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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here again, I am not talking about people who live in abject poverty eat. I am talking about people who had the opportunities to make certain decisions with their lives be at get an MBA or an engineering degree but decided that working for the department of agriculture or And obscure nonprofit was what they wanted to do. That is all well and good but you must realize that with that life comes certain sacrifices. Just stop blaming people like me who chose to go the other route. Yes money was a motivating factor with everything I did up until I actually started working.[/quote]

The problem with people like you is you don't realize how your own greed affects others. I work for a law firm that is about to fall apart. Over the last several years, staff have been forced to go without pay raises, we've had large increases in their health insurance costs, and have had other benefits reduced. We've had to go through multiple rounds of lay-offs, with the result that my workload has increased and I make LESS money. The attitude of the firm is that we should feel lucky to have jobs at all. We stay because we are desperate, not because the jobs are good. It should not be this way. I've heard attorneys say "if you wanted to make any money, you should have gone to Harvard like me." Well, not everyone wants to be a lawyer. Not everyone wants an MBA. That shouldn't be the ONLY option to make a decent salary that can support someone in a large urban area. It shouldn't have to be a choice between a millionaire and having nothing.

At the same time I read about how the partners at my firm have made more money than ever the last few years. But staff cuts can no longer finance the partner compensation increases. Now that they are faced with a decrease in their already overblown compensation, they are all going to just jump ship to go to some other place stupid enough to give them large pay guarantees. The staff will be unemployed.

The company I work for should pay me enough that I don't have to just scrape by. In no way do I think I should make as much as the attorneys, but the difference between what the people at the top make and the rest of the company gets larger and larger. The greed is mind blowing.

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Wow, the PP proves the OP's point.  She or he did not learn any marketable skills and those that do are supposed to reward the slacker.[/quote]

Are you insane? Or just regular stupid?  How do you think the Harvard lawyers can do their work without those "slackers"?[/quote]

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