I agree. Some are obsessed with my original post because it provides a different point of view. I didn't mean for them to be drawn into it like one of those spinning pinwheel vortex things. Yet here we are, 15 pages later....

But having said that, what are your better ideas? I asked earlier, no one has wanted to answer. Profit sharing intact, same raise? Or 20% raise, ps intact, status quo on sick and LCA? Ideas? Or just whining with numbers to back the whining up? Seriously, what do you want to extract -exactly- if this is voted down?