Ford May Close 5 North American Plants

In article >, joe schmoe wrote:

> You should have gotten a cut, you may well have even done so if you
> had documented what you had done, shopped out your services to
> establish what you were worth to the company or others and asked for a
> raise or gone to a company more interested in your services (i.e.
> willing to pay more).

You are correct, I've never been much of a braggart or one to do the
self promotion, more one who lets the work speak for itself and it
cost me politically in that environment.

> Shortly after I left high school I worked for a company that refused
> to pay their top performing salesman above their maximum level
> regardless of what he produced. He left, a year later the company
> folded. He got his raise, the companies owner got the shaft for being
> an idiot.

That's a nice difference between a publicly traded company and private
one. On a publically traded company it's almost impossible to shaft
someone like that.

> Unfortunately many CEO's wages are "determined" by a board stacked
> with their friends. Makes it hard to constrain pay.

That's another factor that ticks people off about it that I had
forgotten.