Inflation- Just for laughs

[Spectrism]

I was talking with my boss last week. Pretty funny. He thinks salaries are rising the same as inflation costs. I did not want to say what I was thinking. I was being discreet. I wanted to ask him if he was going to double my salary to match the prices that doubled over the past year. But there are times when you know that willful ignorance cannot be denied. In reality, I am making the same amount I made in the late 1990s. Now if I factor the inflation and my loss of buying power into this, I am really at about 60%.

I think I scared him when I revealed that the federal reserve was not in our government. :o

BTW- I warned them that we were committing to our customers locked-in pricing for up to 5 years and I thought that was dangerous. I was told that there was no risk. ooooo-key-dokey.

[Twisted Titan]

I warned them that we were committing to our customers locked-in pricing for up to 5 years and I thought that was dangerous. I was told that there was no risk.


He's just getting ahead of the curve for when the gubbermint implements price controls.


He will be well adjusted for the remainder of his short lived business exsitence

[Silver Shield]

There is NO upside in talking to sheeple.

[mrnhtbr2232]

If that's your boss I'd start looking for another job. You make him out to be an idiot and identify him as someone with authority over you.

[osoab]

There is NO upside in talking to sheeple.


We were all sheeple once.

We must pick out the black sheep for reeducation.

[BillBoard]

There is NO upside in talking to sheeple.


You are correct. "The smart eats from the dumb" says the Colombians.

[Spectrism]

I learned to shut up in certain places and only openly discuss topics that could be digested by my conversants. I tend to shut up alot of time and let them learn the hard way. I share information freely and openly with those who will hear. Once I get a clue that they are afraid of the truth or that they imagine themselves wiser than wisdom, they are on their own.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

If I wasn't so convinced that society was going to see a massive paradigm shift soon, I'd be extremely worried about the track salaries are taking. They're barely rising at all, and inflation is going nuts.

[solid]

If I wasn't so convinced that society was going to see a massive paradigm shift soon, I'd be extremely worried about the track salaries are taking. They're barely rising at all, and inflation is going nuts.


My thought's exactly. I'm union, and our contract is coming do soon. The company wants no increase in our wages, but the union is going to push for a "cost of living" increase. That cost of living increase is roughly 4%. However, fuel has gone up 50% over the last year? I'm not sure exactly. Food, must be the around the same.

It's interesting, the history, apparently 10 years or so ago, my job in the past people were lining up to take, fighting for spots..this was due to the fact that it's fun, exciting, and you earned over 100K a year in today's dollars. Back then I'm not sure about the exact wage, but the spending power was equivalent to that.

Now, we make much less than that in today's dollars. We still have a lot of people trying desperately to get in, but this is because of the high unemployment rate, not the wage benefits.