War of the future: gap between rich and poor growing

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

It's an ignorant statement like this that pisses me off. I usually ignore your posts, but a statement like this irritates me !

I can speak from example ! I am a hard worker. I bust my a$$ for whoever I work for. Then, the job market got a little tough. Did the higer-ups feel it ? No ! They just moved jobs and their money overseas and laid everyone off. I have been laid off in this manner twice in my life only to end up being forced to take tougher jobs for less pay and less benefits if any benefits at all and those benefits are constantly draining due to companies trimming their fat and the CEO's giving themselves raises ! As a matter of fact, a LOT of these company CEO's are making their bonuses by making their company apear to be making profit BY laying people off !
There are a lot of us hard workers out there who actually DO go to work and work our asses off thank you very much ! Whether you like it or not, the divide between the wealthy and the poor (The middle class is dropping into the poor class as we speak) IS increasing in levels never before seen ! As companies ditch the US and move overseas and take their money with them, or keep the money in their own little circles, and pay us less for working for them, our cost of living is going up, up, up. 5% of the people in the US control 90% of it's wealth ! Think about that before you call us hard workers who are getting the shaft from the higher ups people who sit on their asses and don't work.

So let me get this straight... You are ticked off because your have a career crisis? Did you not research your career prior to entering it? And you get irritated at me for telling you reality?

Uhhh...... You fit my description nicely. You need to wake up and evaluate your life. You need to start at the bottom. You need to work your way up. Quit blaming the messenger for your own poor choices in jobs.

You know why I got out of IT and into system engineering? Because IT people are easy to replace, which directly translates into not being as important to an employer. You need to make some similar sort of transition and quit blaming other people for your life's failures. Its not that difficult to take what you know and apply it somewhere else. Get busy.

-S

[FIREWALL]

I learned early in life..... You can Work Hard or... Work Smart.

[August]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

I learned early in life..... You can Work Hard or... Work Smart.

Y'know i've always believed that those aren't mutually exclusive things.

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by August

Y'know i've always believed that those aren't mutually exclusive things.

That would depend on your definition of smart. Some folks think working smart is getting the most return for the least effort.

[August]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

That would depend on your definition of smart. Some folks think working smart is getting the most return for the least effort.

I see, but don't they realize that if they increase their effort while continuing to work smart that they may get a bigger return, or does that kind of thinking just lead to the heartbreak of a higher tax bracket?