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Old 11-09-2011, 08:15 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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Old 11-09-2011, 09:12 PM
 
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corporation donations and charities turn me off


corporations paying their employees good wages and treating them with respect turn me on!



it's funny watching that one show where the ceo works the same jobs as the peasants, and then sees how hard and boring and tedious the peasants work is, and really couldn't even do their job at all, but in the end still give the peasant a $5000 donation to the charity of their choice, instead of just giving the peasant the much needed money

it's quite sickening
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Old 11-09-2011, 09:16 PM
 
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corporation donations and charities turn me off


corporations paying their employees good wages and treating them with respect turn me on!



it's funny watching that one show where the ceo works the same jobs as the peasants, and then sees how hard and boring and tedious the peasants work is, and really couldn't even do their job at all, but in the end still give the peasant a $5000 donation to the charity of their choice, instead of just giving the peasant the much needed money

it's quite sickening
I agree with you 100%. But the corporations are very few that actually care about their employees. The employees is what makes the company. With out them, there is not company. But yet they treat their employees like cattle. Work you to death, most not compensating enough for their time and energy spent. And what I am seeing more and more of, is getting laid off with retirement pension right around the corner.
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Old 11-09-2011, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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corporation donations and charities turn me off


corporations paying their employees good wages and treating them with respect turn me on!



it's funny watching that one show where the ceo works the same jobs as the peasants, and then sees how hard and boring and tedious the peasants work is, and really couldn't even do their job at all, but in the end still give the peasant a $5000 donation to the charity of their choice, instead of just giving the peasant the much needed money

it's quite sickening
That show is called "Undercover Boss." And you must not have watched too many episodes!
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Old 11-09-2011, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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I agree with you 100%. But the corporations are very few that actually care about their employees. The employees is what makes the company. With out them, there is not company. But yet they treat their employees like cattle. Work you to death, most not compensating enough for their time and energy spent. And what I am seeing more and more of, is getting laid off with retirement pension right around the corner.
Evidence, please. Which corporation is doing this?
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Old 11-09-2011, 09:22 PM
 
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Evidence, please. Which corporation is doing this?
Wells Fargo for one, seen it way to many times, and I only worked there for a year and a half.
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Old 11-09-2011, 09:24 PM
 
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More examples?

Texaco/Ecuador massive pollution:

Texaco Goes on Trial in Ecuador Pollution Case - New York Times


Goldman Sachs market manipulations driving up food prices:
How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis - By Frederick Kaufman | Foreign Policy

British Petroleum (BP) and their role in the 1953 Iranian Coup and covert Operation AJax to overthrow the democratically elected Iranian govt:
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: BP AND THE AXIS OF EVIL
1953 Iranian coup d'état - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(before operation AJax screwed up Iranian democracy, Iran had more women in universities per capita than even the United States!)
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Old 11-09-2011, 09:25 PM
 
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Solyndra, yeah, Obama's buddy corporation is a perfect example for this thread.

GE....another! they didn't pay ANY taxes this last year? I keep hearing this, hmm...

GM...I wonder....oinking at the govt. trough, too? GREED.....solyndra took our money and reportedly had some fabulous, corporate digs.
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Old 11-09-2011, 09:26 PM
 
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I agree with you 100%. But the corporations are very few that actually care about their employees. The employees is what makes the company. With out them, there is not company. But yet they treat their employees like cattle. Work you to death, most not compensating enough for their time and energy spent. And what I am seeing more and more of, is getting laid off with retirement pension right around the corner.
Some of you think way too highly of yourselves.

I realize that I am an average working person with above average sales ability.

I realize that my value to my boss is limited to what I bring to the table.

I don't think for a second that I could replace him.

He, on the other hand, could replace me tomorrow.

I'm not saying that I couldn't get another sales job in an hour, but I really don't want to.

The president, CEO, CFO, etc. of a company are what make a company operate, not the workers.

Never forget that.
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Old 11-09-2011, 09:26 PM
 
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Wells Fargo for one, seen it way to many times, and I only worked there for a year and a half.
Evidence? Explain: how many hours were you forced to work? How little pay were you forced to accept?
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