My wife could soon join them. She is very responsible and accountable. A model employee that has made herself indispensable to her employer. For her trouble, everyone else has been let go and laid off and their labor has been shifted to her desk.
Her boss calls in to check on her from his summer home in California every now and then to make sure he can take credit for her labor with the higher ups.
Many companies, are taking FULL advantage of the “it’s a bad economy” to shaft the daylights out of people willing to pull the load.
I was wondering how many of these are people who are in dual income families who have been tightening their belts over the last few years, perhaps gotten used to a different standard of living, and have decided that the second wage just isn’t worth it anymore (especially with the extra pressure employees are under as you describe).