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Volt Asks Temps To 'Vote" For Microsoft Pay Cut
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."
touting Microsoft skills as just the ticket to economic recovery.
What Microsoft skills are the ticket to economic recovery? The abuse of copyright laws to your own benefit? Buying all other competitors to "innovate"? Cloning everything you can't buy (Such as the iPod with the Zune and PlayStation with the Xbox)? Abusing the patent system to sue potential competitors? Getting every government so heavily locked in to your products that you can ignore both national and international regulatory bodies when they convict you of having a monopoly?
No, I would say it is things like what Microsoft is doing that is keeping us from getting out of this economic mess and they are partially to blame from getting us in it.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Thank Goodness I'm a v-, not an a- ! Just hope my management doesn't catch wind of this.