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camarillobrillo  ·  3193 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your job will never love you.

Where would I move to? Germany? I'm not trying to be argumentative but that's just unfeasible. I'm stuck in the States and here and now it's all about the bottom line. More with less. Squeezing every last dime and productivity out of your employees only to lay them all off if it pleases the shareholders.

I'm youngish and they take full advantage of that. They know everyone else is operating the same way so I really have nowhere else to go. Shit I'm lucky to have found the job I have. Somewhere around Reagan I think we lost the balance of power between employee and employer and now it's reached almost indentured servitude proportions.

Social security? I know I'll probably never see that and if I do people can't live on that now. I'm almost 30. I need to start putting a retirement plan together like 5 years ago and they just, don't, give a shit.

There's no real loyalty anymore.