Originally Posted by echelon

By the time we start negotiating, the big 4 will have already negotiated new contracts, that will even further extend their lead over ours. From where I sit, it looks like we'll be lucky to achieve 2018's industry standard by 2024, let alone 2020's industry standard in 2020.

If someone else calls, I'm gone. I don't have the patience to look forward to maybe, possibly, in a decade, potentially, as a result of years and years of exhausting negativity and constantly deteriorating management relations and increasingly hostile work environments, finally getting something that everyone else had 10 years ago. I'm approaching 2 years here and I've seen enough.