Posted on 09/28/2012 5:25:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is a pity that 100% only goes to 100%. I could not agree more than I do.
September 26, 2012
Brad Parker, the drummer of an American disco group suffered a heart attack and died mid-show during a performance in Brazil over the weekend.
Brad Parker was performing with his band Generation Esmeralda in Uba, some four hours north of Rio, on Saturday night when he suddenly slumped over his kit and then tumbled off his stool.
Video cameras caught the horrifying moment, as the 59-year-old's bandmates initially kept playing, apparently unaware that Parker was in trouble.
Maybe we should do what France does and make it illegal to work more than 35 hours a week!
It’s terrible how George Bush caused all this. /s
We work a lot and take home little. At least 40% of what we earn goes to lazy slackers who vote democrat.
Feel lucky to have a job? Look at deductions and your take home.
Those of you who work...work hard and long! Pay your taxes. Many, many “free-phone” parasites are depending on you. Thanks.
The people I know who do this don’t know how to budget to live within their means. They are literally slaves to their vehicle loans, TV and smart phone services, etc. etc. etc.
The full-court press is on to get the electorate to embrace European-style mandatory vacations and paid time off.
“Are you constantly tired and do you feel incredibly stressed almost all the time? “
Sounds like a definition of “Adult Life”.
We could go to a piece work model. If you make ten widgets, you get paid for ten widgets, whether it took you an hour or a week. The problem with this model is that those who are clever will figure out a way to make 100 widgets in an hour (which on it's own is a good thing) but there may not be a demand for 100 widgets an hour. And even if you task the clever man to improving production of everything else in the plant, and you're able to lay off all the average and below average people, you still come up against lack of demand for all that improved production and clever man is twiddling his thumbs, or going off to work for the competition for more money.
In the meantime, nobody is buying Company As products anymore because their biggest customers were employed by Company B and they were laid off by the thousands. And they were laid off by the thousands because the former customers who used to buy Company B's goods were laid off by Company A.
There really is no fix for what is happening in this generation. Automation and AI, while creating some jobs for clever men, is rendering the vast multitude of humanity as useless, except as customers. But useless people don't have the money to make themselves useful even as consumers.
A lot of eaters need to die. People think Agenda 21 is a lefty commie program, but it's actually a lever in the bankster's NWO.
My personal observations:
* With high unemployment, managers can demand holidays, overtime and additional load from the productive who worry they cannot find anything else. Fear of a poor economy causes more people to put up with unsustainable loads.
* With the Obamacare costs and other overhead costs high per employee, employers will maximize output on a few instead of higher more heads, because they cannot afford to hire more people. Businesses overload current people out of fear to add to head count.
There is also a reward on the number of hours present, instead of the work produced. Someone who is in the office 50 hours is regarded more highly than someone who is there 40, even if the 40 hours per week results in more work done or higher quality.
We’re competing against Chinese slave labor in my company. They are killing us on price. We’re letting people go, and those of us remaining are working probably an extra 4 hours per day plus weekend days. That’s what’s called ‘productivity improvement’.
We’re told explicitly that our jobs are eventually moving to China. We’re told that any position vacated by retirement or layoff or firing will be filled in the company but in China. I foresee our group lasting maybe another 5 years.
Yes, people are having health problems because of it.
That hits the point.
In my job, we lost several people and the powers to be have decided not to hire new people to replace the now gone folks. Now it is mandatory to work at least one Saturday per month and vacation, a lot of red tape to take that time off is required. I already put in my vacation time request for next year !
We have a director in Belgium and he doesn’t care for us American folks too much. And being a global company, work is divided where if we have to deal with an overseas customer, we are expected to work off shift to work with the customer. However, US customers don’t have to work with overseas folks, the overseas folks transfer that work to us as well. Kind of a one way street. I had one customer get p*ssed off and escalated. They didn’t transfer the work to India but I was told that I was expected to work off hours to take care of him.
Our director also put in complex rules on taking vacation that doesn’t apply to his folks in India, Egypt and Europe. Someone brought up the idea that we should work smart not hard and the response was that we Americans are lazy and he even remarked that Obama said that we are lazy and need to work much, much harder.
> 4) Less people are working because companies are not hiring. The result is those who DO have work will have to take on more responsibilities and MORE WORK.
My mom always used to say that it is better to wear out than rust out. We lived on a farm and both of my parents had full time jobs in town. Day began at 5 a.m. with milking the cows, feeding the pigs and chickens and gathering the eggs. Then off to school and work. Afternoons and evenings were spent on a tractor or in the garden with bedtime around 10 p.m.
My life now including a 12 hour days now sitting at a desk behind a computer is a piece of cake.
Right on Sara..can't tell you how many people I know whose divisions they work for are having record sales or growth and yet they have less people and are doing the jobs of 2 people.
I'm getting sick and tired of these co's saying they are not hiring due to obama. They are not hiring because they know they can get away with treating people like this in a slow economy and the employees are too afraid to speak up or complain..
‘In the regular world, it seems like ‘work’ includes regularly checking Facebook and Twitter...multiple personal calls in an hour...BS-ing with the cubicle-dweller across the way...extended lunches. In other words, precious little ‘work’ is actually done in all of those hours. When you are working for yourself, however, how much work you do determines how well you live, and if your business (and therefore you) will survive.’
I’ve had my own business for 4 years, my mother and father had their own businesses for 35 years or more and I worked in them, and I’ve worked for another company for 17 years. The same socializing occured in all settings. You’re doing too much chest thumping and feeling sorry for yourself.
Oh, stop. 46 hours at your typical office job is a snooze.
Go back a generation before 1970—let alone, two, three, four five or six—and Americans were really working, whether the land or otherwise.
Devils advocate here..federal tax rate is the lowest it has been in 50 years..what is REALLY hurting people that they can never catch up it's not so much that we are being taxed to death but wages have not increased (or even decreased in many cases) while cost of goods/services have risen by a large amount over the same period. Other problems..jobs increasingly becoming P/T or no benefits on an on.
Don't get me wrong..taxes are a problem but the bigger problem is wages have been stagnant for 15-20 years as globalization is the new norm and yet the cost of living has increased. The US is being taken down a peg or two via standard of living while other countries have been brought up.
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