Yeah and the managers and CEO's and there obscene salaries and bonuses.
First, let me preface this post by saying that I am not nor ever will be a CEO, President, executive vice president, etc. of any company anywhere (unless it happended to be my own company with myself being the only employee, and even then I'm not sure that i'm the promotable type).
I won't disagree that some of the big wheels in business draw large salaries and get large bonuses; however, do you think that they did nothing to earn them. It is not often apparent the amount of work that goes into those positions. If there were not folks at the top of the company keeping track of the world of business everyday, then there would not be any companies in business; any company must stay up to date or they will not last. Believe it or not, this is a great burden, because you are dealing with the jobs and livelihoods of hundreds or thousands of people, very often people that resent your position.
The company that I work for has grown dramatically over the last eight years, mostly due to excellent guidance of our presidents and CEOs. We have either bought or bested the competition in our market; the companies that we have bought have been integrated quickly, but not without pain, into our business model. It has meant a growth of jobs for our company as a whole, because we can now offer a wider range of products to potential customers, all available from one company. If not for our overpaid executives, who would have executed these undertakings? The folks on the floor at are plant, to a large degree, are "Eight and the Gate" - they are not thinking past the end of today, much less a three year business forecast. The companies could not survive without either the "Frank Neckties" or the "Joe Punchclocks". One hand washes the other, and if one were to disappear, the other would too.
Again, there are some foul instances of corporate greed and some huge payments to executives even as companies fold, but that is just like the news: most of the bad stuff gets reported and very little of the good. But don't blame all of the woes of the American workforce on the executives, because blame street has several lanes.
I guess that's enough of a rant, especially under the heading of American Made Tractor? Where's gatorboy ? - we need him to remind us of the subject!
First, let me preface this post by saying that I am not nor ever will be a CEO, President, executive vice president, etc. of any company anywhere (unless it happended to be my own company with myself being the only employee, and even then I'm not sure that i'm the promotable type).
I won't disagree that some of the big wheels in business draw large salaries and get large bonuses; however, do you think that they did nothing to earn them. It is not often apparent the amount of work that goes into those positions. If there were not folks at the top of the company keeping track of the world of business everyday, then there would not be any companies in business; any company must stay up to date or they will not last. Believe it or not, this is a great burden, because you are dealing with the jobs and livelihoods of hundreds or thousands of people, very often people that resent your position.
The company that I work for has grown dramatically over the last eight years, mostly due to excellent guidance of our presidents and CEOs. We have either bought or bested the competition in our market; the companies that we have bought have been integrated quickly, but not without pain, into our business model. It has meant a growth of jobs for our company as a whole, because we can now offer a wider range of products to potential customers, all available from one company. If not for our overpaid executives, who would have executed these undertakings? The folks on the floor at are plant, to a large degree, are "Eight and the Gate" - they are not thinking past the end of today, much less a three year business forecast. The companies could not survive without either the "Frank Neckties" or the "Joe Punchclocks". One hand washes the other, and if one were to disappear, the other would too.
Again, there are some foul instances of corporate greed and some huge payments to executives even as companies fold, but that is just like the news: most of the bad stuff gets reported and very little of the good. But don't blame all of the woes of the American workforce on the executives, because blame street has several lanes.
I guess that's enough of a rant, especially under the heading of American Made Tractor? Where's gatorboy ? - we need him to remind us of the subject!
