I am in exactly this situation right now.
"Excellent" might be a stretch, but I am a pretty good employee, and my direct boss knows it.
Our problem is that the senior management that makes the actual decisions don't give a fuck about me or anyone else with the exception of the shareholders, so when they refuse me the pay rise I want, and I get a new job that pays the money I want, they will have to find a new person to fill my job which will actually cost them more money.
They might decide to not refill my job of course, which would save them even more money and the customers I serve could just put up with worse service.
It probably wouldn't even make a difference to the bottom line because the market we work in is so concentrated that we only have one competitor.
The future of fishing is no fish because of the fishing industry of course.
I live in the last major land mass to be colonised by humans, so it is still possible to catch a reasonable sized fish close to shore and fishing is a popular sport.
However, the fishing industry has done what it does everywhere and taken every fish it can possibly get hold of despite rules to prevent this happening.
A few years we were being sold the bull that "our" fishing industry was the "most sustainable" on the planet and we had nothing to worry about.
Of course fish stocks have plummeted anyway, and so now we are being bombarded with propaganda about "pledges" the industry is making to "be sustainable".
It's no secret that sales of vinyl music are at the highest in decades. Even the lowly cassette tape...
Oh, OK, it's about hipster idiots
a German company is reviving what may be the ultimate format: a new reel-to-reel tape machine...
WTF? Why?
...is now making a comeback with audiophiles and artists including Lady Gaga..
Oh, hipsters and people who hate music then.
...will retail from about 9,500 euros...
Ha ha ha! Oh, hipsters who hate music and have too much money.
"When it comes to audio quality, nothing else in the analog world gets you closer to the experience of being right there in the recording studio than reel-to-reel tape."
It just gets better. I'm in favour of people like this taking money off idiots. I am wondering how the idiots got all that money in the first place though.
Probably rich parents.
To be fair to Carter, Reagan used the Iran hostages to win the 1980 election.
I see Wikipedia labels it a conspiracy theory, but also notes former Reagan/Bush campaign staffer and White House analyst Barbara Honegger says it is true.
As a non- American I suspect we got a different view of Reagan (also George Bush II and your Mr. Trump) from the one you get.
Some of us are old enough to remember Reagan. We thought he would be the stupidest man to ever be elected president, especially during his second term when the Alzheimer's had really kicked in and Nancy's astrologer was running the joint.
The scariest thing is Trump might be stupid enough to try to launch military action against Iran...
He won't if the people of the US stop him. If there are enough protests and enough Senators think they will lose their seat if they support war then I don't think he will be allowed to start one.
In reality, there is so much money to be made from war the people who fund the politicians will ensure the right propaganda is used and public opinion will be all for another war.
... just like Bush before him he'll spend another trillion dollars on a war that should have never been started to begin with over weapons of mass destruction....
Did I mention that there's a lot of money to be made from war? Also, the US military learned a lot from Vietnam and is not about to make those mistakes again.
I don't mean the military mistakes. They will keep making those, I mean the propaganda and recruiting mistakes. There is no way the US military will ever go to war again with a force of draftees and without total control of the message sent home.
You really shouldn't feed the trolls. I noticed you logged in to comment, but the A/C fuckwit making the "socialist elite" comments prefers to remain anonymous.
The Australian banking cartel owns the New Zealand market also. They are under the gun a bit over here, but are saying things like "we don't need a royal commission in New Zealand because there is no evidence we have done anything wrong", as if any royal commission would not be the one looking for evidence.
As an aside, has the Australian banking cartel stopped airing those weird "Australian banks are owned by Australians?" propaganda pieces on TV over there yet?
I saw one recently and it made me sick to my stomach. Imagine being the sort of whore that would take money to appear in one of those?
Thanks. Proved my point.
Because I am not American you have no idea about my political views and probably wouldn't understand them anyway.
Travel might broaden your mind.
The Right is more along the lines of, "I earned mine, you go earn yours".
What, the Republican Party? Really? Do you mean the people who enthusiastically shovel tax money at whichever industry happens to be funding their reelection campaign?
Or maybe you mean the Democrats who basically do the same thing.
Please don't pretend there's any left wing in US politics, because there is not.
The only people who should be allowed to make decisions about the environment are the industries whose profits might be impacted by the EPA.
We can trust car manufacturers to make the right call for everyone.
While we're at it, we should get the coal companies to set labor conditions for all workers because they have such a great track record there too. Everyone wants to live off the company store don't they?
But don't expect the Nukes or Missiles to actually go anywhere, Kim Jong Un knows they might be the only reason he made it out of this last showdown without getting attacked.
Kim is the only one of the "Axis of Evil" leaders still alive. There are two reasons for that, nukes and China.
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Ha! I suspect it's SOP for huge multinationals.
"Excellent" might be a stretch, but I am a pretty good employee, and my direct boss knows it.
Our problem is that the senior management that makes the actual decisions don't give a fuck about me or anyone else with the exception of the shareholders, so when they refuse me the pay rise I want, and I get a new job that pays the money I want, they will have to find a new person to fill my job which will actually cost them more money.
They might decide to not refill my job of course, which would save them even more money and the customers I serve could just put up with worse service.
It probably wouldn't even make a difference to the bottom line because the market we work in is so concentrated that we only have one competitor.
Yay capitalism.
You don't understand. I got a system, man!
I live in the last major land mass to be colonised by humans, so it is still possible to catch a reasonable sized fish close to shore and fishing is a popular sport.
However, the fishing industry has done what it does everywhere and taken every fish it can possibly get hold of despite rules to prevent this happening.
A few years we were being sold the bull that "our" fishing industry was the "most sustainable" on the planet and we had nothing to worry about.
Of course fish stocks have plummeted anyway, and so now we are being bombarded with propaganda about "pledges" the industry is making to "be sustainable".
It's all lies.
We don't have Chili's where I live, so I had a look at their menu online.
It didn't make me want to try their food. I'm guessing it's really cheap.
It's no secret that sales of vinyl music are at the highest in decades. Even the lowly cassette tape...
Oh, OK, it's about hipster idiots
a German company is reviving what may be the ultimate format: a new reel-to-reel tape machine...
WTF? Why?
...is now making a comeback with audiophiles and artists including Lady Gaga..
Oh, hipsters and people who hate music then.
...will retail from about 9,500 euros...
Ha ha ha! Oh, hipsters who hate music and have too much money.
"When it comes to audio quality, nothing else in the analog world gets you closer to the experience of being right there in the recording studio than reel-to-reel tape."
It just gets better. I'm in favour of people like this taking money off idiots. I am wondering how the idiots got all that money in the first place though.
Probably rich parents.
Is that you amanfromars1?
I see Wikipedia labels it a conspiracy theory, but also notes former Reagan/Bush campaign staffer and White House analyst Barbara Honegger says it is true.
As a non- American I suspect we got a different view of Reagan (also George Bush II and your Mr. Trump) from the one you get.
Look at where we are now.
The scariest thing is Trump might be stupid enough to try to launch military action against Iran...
He won't if the people of the US stop him. If there are enough protests and enough Senators think they will lose their seat if they support war then I don't think he will be allowed to start one.
In reality, there is so much money to be made from war the people who fund the politicians will ensure the right propaganda is used and public opinion will be all for another war.
... just like Bush before him he'll spend another trillion dollars on a war that should have never been started to begin with over weapons of mass destruction....
Did I mention that there's a lot of money to be made from war? Also, the US military learned a lot from Vietnam and is not about to make those mistakes again.
I don't mean the military mistakes. They will keep making those, I mean the propaganda and recruiting mistakes. There is no way the US military will ever go to war again with a force of draftees and without total control of the message sent home.
Angry Teen? I'll have you know I'm a member of the Socialist Elite actually.
You really shouldn't feed the trolls. I noticed you logged in to comment, but the A/C fuckwit making the "socialist elite" comments prefers to remain anonymous.
As an aside, has the Australian banking cartel stopped airing those weird "Australian banks are owned by Australians?" propaganda pieces on TV over there yet?
I saw one recently and it made me sick to my stomach. Imagine being the sort of whore that would take money to appear in one of those?
There is no way the US would have let that happen if there was anything serious in this. It's probably just another part of the Trade War that is Good, and Easy to Win ©
Also, that Honor 7x looks like a nice phone for the money. I wonder how good the camera is.
Thanks. Proved my point.
Because I am not American you have no idea about my political views and probably wouldn't understand them anyway.
Travel might broaden your mind.
Good old American dualism. There can only be two possibilities, Republican or Democrat, our way or Venezuela.
Good slave. Well said.
Good slave. Well done.
The Right is more along the lines of, "I earned mine, you go earn yours".
What, the Republican Party? Really? Do you mean the people who enthusiastically shovel tax money at whichever industry happens to be funding their reelection campaign?
Or maybe you mean the Democrats who basically do the same thing.
Please don't pretend there's any left wing in US politics, because there is not.
Thanks A/C but I don't want to drive some 1990's piece of crap.
Fortunately for me neither does the rest of the world.
The only people who should be allowed to make decisions about the environment are the industries whose profits might be impacted by the EPA.
We can trust car manufacturers to make the right call for everyone.
While we're at it, we should get the coal companies to set labor conditions for all workers because they have such a great track record there too. Everyone wants to live off the company store don't they?
It's also really annoying how the US Consulate staff refuse to take their clothes off, even if the punters throw money at them.
But don't expect the Nukes or Missiles to actually go anywhere, Kim Jong Un knows they might be the only reason he made it out of this last showdown without getting attacked.
Kim is the only one of the "Axis of Evil" leaders still alive. There are two reasons for that, nukes and China.
I disagree. Why shouldn't Mr. P.G. Wodehouse continue to enjoy the fruits of his hard work?
They used to do an Independence Day thing with US flags all over the place, which annoyed the US Consulate just down the road no end.