BOTH. I have no knowledge of what other people make. I mind my own business. I have friends and customers telling me all the time what they make or what they paid for their car, etc etc. I don't care or want to know. It is not my business. I don't share with them what I make or what my new TV cost or anything. Do you ask your friends what they make. Do you ask relatives what they make? Maybe you do, it is just not my thing.
If so then let's do it.
Nope but I do know what starting wage is at my station and I do know the kids they have coming in off the street are making quite a bit less than I am, despite doing the exact same job. I make sure to let them know this so they don't run their ass off, like I did when I started, expecting to get ahead because it won't happen. I also bring up the wage disparity here every year at SFA.
I just can't believe how long they string you guys along about topping out.
ed up.
They lie. I was told, when I was hired it would take about 5 years. Not ideal but in an area such as the one I live in, jobs that pay anything above $15/hour are few and far between, so I decided 5 years was acceptable. Fast forward to now, and I'm still not at top of range but they know they have me because I have a family to support.I just can't believe how long they string you guys along about topping out.
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I talk to a few of the FedEx drivers on my route. I know how little they pay.
I'm more surprised at the number of people that stick around.I just can't believe how long they string you guys along about topping out.
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Especially for ground. Those guys really get the shaft.
I know. When I see the same ground guy a year or more later I'm like wow.
Thr same driver has been doing his route for over 15 years. He makes $125 a day.
When you're young, you don't realize the discrepancy in pay. Honestly, other than waving at the UPS guys on my route, when I was younger, I never really spoke to them. I was too busy running my ass off, believing it would benefit me later on down the road. By the time I actually found out how much better UPS and Purolator guys and gals have it, it was too late. I can't afford to jump ship to either company and spend x years as a loader, making $12/hour, 3 hours a day. I've actually had the terminal manager at Purolator tell me he'd hire me anytime I want a job there because I knows my work ethic.
A pension reform plan made it all the way to Senate committee . Few of the specifics have been made public outside of the fact that employers big or small have to enroll their employees in an IRA. What difference will it make if the employee has no money to put in it?. 401K's mean nothing either if the employee has no discretionary money to put in it and or the employer doesn't contribute or match the employee contribution. As for Mr. Old 'I got mine the rest of you can go to hell" Fart, he is so brainwashed and so entrenched in a bygone era that what he says is so irrelevant that only he believes that it is of importance. Not to mention that the numbers he's throwing out there simply do not add up.Indeed as was pointed out. Employers are waaing about SS for the simple reason that they don't want to contribute to it anymore. Privatizing SS was put forth by Bush in response to the pressure the Chamber of Commerce and other well funded groups put on him . The banks were going to make a killing in management fees essentially taking everything in the account and Wall Street was licking it chops waiting to sell people stocks and bonds that the short sellers and options traders would kill in order to line their own pockets. In all ended with the market collapse in 2008 which in one way was the best thing that could have happened because you don't hear anything these days about turning SS over to the private sector. Indeed 401K's can go down in value as easily as they can go up and employers can end their contributions whenever they want.
Or quit giving payouts to people that didn't earn them
Good luck with that. What will eventually happen is SS will be taken away from those that worked and saved their whole lives. So that those that didn't can be given full payments.
The amount of income that's taxed for SS has already doubled over the last twenty years or so.
