Morgan Shackelfordsparrow794Tactical - Vice Admiral
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re: Meet Mr. Whittle...
 by sparrow794 on 11/10/11 21:30
Yay, politics.
While I couldn't agree more with the sentiments in the video, I'm also a squirrely little bastard who plays both sides of the aisle and shits on propaganda wherever and whenever I can.
I don't need to thank corporations. I don't need to pick up a phone, or a pen and paper, or send an email, and shower corporate america with a display of overwhelming gratitude. I do that when I pay them money. If that isn't isn't enough in the way of showing gratitude, they can suck my balls.
For anyone who has ever worked for a corporation, sit down and think for a minute just how much money you're making for someone else, compared to what you receive in pay. Mr. Fortin, I'm not sure if what you do for the company you work at is sales, or service, or what - but for every hour you spend with a client, signing them up or otherwise resolving their issues, the amount of money that client will pay to your company over the remainder of their account length versus how much your company paid you to acquire or retain them as consumers is not in the same ball park - it's not in the same city block, it's barely in the same universe.
The average wage of the american worker in the last 30 years has not risen one iota; but the average salary of the executive has increased tenfold or better. You cannot sit down and do research on this subject, look at actual data sets, and not come to the conclusion that as a mid level or lower corporate employee, you are getting screwed.
I sat in my stupid fucking office for 2 years, dialing in to the corporate hq every quarter, listening to their company wide report - and every quarter, the company reported it was making more money. And yet, the company continued to lay people off left and right, hoisting the workload of the departed onto those that remained, under the excuse that the economy was bad. I started in an office with 9 people, and after they laid me off, there was 3 left - still doing the same workload the nine people were doing two years earlier. Still making the same amount of money for the company. I doubt very much that the CEO or any of the upper level execs felt any effects of our country's economic downturn.
I don't agree with the large portion of the Occupiers sentiments. I recognize that they are cutting off their nose to spite their face; because in this country, you have an opportunity to make your own way, you have the freedom to start your own company, do things your own way, and god willing, be successful at it. They are protesting against a way of life that if they just seized it, might save them. I don't agree with them, and more importantly, I absolutely hate the way they are choosing to display their opinions -
but I understand it.
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