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I work for a major railroad, they rake in money by the boatload, and pay their management accordingly. All of this by their own admission, I constantly recieve material from the company touting the massive profits and gains in bussiness achieved. I also expect to be compensated accordingly, however, employee salary and benefits always seem to be the first place the cost cutters look. The recent loss of jobs at Circuit City is a case in point, employees that were judged to be too highly paid, some by as little as .50 cents an hour were fired and replaced with lower paid workers. Again, that was fired, unemployed, S.O.L., buddy, not "downsized", or "subjected to work force reduction" or some other corporate euphimism. There is why there is little loyalty anymore. Profit to the upper management and shareholders is key. The fact that a person has given 20 yrs of his life to a company means little. The next time you go to by a T.V. and are met by a sloppy looking kid in tennis shoes and wrinkled pants, who knows absolutely nothing about the merchandise he is selling, think about that. It was not too many years ago you would have been met by an appliance salesman who knew his merchandise, and approached you in a proffesional way, and dressed accordingly. This bunch that has taken over Remington will manage it for profit, no doubt. A little plastic where metal used to be, a kid off the street fitting barrels where a guy with experience used to be, but who cares, management is getting rich, and the stockholders are getting rich, only the working man gets the shaft.
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