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<blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1061051" data-attributes="member: 17953"><p>It was ironic that the company was in Chicago considering I'd been a police officer there until I went out to California to continue police work. I'd pretty much had my fill of the city on the streets and with investigations. If the job would have been in Chicago on a permanent basis, I never would have taken it. I will admit that it bothered me how they treated long term employees when we close the place down. They were offered opportunities to "apply for work do in New Braunfels, no guarantees, wages about 60% of what they were in Chicago, and they were on their own hook to move. They were essentially telling them to kiss off. Because of that attitude towards them, I felt no allegiance to them when I gave notice. I told them I was being as fair as they were to their Chicago employees. But I did offer to let them match my new salary which was exactly double what they were paying me. They just laughed. A month later, when I was with the new company, they called and asked me if I would reconsider and come back, and they'd match what I was getting. I said no thanks to them. The sweetheart deal that the state city of New Braunfels cut for them, including building their facility and selling it to them interest free, and zero taxes for several years along with training personnel at no expense to the company, along with lower wages than Chicago. The best sample of what's happening to Northern industry. It's not a level playing field. States like Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota do not have oil being pumped out of the ground to allow for sweetheart deals like that. Then there's the no state income tax which makes the move even more enticing to higher management based on their own salaries. After all, 10% of a $4 million dollar salary is a lot of bucks to most of us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voyageur, post: 1061051, member: 17953"] It was ironic that the company was in Chicago considering I'd been a police officer there until I went out to California to continue police work. I'd pretty much had my fill of the city on the streets and with investigations. If the job would have been in Chicago on a permanent basis, I never would have taken it. I will admit that it bothered me how they treated long term employees when we close the place down. They were offered opportunities to "apply for work do in New Braunfels, no guarantees, wages about 60% of what they were in Chicago, and they were on their own hook to move. They were essentially telling them to kiss off. Because of that attitude towards them, I felt no allegiance to them when I gave notice. I told them I was being as fair as they were to their Chicago employees. But I did offer to let them match my new salary which was exactly double what they were paying me. They just laughed. A month later, when I was with the new company, they called and asked me if I would reconsider and come back, and they'd match what I was getting. I said no thanks to them. The sweetheart deal that the state city of New Braunfels cut for them, including building their facility and selling it to them interest free, and zero taxes for several years along with training personnel at no expense to the company, along with lower wages than Chicago. The best sample of what's happening to Northern industry. It's not a level playing field. States like Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota do not have oil being pumped out of the ground to allow for sweetheart deals like that. Then there's the no state income tax which makes the move even more enticing to higher management based on their own salaries. After all, 10% of a $4 million dollar salary is a lot of bucks to most of us. [/QUOTE]
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