in response to charges that workers can't make ends meet, upmc opens employee food pantry (Pittsburgh: lawyer, live in)

[Goodjules]

Originally Posted by Sideblinded

Watch the History Channel's mini- series/documentary "The Men who Built America". Carnegie, Pittsburgh and the steel industry along with Morgan & Rockefeller had a scary amount if power & influence in the US. It is eerily similar to today's work issues, politics and
Corruption. Difference is employees finally had enough.

Now we just fight with eachother and get ticked off if god forbid a profession or company/union has decent retirement or pension benefits instead of asking why being compensated fairly is a luxury only deserved for the top 10%? Why not us? Corporations have won. They have succesfully pitted the (dwindling) middle class against eachother, immigrants and poor so we forget that record profits are being made, salaries are declining and the wealthy are raking it in. We even dare to ask for fancy perks like health care! If I hear "At least you have a job" one more time I will have to run into the nearest yoga studio to chill out.

I choose not to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's, I do shop at Costco and support as many locally owned small companies as possible. I love Littles Shoes on Forbes vs. Zappos.

UPMC is the largest fake non-profit ever with the added bonus of being close to a political monopoly.

Well said.

[creepsinc]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

Certainly a lot of assumptions going on here. Never once did I say I just randomly look up people's accounts without having a legitimate business reason to do so. Throughout the course of each day I have people at their wit's end who are already flat broke the Monday subsequent to their paydays and come to me to complain about overdraft fees. I already know I will be facing a workday replete with this nonsense tomorrow. My sympathy is minimal for those who sit in front of me reeking of cigarette smoke and who incurred such negative financial circumstances through living beyond their means. What business do you have eating at Cheesecake Factory or having a high Comcast bill and then screaming "it's not fair" when you receive a fee for going negative with your account? Unlike a lot of UPMC employees I am fully capable of looking in the mirror when I overspend and assign blame squarely where it belongs---not displacing my anger and frustrations onto others. When I see that these people receive a net pay higher than my own via direct deposit why SHOULD I have any sympathy when I'm capable of living resourcefully on a more meager salary? You just have to love how people assume you make so much more money than they do just because you wear a suit.

Call me whatever names you'd like, jay5835. I'm standing my ground that I'm not paid nearly enough to endure the sob stories of people who earn more than I do and still can't break even financially due to a lack of discipline. Let UPMC employees pick up second jobs like many of my colleagues do. Otherwise their employer is NOT unique in undercompensating their employees.

so you (obviously) work for PNC and spend some of your time there peeping at people's spending habits and passing judgment on them*? looking forward to all the "bootstraps" advice people give you when you're on here soon whining about being unemployed.

edit- *in a public forum on the internet

[Neckbeard89]

Don't bank guys get paid commission? If you are underpaid it is your fault. I have been in this city for a very short while and have already climbed to an assistant manager position at a very well known electronic store. Start working as hard as us southerners do and maybe you'll achieve enough that you don't have to whine on the internet about it, jerk.

[Copanut]

I always felt if I wasn't making the money I thought I was worth, the problem must be me. Quit complaining and work harder, or get more education, or whatever, life ain't fair, as Mr. Cope used to say n'at.

[Goodjules]

Originally Posted by Neckbeard89

Don't bank guys get paid commission?

By and large, no they don't. I worked in banking for 16 years. When I worked in Merchant Services we had a sales team that sold credit card authorization systems to retail stores. They were paid base salary + commission. There were some other sales areas that were paid this way, but the vast majority of bank employees are paid either hourly wages (non-exempt) or salary (exempt).

[Steely McBeam]

Originally Posted by Sideblinded

Now we just fight with eachother and get ticked off if god forbid a profession or company/union has decent retirement or pension benefits instead of asking why being compensated fairly is a luxury only deserved for the top 10%? Why not us? Corporations have won. They have succesfully pitted the (dwindling) middle class against eachother, immigrants and poor so we forget that record profits are being made, salaries are declining and the wealthy are raking it in. We even dare to ask for fancy perks like health care! If I hear "At least you have a job" one more time I will have to run into the nearest yoga studio to chill out.

lol @ the hoi polloi

[mangmang]

Originally Posted by Copanut

I always felt if I wasn't making the money I thought I was worth, the problem must be me. Quit complaining and work harder, or get more education, or whatever, life ain't fair, as Mr. Cope used to say n'at.

For me the problem isn't necessarily that S.C.R. is complaining about his salary (I mean, I do the same thing). He's isn't complaining about his paycheck directly. Instead he's making CHARACTER JUDGEMENTS about people who make more than him. ._.

[Copanut]

Agreed

[sparrowmint]

Originally Posted by Copanut

I always felt if I wasn't making the money I thought I was worth, the problem must be me. Quit complaining and work harder, or get more education, or whatever, life ain't fair, as Mr. Cope used to say n'at.

Well, aside from there being long term trends towards falling wages in America, that being a national trend, not individual failings. Everyone is replaceable and job security, let alone any kind of loyalty towards hard workers, doesn't exist. The cliches of the past should stay in the past. The just world fallacy is exactly what it says it is.

[Seekingcreativity]

That is a slap in the face. I'm wanting a raise and you're starting a food pantry? And you're asking the employees to contribute to it no less! Why can you not just give me a .50 or $1 raise?