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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."
That's because management deserves it. We make the big decisions and take the risks that enable the company to succeed. The ones that can do this successfully surely should benefit the most from this when it does.
Sorry to say this, but labor, by and large, is a fungible commodity. I've outsourced to countries where labor is much, much cheaper and the output is as good, if not better.
Good executives are hard to find, just like good professional athletes. Very few people can do the jobs that we can. That's why we make so much more money than you. It's the truth. Get over it.
It means reducing costs in a labor intense industry by forcing the cost of labor down. In a recession this is easy. Then, the recovery can begin by recovering your bonuses and perks. Perhaps buy a few more Gulf Stream jets or silicone implants for your trophy wife/girlfriend of the month. Maybe later you'll kick some over to the shareholders, but only after feathering you own nest. Or buying a few more congress critters.
HTH
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Did you even read the posting? It wasn't Microsoft that did this. It was a vendor that contracts with Microsoft. But framing this as a Microsoft is evil topic gets it on to the /. home page because everyone gets their panties in a twist and drives /. traffic up. Dumb.
If you had a brain, you would understand his point. Even when Republicans were in the majority (pre-2006), they weren't the people who were calling for changes to any salaries. Furthermore, congressional Republicans were the only group opposed to the financial bailouts in the first place. The Democrat majority rammed the first package through, and now the Democrat president is compounding the Bush bailouts with even more bailouts, despite the fact that the markets keep tanking after each new bailout. The Obamanoids deserve all the welfare cheese their dear leader is going to send their way. But they don't deserve jobs, and Obama, promises aside, isn't going to deliver any.
if your easily offended by anti-Microsoft sentiments you might feel more at home here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/default.aspx#