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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1138374" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Wouldn't a courier hired in 2008 most likely be in the 3% category? On the lowest payscale a newhire at $14.46hr grosses $433.80 on 30 hrs, a most likely scenario since most newhires are part-time. Assuming 52 weeks at that average and they're looking at less than $25k including sick day bonus and Peak OT. Less than $750 into the PPP. and a slow creep up from there. The only advantage to the PPP is accessible money if you decide to leave the company. It is essentially a courier buyout program. </p><p></p><p>The U.S. had a very good run while the rest of the industrial powers were rebuilding. In this global marketplace however the average employee in the States no longer enjoys a bright future. Our loss is a better future for a worker in a developing nation, although he'll probably never see the lifestyle Americans took for granted for decades. The corporate leadership has positioned themselves for this new reality to maintain their lifestyle, and the chief culprit of our demise and their gain is the rise of the 401k system. That pumps billions into the stock market weekly and the big 401k investment firms are working hand in hand with our corporate leadership to rake in as much as possible OUR money into their pockets. Talk about bamboozled, we have no one else but ourselves to blame. And as was demonstrated in my post about getting out of the 401k, those workers who do well, and can fully fund their 401k, rise very quickly to it's defense because THEY do well with it too. This country is relapsing into a system of the well heeled exploiting the poor on a mass scale. Not slavery, but not much better than serfdom. The only difference is it's refined enough to where they can give us a little extra in a raise now and then to keep us from open revolt. This is the reality that the kids were demonstrating against with the Occupy Wall Street movement. They know the score, shame most can't figure it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1138374, member: 24302"] Wouldn't a courier hired in 2008 most likely be in the 3% category? On the lowest payscale a newhire at $14.46hr grosses $433.80 on 30 hrs, a most likely scenario since most newhires are part-time. Assuming 52 weeks at that average and they're looking at less than $25k including sick day bonus and Peak OT. Less than $750 into the PPP. and a slow creep up from there. The only advantage to the PPP is accessible money if you decide to leave the company. It is essentially a courier buyout program. The U.S. had a very good run while the rest of the industrial powers were rebuilding. In this global marketplace however the average employee in the States no longer enjoys a bright future. Our loss is a better future for a worker in a developing nation, although he'll probably never see the lifestyle Americans took for granted for decades. The corporate leadership has positioned themselves for this new reality to maintain their lifestyle, and the chief culprit of our demise and their gain is the rise of the 401k system. That pumps billions into the stock market weekly and the big 401k investment firms are working hand in hand with our corporate leadership to rake in as much as possible OUR money into their pockets. Talk about bamboozled, we have no one else but ourselves to blame. And as was demonstrated in my post about getting out of the 401k, those workers who do well, and can fully fund their 401k, rise very quickly to it's defense because THEY do well with it too. This country is relapsing into a system of the well heeled exploiting the poor on a mass scale. Not slavery, but not much better than serfdom. The only difference is it's refined enough to where they can give us a little extra in a raise now and then to keep us from open revolt. This is the reality that the kids were demonstrating against with the Occupy Wall Street movement. They know the score, shame most can't figure it out. [/QUOTE]
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