whonew wrote:
momof4 wrote:
OMG, how on earth will American workers survive with out things like: casual dress day, the company picnic, take your kid to work day, or executive club memberships? The inhumanity of it!! I think most folks are just happy to have a job with any benefits at all. Some of the benefits listed in this editorial, are extravagant. I've never known anyone who worked where their employer helped them purchase a home or with an adoption or personal travel.

I struggle to understand where this kind of outburst against working people comes from.

Why is it worthy of such disdain to even so much as CARE what kind of benefits workers receive.

By the way: Sean and I BOTH work for a company that will help you purchase a home and that will help you adopt a child and that will pay domestic partnership benefits so now you actually do know someone.

McGraw-Hill actually cares about their worker's well-being and the "general welfare" of those in their company. It's obviously hard for you to imagine but hardly worthy of the kind of derision you just dished out.
It's jealousy rearing its ugly head.

If I don't get these things, no one should.

What they don't understand is people who get these benefits receive less in wages. 

Business doesn't 'give' things to employees, they compensate them for work. Your company and my company use paid benefits instead of higher wages to attract the best workers. It is a choice and I would be willing to bet we aren't compensated significantly better than similar companies that don't offer the same kind of benefit package.


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