Benefits?
My company decided to cut all retirement benefits starting in July, 2007. If you are like me (where basically your age and service will not equal 70 by then) upon retirement you get life insurance equal to $000,000.00. (Instead of $250,000 now) You get 0% dental. (Instead of 80% - 100% now) You get 0% vision. (Instead of up to $300.00 per pair every 2 years) You get no prescription drug payment relief. (Instead of a max. charge of $7.50 right now)
In other words my company doesn't want you to see any benefit to working for them. Oh...but in our company letters put this: "we are aggressively working to cut down on overhead" and then this "we have our employees hard work to thank for our amazing profit in this 2nd quarter"
Thank you, oh what? You are a bit upset that we took your benefits?
(Remember, we are free, democracy loving individuals until we go to work where for some reason that logic dies.)
In other words my company doesn't want you to see any benefit to working for them. Oh...but in our company letters put this: "we are aggressively working to cut down on overhead" and then this "we have our employees hard work to thank for our amazing profit in this 2nd quarter"
Thank you, oh what? You are a bit upset that we took your benefits?
(Remember, we are free, democracy loving individuals until we go to work where for some reason that logic dies.)
posted by Sj @ 7/22/2005 04:37:00 PM
7 Comments:
At 22 July, 2005 18:11,
Anonymous said…
workplace injustices seem to be a theme in our lives. I have a real hate-on for my company and in particular el jefe, who could suck my dick if i had one. i won't be signing this but from that, you know who this is, right?
they cut our benefits too, although not to 0 like in your case. but that's not the source of my hate on...
I use MSN to communicate with vendors in situations where I require immediate answers or they need it from me... and I got written up as if i was chatting with buddies. When I told him, he nodded, but didn't take it off the record. everything i do is wrong/not good enough, while he's suckin everyone else off, in the good way. prick. I think he did that to justify not giving me a raise. fucker.
you make a good point, most workplace rules do violate basic rights. like retailers are allowed to check bags and coats of employees. bosses are allowed to look on your computer for internet and email history. and treat your papers as their property, never mind that you had them organized and they just fucked everything up... arg...
sorry.
later.
At 25 July, 2005 11:07,
Mitch said…
It's the same all over unfortunately. Companies are interested in little more than the bottom line and shareholders push them to be like that. Profit, profit, profit. At some point things will turn around in the industry and companies will have to increase benefits and pay or risk losing trained staff to other companies....I can dream can't I? ;)
At 27 July, 2005 15:19,
Anonymous said…
Well said. If you want benefits it's getting to a point that you have to start your own business.
Where else are cash-strapped businesses going to cut expenditures. Regardless if they cut your benefits, you "should" be happy that they didn't cut off your job!
Sad truth of the matter is that companies attempting to perform lose their objectivity and remove things that keep talented employees in place at their desk.
I guess it's time to start looking for something else!
At 27 July, 2005 15:50,
Sj said…
No, no no no no no no no no. (I didn't bother with all the commas.)
I wanted to be laid off! But, again I do understand why they made this choice right at the same time that I hate the choice.
Especially when they continue to send emails to us prompting better lean initiatives! More Six Sigma projects! Go team Go!
It's like Leaf fans (of which I am one...) no matter how the team performs or the choices they make, we may bitch, but we still stay.
At 27 July, 2005 15:51,
Sj said…
Oh ps. On a work related note: I saw yr site and I also work with the JHSC. I love the safety stuff, auditing etc. It gets me out of just doing the maintenance work day after day.
At 27 July, 2005 18:37,
Anonymous said…
I'm a prof at a state university, and my husband and I shelled out $18,000 over the last three years in medical bills that our CRAPPY health insurance didn't cover. We also have no dental or optical benefits, and I get to pay $100 to park a mile away from my office (the deck two blocks away costs $500). So much for academia being a bastion of caring liberalism.
At 27 July, 2005 18:44,
Anonymous said…
I'm a prof at a state university, and my husband and I shelled out $18,000 over the last three years in medical bills that our CRAPPY health insurance didn't cover. We also have no dental or optical benefits, and I get to pay $100 to
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