God it's so transparent. I'm a software engineer, and I have first hand built software that has made my business teams and execs wealthy. I have sat there and watched them buy new audis and new houses while I'm told "sorry we can't afford a raise this year". And I know I do better than most being in software, but man do they want to keep us arguing about that while they go and buy everything while we squabble.

John Deere CEO, John C May, took $23 million in bonuses this year.

He also laid off almost a thousand guys just in my town alone.

Can we eat the rich yet?

That's a shit ton of Costco pizza.

Been there, seen that. We were asked (a long time ago) to forego our Christmas bonus (which was part of our employment contract, so they could not just scrap it) because the company had problems and might get rid of some coworkers if we did not accept this. Later, we learned that this money was needed to finance a managers' golden parachute.

If the company buys "motivational presents" for employees.... the company is already several years or more behind the employment market. You're not unionizing hard enough.

My former employer was tight on funds. We ended up with two rounds of layoffs (hence former). It was when I found out that the owner had a boat that I became disenchanted.

"I have costs." statement is the response for everything, every year. It looks like these type of people come from the same template, read the same book about starting the business.

Well yeah, the first two yatchs were getting lonely. Did you ever stop to think of their feelings? Starving children in Africa weep at their plight.

Hey, this isn't antiwork