Employees and employers are two different people in the work force. You may notice that employers don't eat, congragate, relax, or spend any time where employees may be. This is most companies, I'm sure there are those select few that are contrary. There are reasons for this. Employers talk about things that, in many cases, are directly about employees. They also discuss things that may change employees lives. Now, this may be exactly their plans, it may not be. But, at the whim of an employee hearing anything that relates to them, collegues, and/ friends this information may be misconstrued. For instance, Mary over hears the boss talking about Sam. Saying something like, "Sam seems a little down, maybe we should give him time." Mary could take this information as Sam will be fired soon, or demoted, or moved and so on... This happens all the time when it comes to information just like that. Reasons employees and employers are in different places. Now, I am sure there are a hundred more stories quite similar, or even more outlandish than this. But, for now this will do.

That covers about what you might know. How about what you might not know? Employers are in charge of what is known as, "budget." Their whole worlds, in many cases, revolve around how much is being spent versus how much is being made. Today an employer wants to save as much profit as possible and provide the highest output in product. This is a balancing act. And one that can be very hard to do. Hence, why they are Employers! Consider their job once. Imagine you are the boss of xyz and you are told by your employer, (yes they have employers too) "we need to increase production and decrease spending." How would you do it. As an employer, they all know that most of their budget is spent in Employment and they usually know exactly what it means, lay-off. This will put anyone in a predicement. Who do you lay-off and why? The job of a boss is stressful and in all reality he is just another clog in the wheel. He's going to cut everywhere he possibly can without lossing exactly what he needs to perform the job. Over time the employer will come back and do it again, and so forth.

This covers what you might not know. Now, what you should know. Employers, as stated above, have employers. They are the owners, CEOs, investors, and even the clients themselves. In the end, just like you, they want to make money. They see the dollar signs. They also see the budget and greed, want, need, or desire strikes. They see all that profit going to employees who come in late, leave early, call-off, over emotional, stay in the bathroom, request early vacation, do short bursts of work, talk on time I mean honestly this list goes on and on... and they feel somehow ripped off. And put yourself in their shoes, here you are paying their rent, bills, car, gas, food, clothing, college, health care, dental, vision, vacation and so on... and not only do they play games on the clock, but feel you owe it somehow to them and wants a raise!

Now, they see other countries out there not having to pay anywhere near what we are paid. Their profits won't change. Why stay here. Heck, they can even knock a dollar or two off the price and still cut higher profit then they ever did hear. And why? Because we let them...

We buy what they sell it didn't matter if the package said China, Taiwan, Mexico, Istanbul as long as you could pay for it at a profitable, lessor amount saving you a dollar or two. We want the president or anyone for that matter to fix this but in the end everytime we purchase a product that wasn't made here we are selling out own job futures. And if you think their going to stop consider, if your still making that dollar save would you spend a dollar more?

Cold hard facts of why we're where we are.