Capitalism has failed people. An executive makes a bad decision that costs hundreds of thousands of people jobs, but he gets either a huge severance or maybe a bonus. Cutting people, treating people as disposable, yet somehow they still have to pay enormous bills and huge taxes.
My CEO boasted he was republican, and started talking about his my 37% tax rate was because of liberals and social programs.
Hmm… I pay 37% tax.
This is fucked up:
“U.S. federal income tax brackets range from 10% to 37% for individuals. In Canada, the range is 15% to 33%. In the U.S., the lowest tax bracket for the tax year ending 2019 is 10% for an individual earning $9,700 and jumps to 22% for those earning $39,476. The corresponding bottom Canadian bracket stays at 15% until $47,630. This is the bulk of the reason that lower-income Canadians are often better off than their American counterparts.”
How am I paying the absolute highest tax possible, abd still living paycheck to paycheck?I mention this because
A.) Canada offers free healthcare
B.) They are happier, more peaceful, abd do not start wars.3.) I apparently pay more income tax than Jeff Bezos
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0411/do-canadians-really-pay-more-taxes-than-americans.aspx
New Zealand, which has the highest quality of life, and takes care of it’s citizens, who don’t start fights and wars, has far less taxes than America. Meanwhile,
Ahh that’s it. I wonder how they refute that.
The point of this is that he was using the company car, which he claimed to be worth $9500 a year, as leverage to not give me a raise. The handbook prohibits it’s use for personal use. I gave no equity, no deduction. It is not worth anything near that.
The IT section of the company is very in the red. He says not to disclose it, so I will not. He used this as leverage to emotionally manipulate me into not asking for a raise if even 5-10k, even though that would be .02% of the money they lose yearly.
He's not taking into account the full picture. Not only is the IT department an MSP fir profit, it is there to support, protect, abd enable the internal company. They cannot function without technology.
He hasn't considered the cost they have already paid for lack of security. They have been victoms of social engineering to almost 100,000 more than once. They are being sued by a former client who got ransomware. That is ongoing. This barely scratches the surface.
At this point I don't even want to bring it up or how to mention it, after the way I was manipulated in Friday. He's measuring the wrong metrics.
Besides, they have been losing money for 10 years. I signed in and they were losing more. It hasn't anything to do with me, in fact, I have made a lot of money and progress for them. It's complete bullshit that he used their loss as a tactic.
I’m evaluating options, but I know that it isn’t the same. I have been burned, and will focus on me, getting training, building myself up.
Inspiration 