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@3v2c Political campaign contributors are controlling both parties, so the priorities of We the People continue to fall on death ears. Until Citizens United vs FEC is overturned the American People will continue to be in the back of the governance bus furthest from the driver. The more We the People aspire to make strides to true political equality, the further political campaign contributors drag us back to political inequality and plutocratic privilege.
@3v0w
Why should I leave? They're the ones who su-k. It's 38 percent of the population making everyone else miserable right now. That math won't hold for long. Even their own party is pssd and divided. Wait it out.
Leaving or retiring from AEP is only the first step in a journey to escape authoritarianism.
There are travel agencies and relocation companies that will help you become more informed about living abroad and surrendering your US citizenship to break all ties and tax liabilities with this authoritarian regime. Why exist in America under the oppressive and inhuman rule of corporate America when you can thrive abroad and wash off the toxic culture poisoning you and your family?
@3v0r According to a February 2025 Harris poll, 68 percent of Americans considering leaving the U.S. cited unattainable home ownership and a sense they were “merely surviving instead of thriving. Meanwhile, 49 percent cited high living expenses and disagreements with the political situation in the U.S.
@3tz0 According to a Brookings Institution study, negative migration in 2025 stood at about 250,000 people, with estimates that at least 400,000 Americans voluntarily left the United States. Gallup data shows that nearly one in five Americans wants to leave permanently. Thousands are also giving up their citizenship, moving to Europe and Asia and even seeking better quality of life and quiet in Mexico and Central America.
@3tyy Denmark is recruiting American workers to move to Denmark where you will be valued as a human being and an employee. They are offering a humane alternative for burned out American workers forced to do the job of three employees to increase shareholder value. You can choose to be exploited and subjugated by CEOs and major shareholders in America or you can give them your middle finger and accept rewarding employment in Denmark.
American prosperity distribution since WWII shifted dramatically from a highly equitable expansion (1945–1973) to extreme concentration. While overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and wealth grew exponentially, the lowest- and middle-income tiers experienced stagnating shares of that growth, allowing wealth to pool disproportionately at the very top.
The Golden Age of Broadly Shared Prosperity (1945–1973)The three decades following the war were defined by rapid, equitable growth where incomes roughly doubled across all rungs of the economic ladder. Middle-Class Expansion: A robust industrial sector, strong labor unions, and a booming consumer culture created the modern middle class. The GI Bill: Unprecedented government support funded veterans' higher education and home mortgages, catalyzing suburban growth and homeownership.
The Great Divergence (1970s–Present)Beginning in the 1970s, economic growth slowed down while the income gap widened significantly. Prosperity distribution became highly skewed, with income and wealth concentrating among the top 10% and, more acutely, the top 1% of earners. Wealth Disparity: Federal Reserve data shows that the top 10% of households hold roughly two-thirds of the nation's wealth, while the least-wealthy 50% of households hold less than 4%. Income Stagnation: The median household income share shrunk. Economic models suggest that if the equitable growth rates of the post-WWII era had held steady through 2018, Americans in the bottom (90%) of the income bracket would have had an additional ($2.5) trillion in aggregate income that year alone
@3sg9 Abominable Ignominiousness
Beware of AI
@3rvc The chap artists are so down trotted.
@3qgf Better to keep doing the work of multiple employees so CEO and major shareholders can live like royalty off our occupational, mental and spiritual weariness and eventual exhaustion. The body, mind and soul can endure extreme stress and hardship for only so long before leaning into the grindstone of plutocratic greed and ambition becomes destructive and self-defeating. This CEO is driving the vehicle of his wealth and ambition like he stole it and when he wrecks it or blows the engine, he will just walk away because it will cost him nothing and his employees everything they have spent a lifetime achieving. That is the reality of plutocratic privileged corporate thievery. We sweat, bleed and sacrifice to build success and the latest 31st flavor of corrupt corporate culture shall once again steal our success from us.
That is precisely why when young employees look into the eyes of veteran employees all they see is emptiness and a thousand yard stare looking to the day they jump off the corporate plutocratic enrichment hamster wheel from He-l. No matter how hard and how fast you run the destination remains the same for the employees. The only question is will their be anything left to pursue your personal life, happiness and your dreams when you get there? Do not allow self-destruction to become the final destination of your AEP career.
@3qkc
Dude, you couldn't handle a week as any of the people you're making fun of.
If you're not interested in something, don't buy it, watch it or do it.
It's easy, just don't go.
Wouldn't want that personal preoccupation with chaps to get any worse.
Heard a manager was wished well for not RTO'ing correctly?
@3qjn Nah. It's a job. No one needs to know what people do at home. Should have thought about gas costs before instead of waxing the chaps.
@3qgf Be so for real! I can assure you, that parade is the LEAST of our worries. Half of us can’t even afford to keep our gas tank full enough to drive there. Let people be happy right now cuz it’s bleak out here
@3qe4 Wish we'd save some money and cleanse our souls by not sponsoring that parade in a few weeks. Really don't want to see my company name next to the bdsm exhibitionists in chaps clogging up the road.
With everyone back in office why do distribution engineers still have take home vehicles??? Makes no sense. Save the company some easy money.
You’d think a 90-year-old man like Carl Icahn would be thinking about where his soul is going after death instead of continuing to live a life or greed and f—- with other people’s lives. What a pathetic man. It is my belief that he will get what he deserves one day. Same with BF.
Broken trust is the result of weak morals, ethics, self-discipline and self-restraint. It is a weakness that left unchecked shall bring about the failure of the strongest institutions and ultimately shall lead to conflict and war. The strong shall not be ruled by the weakest for very long.
The record gap between corporate profits and worker pay has an ‘undercurrent of betrayal,’ top economist warns. Workers have been falling behind dramatically in the tug of war between capital and labor, stoking serious concern about the trust holding the economy and society together.
Is success measured on the amassed wealth of a few or the improved lives of the many? The difference between corporate oligarchs' dream and the American dream is glaringly and garishly obvious for all to see and suffer. Who would chose to needlessly suffer for the benefit of the lesser evil? I am sure the more intellectual serfs of the Middle Ages, American Colonists and French Revolutionaries asked themselves the same question and arrived at the same answer? Who changed their destiny and became the masters of their own destiny?
@3pqr Morals and ethics make you easy to oppress and exploit. Look at your leadership. Do they believe and conduct themselves as you do or do they behave like the people our Founding Fathers warned us about. The enemy within destroys us from within. Satan always comes waving wealth to buy our souls and your freedom.
@3ppn If this is actually true that’s WILD! I don’t know why I would expect anything to the contrary when it comes to AEP but at least try to move with an ounce of professionalism! Isn’t that what they’re bashing into our heads these days?….wAYs oF wOrKiNg blah blah blah
@3pd0 David Ball flew to Texas for a site visit and was told by the security guard at the gate, that he was no longer employed at AEP. What a terrible way to be fired...
You guys ready to purchase some stock?
The big dogs at the top of the org chart need exit liquidity.
@3pd0 he was retired because he fumbled FAC-008
What happened to David Ball
@3nrm Without "valued" employees no corporation is profitable. Without "valued" customers no corporation is successful. With only "valued" major shareholders a corporation becomes a wealth redistribution conspiracy destroying the symbatic relationship that strengthens our communities, our states, our nation and increases the "value" of the American Dream for all Americans. When a relationship is no longer symbatic it becomes destructive and parasitic. Has the corporate board of AEP endorsed a wealth redistribution scheme that has enriched its CEO to the tune of $36.6 million in a single year?
AEP: Moved 50+ miles away because the community is just where the job was? That's cool. Everybody else you better maximize that shareholder value and deliver that grand scorecard face-to-face experience for the customers - you id--ts.
@3nrm United we thrive/ Divided we struggle to eke out a meager existence.
Washington just lost Starbucks because of some of that blue advocacy.
@3nqj Rich people's union. They hate it when we use their own tactics against them. Labor is a valuable natural resource and workers own it. Spending is a valuable natural resource and consumers own it. We need to conserve our natural resources in light of the plutocracy's unwillingness to support the symbatic economic relationship that strengthens our nation and our American dream.
@3n8x Sounds an awful lot like a political action committee only with a different constituency seeking to achieve a different outcome absent the amplifying influence and persuasion of immense wealth to protect ill-gotten gains and the injustice they require to be amassed.
@3n45 "advocacy group" is codeword for people who don't have jobs spending their day convincing people with jobs that they're unhappy and need to pony up for some advocacy.
Is AEP operating as a ratepayer capital funding obligation broker to enrich itself, its shareholders, data centers and their shareholders exploiting and abusing their state granted monopoly status and the captive ratepayers in their service territories? Are they exploiting an unforeseen regulation vulnerability that victimizes ratepayers as a result of regulators' and state legislatures' negligence whether unintentional or intentional? Is this how a public electric utility CEO warrants a $36.6 million compensation package? I this why professional electric utility governance has been replaced with non-industry governance? Plausible deniability, we did not know it is immoral, unethical and possibly illegal because we are new to the electric utility industry?
@3n1v "Overpaid CEO" Legislation: Advocacy groups and unions are pushing for initiatives like the "Overpaid CEO Act" to tax companies where executives make >100 times the median worker salary.
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@3n1t AEP CEO Bill Fehrman was the highest-paid utility executive in the country in 2025, earning $36.6 million. That’s a significant jump from the year before, with his compensation increasing by $23.3 million, largely driven by stock awards tied to long-term company performance.
To put that in perspective, the average worker in Ohio would need about 550 years to earn what Fehrman made in a single year, based on federal wage data.
@3mm5 A new report examining executive compensation across the utility sector shows continued increases in pay for top industry leaders in 2025.
The Energy and Policy Institute found that investor-owned electric and gas utilities paid a combined 626 million dollars to their chief executives last year. The report also indicates average CEO compensation reached 12.4 million dollars, marking an increase of nearly 16 percent compared to 2024.
Among the companies analyzed, American Electric Power reported the highest total compensation package. CEO Bill Fehrman received approximately 36.6 million dollars in 2025, according to the Energy and Policy Institute.
The report attributes a large portion of that increase to stock-based incentives designed to reward long-term financial performance and shareholder returns.
Researchers also found that since 2017, average utility CEO compensation has increased by 47 percent, outpacing broader wage growth trends.
@3mga The real electric utility employees need to form their own company and abandon the private equity firm grift that enriches major shareholders and impoverishes and endangers everyone else. American Electric Power is no more. American Electric Private Equity is a self-serving shameful get rich sham.
@3mex It takes five suits with three legs in the drawers and proven records of success to undo damage caused by "visionaries" with bobbed style haircuts that hate electric companies and the people that work at them. Keep them coming BF!