Commuta_Busa
Donating Member
who said the economy wasn't bad? 
Can you take a drop in pay of over $1000.00 per month without it effecting your life style/spending habits/etc?
I just got the call today from my boss. Another cut! Take it or walk... I thought it was coming so I armed myself by responding saying instead of cutting my rate which has a lasting long term effect how about we discuss furloughs instead. Since their argument is that they've got to reduce their operating costs either measure produces the same results. I'll take 3 days off each month so that your costs still fall within your new reduced budget. This benefits me in two ways. Since my rate would stay the same it would give me the chance to find another job inline with my current rate. It would also free me up on the extra days off to maybe do some freelance work to recover some income. Of course the bottom line is that theis isn't what they're after. Think about it... cut everyones pay by over 10% make them perform the same duties/responsibilities all at a much lower salary. Then when things so to say pickup you can just give them small little 2.5% raises for more than a few years and still keep your operating costs low. It would be easy enough to say, "good news things are getting better so we're goign to help you out with a raise". If you decide to leave your job and apply else where what do you think is going to be one of their first questions... "how much were you making". Having your rate/salary reduced benefits them because they can easily argue that they can't give you such a big increase over what your last rate/salary was. Seems like cutting rates helps the companies but the workers get all the suffering.
So It's time for me to start networking and see what's out there. Time to slow down my work abilites and perform at the level they're going to pay me. This cut sets me back by 7 years experience. I guess I'll use my experience and knowledge I've gained over those years some where else. Sure they can hire/contract with someone else at their new low rate. The skill level just wont be there any more.
Anybody hiring
Can you take a drop in pay of over $1000.00 per month without it effecting your life style/spending habits/etc?
I just got the call today from my boss. Another cut! Take it or walk... I thought it was coming so I armed myself by responding saying instead of cutting my rate which has a lasting long term effect how about we discuss furloughs instead. Since their argument is that they've got to reduce their operating costs either measure produces the same results. I'll take 3 days off each month so that your costs still fall within your new reduced budget. This benefits me in two ways. Since my rate would stay the same it would give me the chance to find another job inline with my current rate. It would also free me up on the extra days off to maybe do some freelance work to recover some income. Of course the bottom line is that theis isn't what they're after. Think about it... cut everyones pay by over 10% make them perform the same duties/responsibilities all at a much lower salary. Then when things so to say pickup you can just give them small little 2.5% raises for more than a few years and still keep your operating costs low. It would be easy enough to say, "good news things are getting better so we're goign to help you out with a raise". If you decide to leave your job and apply else where what do you think is going to be one of their first questions... "how much were you making". Having your rate/salary reduced benefits them because they can easily argue that they can't give you such a big increase over what your last rate/salary was. Seems like cutting rates helps the companies but the workers get all the suffering.
So It's time for me to start networking and see what's out there. Time to slow down my work abilites and perform at the level they're going to pay me. This cut sets me back by 7 years experience. I guess I'll use my experience and knowledge I've gained over those years some where else. Sure they can hire/contract with someone else at their new low rate. The skill level just wont be there any more.
Anybody hiring
Maxton LSR is this coming weekend and that's where my focus is 
