America feels like it’s falling apart. Prices keep climbing, people are barely getting by, and the pressure from every direction is unbearable. Schwab treats workers like disposable parts, piling on more stress while paying wages that can’t even cover the basics for most frontline employees . Yet somehow, everyone keeps showing up, pretending it’s normal, pretending nothing has changed. It’s madness, and everyone feels it, even if no one wants to say it out loud.
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@9gk That's not surprising. In industry, when you jump you get a nice pay bump. There's folks at Schwab who leave and come back and end up with 50-75% raises for doing basically the same work. Same principle. If you started at Schwab originally, that 60k you're talking about would have said "Schwab" instead of "Fidelity".
I will argue Schwab pays better than many. I’ve done my same role at Fidelity - $60K, Merrill - $85K, Chase $92K and Schwab $120K.
I hear you. No longer being a Schwab employee means no longer having to pretend everything is normal.
There is a toll on one's psyche that must be endured for this. But we've made a more or less unconscious calculation that it's worth it for the money, the stability, benefits...
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Tear it all down and start over. This form of government doesn't work!
Who are the people that voted down this post ? Are you serious. There are the sleeping people and the ones that are waking up to the harsh reality of life in America.
So many people don’t want to recognize what’s happening. They want to bury their head in the sand and pretend like it’s 1980. No one that wants a better life for themselves and their children would vote down a post like this. It’s only the people that want to remain ignorant and want to stay in this he-l hole that would do something like this..
@a1 Human history is replete with immiseration. It's practically the default. Pew surveys show over 30% of the US, UK and Japan want an authoritarian leader. India and Mexico are over 70%. Revolution isn't inevitable. And when coupled with bigotry? Unlikely.
Schwab isn't unique in treating us as parts. What's different is the entrenchment of mediocrity. Failure after failure. Nepotism. Overspending. It got Sam her job and Chuck an Oval visit. But actually getting things done. Not a chance.
Immiseration of the majority continues. A revolution is inevitable, it’s actually started but its going in a wrong direction and its making things worse. This will rnd only when the immiseration of the majority stops.