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America's Worst Christmas Parties
Ant writes "Slate Magazine asked its readers to submit reports of horrible office Christmas parties, gifts, and bonuses. Of nearly 200 submissions, they've chosen quite a few tales for The Corporate Scrooge Contest Results ... and they're not pretty. From the article: 'A contract consultant sends word that the company to which he is currently assigned recently sent out an e-mail to some 2,000-odd consultants. The company would give away two $100 gift cards--to two of the brave souls who would commit to work 80 hours between Dec. 18 and Dec. 31. As our correspondent noted: "Hey, if you work Christmas, we'll put you in a pool of 2,000 other folks to maybe win a hundred bucks."'"
Finally, unionize. Your employee is trying very hard to reduce your pay as much as possible, you need a way to fight for what you are due. - unions promote mediocrity and do not allow for real personal growth. Besides, you can unionize all you won't and it still will not prevent companies from ditching your ass and hiring a bunch of monkeys elsewhere. When I contracted for HydroOne IT dep't I observed this exact problems - mediocre performance, limitation of personal growth for exceptional individuals, slowing down of the overal performance of the company to a point, where a competitor could just easily replace the original IT dep't and the union jobs would disappear into the void.
You can't handle the truth.
You know, you can use properly capitalized words in your sentences, I can read the small case just as well as the capital case and I do not need you to put emphasis on the words you are really trying to shout out.
As to your point: I am not talking about factory workers here, I am talking about software developers and I would rather have a smaller workforce, which has incentives to perform well and to make good money than thousands of useless weight bodies. This is what happens in large companies anyway: 1-2 people do the actual work, while 5-10 people do practically nothing. I would rather have those two people paid very well and do what they do anyway and get rid of the 5-10 ballast carcasses. Usually I see contractors working their asses off, while permanents are just enjoying their lives, but this varies from place to place, and contractors are the last people to ever want to join any unions.
You can't handle the truth.