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Cut my pay ... please!
money.cnn.com ^ | 8/31/09 | Jessica Dickler

Posted on 09/01/2009 2:59:58 PM PDT by Kartographer

In a recent survey, 65% of out-of-work respondents reported willingness to accept wages up to 30% lower than their previous compensation. And, 3% and 4%, respectively, said they would accept up to 40% and 50% of prior wages, according to the 2009 Annual Career Fair Survey released by Next Steps Career Solutions.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: underemployment
Something on the horizon for may of us to look forward to!

1 posted on 09/01/2009 2:59:58 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

One has to wonder if this is not the objective; get people to take less money further pushing the US to the rank of a third world nation! thanks Obama!


2 posted on 09/01/2009 3:01:48 PM PDT by fujimoh
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Soon 90% will be living on subsistance wages, 9% will work for government keeping us in line and 1% will be the elite and their super wealthy friends


3 posted on 09/01/2009 3:03:40 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: Kartographer

Just as planned.
The Elites just hate seeing the hoi polloi driving the same model Lexus And Mercedes as them.


4 posted on 09/01/2009 3:10:13 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Kartographer

This then would be a deflationary signal.


5 posted on 09/01/2009 3:12:04 PM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: Kartographer
OF COURSE people out of work would take a paycut! 70% of something is better than 0% of nothing! What a stupid premise for a survey.
6 posted on 09/01/2009 3:13:44 PM PDT by Jagman (They comport, We deride!)
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Since my business sputtered to a near-halt, I’ve been working for an hourly wage at less than half of what I used to make. And I’m glad to have it. At least it’s IT work. At least I don’t feel compelled to take a tomahawk to work to deal with loudmouthed Obamabots. (There ARE a few, but they’re mostly silent these days)

So I still do the old business evenings and weekends - it’s now a supplement to the other paycheck. I figure it’s either going to turn around or it won’t even matter in another month or three.

Like the saying goes, we’ll either all be laughing at all of this or we’ll be too busy reloading.


7 posted on 09/01/2009 3:14:21 PM PDT by Noumenon (Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
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To: fujimoh

You don’t have to get people to take less money - all you have to do is to devalue what they do have.


8 posted on 09/01/2009 3:15:34 PM PDT by Noumenon (Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
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To: Noumenon

Devalue what they have and devalue them!


9 posted on 09/01/2009 3:23:47 PM PDT by fujimoh
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To: Jagman

What I was thinking!


10 posted on 09/01/2009 3:26:32 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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"That was true for Rebecca Eason, who used to make a comfortable $33,000-a-year living in Tennessee."

good lord, that just goes to show you the difference in standards of living. i live in Manhattan and would be nearly homeless if i made that. wow!

11 posted on 09/01/2009 3:30:36 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: GeronL

Sounds like Mexico.


12 posted on 09/01/2009 4:17:35 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: fujimoh
One has to wonder if this is not the objective; get people to take less money further pushing the US to the rank of a third world nation! thanks Obama!

Except for public emloyees (including legislators), of course.

The new economic SS?

Things simply don't look good, and the rule of law is a distant memory.

13 posted on 09/01/2009 5:25:39 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)
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To: Kartographer
willingness to accept wages up to 30% lower than their previous compensation. And, 3% and 4%, respectively, said they would accept up to 40% and 50% of prior wages

Still cheaper for corps to offshore and pay only 4% to 25% of what they paid Americans.

14 posted on 09/01/2009 5:45:39 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
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