Originally Posted by LivingInMEM

This is one of the biggest misconceptions in this country right now. Who, besides yourself or your family, do you believe has your interests at heart? Certainly not your boss, and certainly not ANY politicians. Companies are not families, they are teams - and teams fire or retire coaches and players when they no longer perform.

The vast majority of this nation makes it way in the wake of a few bright, courageous, lucky, etc entrepreneurs. We have opportunities for employment because something (greed, drive, whatever) motivated them to go out and make their mark and at some point they decided they needed to hire employees to help them achieve that goal. As long as you or I can contribute to the organization, you or I can keep contributing. As long as Fred Smith keeps making decisions that keep FedEx at the forefront of this global industry, FedEx employees will benefit.

No one owes us anything, we owe it to ourselves to gain skills and knowledge that continues to be in demand. Part of our responsibility is to do our jobs in such a way that the company feels they can not do without us. Included with that is the role of communicating our contributions to the company. That is no different than if you were interviewing for a job and your interviewer asked you to explain why he should pay you $xxx vs hiring some new 250-hr commercial pilot and paying him $50,000 less.