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Yes, I will be invoking that phrase every chance I get a for a few more months as it is the funniest quote I've ever read (the original one, not my paraphrased one).
I just got my information on Benefts in the mail this week. I am a supervising manager of a managed service group. For anyone that doesn't know what that is, it is a kind of sophisticated domestic outsourcing option - we are basically an entirely separate company working on site for a major corporation. In my particular group we are treated much more like consultants only paid eighty times less. :eyes:
Aside from the horrors of outsourcing resulting in jobs shipped overseas, the other horror of oursourcing is that it has terrible benefits. Companyies outsource becasue its cheaper, and the only reason its cheaper is because compensation and benefts are a fraction of what they would be if working directly for the company...
...anyway, I hope you're not disappointed for reading this far, because this post is just a rant. I opened my benefits "package" to fine the price on my totally crappy health care went up again - by almost 30%. In the three years I've worked here, the cost to me for health care coverage (yes we pay for our own health care) has gone up by literally 300%. It is now so pathetic that I can literaly get better deals through some of the most basic independant health insurance providers. Not that I know how to start looking or who to go with, but..
It makes me so furious because last year, after a near doubling in health insurance costs, and halving vacation time (down to 1 week) and ending other benefits, the coproration I work for posted record profits. People who scoff at those of us who sound like marxists and talk about alienating the laborer from the labor or people getting rich by exploiting the working class obviously don't work in the coprorate sector -- clarification -- obiviously don't work in the lower or middle wrungs of the corporate sector.
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