Worked for Hunt-Wesson for 4 years before I was born. Started off at 22k in 1976. NINE-TEEN-SEVENTY FRIGGIN SIX! TWENTY-TWO KAY!
One month after I was born, he was transferred to Atlanta from New Orleans. The company paid for EVERYTHING.
He was there fore nine more years when the moguls on the top decided that outsourcing was better than paying experienced, highly motivated, well paid workers and he as laid off, making a wage of near 50k per year. IN 1989!
He had to take a job at Averitt Express, another shipping company, because that's what he invested most of his life experience in. Hunt Wesson was willing to hire him back about a year later, but at less than half of what he made before. So he took the job at Averitt where he got more pay, with slightly longer hours. Lesser of two evils.
Now, still employed there after 22 years, he currently takes home near 60k per year working 55-60 hours a week. It took him 22 years to reach that position at a pay rate that is only 10k more than it was in 1989, and working longer hours.
When i was younger, I never understood why he was so angry all the time. I was afraid of him. His temper would flare up at the slightest inconvenience. I resented him for it for several years. Now I know why he was angry all the time. He was a man who had lots of ambition, a drive for greatness and who was making it until his dreams were shattered by the decisions of a few elitists who who though making millions a year wasn't enough. A few years ago he apologized to me for being so angry all the time and explained that the reason he has calmed down is because he's accepted that there are some things you cannot control. Little did he know was that I forgave him long ago and never truly resented him. I was just a raging teenager. An extension of him who was only living in a childish mindset.
Today we get along great and agree on many political views. The corruptors of this nation are the people on Wall Street who make money out of nothing. No products or services offered. No dimes put back into the economy. Nothing but high-roller gamblers on a rush.
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