A Rant
Found yet another example of a government employee crying because they are having to take a pay cut.
This drives me bonkers. Any other industry / job / whatever and people would be laid off. The boss ain't got the money, it's not growing on trees, somethings got to go. So rather than give across the board cuts, they lay off 15 people and balance their spreadsheets. It's not fun, it ain't pretty, but it's the way it goes.
Only in the ridiculous government sector do these people think they are entitled to keep their jobs at their current salary. No, scratch that, they think they are entitled to a cost of living increase every year as well.
Let me give you some (anecdotal) stats from those of us in the real world ...
My husbands company laid of 7% of their work force last year and all current employees had to take a mandatory 5% pay cut. This from the executive level down.
When I was hired by my company in 2007, there were over 100 employees. We started laying people off in September of 2008. We are now a company of 38. We have been on a hiring freeze since September of 2008. Hiring freezes also mean no raises.
Of the 4 girls that I work with, 2 of their husbands have been unemployed for over 18 months. Of the 4 girls, one of us is contract labor (filling in for some maternity leave) and has not been fully employed for over 2 years.
Of the team of about a dozen people that serve the same client, 5 of them have spouses who have been out of work in the past 6 months.
A very dear friend / co-worker of mine was reduced from full-time to part-time about a year ago. She was just finishing her chemo for breast cancer. Her husband has been unemployed for two years. You can only imagine what a job (with benefits) means to her.
So, before you start complaining about losing some income, please take a look around you at the MILLIONS of Americans who are out of work. And then be grateful to be employed.
Especially if you are one of the millions who now works for the government and whose salary is paid by the rest of us who have taken mandatory pay cuts and are dealing with job losses.
This drives me bonkers. Any other industry / job / whatever and people would be laid off. The boss ain't got the money, it's not growing on trees, somethings got to go. So rather than give across the board cuts, they lay off 15 people and balance their spreadsheets. It's not fun, it ain't pretty, but it's the way it goes.
Only in the ridiculous government sector do these people think they are entitled to keep their jobs at their current salary. No, scratch that, they think they are entitled to a cost of living increase every year as well.
Let me give you some (anecdotal) stats from those of us in the real world ...
My husbands company laid of 7% of their work force last year and all current employees had to take a mandatory 5% pay cut. This from the executive level down.
When I was hired by my company in 2007, there were over 100 employees. We started laying people off in September of 2008. We are now a company of 38. We have been on a hiring freeze since September of 2008. Hiring freezes also mean no raises.
Of the 4 girls that I work with, 2 of their husbands have been unemployed for over 18 months. Of the 4 girls, one of us is contract labor (filling in for some maternity leave) and has not been fully employed for over 2 years.
Of the team of about a dozen people that serve the same client, 5 of them have spouses who have been out of work in the past 6 months.
A very dear friend / co-worker of mine was reduced from full-time to part-time about a year ago. She was just finishing her chemo for breast cancer. Her husband has been unemployed for two years. You can only imagine what a job (with benefits) means to her.
So, before you start complaining about losing some income, please take a look around you at the MILLIONS of Americans who are out of work. And then be grateful to be employed.
Especially if you are one of the millions who now works for the government and whose salary is paid by the rest of us who have taken mandatory pay cuts and are dealing with job losses.
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