Part Two: Would you like a new bad job?
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Posted By: prometheus Posted on: Sep. 8, 2006 at 5:28 PM |
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Sep. 9, 2006 at 10:00:18 AM
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| Could a CPA please tell me how I can write off $14-17K each year for using my car for work? I'm assuming, as with Prom's car, that I can still use it to go to Starbucks or pick up the kids from school. Otherwise the employer just appropriated my car without my selling it to them. There's a huge difference between purchasing a company car for your own business, and using your car for someone else's business. Welcome back AA. Missed you. |
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Sep. 9, 2006 at 10:12:18 AM
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| Missed you guys too. Enough mushy s***. I drive my van 40-45000 miles per year for my company and gain from it 36.5 cents per mile, and I think it went up this year to 37.5 , I might be wrong but I heard that somewhere, Turbo tax will verify it for me. That's serious money at tax time ny friend. |
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Sep. 9, 2006 at 10:30:17 AM
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| It works for you because you're self-employed and you're writing off all your milage. Prim can only write off miles related to his work. Do you think that he puts 45K miles/yr on his car for Bluebell? Let's say 600 miles a month, 7200 miles a year, $2700 deduction. That's a generous estimate. For that, Prom gets to prematurely depreciate his car, pay for insurance, keep it maintained, and fill 'er up. He may break even on it, if he's lucky -- that's the purpose of the tax write off. But the point is that companies like Bluebell have cost-shifted work-related expenses from the employer to the employee. Guess who pays for it? We do. That write off doesn't come for free. Any additional expense not offset by the tax break comes out of Prom's pocket. Looks like you have to pay to play more than ever when it comes down to getting gainful employment.
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Sep. 9, 2006 at 10:43:33 AM
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| But AA is a conservative and Prom is a liberal, so that works out about right. Or, maybe Blue Bell wants to hire illegals, because as we all know, they will do the jobs that Americans won't. |
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Sep. 9, 2006 at 02:31:10 PM
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| A.A. Try to pay your electric bill with your write-offs. Write offs are only good when there is a sufficient base of income. If This (Bluebell) were a good company to work for . . . Why is only one employee remaining (from when they originally came to town?) Most have moved on down the road, and the ONE who didn't, didn't because he is so broke he can't afford to leave (according to my sources). Next I will look at another giant corporation with an 80% or better employee turn over rate, CINTAS "The uniform people". I'll do it in the comments of this section just so I don't hog the articles section.
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Sep. 9, 2006 at 10:12:37 PM
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| I don't see anybody twisting arms to work for Bluebell. You don't like it don't work for them, don't eat their ice cream. Where is it written Bluebell owes you a job. Don't like Exxon don't by their gas, don't like Walmart don't shop there. Get the point? Don't like any of it figure a way to start your own business so you don't have to put up with that crap. I heard on the real estate show Arizona was number 2 in the US for obtaining jobs, Nevada was number one. Last year Arizona created more jobs than any other state in the nation. I have often said you could blind fold me drop me in any city in the nation with a nice set of clothes, ID and I will have a job within 24 hours. It might not be a job I love, but I will figure a way to pay my bills and work my way up the system. Liberal way= take care of me big companies you owe me. Conservative way= If you don't like it find another job or figure out a better way to do it myself. Liberal way= help me, give me a check, feed me, send me to school. Conservative way= I better get off my ass and figure this out because life is tough and nothing is free. Liberal way= keep everybody the same, nobody deserves the rise to the top and make all that money, it's not fair. Everybody is a winner nobody should fail. Conservative way= What a great country to rise to the top and be anything you want to be and once you reach the top help others figure it out. Donate time and money. The very rich on both sides make the world go round. Just read up on what Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, Waren Buffett are doing with money. Even people like George Soros, Carl Ican and Trump should be allowed to make fortunes and do whatever they see fit with money. That's what is great about America. And none of those guys owe you a job or anything else in this world. Give me a break.
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Sep. 9, 2006 at 10:27:05 PM
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| CINTAS, A company that looks good on paper!(the stock exchange)! Could end up the new crooked C (like an ENRONS crooked E). A new hire here get $11.00 an hour or more with time and a half for overtime! A lot of the training is than in how to disarm angry customers when their bill is wrong (to high) or their shirts say freck, instead of Fred, and other problems. Cintas teaches new hires to sell sizzle but not the steak. And After training, where paychecks can be quite large with the overtime, A new employee gets put on some funky payscale that no one in management can explain to them . . . has to do with volume, budget, extra sales and customer approval ratings? wtf[link:?uniformjustice.org] In California, Cintas (the walmart of uniform businesses)is involved in a class action lawsuit, where the employees simply want there old hourly wage back instead of this ripoff B.S. formula that they were forced to take. The only way to make decent money as a Cintas driver in Phoenix is if they award someone (butt kisser) with a Scottsdale route where the golf courses can afford to buy the jackets and shoes for their employees. Most all the other route drivers are chastised over poor sales (weekly meetings) and eventually leave. The guy I know and have known for about two years says that he is one of the only employees left from the time when I met him. Ironically he is the one they were really trying to get rid of (he's in his 50's). . . (they want young, strong and stupid). A new employee than starts to make regular pay which turns out to be just about the same low wage as all the other drivers without the Scottsdale routes . . . about half of what they made as unskilled trainees! A good way to tell if you work for a bad company is when your actual pay is half of what they paid you as a trainee. Way to go Billion dollar crooked C
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Sep. 9, 2006 at 10:55:32 PM
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| Tony has a point about Bluebell. They will soon be out of business if they treat their employees like throwaways, and Lucerne down the street (I really don't know what ice cream maker is down the street) pays their employees a living wage. But the situation is simply not the same with Exxon, and with all the world's petroleum production/refinement/distribution in the hands of five major and collaborating companies. It is essentially a megamonopoly, and becoming less and less regulated everyday, with $10 billion profits per quarter becoming the norm. If you don't want to buy Exxon's gas, you simply drive down the road and buy BPs . . . oh wait, no . . . because BP is doing the exact same gouging and other unsavory business practices as Exxon-Mobil, and Conoco, and Chevron, and Shell. This is just one example where at least some regulation of corporations is not only desirable but necessary. Beyond price and labor regulations, there is enviromnetal regulation and safety laws. No liberal except an idiot (and there are plenty of those on the conservative side as well) wants to regulate an industry out of existence or make it too onerous for a corporation to compete in the market place. But only a fool thinks that a totally free market will regulate its own excesses. In the unfettered battle between the corporate citizen and the private citizen, the corporation will win every time, especially with laws that openly favor the corporation and its rights above any private individual's concerns. |
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Sep. 9, 2006 at 11:33:00 PM
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| Moron, then go by a hibred car, ride a bike or use the s***ty public transportation we over pay for and almost none of us use. The point Tony makes is completely valid. If you don't like working somewhere, quit. If you don't like living somewhere, move and if you don't like taking personal responsibility for yourself, die. May seem harsh but it is a fact that you and only you can make the life you want in the world we live in. But you guys keep pushing this companies owe us something crap, makes you look needy as hell and I find it quite funny. You will never get rich working for someone else, that's the point of being an independent contractor or having some intellectual property to sell. |
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