You suggested that a law be put in to place to where you could not own stock in the company for whom you work. I then suggested that perhaps an employee who is also a stockholder is more committed to the success of that company than your average Joe Six Pack.
One of the first rules of investing is not to have all of our eggs in the same basket. A retirement based solely upon the stock of the company you work for is foolhardy--just ask the folks at Enron, Worldcom, etc.
UPS is a safe investment with a predictable return.
And I wouldn't have nothing but full agreement to that. But a UPS employee has many options to invest in other companies that have the same safeness and return as UPS. The thing is in your company as in mine the top people are only looking at what the companies stock is doing as it's huge money in their pocket as it grows
and since they have direct control of the company they are squeezing work conditions assuming this helps the stock #'s, to levels that mankind if he could afford to stop would say "This just isn't right, it isn't worth it, we weren't taught to behave like this, when has the human element in life become secondary?". They are squeezing everything they can because they have so much equity in their own company and have direct control of it. So what I'm saying is perhaps you shouldn't be able to invest in a company where you have direct control, because you will tend to over-manage things, you lose your human touch on your own people. But said person can freely invest in another promising company and make their money based on how others manage that company. Again not saying it's the right answer here, but somewhere something has gone wrong with how we look at each other and treat one another in large companies. Isn't it nice to work for a company that now has the same complex invoices sent to your customers as you receive on a cell phone bill? It's little/big things like that, when I know we made a wrong turn somewhere.
Big management - Lets see how we can squeeze more out of the workforce, feeling/righteousness be damned. Lets see if we can dream up a new accessorial charge, lets put a little bug in our billing system that is hard to understand in the belief many won't care to figure it out. Lets also make said system not be able to reverse certain things, you know play to our advantage. I am not saying that is UPS, but that is the route a lot of corporate companies are all seemingly going to.
