IT Workers To Get Fewer Perks, No Free Coffee 620
dasButcher writes "While the economy is showing signs of recovery and tech stocks posted double- and triple-digit gains in 2009, IT workers are facing a less hospitable workplace in the coming year. Many employers say they're going to continue trimming budgets, particularly in human resources. Rather than giving up head count, they're planning to trim 401k contributions, eliminate bonuses, curtail travel and, dare we say, shut off the free coffee (it wasn't that good anyway)."
Re:401k???? (Score:1, Informative)
Having been in the unfortunate position of being forced to cut 401K contributions by asshole management, I can promise you that it's never got anything to do with them *just* not caring about their employees in their old age. It also has to do with trusting fully that the whole company will be Somebody Else's Problem inside 36 months, whether by bankruptcy or by acquisition.
Because I have this sort of experiential knowledge of the motivations of asshole management and executive layers, I make a point to never do business of any sort with any company that treats its employees badly. Without exception, every company that treats its employees badly has absolutely zero faith in every element in their product line and are interested only in lining their own pockets with cash.
Re:the school district model (Score:1, Informative)
"Most strikes hurt employees considerably more with lost wages than they gain in negotiation."
Except that laborers today have some semblance of Workers' Rights thanks to the strikes in which our forefathers participated, literally putting their lives on the line.
But is most schools history class ignores the labor movement.
TFA is from "Channel Insider"? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Paging Mr. Vader - something slipping through (Score:1, Informative)
but you will *never* be able to replace me
Employees who believe they are irreplaceable are almost always wrong and usually make for the best candidates to be replaced tomorrow.
Even if it takes two employees at half your salary, you absolutely are replaceable.
Re:This post... (Score:2, Informative)
Like all of the Union auto workers making fat cash working in Detroit?
Re:the school district model (Score:3, Informative)
That's your "trickle down" economy
That "trickle down" always reminds me of The Outlaw Josey Wales: "Senator, don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." Wealth doesn't trickle down, it flows upwards. Wealth is created on the factory floor, the fry cook's stove, the programmer's cube. The suits in the corner office don't create wealth, they merely aggregate and control it.
Re:This post... (Score:3, Informative)
Yes, actually. For those who still have jobs. Remember, those workers were not the ones designing crap quality cars, and paying hundreds of millions of dollars of bonuses to execs who basically did nothing but not do badly that year. One year's worth of exec bonuses at the Big 3 would pay for all of the benefits of the UAW workers for the next 10 years.
ttyl
Farrell