Originally Posted by 1515greenlight

Jeeps,......

So do I feel I am "entitled" to a high paying job? No. I feel I am entitled to be compensated for my years of experience, my knowledge and my professionalism that is all proven to be 100% dead on accurate and correct every time I put 800,000 pounds of of metal, fuel and freight or in a damn small box at high speed. I feel my fellow professionals who haul SLF are due the same. I'm entitled to the respect of some peckerhead in a suit who can't tell the difference between an airplane and a firetruck, who sits in an office and manipulates numbers to claim I cost too much money for the airline and makes me take a cut in pay while he rakes in bonuses and destroys a company I proudly work for.

There's more, but I'm sure this is beginning to sound like a rant. It's not. But it's high time we stood up for ourselves and called it like it is. Should we be greedy? No. That's stupid and only aids in the demise of our company. But we should be compensated properly for the work we do. And we shouldn't be ashamed to demand it.

Funny thing is this. Most businessmen are conservative. I don't knock that. Ask yourself this. When was the last time you heard a banker, a doctor, a lawyer or a broker arguing with their compatriots that they made too much and would gladly work for less? Or that the "free market" should determine their compensation package?