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In reply to the discussion: AIG CEO Robert Benmosche: 80-Year-Old Europeans Need To Be Working [View all]Myrina
(12,296 posts)39. ... and yet the company I work for just canned 35 people ...
... all of whom have been with the company at least 10 years and were an average of 50 years old ... which means they were due some healthy 401k, insurance & vacation compensation (had they stayed on payroll). We're a 'Right to Work' state so of course the DOL laughed and told them to fuck off when one inquired about filing a complaint.
So tell me, Mr. Asshole Executive, sir, how are people supposed to be working past age 50 when greedy clowns like you are firing them because they're "too expensive" to keep on payroll?
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poor widdle CEO making much more than insurance median CEOs - $7.2 million/yr. vs. $4 million
wordpix
Jun 2012
#19
Maybe if we didn't have to fork over $190 billion to save your fucked up company
BeyondGeography
Jun 2012
#2
Work in front of a PC all day until you are 70 and wait to see what your back feels like.
JDPriestly
Jun 2012
#26
Try to explain that to your boss when you miss a deadline. That's the problem,
JDPriestly
Jun 2012
#46
This from the guy whose company received huge tax breaks in addition to the bailout
suffragette
Jun 2012
#11
"the average retirement age of American workers hit 67" ---Benmosche's time is up
wordpix
Jun 2012
#18
The question is not how much longer Benmosche plans to stay on in his soft job
JDPriestly
Jun 2012
#24
"They will keep people working longer and will take that burden off of the youth.”
Duer 157099
Jun 2012
#48
Not only are people now working two jobs, if they can find them, to survive
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jun 2012
#51
Not much need for higher productivity when there is no demand for the product of that labor.
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#56