[Am-info] Microsoft cuts benefits

[Fred Miller]

On Thursday May 20 2004 5:00 pm, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
> Saw a blurb go by on CNN that Microsoft is cutting employee benefits:
>
> Certain healthcare benefits,
>
> Stock discounts,
>
> etc.
>
> No doubt Microsoft's financial picture is not as rosy as they and their
> willing accomplices in the Press promote...
>
> Meanwhile, employees can still use the Microsoft gym for free for now.
> And they still get free soda.
>
> And Microsoft supposedly sits on $50 billion in cold cash,
>
> and Gates supposedly is worth $40 billion or so.

MOST of the "wealth," last I knew, was on paper. True, a lot is stocks - not 
all their own.

> But no matter, the Microsoft employees benefits get cut first.

Of course.

> Sooner or later, those employees will rise up and rebel against Gates
> and his thugs.

How long have we been waiting for that to happen, and it hasn't.

> It won't be pretty.

'Hope so.

Fred

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