RE: Grease Up Your Assholes, Shitwits!
November 22, 2016 at 10:03 am
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2016 at 10:05 am by Crossless2.0.)
(November 22, 2016 at 12:00 am)Cato Wrote: 1. Hard to lose something you don't have. The threshold increase isn't effective until December 1st.
2. I say let the threshold be raised. People over report how much they work anyway. Businesses will start hawking what goes into the 40 hour salaried work week. NSFW exists for a reason, namely plenty of people spend time at work on non work related activity. Let me guess, the next gripe will be how unfair it is that an employer doesn't pay overtime to make up for time spent fucking off.
In my case, I'm already poised to lose something I have: cargo ship agents are compensated for our mileage incurred attending vessels, making trips to Customs for filing paperwork, etc. It's been known in our company that management is likely to reduce our mileage compensation from the very generous rates we now get (which was the main draw when I signed on in the first place) to the federal rate. The salary increase was meant, in part, to offset that loss. If that's now off the table (and why wouldn't it be?) then I stand to lose thousands of dollars of income the coming year. The only way that can be made good is if there is a decent bonus at the end of this year. I'm not holding my breath. End-of-year bonuses weren't great to begin with and have declined each year since I started with this company -- despite a number of severe cost-cutting measures taken in the past two years. Meanwhile, my insurance rates and deductibles in our Blue Cross group plan are going up.
With regard to the bonus and the mileage rates, I'm not optimistic. The CEO is the beneficiary of nepotism. His old man (a great guy who really cared about his employees, by all accounts) died before I was hired. The son is all about looking out for #1.
Moving to another agency is a possibility, but the salary/compensation is pretty much the same from one place to another. Unless I could substantially improve my situation, which is doubtful, then the move wouldn't make much sense since most of the agencies on the lower Mississippi River are in New Orleans and I live in Baton Rouge. I just got done moving house. I'm not eager to do it again.
