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In reply to the discussion: Businessmen don't "create jobs"... [View all]Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)and I certainly am in favor of emoyers treating employees in a fair manner.
I used to work for a small company that had 12 full-time employees. The company had ne debt. The owner was an old woman who had a lot of money. The GM was a great guy and figured out a way to give bonuses to the employees instead of just paying more federal and state taxes. When we had a good year, the employees all got four or five figure bonuses. As a new, part-time employee, I got a $2,000 year-eme bonus. Is this common? No, I am sure it is not. That GM, hired a young, single mother to do what we all thought was 'busy work' because she was recently widowed.
That was the best company I ever worked for. It's too bad it was sold. (The old lady owner lived for 25 more years after she sold it at age 73. Hell, I thought she was going to outlive me.)