[Havoc]

I love my job at EDS and my bosses have treated me like Gold in my local facility. I consistently outperform my requirements and they actually gave me a raise after announcing I was losing my job. A little gauling and befuddling; but, ok.

And I worked for Walmart for 4 years as assistant dept manager over a 3-4 million a year electronics dept. It took me 4 years to get from the hire in rate to 7.50 an hour for the same reason they wouldn't hire more than a skeleton crew in the store I was in. They are bigger tightwads than anyplace I ever worked for in my life. How many electronics stores would have the gaul to tell you after 4 years you weren't worth more than 7.50 an hour to them when McDonalds across the street was hiring at 7.50 an hour. Unless Walmart has changed their operational practices, I wouldn't send my dog to work there.

[Southack]

"How many electronics stores would have the gaul to tell you after 4 years you weren't worth more than 7.50 an hour to them when McDonalds across the street was hiring at 7.50 an hour."

How many? Most or all of the stores who know that you wouldn't leave them, especially to go work in a more difficult job.

You only pay people what it takes to get what you want out of them, you know. It's called a job, not welfare, after all, and excess pay is a sure sign of poor people management.

So you don't work for Wal-Mart any longer, you're losing your EDS job, and you don't like MicroSoft products...but it's all Bush's fault.

Man, you are going to live a frustrating life. You are blaming everyone but yourself for the fix that you repeatedly get yourself into, plus you have an ego that won't let you stoop to working for McDonald's.

If you are *lucky*, things will get so bad for you that you will hit that rock bottom point where all of your old biases break and your ego snaps. Should such a humbling expereince occur for you, then you might actually change yourself and your outlook and begin to live a healthy, happy, productive life (even if it means working at Wal-Mart).

If you are *unlucky*, then you will just manage to muddle along at the very bottom of your base hatreds and biases, blaming everyone else for your own troubles, and never learning who you really are.

So like I say, you are in for a very frustrating life. You've set yourself up to fail by not being self-critical and introspective...and failing is what you are repeatedly going to do.