Would you take a 5% paycut?

[Quick281]

95% of my old salary is better than 0%.

[Papa_Complex]

If I thought that management was being sincere, I'd take a 5% cut. Don't tell my union brothers that though, or the police will find me strung up from a lamp post in High Park.

If I could take a 3% cut and have just the last guy in the door turfed though, it wouldn't bother me one bit. Waste of fucking skin.

[Apoc]

Originally Posted by azoomm

What is better for the company is better for ALL the employees.

Whats best for companies wqould be to pay nothing and overwork everyone. I work for a huge, multibillion dollar zinc mining/smelting company. They dont give a fuck about me, which is why we have a union.

[Trip]

I would say yes if management also took the 5% and eliminated their golden parachutes and year end bonuses.

[Looni2ns]

Originally Posted by marko138

Yeah it reallys sucks.... But on the plus side...I still have a job.

That's it. You still have a job.

If it means the difference between having a job, and not having a job, in this day and time, I'll take a decrease. I've been laid off before. Not having enough money for essentials is scary.

azoom's right. The management should not ASK the employees if they'll accept a decrease. The decision should be made by management. That's management's job.

[OneSickPsycho]

I'd take it until I found another job.

[Cutty72]

Like a few others... take it, and take my things as soon as i found something else.
5% should be a liveable amount to lose.
In Rae's case though... 20% wow, that's a big chunk of change!

[Lamnidae]

Originally Posted by Trip

I would say yes if management also took the 5% and eliminated their golden parachutes and year end bonuses.

That was going to be my answer, but more along the lines of 10% off management's pay.....

[zed]

I was once told that I needed to take 1 extra day off a week, no choice. I wasn't happy about that and was really pissed once I figured out that all I had to do was bill out 2 hours a day to pay for my days pay + bennies. it also didn't help that I wasn't the low man on the pole in billed hours or time at the shop. I did it till I found another job. I was at a 70% effenciey rate while the guy they kept that wasn't there as long was around 30%

[rogue]

Originally Posted by zed

I was once told that I needed to take 1 extra day off a week, no choice. I wasn't happy about that and was really pissed once I figured out that all I had to do was bill out 2 hours a day to pay for my days pay + bennies. it also didn't help that I wasn't the low man on the pole in billed hours or time at the shop. I did it till I found another job. I was at a 70% effenciey rate while the guy they kept that wasn't there as long was around 30%

The typical..."it's not what you know, it's who you know...or who you blow..."