One of my beefs with some companies is that when times get tough, it is the worker who needs the job and the income who is called upon to make sacrifices, either by being forced to take a cut in benefits, salary, or even being laid off. Yet the upper management never makes sacrifices. These people who could live on a lot less never give up anything and when everything settles, they get huge financial bonuses and other "rewards" for cutting costs.
If I posted something like "All women are terrible at mathematics," you people would scream bloody murder, since it obviously wrong and sexist. Even though some women ARE terrible at mathematics.
However, people regularly make broad statements about "corporations" that are just as patently false. Daniel did start out by saying "some" companies, but then says "upper management NEVER makes sacrifices." This is every bit as wrong as "women can't do math."
Yes, there are the Enrons and Arthur-Andersons out there, but there are also thousands of public companies and millions of private ones where the guy/gal at the top wouldn't think of cutting everyone's pay except their own. Being a business owner, I know numerous other business owners, and I know of at least two who went through a rough time after 9/11, and they took the hit as much or more as they asked their employees to.
And, as a matter of fact, my own company is having a rough year right now, and we cut everyone's pay in April. The cut was very simple: 1.5% per $10k of annual pay (i.e., 3% if you make $20k a year, 6% if you make $40k a year, etc.).
And the cuts went right up to and including me: I get the biggest pay check -- I took the biggest cut.
So I get a bit offended when someone says "upper management NEVER makes sacrifices."
Jim Elwell
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