With your attitude, I can see why you are having trouble getting people to work for you. (Just another whiny, lazy, middle aged man.)
This is sarcasm. Right?
Dude, I am anything but lazy.
I am getting tired of people who think that 2010 is the same as 2006 and that just because they have been earning big bucks they should continue to earn big bucks.
I am getting tired of people who think that it wasn't their fault at all that the company who had paid them so generously for years - maybe too generously - has found itself in financial trouble.
I am getting tired of people who expect ANY job to be a guarantee.
Mostly I'm getting tired of being painted as a bad guy because I own a business. Small business owners like me drive the economy. Right now I am pretty much the entire company - design, production, sales, and administration. To grow the company we need sales, so I am willing to pay out 15 to 20% of each sale to a rep. That will leave me about 20% gross profit, out of which I have to pay the monthly financing on my production equipment, my rent, supplies, utilities, etc.
Forgive me if I seem put out, but to hear a former pharmaceutical rep complain that his $100K+ a year job, with full health insurance, a company car, and generous expense account is no more - well, my heart just pumps purple p!ss for him.
If any of these people were TRULY worth that kind of money they would start their own companies and just rake in the big bucks. Yeah, I didn't think so.