Volt Asks Temps To 'Vote" For Microsoft Pay Cut

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday March 1, 2009 @08:47AM from the one-contractor-one-vote dept.

theodp writes "In an email sent Friday evening to its Microsoft temp workers, Volt Workforce Solutions asked the techies to 'vote' to agree to a 10% pay cut. From the email: 'We want to support you in continuing your assignment at Microsoft and respectfully ask that you respond by going to the upper left hand corner of this email under the "Vote" response option and select, "Accept'" by close of business Tuesday, March 3, 2009. By accepting you agree to the [-10%] pay adjustment in your pay rate.' Microsoft managed to keep the Feb. 20 email detailing plans to slash rates from leaking while it pitched its Elevate America initiative at the 2009 Winter Meeting of the National Governors Association, touting Microsoft skills as just the ticket to economic recovery."

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My kind of democracy by mc1138 · 2009-03-01 08:50 · Score: 5, Funny

You can vote anyway you want, the only catch is that there is only one choice.

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1. Re:My kind of democracy by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-01 09:52 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The choices should have been:
  1) I do not accept a pay cut. I understand that Friday will be my last day of employment, however, I do not go out much and do not have many friends.
  2) YES, please CUT MY PAY. Management at both Microsoft and Volt should be commended for their tough minded leadership during hard economic times. THANK YOU SIRS PLEASE GIVE ME ANOTHER!!!