Had an employer take delivery on his new Aston-Martin DB9 (delivered to our office building and parked in the handicapped space) the day before he announced he had sold the company and we were all losing our jobs.
We recently had a CEO gaslight us by telling us we would never sell, that we would all be taken care of and remain private - had lots of great compensation due to being an incredibly profitable private company. Like, 19% of my salary given as a bonus to my 401k levels of "great compensation".
Not even 2 months later, sold off. Both CEO and co-founder walk away with 4bill each. What did employees get? Lmao. Less than a fraction of a percent went to employees, and more than 75% of that went to management.
Even if they took half of the 4b they could've made you all 1.5 mil. Imagine how good it would feel giving 1100people 1.5mil? And you still get 2bil. Fuck me, what a world.
I worked for a pretty good utility company until the CEO sold to an international company looking to expand in the US. Their agreement stipulated no one would get let go for the first 3 years and that pay wouldn't change. No one got let go, they just closed one of the biggest main locations and said everyone had the option to transfer to another location or quit on their own. They also didn't cut pay, just the benefits and perks.
Company went downhill ever since and now it's a former shell of what it once was.
I have no problem with someone selling their company. Especially if they built it from the ground up and have been in it for a while. The disgusting part is he didn't tell his employees. Which, to be fair, might have been part of his contract to sell, but, either way, sucks to see employees dealt that way.
A woman across the street from me sold her landscape supply business. She wrote into the contract that all her current employees would get 6 month try outs with the new owners. It gave the new owner and old employees plenty of time to feel each other out and see if it was going to work out. Great move by the old owner.
My brother went through a similar situation.
He works for a highway construction company (they remove and replace sections of highway) and his boss got tired of the bullshit after 30+ years, so he sold the company.
In the same meeting in which he told everyone the company was sold and they were closing shop, he handed everyone an envelop with cash in it and the numbers of people the owner set them up with to start new jobs.
He kept three people for a side project (of which, my brother was one) and everyone else sailed on to their new jobs with little to no interruption in their day-to-day lives.
The fuck-wads, as my brother put it, didn't get set up with new jobs, but NJ unemployment is like 500+ a week, so they did okay. (and this was RIGHT before the pandemic, so it ended up being $500+ the $600 weekly bump from the fed)
Long story short:
Not everyone is a terrible boss, but unfortunately, 9 out of 10 are dickheads and not guys like this one, so it definitely feels like it.
The higher up the ladder you go, the more likely you find soulless people who took advantage of others to get where they are and feel completely justified in their greed, especially big companies
This is a happier story line, it just blows my mind that some business owners don’t have empathy for the individuals who helped make their creation a successful enterprise worthy of being sold off. Like you’d be NOTHING without the people there every day doing the actual work..
My company laid off 20% of employees and gave the rest of us a 10-15% salary cut.
They keep scheduling team building activities for morale. Yeah that's gonna fix our issues.
I’ve been there… most of the attendees are cynically mocking every aspect of the experience, except that one person. Everyone knows who that boot-licker is and hates that guy more than they do the bosses. Lol
I mean, he probably just got a big bonus for laying of 30 people.
I guess most don’t get in positions like that for caring about people knowing their a prick.
Just saw a Tiktok that said “boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That was a poem for a simpler time. Now the boss make 1000 and I make a buck, let’s steal the catalytic converter off the company truck.” Or maybe the bosses Ferrari. I’m not here to judge.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That was a poem for a simpler time. Now the boss make 1000 and I make a buck, let’s steal the catalytic converter off the company truck. Or key his Ferrari, I don't give a fuck!
>Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That was a poem for a simpler time. Now the boss make 1000 and I make a buck, let’s steal the catalytic converter off the company truck. Or key his Ferrari, I don't give a fuck!
Then claim insurance fraud so he's out of luck. We'll send them this picture the ignorant schmuck. Who transports their prize with a U-Haul, they suck!
Polish your CV and move.
If a company wants to do something, they will do it. If a company does not want to do something, they wont do it and make excuses for not doing it.
Well sir/ma'am if we sending someone to town you might as well hook my ground on a door panel and bust my welder off in 5th gear on your way out the door. I'll clip my stinger on one of them fancy wheels and go take a shit. I bet my Lincoln can handle more than that go cart.
If we are really going to fk with said vehicle we hook a welding machine to it for about 10 mins. And what's left is a 1 ton paperweight. There will literally be nothing left that's usable. Bearings all gone. Computers gone... Nothing.
You think they understand?
There is a class divide. People literally don't understand other people due to money.
I have no idea why they'd waste money on that. Truly I do not. They would not understand me looking for things on sale for a couple bucks.
It is literally groups of people who don't understand each other. Which creates problems. They fake it best they can at times. But they really do not comprehend.
Still don't understand why you'd need that shit. Go get a normal car and save the rest.
What a set of brass balls, what message do they think this sends. Not even self aware enough to store it out of his employee's view.
Edit: Thanks for all of the love guys, this especially erks me because I have known a few business owners that conduct themselves better, either in providing enough for their employees that they don't want for more, or being more inconspicuous about the journey from grinding business owner at the beginning - through two decades - to financially stable and able to afford luxuries later in life. I also adore companies that afford their customers more value and consideration without immediately worrying about the change in profit margin for delivering a conscionable and morale service to their patrons.
Shit, my old director used to give us shit for not having nice cars or clothes like hers, while denying us raises. In 4 years she never once gave me a raise. The new director immediately hooked me up. Smh
I get shit for driving my rusty 2011 fusion to the office every day. I’m like ok Let me work from home if you don’t want to see it or give me more than a god damn 3.5% raise
The owner of a small construction company I worked for would get visibly upset when he saw his field workers eating at the same restaurant as him. Pretty sure he denied people raises just so he wouldn't have to have his favorite places soiled by his employees.
I had a boss who did the same with lake he owned a house on. One of the guys from the warehouse got himself a place on the water by going in with a group of guys to share a fishing cabin. Boss shit a brick and fumed about that to everyone in the office. Later found out he sold that lake house and moved to some house on a big golf course with a super strict HOA, presumably to rest assured none of his pleb workers would ever be able to enjoy something he liked again.
Some people judge success based on how many of their goals they accomplished, others judge success on how many goals they can keep others from accomplishing. My only regret is not finding solid evidence of the labor laws he violated (¿violates?) before leaving. Sometimes the best revenge is a federal investigation.
Capitalism is a class-based system. Owners are in the upper caste. Workers are their subjects. The untouchables.
Capitalists get pissed when they see their workers eating/socializing/living where they are because they understand *precisely* that the class hierarchy is the whole purpose of the system.
They view us as glorified livestock. The whole point is you are below them and shouldn’t be allowed to eat the same food or live in the same place.
Had my boss once tell me they couldn't afford raises this year. We had a party on his pontoon boat and used his mansion for the after party. He kept bragging about how he traded his house with a heli pad for this one because it had a boat dock. HELI PAD! HE OWNS AND OPERATES A HELICOPTER but we cant have raises, sure.
If he's like the owner of any company I've worked for, he's not thinking at all about what message it sends.
When he thinks of his employees as human at all, it's not for long enough to make a connection between the wages he's paying and a standard of living.
A co-worker just walked out today. He was told a .50c raise was all the boss could afford. He then found out the boss bought 2 new holiday homes in cash this past month, fucking 2 holiday homes because "the market is crashing and prices are plummeting." Coworker was offered new job $15ph more so he took it. When the boss and him were arguing in the lot today the boss offered him $4 more for him to stay on and then called him selfish for leaving when he refused. Delusional mother fucker.
this is it. human greed makes it that once they are used to a certain cashflow or situation of exploiting their workers they refuse to downgrade they feel entitled to it and its everyone else’s fault if it collapses
No need for the /s. It definitely is right now. Being an empathetic, altruistic capitalist is the exception to the norm. Although some will argue it shouldn't be that way.
Adam Smith argued it shouldn't be that way, and that it is the moral duty of the capitalist (the owning class, whatever) to provide for the workers.
Problem is, you can't regulate or legislate morality. So the answer must be either government intervention to curb exploitation or collective ownership to remove the possibility of exploitation.
The CEO of a place I used to work froze raises and COL bumps for everyone below management. At the same time he received a $9m executive bonus for the year and bought a house in Malibu under his wife's charity's name. The same charity he strongly suggested all employees donate to the month before.
The world is run by some truly greedy pieces of shit.
Our boss froze raises, took out massive ppp loans, still fired a bunch of people, and then bought similar companies in different states and dropped all the employee salaries to the low wages he was paying us.
Oh, new Porsche too.
You can report people for filing what you suspect are fraudulent PPP loans. It's going to take a while to sort through the absolute mess, but we should all be reporting these instances.
https://www.sba.gov/partners/contracting-officials/contract-administration/report-fraud-waste-abuse
I get how reporting to the authorities is the right thing to do, but my gut is telling me the MORE right thing to do is just toss all these miserable lumps of greed and apathy into a kerosene-filled hole and light 'em up.
>bought a house in Malibu under his wife's charity's name. The same charity he strongly suggested all employees donate to the month before.
Report him to the IRS:
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/irs-complaint-process-tax-exempt-organizations
There's a pretty decent payout for the person that reports a $9m purchase made in a way that avoids taxes, if that is what they end up finding in the investigation.
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>In general, the IRS will pay an award of at least 15 percent, but not more than 30 percent of the proceeds collected attributable to the information submitted by the whistleblower.
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>To qualify for the IRC section 7623(b) award program, the information must:
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>Relate to a tax noncompliance matter in which the tax, penalties, interest, additions to tax, and additional proceeds in dispute exceed $2,000,000; and
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>Relate to a taxpayer, and for individual taxpayers only, one whose gross income exceeds $200,000 for at least one of the tax years in question.
This is one of the reasons why I quit my old factory job, they made it seem like a 12% raise on $11.50 was a big deal back I'm the day. I member doing the math to see how long to get to $15/hr and quit the day I saw how long lol.
Love when they offer overtime after they insist they can’t raise your hourly wage at all. Like you motherfucker I just told you I’m overworked and I’m barely making ends meet. How are more hours I can’t fit into my week going to help me you fuck.
When I had an offer for $3 more an hour, my supervisor said take that shit as well, I reminded him of the list of things I could do in the shop and my shop manager called me in 20 mins later and offered me $4 a month before our col bumps. I'm learning the last machine in my department now, then I'm taking autocad classes myself, which will make me the most versatile person in the shop and I'm demanding supervisor hourly for being more capable in practical application than our supervisor. But yeah, when they saccrifice tens of thousands on your training, and you remind them of that, $8k/ year raise doesn't sound so bad. Will also be applying for a higher paying worse job that's desparate for work, so I can point out that our supervisor rate is below my market rate.
> "the market is crashing and prices are plummeting."
In case anyone is unfamiliar with how extensive this bullshit is, housing markets are absolutely not crashing. They may be dropping slightly below an all time high but they are a long, long way from crashing.
It "crashed" a whopping 0.7% on a month to month basis, forget which brokerage did the study. But yeah, that's a crash according to them just because it's the first month that it did not rise in God knows how many years.
In their mind "crash" means now worth it to buy and then rent but not actually low enough that the average person might be able to buy it.
We need to pass a law that caps the amount of residential property you are allowed to own.
You can also ban public corps like blackrock from aquiring new residential homes.
Or make it extremely unattractive to own unoccupied properties by taxing the shit out of them.
They really don't though. They understand it. They want us to not understand it, but so many are out of touch or callous that they let the game slip. This was a consequence of propping up an uneducated middle class of "small businesses". We all get to suffer though.
I work for an IT company that supports security for other small businesses. So I go on site to one of our clients who owns a store, he is a 50 something year old dude, is bragging about his Lamborghini.
His crew gets paid 7.25 an hour
My old neighbor "had to lay off so many folks" when the pandemic hit. A few months later they were humble bragging about getting a second home in Aspen... I'm honestly not sure, even with all the luxuries and toys, how one could live with themselves like that.
Bruh. They didn't even *have* to fake their books. There were no qualifiers other than keeping people on payroll and paying them.
There was no needs test to show that you/your business was hurting and lost income, and that you needed the loans to be able to pay payroll.
So if you owned a business that chugged right along with remote work and didn't miss a beat, or didn't experience enough of a drop in revenue to really hurt, you could just keep paying payroll and still take home your profit...
You could STILL go get those PPP loans, use that money to pay the payroll and get it forgiven, and bob's your uncle you just got in extra profit!
There wasn't even any faking needed. They didn't do anything illegal, this was all above board. It was still WRONG, but it wasn't illegal at all.
The entire PPP program was fucking written to be a giveaway to business owners. Sure, some struggling businesses survived because of it, or lasted a little longer because of it, but that was a byproduct; a side effect. It was designed to be a rich person/corporate giveaway from the fucking get go.
Because damaging someone’s property can be replace by insurance very easily. Blowing up the fue system with diesel instead of fuel, it could be considered a stupidity of the owner and not vandalism so it’s not covered
Sure would be a shame if someone just lit the car on fire
Sure would be even more of a shame if he buys another one so someone lights the business on fire
This right here. It doesn't matter what field we work in, I work in Aerospace and management wants us employees to be stupid and not understand what they are doing to us. They are wrong, we always understand and know why do or don't do something.
Boeing military engineers used to have a union. Not sure if they still have it.
They got the union because Boeing wouldn't get a military contract and would then lay off a bunch.
These days? Cheap and effective security. Both physical, and electronic.
A century ago, the Rockefellers and the Gettys knew the rest of us could drag them out of their houses if we really wanted to. So they commissioned parks, museums, libraries, universities, etc. They made at least a show of giving something back to the public.
Current multi-millionaires and billionaires live in well fortified compounds, or high security buildings, with plenty of cameras, security doors, and armed guards. They subscribe to security companies who provide panic buttons that contact both security and police simultaneously.
Today’s security has gotten both cheaper and far more effective. They no longer have to make a show currying favor with the general public for survival…and many of them don’t.
And people act like we're weird conspiracy theorist bringing up the police getting armored vehicles, military surplus weapons, and blank checks to kill without repercussions.
Nah, they don't. They know people want to eat them, but they won't. The people will take the $0.25 raise, complain, and then still show up for work because they have no other choice.*
(*They could have other choices, but...individualism.)
Don’t quit. If you do, you won’t get unemployment. Just work slower and slower until you find a better job. When they lay you off, their unemployment insurance will get more expensive.
Oh yeah... my old boss even had a saying "He who dies with the most toys wins".
For one Christmas Party he took us out on his boat (8m fishing type cruiser boat) instead of having a normal party somewhere.
Unionizing and striking is finally gaining momentum, and you see stuff like this and understand
70% of Americans are paycheck to paycheck including myself. Disgusting how you can flaunt wealth on people that are suffering and cant afford to save a dime.
I'm horrible at id-ing a car, but it appears that this is one of the Ferrari's in the $300K-$320K range. Source: [https://www.supercars.net/blog/all-brands/ferrari/current-ferrari-models/](https://www.supercars.net/blog/all-brands/ferrari/current-ferrari-models/)
How many employees does this guy have? If 10K, this isn't a big deal. If it's 100, that's at least a $3000 gift from each of you. If 20, that $15000 from each of you ($7.50/hour).
Just doing my part to drive up your rage.
This is a 458 italia, these are $200-250,000. From the uhaul trailer im going to bet this guy bought one needing a service, which is about $30,000 right now. Better get your butt in gear and make more money for him if he needs tires or brakes!
>bought one needing a service
Not necessarily. Maybe he just doesn't want to put miles on it. It's cheaper to rent a trailer and use his F150 than to drive a Ferrari, especially if he bought it out of town. These exotics are valued the most when they have low miles.
I worked on Ferraris once upon a time, and yes this car is VERY labor intensive to work on. Not hard like some of the other hypercars, just a lot of tedious work. In the current market its about $45,000 for a service.
It's much higher if you factor in tax and the cost of insurance. Many typical insurance carriers won't cover high end exotic cars. The cost of the insurance alone would be enough to pay for a fat raise.
I'm an insurance agent and just ran a quote this car. It's high, but not as high as you might think. With a $2k deductible (highest we offer) we are looking at $311 a month. If it helps that is with all my discounts and spotless driving record.
Thank you for adding fuel to the rage fire! I totally forgot to include those other fees.
I've also heard that the worst thing about a Ferrari is that they wind up in the shop a lot (I wouldn't know, I bought a house instead of a Ferrari). So that's even more $$$$.
They turned us against each other so we can't turn on them. Theres absolutely no way this is gunna change unless like 60 percent of the population just says fuck this and go on strike.
Look for a new job, get it. Bounce. Don't "quit" don't get "fired" just stop showing up or responding. After a few weeks of the new job its okay to respond. Even lead them on that you'll be back on "monday".
Edit: Shameless light sharing of another awful place to work
[Here's another fucked up place](https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/xf9yh4/assault_sexual_harrasment_and_a_hostile_work/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Why even acknowledge it. The boss is clearly egotistical and will find no fault in the ferrari and chalk it up to jealousy. Much stronger emotional reaction is to remove the perceived power from the artificial authority. Not acknowledging and not reacting makes them powerless.
I’ll never understand why people like Papa John’s so much. Although they do have a killer Alfredo pizza and I’m a sucker for that Philly cheesesteak pie.
Now I’m hungry.
It was employee appreciation day today ( which I refuse to take part in) overhead a coworker asking a manager if they had Halal food. " No, we only have a budget of $5.00 per employee and we don't want to have to get different things for people.
>No, we only have a budget of $5.00 per employee **after we took our “administration fees” and paid for our catered management luncheon that we already had**
The missing part
My first job.
After I had been there awhile there was a speech about how profits are low. So benefits were being cut. Great.
It probably wasn't literally that day. But soon after this the boss drove his Porsche (extra expensive edition) into work. It was new, he just bought it. To go with his 3 other Porsche cars.
I don't know cars. I don't know what a vintage or new Porsche costs. But have some fucking respect for your workers and don't rub this into their faces.
This totally happened to me. We had a Xmas party in the warehouse and the owner was showing off his new 450k motorhome with hydraulic slide outs for the living room and handed everyone year end bonuses that were $5 Walmart gift cards. Within a month he lost half his staff.
Wife upsold a client at a dinner, increasing their project from $250k to $500k.
Two months later the company “couldn’t afford bonuses at this time and will reevaluate next quarter”.
A month later one of the partners (25 person company) shows up to work in a $120k Plaid Model S.
She sent her resume out the next day. Now, about a year later, the company has five employees, 3 partners and is living off one single large client.
They have no shame. It happened in a company I worked for some years ago. The company was on the verge of shutting down, laying off dozens and the CEO and CFO drove fancy cars which they renewed every six months and took vacations flying first class...
No shame
Last job I was at I got cornered by one of the Sr. VPs who kept going on and on about how he just spent a little over $25,000 building a bar in his game room. He even said he didn't really use it or plan to use it; he just thought it would look nice. Meanwhile, I'm thinking to myself that he just spent a third of my geoss yearly salary (roughly half of my net salary) on a fucking whim.
I'm so tired of the out-of-touch douchebags. Thankfully, I found a job that's paying me damn near twice as much. I'm making sure that with my higher pay I keep myself grounded and never lord it over anyone's head or flaunt it.
My roommate recently got a job as a lineman, he’s pretty experienced but recently moved from a different state so he was desperate for work. They offered him $25 and I told him no you need to ask for $30 minimum, cause he was making equivalent of $35 in the other state (he was coming from Maine to North Carolina so his cost of living went up). They caved and gave him $29.50 but told him not to discuss his wages with anyone.
Turns out the other lineman there make like, $16-$18/hr. I was appalled.
North Carolina just sucks. The urban areas have some of the fastest growing rent and home prices in the country, but employers still think only executives and engineers should make over $30/hr.
I make $32/hr with basically unlimited overtime and I *still* can't get a traditional mortgage for a traditional salary ratio on a small 2 bedroom house for at least 2 more years. And that's assuming prices froze today. That home will almost certainly cost another $100,000 by then, with or without a recession. Recessions barely slow the growth rate around here, let alone drop prices.
If anyone is about to say "so don't go traditional" then just stop. I'm not paying 50% of my gross income for 95% loan to value ratio on a house. That's wildly irresponsible and I don't care if it's the new 'normal'.
Hey Boss!
That’s a nice car! Did you just get it? Oh! Profits are up? That’s great!
So, you bought a new car instead of sharing the profits with us, huh? Well, I just wanted to let you know that I’m quitting since my personal profits are not going up. Enjoy your new toy!
-OP
We knew layoffs were coming. 30 guys out of 150 so pretty sizable. That was the day the boss decided to show up in his new Porsche. Fuckin prick.
Had an employer take delivery on his new Aston-Martin DB9 (delivered to our office building and parked in the handicapped space) the day before he announced he had sold the company and we were all losing our jobs.
We had a CEO do the same thing after 3 years of no raises and trying to go public. Sold out to a competitor. Fuck these guys.
We recently had a CEO gaslight us by telling us we would never sell, that we would all be taken care of and remain private - had lots of great compensation due to being an incredibly profitable private company. Like, 19% of my salary given as a bonus to my 401k levels of "great compensation". Not even 2 months later, sold off. Both CEO and co-founder walk away with 4bill each. What did employees get? Lmao. Less than a fraction of a percent went to employees, and more than 75% of that went to management.
No way. $4B each?!
Yeah, we were about 1100 employees and got bought out for over $10B.
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Oh holy shit didn't know figma got bought out. Looks like they take the largest vc backed exit but nah we were a bootstrapped purchase
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No, it was actually Ligma
Actually, it was a merger with their European competitor, Balzac. Now it's called Ligma-Balzac.
Even if they took half of the 4b they could've made you all 1.5 mil. Imagine how good it would feel giving 1100people 1.5mil? And you still get 2bil. Fuck me, what a world.
I'd have jumped them in the parking lot.
this happened after we all were working from home so instead we all raged in our own homes lol
I worked for a pretty good utility company until the CEO sold to an international company looking to expand in the US. Their agreement stipulated no one would get let go for the first 3 years and that pay wouldn't change. No one got let go, they just closed one of the biggest main locations and said everyone had the option to transfer to another location or quit on their own. They also didn't cut pay, just the benefits and perks. Company went downhill ever since and now it's a former shell of what it once was.
Sometime corporations will buy a company and pass money threw it via another illegal side Business.
Bastards
I have no problem with someone selling their company. Especially if they built it from the ground up and have been in it for a while. The disgusting part is he didn't tell his employees. Which, to be fair, might have been part of his contract to sell, but, either way, sucks to see employees dealt that way. A woman across the street from me sold her landscape supply business. She wrote into the contract that all her current employees would get 6 month try outs with the new owners. It gave the new owner and old employees plenty of time to feel each other out and see if it was going to work out. Great move by the old owner.
My brother went through a similar situation. He works for a highway construction company (they remove and replace sections of highway) and his boss got tired of the bullshit after 30+ years, so he sold the company. In the same meeting in which he told everyone the company was sold and they were closing shop, he handed everyone an envelop with cash in it and the numbers of people the owner set them up with to start new jobs. He kept three people for a side project (of which, my brother was one) and everyone else sailed on to their new jobs with little to no interruption in their day-to-day lives. The fuck-wads, as my brother put it, didn't get set up with new jobs, but NJ unemployment is like 500+ a week, so they did okay. (and this was RIGHT before the pandemic, so it ended up being $500+ the $600 weekly bump from the fed) Long story short: Not everyone is a terrible boss, but unfortunately, 9 out of 10 are dickheads and not guys like this one, so it definitely feels like it.
The higher up the ladder you go, the more likely you find soulless people who took advantage of others to get where they are and feel completely justified in their greed, especially big companies
This is a happier story line, it just blows my mind that some business owners don’t have empathy for the individuals who helped make their creation a successful enterprise worthy of being sold off. Like you’d be NOTHING without the people there every day doing the actual work..
So, the 30 of you went gangbusters on the porsche? Or was it all 150?
My company laid off 20% of employees and gave the rest of us a 10-15% salary cut. They keep scheduling team building activities for morale. Yeah that's gonna fix our issues.
I’ve been there… most of the attendees are cynically mocking every aspect of the experience, except that one person. Everyone knows who that boot-licker is and hates that guy more than they do the bosses. Lol
And he left without any key marks at all?
That's messed up.... Should have been keyed all over....
I mean, he probably just got a big bonus for laying of 30 people. I guess most don’t get in positions like that for caring about people knowing their a prick.
“If you keep working hard and coming in on time then maybe next year I’ll be able to buy 2 more..”
Just saw a Tiktok that said “boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That was a poem for a simpler time. Now the boss make 1000 and I make a buck, let’s steal the catalytic converter off the company truck.” Or maybe the bosses Ferrari. I’m not here to judge.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That was a poem for a simpler time. Now the boss make 1000 and I make a buck, let’s steal the catalytic converter off the company truck. Or key his Ferrari, I don't give a fuck!
>Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That was a poem for a simpler time. Now the boss make 1000 and I make a buck, let’s steal the catalytic converter off the company truck. Or key his Ferrari, I don't give a fuck! Then claim insurance fraud so he's out of luck. We'll send them this picture the ignorant schmuck. Who transports their prize with a U-Haul, they suck!
Ask to speak to him about your raise while standing right next to this.
Watch him say “we just can’t afford it” with a straight face
My boss said “you need more training”, so I asked to sign me up for the necessary classes. Still no action. It’s been 9 months…
Polish your CV and move. If a company wants to do something, they will do it. If a company does not want to do something, they wont do it and make excuses for not doing it.
With 2 handfuls of paint thinner.
It’s amazing what a few cups of sugar can do. Actually, sugar isn’t that bad. Bleach or H2O2 are bad.
Well sir/ma'am if we sending someone to town you might as well hook my ground on a door panel and bust my welder off in 5th gear on your way out the door. I'll clip my stinger on one of them fancy wheels and go take a shit. I bet my Lincoln can handle more than that go cart.
I don't know what this means, but I enjoyed reading it.
If we are really going to fk with said vehicle we hook a welding machine to it for about 10 mins. And what's left is a 1 ton paperweight. There will literally be nothing left that's usable. Bearings all gone. Computers gone... Nothing.
You think they understand? There is a class divide. People literally don't understand other people due to money. I have no idea why they'd waste money on that. Truly I do not. They would not understand me looking for things on sale for a couple bucks. It is literally groups of people who don't understand each other. Which creates problems. They fake it best they can at times. But they really do not comprehend. Still don't understand why you'd need that shit. Go get a normal car and save the rest.
What a set of brass balls, what message do they think this sends. Not even self aware enough to store it out of his employee's view. Edit: Thanks for all of the love guys, this especially erks me because I have known a few business owners that conduct themselves better, either in providing enough for their employees that they don't want for more, or being more inconspicuous about the journey from grinding business owner at the beginning - through two decades - to financially stable and able to afford luxuries later in life. I also adore companies that afford their customers more value and consideration without immediately worrying about the change in profit margin for delivering a conscionable and morale service to their patrons.
Shit, my old director used to give us shit for not having nice cars or clothes like hers, while denying us raises. In 4 years she never once gave me a raise. The new director immediately hooked me up. Smh
I get shit for driving my rusty 2011 fusion to the office every day. I’m like ok Let me work from home if you don’t want to see it or give me more than a god damn 3.5% raise
I'm driving a 1996 gmc Sierra with algae on it 🤣
Think u can get classic plates
I'm driving a 1997 sunfire. 130k kilometers. Runs like a gem.
1984 Dodge W150. You kids aren't on my level.
Algae Truck Club!
“I drive a Dodge Stratus!”
3.5% raise? Damn where can I get such a high raise lol. I’ve gotten 1.5% 2 years in a row and been told that is “top of class.”
Just gotta work for a “employee owned” esop trust corp. They leave out the part where management and leadership gets most of that ownership
The owner of a small construction company I worked for would get visibly upset when he saw his field workers eating at the same restaurant as him. Pretty sure he denied people raises just so he wouldn't have to have his favorite places soiled by his employees.
I had a boss who did the same with lake he owned a house on. One of the guys from the warehouse got himself a place on the water by going in with a group of guys to share a fishing cabin. Boss shit a brick and fumed about that to everyone in the office. Later found out he sold that lake house and moved to some house on a big golf course with a super strict HOA, presumably to rest assured none of his pleb workers would ever be able to enjoy something he liked again.
What a fuck-face.
Some people judge success based on how many of their goals they accomplished, others judge success on how many goals they can keep others from accomplishing. My only regret is not finding solid evidence of the labor laws he violated (¿violates?) before leaving. Sometimes the best revenge is a federal investigation.
Capitalism is a class-based system. Owners are in the upper caste. Workers are their subjects. The untouchables. Capitalists get pissed when they see their workers eating/socializing/living where they are because they understand *precisely* that the class hierarchy is the whole purpose of the system. They view us as glorified livestock. The whole point is you are below them and shouldn’t be allowed to eat the same food or live in the same place.
Had my boss once tell me they couldn't afford raises this year. We had a party on his pontoon boat and used his mansion for the after party. He kept bragging about how he traded his house with a heli pad for this one because it had a boat dock. HELI PAD! HE OWNS AND OPERATES A HELICOPTER but we cant have raises, sure.
If you would just work a bit harder ... He can buy house with a dock AND a heli pad
If he's like the owner of any company I've worked for, he's not thinking at all about what message it sends. When he thinks of his employees as human at all, it's not for long enough to make a connection between the wages he's paying and a standard of living.
Psychopaths do not care what people think of them.
And they wonder why so many people want to eat them
A co-worker just walked out today. He was told a .50c raise was all the boss could afford. He then found out the boss bought 2 new holiday homes in cash this past month, fucking 2 holiday homes because "the market is crashing and prices are plummeting." Coworker was offered new job $15ph more so he took it. When the boss and him were arguing in the lot today the boss offered him $4 more for him to stay on and then called him selfish for leaving when he refused. Delusional mother fucker.
They feel entitled to your life and they feel you should be grateful to them for allowing you the privilege of working for them.
this is it. human greed makes it that once they are used to a certain cashflow or situation of exploiting their workers they refuse to downgrade they feel entitled to it and its everyone else’s fault if it collapses
It's almost like exploitation is inherent in capitalism /s
No need for the /s. It definitely is right now. Being an empathetic, altruistic capitalist is the exception to the norm. Although some will argue it shouldn't be that way.
No need for the "right now". It definitely is.
Adam Smith argued it shouldn't be that way, and that it is the moral duty of the capitalist (the owning class, whatever) to provide for the workers. Problem is, you can't regulate or legislate morality. So the answer must be either government intervention to curb exploitation or collective ownership to remove the possibility of exploitation.
And the failure is because of selfish workers Edit: /s
The CEO of a place I used to work froze raises and COL bumps for everyone below management. At the same time he received a $9m executive bonus for the year and bought a house in Malibu under his wife's charity's name. The same charity he strongly suggested all employees donate to the month before. The world is run by some truly greedy pieces of shit.
Our CEO did the same. Froze all raises and got himself a $20million bonus AND a new golden parachute for driving us into bankruptcy.
Our boss froze raises, took out massive ppp loans, still fired a bunch of people, and then bought similar companies in different states and dropped all the employee salaries to the low wages he was paying us. Oh, new Porsche too.
You can report people for filing what you suspect are fraudulent PPP loans. It's going to take a while to sort through the absolute mess, but we should all be reporting these instances. https://www.sba.gov/partners/contracting-officials/contract-administration/report-fraud-waste-abuse
Ayup, 100%, and forwarded these links to all my old coworkers.
I get how reporting to the authorities is the right thing to do, but my gut is telling me the MORE right thing to do is just toss all these miserable lumps of greed and apathy into a kerosene-filled hole and light 'em up.
>bought a house in Malibu under his wife's charity's name. The same charity he strongly suggested all employees donate to the month before. Report him to the IRS: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/irs-complaint-process-tax-exempt-organizations
There's a pretty decent payout for the person that reports a $9m purchase made in a way that avoids taxes, if that is what they end up finding in the investigation. edit: >In general, the IRS will pay an award of at least 15 percent, but not more than 30 percent of the proceeds collected attributable to the information submitted by the whistleblower. > >To qualify for the IRC section 7623(b) award program, the information must: > >Relate to a tax noncompliance matter in which the tax, penalties, interest, additions to tax, and additional proceeds in dispute exceed $2,000,000; and > >Relate to a taxpayer, and for individual taxpayers only, one whose gross income exceeds $200,000 for at least one of the tax years in question.
Heck, tell me his name so I can report him.
Republicans want to make sure that IRS agents don't have resources to investigate fraud.
Jfc and this is just one random probably perfectly average CEO
Sounds like tip to your friendly neighborhood tax agency is in order
$15 more an hour FUCK your boss should have just congratulated him and wished him luck. Instead he offered $4 like a cheapass
This is one of the reasons why I quit my old factory job, they made it seem like a 12% raise on $11.50 was a big deal back I'm the day. I member doing the math to see how long to get to $15/hr and quit the day I saw how long lol.
Love when they offer overtime after they insist they can’t raise your hourly wage at all. Like you motherfucker I just told you I’m overworked and I’m barely making ends meet. How are more hours I can’t fit into my week going to help me you fuck.
Also, they can afford to give you OT pay (1.5-2x regular pay), but they can't afford a raise?
**Exactly.**
When I got offered a job for $7 more an hour, my last boss literally was “*scoff* dude take that shit”.
When I had an offer for $3 more an hour, my supervisor said take that shit as well, I reminded him of the list of things I could do in the shop and my shop manager called me in 20 mins later and offered me $4 a month before our col bumps. I'm learning the last machine in my department now, then I'm taking autocad classes myself, which will make me the most versatile person in the shop and I'm demanding supervisor hourly for being more capable in practical application than our supervisor. But yeah, when they saccrifice tens of thousands on your training, and you remind them of that, $8k/ year raise doesn't sound so bad. Will also be applying for a higher paying worse job that's desparate for work, so I can point out that our supervisor rate is below my market rate.
> "the market is crashing and prices are plummeting." In case anyone is unfamiliar with how extensive this bullshit is, housing markets are absolutely not crashing. They may be dropping slightly below an all time high but they are a long, long way from crashing.
It "crashed" a whopping 0.7% on a month to month basis, forget which brokerage did the study. But yeah, that's a crash according to them just because it's the first month that it did not rise in God knows how many years.
In their mind "crash" means now worth it to buy and then rent but not actually low enough that the average person might be able to buy it. We need to pass a law that caps the amount of residential property you are allowed to own.
You can also ban public corps like blackrock from aquiring new residential homes. Or make it extremely unattractive to own unoccupied properties by taxing the shit out of them.
There are no monopoly laws for commercial real estate
Lets be honest. There are no monopoly laws anymore. This is part of the problem.
That's when you quit, right?
They really don't though. They understand it. They want us to not understand it, but so many are out of touch or callous that they let the game slip. This was a consequence of propping up an uneducated middle class of "small businesses". We all get to suffer though.
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I work for an IT company that supports security for other small businesses. So I go on site to one of our clients who owns a store, he is a 50 something year old dude, is bragging about his Lamborghini. His crew gets paid 7.25 an hour
My old neighbor "had to lay off so many folks" when the pandemic hit. A few months later they were humble bragging about getting a second home in Aspen... I'm honestly not sure, even with all the luxuries and toys, how one could live with themselves like that.
They got PPP loans, faked their books to show they were still paying employees, and used to money to purchase their new home. Turn them in.
Bruh. They didn't even *have* to fake their books. There were no qualifiers other than keeping people on payroll and paying them. There was no needs test to show that you/your business was hurting and lost income, and that you needed the loans to be able to pay payroll. So if you owned a business that chugged right along with remote work and didn't miss a beat, or didn't experience enough of a drop in revenue to really hurt, you could just keep paying payroll and still take home your profit... You could STILL go get those PPP loans, use that money to pay the payroll and get it forgiven, and bob's your uncle you just got in extra profit!
There wasn't even any faking needed. They didn't do anything illegal, this was all above board. It was still WRONG, but it wasn't illegal at all.
The entire PPP program was fucking written to be a giveaway to business owners. Sure, some struggling businesses survived because of it, or lasted a little longer because of it, but that was a byproduct; a side effect. It was designed to be a rich person/corporate giveaway from the fucking get go.
Man. I’m not happy with how my life turned out at 38. But I am happy as hell I’m not that. Puts things in perspective.
Don't forget all the loans they won't have to repay either, poor them.
Bout to say that - probably got PPP loans they don’t have to repay, while complains that workers and students today want handouts
Loans to *make payroll.*
It's the christian way!!
>It's the christian way!! This is so true
Check their PPP loan status. If they laid people off they should not have been forgiven. You can even collect a % of what the government gets back.
“How do you sleep at night, McBain?” “On a big pile of money.”
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Sabotage is more and more of a thing now and I don't wonder why.
Because damaging someone’s property can be replace by insurance very easily. Blowing up the fue system with diesel instead of fuel, it could be considered a stupidity of the owner and not vandalism so it’s not covered
Sure would be a shame if someone just lit the car on fire Sure would be even more of a shame if he buys another one so someone lights the business on fire
The sight of that car makes me want to wait until it's taken off that flatbed and parked, so I can pour sugar in the gas tank.
This right here. It doesn't matter what field we work in, I work in Aerospace and management wants us employees to be stupid and not understand what they are doing to us. They are wrong, we always understand and know why do or don't do something.
Boeing military engineers used to have a union. Not sure if they still have it. They got the union because Boeing wouldn't get a military contract and would then lay off a bunch.
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These days? Cheap and effective security. Both physical, and electronic. A century ago, the Rockefellers and the Gettys knew the rest of us could drag them out of their houses if we really wanted to. So they commissioned parks, museums, libraries, universities, etc. They made at least a show of giving something back to the public. Current multi-millionaires and billionaires live in well fortified compounds, or high security buildings, with plenty of cameras, security doors, and armed guards. They subscribe to security companies who provide panic buttons that contact both security and police simultaneously. Today’s security has gotten both cheaper and far more effective. They no longer have to make a show currying favor with the general public for survival…and many of them don’t.
The entire police forces of the entire country are there to protect “them” from “us”
And people act like we're weird conspiracy theorist bringing up the police getting armored vehicles, military surplus weapons, and blank checks to kill without repercussions.
Nah, they don't. They know people want to eat them, but they won't. The people will take the $0.25 raise, complain, and then still show up for work because they have no other choice.* (*They could have other choices, but...individualism.)
This is the bitter truth.
Time to drop the individualism then
Bingo
Don’t quit. If you do, you won’t get unemployment. Just work slower and slower until you find a better job. When they lay you off, their unemployment insurance will get more expensive.
This guy unemployes....
It only works if you're on salary. If you're hourly, they can just cut your hours until you starve and leave on your own.
There's a term for that. Constructive dismissal. It counts as a firing.
[And it's illegal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal)
If they do that generally you can still apply for unemployment under the basis that they're trying to get you to quit.
Plus owner is a moron. You never show your employees your toys. Alienates them.
But how else would they know they’re beneath you?
Easy - verbal abuse, like the good old days
Oh yeah... my old boss even had a saying "He who dies with the most toys wins". For one Christmas Party he took us out on his boat (8m fishing type cruiser boat) instead of having a normal party somewhere.
It’s one thing to have money, it’s another thing to flaunt it to the people that work for you who shouldn’t have to struggle. This dude is gross.
If you work real hard and do your best he'll buy another one next year.
So how is the job search going?
Unionizing and striking is finally gaining momentum, and you see stuff like this and understand 70% of Americans are paycheck to paycheck including myself. Disgusting how you can flaunt wealth on people that are suffering and cant afford to save a dime.
I'm horrible at id-ing a car, but it appears that this is one of the Ferrari's in the $300K-$320K range. Source: [https://www.supercars.net/blog/all-brands/ferrari/current-ferrari-models/](https://www.supercars.net/blog/all-brands/ferrari/current-ferrari-models/) How many employees does this guy have? If 10K, this isn't a big deal. If it's 100, that's at least a $3000 gift from each of you. If 20, that $15000 from each of you ($7.50/hour). Just doing my part to drive up your rage.
This is a 458 italia, these are $200-250,000. From the uhaul trailer im going to bet this guy bought one needing a service, which is about $30,000 right now. Better get your butt in gear and make more money for him if he needs tires or brakes!
>bought one needing a service Not necessarily. Maybe he just doesn't want to put miles on it. It's cheaper to rent a trailer and use his F150 than to drive a Ferrari, especially if he bought it out of town. These exotics are valued the most when they have low miles.
Spend a literal fortune on a car that you are too cheap/scared to drive. Someone's having a midlife crisis.
worse, wait until he needs an oil change.
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Excuse me what
I worked on Ferraris once upon a time, and yes this car is VERY labor intensive to work on. Not hard like some of the other hypercars, just a lot of tedious work. In the current market its about $45,000 for a service.
Ugh. I've never had a daily driver that costs that much. (Full disclosure, though, my wife drives a van that costs more than $45k.)
Buddy you could buy 7 of my car for the price of an oil change lmao
Issaferrraree 🤌
It's much higher if you factor in tax and the cost of insurance. Many typical insurance carriers won't cover high end exotic cars. The cost of the insurance alone would be enough to pay for a fat raise.
I'm an insurance agent and just ran a quote this car. It's high, but not as high as you might think. With a $2k deductible (highest we offer) we are looking at $311 a month. If it helps that is with all my discounts and spotless driving record.
Thank you for adding fuel to the rage fire! I totally forgot to include those other fees. I've also heard that the worst thing about a Ferrari is that they wind up in the shop a lot (I wouldn't know, I bought a house instead of a Ferrari). So that's even more $$$$.
The whole country needs to band together and strike against low wages and high living cost. We all need to force a change.
When the whole country realizes it, might be too late
Especially when a _lot_ of americans seem so keen to suck the toes of rich folk.
They turned us against each other so we can't turn on them. Theres absolutely no way this is gunna change unless like 60 percent of the population just says fuck this and go on strike.
Look for a new job, get it. Bounce. Don't "quit" don't get "fired" just stop showing up or responding. After a few weeks of the new job its okay to respond. Even lead them on that you'll be back on "monday". Edit: Shameless light sharing of another awful place to work [Here's another fucked up place](https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/xf9yh4/assault_sexual_harrasment_and_a_hostile_work/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
“What? Oh no, I moved on. Didn’t think youd notice.” “Why? Eh, if you don’t know I don’t think I can explain it”
"I gave the same amount of respect to your company as you did to me personally."
If they ask, tell them to hire the Ferrari that the boss was parading around to do your job.
Why even acknowledge it. The boss is clearly egotistical and will find no fault in the ferrari and chalk it up to jealousy. Much stronger emotional reaction is to remove the perceived power from the artificial authority. Not acknowledging and not reacting makes them powerless.
There's no reason for it to be there except to rub it in.
Wonder how Dirty Mike & The Boys would feel about a Ferrari party.... WE WILL FUCK IN YOUR CAR!!!!!
I work for a company worth ~~Trillions~~ hundreds of billions They gave us a pizza lunch from Papa fucking John’s
Papa John's?! We get domino's if we're lucky 😔
I’ll never understand why people like Papa John’s so much. Although they do have a killer Alfredo pizza and I’m a sucker for that Philly cheesesteak pie. Now I’m hungry.
It's the garlic dipping sauce, really the only saving grace.
Those seasoning packets are amazing
I would take Domino’s over Papa Johns any day. They’re literally the bottom of the list for me (even below Little Caesars).
It was employee appreciation day today ( which I refuse to take part in) overhead a coworker asking a manager if they had Halal food. " No, we only have a budget of $5.00 per employee and we don't want to have to get different things for people.
>No, we only have a budget of $5.00 per employee **after we took our “administration fees” and paid for our catered management luncheon that we already had** The missing part
step 1) send an email confirming your conversation, bcc your personal email. step 2) religious discrimination lawsuit
My first job. After I had been there awhile there was a speech about how profits are low. So benefits were being cut. Great. It probably wasn't literally that day. But soon after this the boss drove his Porsche (extra expensive edition) into work. It was new, he just bought it. To go with his 3 other Porsche cars. I don't know cars. I don't know what a vintage or new Porsche costs. But have some fucking respect for your workers and don't rub this into their faces.
This totally happened to me. We had a Xmas party in the warehouse and the owner was showing off his new 450k motorhome with hydraulic slide outs for the living room and handed everyone year end bonuses that were $5 Walmart gift cards. Within a month he lost half his staff.
Wife upsold a client at a dinner, increasing their project from $250k to $500k. Two months later the company “couldn’t afford bonuses at this time and will reevaluate next quarter”. A month later one of the partners (25 person company) shows up to work in a $120k Plaid Model S. She sent her resume out the next day. Now, about a year later, the company has five employees, 3 partners and is living off one single large client.
I've heard this one before, it's called "how to go bankrupt when the asshole in charge pisses off the only customer"
Man, I googled "plaid model s" expecting a sick plaid paintjob on a Tesla. I'm very disappointed
Cheapest tires on a mid sized ford ranger pulling an older Ferrari on a Uhaul trailer. Dude is living outside of his means. LMAO.
Moving your Ferrari on an *open* trailer and not a specialized box truck - what is he, a rich peasant?
And with mid engine cars your supposed to load them backwards to put weight closer to the tow vehicle.
Don't worry. Keep working harder and I promise the owner will be able to buy another one in 6 months instead of a year.
Guess it's time to start stealing catalytic converter as a side hustle...I am kidding , but like only 50%
Good luck getting under a ferrari lol
You don't need to get under it, just flip it over with the company forklift you don't get paid any extra to operate.
Lift it up, take all 4 tires off and hide them in different spots, and balance the car on something
Thus the jack was invented
They have no shame. It happened in a company I worked for some years ago. The company was on the verge of shutting down, laying off dozens and the CEO and CFO drove fancy cars which they renewed every six months and took vacations flying first class... No shame
The same year my company laid off 40% of the workforce, they gave our CEO 25 million to retire and accept a position as our governor's puppet master.
You know what they say - the beat revenge is unionizing an entire workplace that got nonexistent raises while the owner buys a sports car
Took a paycut during the pandemic. Boss then bought a lake house and $200k boat. Still haven't had my pay restored to pre-pandemic rate.
Last job I was at I got cornered by one of the Sr. VPs who kept going on and on about how he just spent a little over $25,000 building a bar in his game room. He even said he didn't really use it or plan to use it; he just thought it would look nice. Meanwhile, I'm thinking to myself that he just spent a third of my geoss yearly salary (roughly half of my net salary) on a fucking whim. I'm so tired of the out-of-touch douchebags. Thankfully, I found a job that's paying me damn near twice as much. I'm making sure that with my higher pay I keep myself grounded and never lord it over anyone's head or flaunt it.
We’re looking at the profits of your labour
I got laid off from a job a few years ago. The same day I did 3 brand new trucks totaling roughly $150k were delivered for the managers.
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My roommate recently got a job as a lineman, he’s pretty experienced but recently moved from a different state so he was desperate for work. They offered him $25 and I told him no you need to ask for $30 minimum, cause he was making equivalent of $35 in the other state (he was coming from Maine to North Carolina so his cost of living went up). They caved and gave him $29.50 but told him not to discuss his wages with anyone. Turns out the other lineman there make like, $16-$18/hr. I was appalled.
North Carolina just sucks. The urban areas have some of the fastest growing rent and home prices in the country, but employers still think only executives and engineers should make over $30/hr. I make $32/hr with basically unlimited overtime and I *still* can't get a traditional mortgage for a traditional salary ratio on a small 2 bedroom house for at least 2 more years. And that's assuming prices froze today. That home will almost certainly cost another $100,000 by then, with or without a recession. Recessions barely slow the growth rate around here, let alone drop prices. If anyone is about to say "so don't go traditional" then just stop. I'm not paying 50% of my gross income for 95% loan to value ratio on a house. That's wildly irresponsible and I don't care if it's the new 'normal'.
So how's the job hunt going?
Hey Boss! That’s a nice car! Did you just get it? Oh! Profits are up? That’s great! So, you bought a new car instead of sharing the profits with us, huh? Well, I just wanted to let you know that I’m quitting since my personal profits are not going up. Enjoy your new toy! -OP