Strike at Deere plants in the US, more supply chain shortage to come

[DieselBound]

I am not a fan of excessive compensation, but it is market driven. They are not given these to go away, they are part of how they got hired in the first place and act as an incentive to the next one. CEO jobs are not out there on indeed. Once you get to a high level job, employers often will not hire you for a lower level job. 'overqualified'. That is why those parachutes exist.

Ha, ha! Market driven!

All these f-ers sit on each other's boards and circle-jerk their packages. <- This is what is wrong. It's a BIG club and we ain't in it: yet many drool over the lot of 'em (sad).

 

[DieselBound]

If I got paid $132,000 a year to do nothing I’d be a huge fan of the union. Beats working for your money like a chump.

Chump change compared to a lot of do-nothing board folks. But, yes, no one should be getting money for nothing (didn't Dire Straits warn us about this? oh, wait!).

 

[Torvy]

Lol, Dire Straights was making fun of the idiots who don't understand how much work goes into making music and going on tour.

 

[DieselBound]

Why do more people go to a football or basketball game than to a spelling bee?
What draws people to come and their spend money, whether it is for tuition or a ticket for admission?
You can't blame the institution. We as the public make decisions that drive their decisions.

And marketing dollars is where in this equation?

People THINK they're making decisions. They've been programmed to pull levers and buy this or that.

I'll toss out a name: Edward Bernays.

 

[DieselBound]

Lol, Dire Straights was making fun of the idiots who don't understand how much work goes into making music and going on tour.

That's a slight stretch according to:
Dire Straits' “Money for Nothing” Lyrics Meaning - Song Meanings and Facts

According to Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, the song’s lyrics were inspired by the comments of a delivery man he met at an appliance store in New York. Knopfler stated that while he was at the back of the store, the deliveryman, whose job was to move appliances, was busy watching MTV on the TVs displayed at the store. And after being disgusted by what he was watching, he came up with a number of the song’s famous lines, including “that ain’t working”.

According to the deliveryman, he felt the MTV performers received money for doing absolutely nothing. And on top of that they got “chicks for free”! Knopfler, who found the worker’s commentary interesting, instantly borrowed a pen and paper and began writing down some of the comments he was uttering about the musicians. According to Knopfler, he wrote most of the song’s lyrics right in the store because his aim was to use as much of the real comments the man made about the MTV performers.

It was a appliance store deliveryman referring to folks getting money for no l[abor] work.

 

[DieselBound]

my buddy in oregon went to high school with frank zappa. said he was straight as an arrow.

Zappa was actually learning. Wisdom isn't possible without learning.

 

[Torvy]

Exactly. Knopfler took exception to the comments, that is why he wrote the song. The analogy here is that the delivery man is the average worker and the musician is the CEO. It looks easy from the perspective of the worker. It is not. The fact that his sarcasm was lost on so many in endemic of our society where people are jealous of success and refuse to acknowledge or understand the effort required to get to the highest levels.

 

[DieselBound]

Self insured or not, all I'm saying is we workers sometimes don't appreciate what we're being paid. The weekly check we cash may only be $500 but the cost to write that check after paying their share of medical (huge), SS, unemployment, workers comp, retirement, etc., may be over $800.

The kings toss some crumbs, we should be thankful!

 

[DieselBound]

Exactly. Knopfler took exception to the comments, that is why he wrote the song. The analogy here is that the delivery man is the average worker and the musician is the CEO. It looks easy from the perspective of the worker. It is not. The fact that his sarcasm was lost on so many in endemic of our society where people are jealous of success and refuse to acknowledge or understand the effort required to get to the highest levels.

The delivery person ought to bow down to the MTV folks?

 

[DieselBound]

Many bigger companies are switching to the 'total compensation' model when discussing such things with employees just because of that. So many people have no clue that even for a good (not great) plan it costs on average about $2,000 a month with family benefits. I've seen total compensation for some employees making $100,000 a year top $150,000 or more once you add in bonus and whatnot. Yet when you ask those people how much they make they always say $100,000.

Side rant - kids are the worst. You can offer a college grad $100,000 a year in salary with $150,000 in total compensation and they'll turn it down to work for $105,000 with $130,000 in total compensation. I'd chalk it up to ignorance but even after you explain it most still don't care.

And why AREN'T we talking about WHY the healthcare costs are so high? Instead we're trying to be thankful that they're high and that our overlords are "helping" pay the bills? (of course, they've got their hands in the everyone's pockets via helping jack up prices, but we ought not look at that)

DISCLAIMER: I don't work FOR or AGAINST the healthcare "industry," nor do I have a heavy draw on the system (being very healthy). I'm just amazed at how anyone can defend the crappy system.