I'll never know if I would have gotten more money had I gone higher, but that moment of insecurity still bothers me to this day.
You would have, almost certainly. I'm an Estimator, so I'm often in the position of throwing out a price on something. If I give someone a quote and get an e-mail from Sales 10 minutes later saying the customer has accepted it and is placing an order...I know for sure I've left money on the table.
As a result of these norms, it's easier to fire 10% of your workforce then lower all pay by 10%.
I know this may be the exception that proves the rule, but my former company did just that; across the board 10% pay cut to the entire organization, including management. Every one of us hated it, but the smarter of us did realize that it probably saved some peoples' jobs. It had the unintended side effect of taking top performers and encouraging them to perform at 90% (or less), however...
I'd be more or less ok with that in that I was a Charter customer and liked them slightly better than Time Warner (who I have now). They still were overpriced with mediocre customer service, but at least their service was faster and than Time Warner and more reliable.
Of course if they merged, I'm sure it would end up screwing consumers in some way or other...
"attempted scheduled for 4:33 PM ET"
Only a few minutes from right now.
Maybe I'm just grumpy and old but the whole "Curated" thing is bugging me and seemingly came out of nowhere recently. It's a marketing move intended to lend an air of sophistication to stuff by making them think of museums or wine collections, but it's really all just "stuff that other people kinda like".
Now get off my lawn.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
