[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AlexdeLarge', 'T')his chain story has been around for years. (Edited from time to time for current events.) This does not make mood/jist of the story less real.

[phaster]

To All My Valued Employees,

Ya should be grateful that I even tolerate your presents, actually you should be paying me to put up with all the $hit I have to put up with. Boo hoo if ya think your taxes are too high, ya need to pay them so I'll have a nice road for my trophy wife's Bentley, my Ferarri and mistress's Benz.

Also pardon me for living the good life, its all your own fault for not being born into a family with the right connections.

Now get back to work, ya lazy SOB's! Don't ya realize that I have to pay my political action committee lobbyiste next week, so they can educate the senitor so they can introduce legislation to remove expensive environmental rules.

BTW be forwarned some of you next week will have to train your replacements. This cost cutting measure will improve short term profits, and in turn increase the value of my stock options.

respectifully,

your beloved boss





$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'I') work for a small business, and if I was suddenly fired without training my replacement, the business would become crippled within 2 weeks. The owner of the company makes about 20x what I earn working there. He does bust his ass and work every second of his life, but it pays off. Taxes may be too high, but he drives a Bentley while a lot of people working here drive a Corolla.

Taxes for all working-class individuals and business owners need to go down, along with the spending in all levels of government. Business owners are not alone in this.

[idiom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('phaster', ' ')This cost cutting measure will improve short term profits, and in turn increase the value of my stock options.

[Snowrunner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'T')axes for all working-class individuals and business owners need to go down, along with the spending in all levels of government. Business owners are not alone in this.

[Snowrunner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '[')b]davep wrote:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hile I agree with sixstrings, don't forget that French life expectancy and quality of life are both significantly better than in the US. Don't look at the world through an economic prism, that's how we got in this mess in the first place.

[AlexdeLarge]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AlexdeLarge', 'T')his chain story has been around for years. (Edited from time to time for current events.) This does not make mood/jist of the story less real.

[jdmartin]

This "letter" is nothing more than stupid internet spamola e-mail crap. It's a bunch of bullshit. "Entrepreneurs" don't employ people out of charity - they employ them to do a job. Who is going to do the jobs of the people he fired in his little snit protest? Who's going to buy his business, apparently failing since he wants out so bad, so he can retire to his little utopia in Honduras? BTW, I've heard the security for rich gringos in these teetering countries is not that good.

Anyway, the "letter" is not even composed well. "You'd quit and you wouldn't work here anymore" in the same sentence? Well no shit sherlock, if you quit you wouldn't work there, does it bear clarification? It's nothing more than crybaby bullshit without any context to back it up.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jdmartin', 'T')his "letter" is nothing more than stupid internet spamola e-mail crap. It's a bunch of bullshit. "Entrepreneurs" don't employ people out of charity - they employ them to do a job. Who is going to do the jobs of the people he fired in his little snit protest? Who's going to buy his business, apparently failing since he wants out so bad, so he can retire to his little utopia in Honduras? BTW, I've heard the security for rich gringos in these teetering countries is not that good.

Anyway, the "letter" is not even composed well. "You'd quit and you wouldn't work here anymore" in the same sentence? Well no crap sherlock, if you quit you wouldn't work there, does it bear clarification? It's nothing more than crybaby bullshit without any context to back it up.

[idiom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jdmartin', '"')Entrepreneurs" don't employ people out of charity.

[Stonemason]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('idiom', 'T')he guy who built Ford (mister Ford) was a very very different individual from the guys who run Ford of today.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('idiom', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jdmartin', '"')Entrepreneurs" don't employ people out of charity.

[Quinny]

The OP is bullshit. The tax paid by his employees is most likely much higher than that paid by him.

[MarkJ]

For property/physical/financial/data security and employee productivity reasons, many employers won't tell employees they *might* be terminated. With an advance warning, employees could steal, vandalize or destroy property, vehicles, equipment, data, stage lawsuits etc.

Most employees we've terminated during tight job markets tend to be scared and/or depressed (even suicidal), not angry or vengeful, but you get the rare hothead with fantasies of vengeance on their employers, co-workers or the world in general.

Of course Valued Employees aren't likely to be terminated. When we've sold, relocated or downsized businesses, we've kept many valued employees, or helped them find other jobs.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MarkJ', '
')Most employees we've terminated during tight job markets tend to be scared and/or depressed (even suicidal),

[ColossalContrarian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MarkJ', '
')Most employees we've terminated during tight job markets tend to be scared and/or depressed (even suicidal),

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', '
')Mentally ill employees need to take responisibilty for their illness, it's not the job of the former boss.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ost employees we've terminated during tight job markets tend to be scared and/or depressed (even suicidal), not angry or vengeful, but you get the rare hothead with fantasies of vengeance on their employers, co-workers or the world in general.

[MarkJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MarkJ', '
')Most employees we've terminated during tight job markets tend to be scared and/or depressed (even suicidal),

[Voice_du_More]

Somehow I thought someone on this site lived above the ideology of where the tax breaks should go. What a chump to blame anyone. The self made man broken by circumstances bigger than himself, poor pitiful little ape. He gave it his best and just when the Austin Martin was within reach the universe decided that life was not about how many toys you could get or how proud you are of how hard you work, or how many of your friends were getting some while you squeezed in some Internet excitement between revisions of your business model.

The document itself is complete propaganda probably contrived by someone who frequents this site. The mushy feel sorry for your corporate owners drivel does not wash with the guy whose salary has been frozen, whose healthcare is too expensive to use, and who will never be able to afford even last years Mercedes, and who is now looking at an IOU instead of a tax return depending on his state of residence.

Can't you see the big crocodile tears in my eyes as I consider all the hard work the writer put into his business, how he compromised his ethics to live within a system that we knew was going to crash 30 years ago. The baby boomers have a sad story to tell you at every income level. The fact is they are the generation that said they would never grow old, but in fact they never grew up. Still scratching their arses wondering why the giant ATM does'nt work anymore. 'Have'nt we bowed to it, sung our songs to it, taught our children to worship and die for it?'

[Just another public service message from the mad prophet]

[Voice_du_More]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MarkJ', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MarkJ', '
')Most employees we've terminated during tight job markets tend to be scared and/or depressed (even suicidal),