It’s interesting how times and attitudes are changing. In my late parents’ day and my and my husband’s day, we commuted to our jobs, and we were glad to have jobs. It’s what you did. After putting in the time, we could retire with comfortable pensions. But now people can work from home, don’t want to go TO a job, and want more time for fun. I hope they can arrange things the way they want them without negatively affecting goods and services. Some things you have to show up for.
“and we were glad to have jobs. It’s what you did. After putting in the time, we could retire with comfortable pensions.”
Back then, companies valued good employees, and pensions were somehow magically sustainable for decades and decades.
It was not uncommon for someone to work 35 years at one company and retire.
Today, corporate America does not value good workers, and will layoff much faster than in the past. They will close a factory to race offshore for cheaper labor. They will declare the pension plan as a company asset to bump the stock price for executive compensation. Then turn around leverage the hell out of it, and sell off the parts and the pensions are gone.
Yet, we of the old generation put down the kids for not being loyal to the companies that have nothing but contempt for the “human resources”.
Tucker is closer to right than wrong.
LOL! Comfortable pensions! I'll bet you could also buy a house too! ROTFLOL!