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FrodosPet

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2. Will the utility company employees have to take pay cuts in the face of financial losses?

Reply to Electric Monk (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 01:40 AM

Jun 2014

I hope it isn't a scenario where everyone is losing so much money that the system economically collapses and the BIG pockets come along, scooping up the entire infrastructure for pennies on the dollar.

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Will the utility company employees have to take pay cuts in the face of financial losses? FrodosPet Jun 2014 #2

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