The Economy

Wow, what misers.

My mom worked on Wall Street for a while before I was born, so early 70s. She worked in payroll, and thus she had no sales record....but one year her Christmas bonus was equivalent to 28 weeks of pay.

 

That's not even the half of it. I guess it was about 2006 or 2007 when I got either a nickel or dime raise that took me to $10.75 and hour, the owner pretty much told me I should grovel at his benevolent feet for securing me such a generous salary.
I fired back, "You have employees with college degrees who qualify for food stamps and public housing, but clearly your family needs it more than mine, so keep your raise."
Oh, you should have seen him backtracking.

Of course, in 2008 they fired half the staff and took back a quarter of my hourly pay.

 

I think one of the shittiest things they did was we had a woman who was a single mother with two kids living in the projects. They told her she needed to move out of there because it was embarrassing for the public to know an employee lived in the projects. She said she'd love to, but that was the only place she could afford on what they paid her. She did something in circulation. Not long after, they "eliminated her position" and let her go. Miraculously, about a month later, they decided that role was actually vital and hired the GM's wife into it.

 

Awful.