I worked for a large company that treated their employees fair when I joined around 1980 it was a family business that I felt a belonging. Family members where still on the board with one as chairman. They offered yearly Christmas bonuses, share saving schemes and discounts to staff after 5 years service, people stayed and worked hard to reach their 5 years service then if you stayed 25 years there was a golden handshake to be had. After being there 18 years the family retired from the board, the company had grown hugely and the board changed. Everything was stripped back no shares given no Christmas bonuses staff discounts cut by half. But the profits were still rolling in. So where did all the profits go?
All I can assume to the top bosses to line there pockets even more, hence I left and never made my 25 years service.
It is all about greed I believe, sod the people that run things at the bottom end of the work chain, we used to think we mattered in the good old days but all we became was a number. Nobody cares anymore, as long as the rich get richer.
Today I do mostly voluntary work I don’t get paid but I feel I am appreciated and get a thanks for what I do, that to me means more than a pay packet.
Sometimes in life it is about how we can help others and not about what we can get out of it for ourselves.
Rant over sorry
