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rule of thumb is 3x your salary is your cost to employer

having an assistant called EDI would be better " I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees. "

so do opsec like tony in the sopranos and leave all you mobiles out side the room

Not fucking up and have you president do your version of Suez id rather USA have a role on the world stage than welcome our new Mandarin or Russian speaking overlords

This is just the way Judges do sarcasm

CGT is very high in the USA compared to the UK and the rest of the EU - which discourages investment as opposed to buying safe T Bills or Guilts

Depends if its treated as coinage or as a good - I don't pay CGT if I buy gold coins and sell it for a gain when it goes up in the UK for example

so you think going back to pre 1900 isolationism will work let alone the moral issue of abandoning the USA's role in the world is a good idea. I suppose Liz II could take you back …

True My Uncle had met him when the concordias captain went to Warsash (one of the Uk's training colleges) and wasn't impressed. I think his point was they always crucify the captai…

And access to lots of capital

Depends if its contractual or not

Many FTSE 100 companies in the UK do have share save schemes available to all employees

Guilds are far more restrictive than unions an din the US "Guilds" have an unfortunate history in labour relations ie excluding minorities in favour of whites

Interesting in the UK companies cannot use shares with different rights in employee share schemes

Its I believe highly illegal when I worked for BT in the UK misuse of NI numbers was a very serious gross misconduct offence - we go read the riot act over this it was almost as ba…

Blaming the dead pilots is easy as my Uncle (ex Merchant Marine) said about the Concordia sinking - they always crucify the captain.

Which is what My Boss at BT said as he had worked in the Valley and in the UK he got no more work out his SV teams than he did in the UK -and in the UK this was an ex civil service…

technically in the UK a Salaried position doesn't have fixed hours of work - this is a major social status indicator

well it makes sense for the rare occasion you need extra resource to pay OT it also helps to make sure mangers properly schedule work if the costs are high working on say thanksgiv…

Employee salary is not a market in the same way shares are employers keep secret what they pay from potential employees.

Union's have regular democratic elections for positions CEO's don't face a mandatory share holder vote every year or two do they

Nope they can argue for a greater share of the profits of the company or better pension rights. Back when I was a union branch secretary I helped get several thousand people get a …

But the members vote for the elected positions of the union and on the motions at conference :-)

Back in the day you wrote your program on paper and sent it to the punch operators

Exactly I created a page for the second largest festival in the UK in terms of people attending and some German student marked it as not important enough! To put this into context …