking the law
This is just the way it is, with EVERY company. If you think you are safe where you work you're a f*cking moron.
Hey poster, for a man it's Gene, not Jean, in American English
I am learning to trade stocks, probably do youtube vedios ,hope i can make living doing this.
The ethical issue was not firing more young people?! Instead, the ethical thing to have do was to keep on the people who’ve had their entire lives to earn a savings and build a network. That’s crazy to me.
So relatable to today
There's a reason why it's a fictional story because none of the corporations are ever going to subject themselves to ethical scrutiny in the real world.
Burn it
And this is why the bad guys win in real life. Instead of using their knowledge of law to protect their employees, they use their knowledge of law to destroy .
We have the same problem within our government and law enforcement.