Klarinet Archive - Posting 000143.txt from 2004/11

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: elections
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:17:46 -0500

I add to Walter's remarks that I, too, was in the corporate
business world, in my case for 30 years, and my perspective is
slightly different.

As long as the business is coming in strong and thing are not
only good but look good for the future, the corporate world is
anxious to provide benefits for its employees. And these benefits
range all over the financial and social spectrum. You ought to
see things like the Yahoo, eBay, and Google campuses. But in that
world, things are good and look good for the forseeable future.

But when things get difficult and it is not possible to predict a
supremely rosy picture for five or more years out, the tendency
is to draw back on benefits, reducing them as much as possible
because they are such a big chunk of the corporate expenses.
Sometimes they make changes so bold that the employees sue them,
and in several recent cases, won the suits.

I don't think that management behaves like the traditional (and
very much imaginary) business monsters because that is their
nature. They behave in whatever way they have to in order to
preserve the bottom line because their first objective is not the
workforce but the stockholders.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: GrabnerWG@-----.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:42 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] RE: elections

In a message dated 11/4/2004 10:50:04 AM Central Standard Time,
forestaten@-----.net writes:
When in
fact, his corporate buddies lurk in the wings saying, "Christ,
how the hell
will we be able to provide benefits to all of these people"?
"Save us, save
us.....">>

You are too charitable, Forest. Corporate America is busy trying
to figure
out how NOT to provide benefits. Mind you, I am not
anti-business, I was in
the corporate world for 20 years. But, this IS what is going on,
and has been
going on for a LONG time, and to ignore it or refuse to see it
is naive.

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetXpress.com
World-class clarinet mouthpieces

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