Re: Re: Re: Disney may eliminate jobs of 140 servers
Originally posted by barnum42
Picture this possibility in your future – after a decade of hard loyal work you find yourself “house cleaned”. You will may at that time start reappraising such callously cold statements.
Morality means nothing to greedy corporate fat cats. Please think about those people who learned it the hard way.
Before you call me callous and cold, let me tell you a bit about my employment life.
1st Company I worked for - let go when they found out I was looking for a position with more opportunity and responsibility.
2nd Company - Layed off ( terminated in reality) due to a merger
3rd Company - Department 1 - Almost eliminated due to downsizing but was lucky enough to have transferred before it took place.
3rd Company - Second Department - Voluntarily left because the company was moving to another city which eventually became a merger and downsizing.
4th Company - Business closed less than a year after I started working there.
5th Company - Left because schedule became to whacky and didnt like living on no sleep with the responsibility of multiple lives in my hands
6th Company - Left because work hours were reduced due to 9/11 and couldnt make a living
7th Company - Let go because the jobs but not the people were being moved to India and the Philipines.
8th Company - we will just have to wait and see what happens.
Here is the Kicker. I am 35 years old. My employment life isnt evena fraction of that of my parents or grandparents. Its a whole new world and employment with one company for life doesnt exist anymore. Mostly because it isn't profitable to do that for a company.
Finally, lets talk about greed. It isnt just the administrators of a corporation who are greedy. On the contrary, they are just serving their stockholders who are demanding more money, not in the long term but in the short term. Its nearly every last person in America.
Think about this....
Ever turn at an intersection after the light has turned to red? Thats greed. You just stole 30 seconds of my time by being selfish. Ever Take too many items through the checkout lane marked 10 items or less. Thats greed too. Now I have to wait longer with my one item. There are lots of other examples but I dont want to get too long winded.
I would suggest that you step down off your high moral pedestal and evaluate your own life before pointing fingers. How many stocks are involved in your reitrement plan? Did you complain when the market dropped after 9/11. Could this be greed poking its head up again?
Bottom line is this is business and if their becomes a better or cheaper way to do things, then a company will pursue it becuase this is what the shareholders expect. The sad thing is people think that business should be a charity. If this is what you want, then living in America will never meet your expectations as only communist and socialist countries offer anything close to a charity situation.
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