Come to California and I can guarantee her a $110k starting salary. HR maybe working from home, but we are gagging for staff, always.

Then you’re one of the good ones, and I commend you for it. Sadly, too many businesses operate purely to maximize profits at whatever cost (to the consumer) that they can, whatever industry they’re in.

You’re an aberration when it comes to landlords, and I have a feeling you understand that.

No, they’re right. At no other time in history have we been able to add, “But with the inability to know where all the nuclear missiles are located” to the end.  That lone qualifies as the scariest time in human history.  

But tell us how you really feel.

My bad.  It’s now up to 1000+ pages... 

I agree.

Bingo! That was my thought too.

I got tired of having to continually clean the pool, so I filled it with butterscotch colored acrylic.  Now I have a cool place to show my Opel.  The chicks get a little pissed when I invite them over for a pool party and it’s just me leaning against my car.

You had no idea that a mid-century modern chair was popular in the middle of the last century?

should make it easy for a responsible airline private equity to come in and buy up all of the equipment and market share at bargain basement prices and then ass rape the consumer with new and higher fees

The workers can buy out the business if they get bailed out and the business goes under. Throw in a ‘right of first refusal’ law to boot, if you’re worried that management would never sell to their underlings willingly.

I agree. Instead of “bailing out” the airlines and then business as usual for the next 10 years, partially or fully nationalize any airline that wants a lifeline. Profits go to the American people and not some random group of 1% venture capitalists. “American Airlines” truly becomes American Airlines. Regulations to…

“If the companies collapse it could mean bad news for many.”

Well I guess the question is really how much should they keep in reserve. I personally put far more than 4% net pay into savings. 4% is pretty small. Calculate out 4% of your net pay and you’ll likely be in shock too. Thats net pay too. Not net profit which would be post paying bills pay.

stock buybacks =/= reinvestment

Apple has billions of cash in reserves. Most massive business do as well. Spending 96 percent of your free cash over the last decade is horribly irresponsible for a business when it leaves nothing in reserves. You really dont understand finances at all

didn’t hold reserves

There is no ethics in stock buybacks. Both my parents and my in-laws were both executives at different publicly traded companies. They saw the leadership do this repeatedly to increase the stock value due to their bonuses being tied to increases in stock value. This is all about short term gain for few.

This is where a sane system would require some sort of statutory reserve plan in exchange for the bailout.