o the state employees who will have to take unpaid days because the governor and his compatriots are too incompetent to put together a budget, please believe me when I say I’m sorry. I do have sympathy for you, but you have to understand it could be much worse.
Out here in the private sector, we deal with incompetent leadership too. In case you haven’t noticed, there are businesses that have failed to the point they are firing thousands…tens of thousands of employees. The firings are coming in waves. Just when employees who think they have dodged the bullet manage to relax, another round of layoffs hits, sweeping them out too. And a lot of these companies are taking BailOutBucks supplied, in part by the very taxpayers they are firing.
And our new president has responded to all this by limiting their CEO’s income to $500,000 per year. Maybe they’ll start taking a Friday or two off each month to compensate. Who knows, the guy sitting at the table across from you at Starbucks tomorrow may just be a furloughed CEO! Who says we have nothing in common with rich people?
Just in passing, I didn’t notice what the president said about the CEO’s deferred income. I should look into that.
Personally, I think any company that accepts BailOutBucks should require the CEO, the CFO and the COO to resign and stand in front of the corporate offices for a month wearing chicken suits and holding signs that say “We’re the ones who lost all the buck-buck-bucks”
Well, it was just an idea.
So I suggest that you look at your own budget and decide what you need to cut for your furlough days and if you can’t be happy about still having a job, then maybe you can at least be grateful for it, because there are a whole lot of people in worse shape than you are right now.
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