There's nothing like management saying we're rolling out a 5% pay cut across the board to interrupt every meeting and conversation going on inside the company.
Lets cut to the quick, no one is pleased to take a pay cut. Money, like clean air, is something people always want more of. I'm in the process of buying my first house so you should have been able to hear the groan from me where ever you were as I read the email.
However, given the choice of everyone taking a hit or shedding a couple of thousand more people I'd rather we keep those families and dependents in food, shoes and shelter.
But that's just my opinion.
We get five extra days holidays so that's five days earlier that HR will be mailing me with the annual warning they'll be sending me home if I don't book a holiday and go on it.
Well they used to mail me, now someone flustered just shows up and reminds me that the Big Blue Room isn't a waiting area and I should feel free to use it for a while.
Of course I won't have any money to go anywhere but that's a different issue... ;-)
