You don't get rich by working hard, not in America anyway

[Tsiyu]

72. I'm so amused

by the fact that there is an implication in your post ( and in other posts ) that some of us are saying "Be lazy! Don't work hard!"

Nobody is saying that here.

How many people on DU - and in the nation at large - did all the right things? Went to college, studied hard, got the degree, worked diligently at their jobs?

And then were canned, their jobs sent to India and China?

How many people wasted their lives working like dogs for companies that just dumped them when they cut into the CEOs' bonus packages? How many of them can't find jobs today paying even half their former salaries? How many are still unemployed, or working for peanuts?

One of the clients I've been working for is a corporation that has a staff that is made up of 60% temporary/part time workers. I know this because I heard the manager tell an applicant this fact outright. There are few jobs in this area, so of course they have many people applying. And they fire people constantly. I saw them fire them and then turn around and hire five more temporary/part time workers, while at the same time cutting their current staff's hours to the bone.

This corporation uses people like paper towels. There is no way to "move up the ladder." But people need to eat and pay their bills, so they sign up. And part time doesn't mean you have the freedom to get another job at this place. You are expected to be at their beck and call and the schedules are so erratic, there's no way to plan anything.

All of these workers are wonderful. The best group of folks you could meet. ( I wasn't employed by the corporation but did my work at several of their locations. ) They don't deserve to be treated the way they are treated by this company.

This is reality, and any of you trying to sell that shit sandwich on a hotdog bun by telling me it's really Nutella on brioche need to find another customer.