I hate my company

ddavidv wrote: Family owned business: lots of drama. Sometimes fun work environment. Typically mediocre pay because you're taking 'their' money. Quickly subject to economy fluctuations. Simply owning a business does not mean someone is capable of running one.

Could be worse: Family owned Private School.

It's all the downsides of a small family owned business taken to the extreme. And you get to occasionally hear parents talk about how expensive it is. And if you're an hourly employee, there are lots of unpaid vacation days.

Josh wrote: Well, sort of like how we recognize that a contract signed with a gun to your head isn't exactly freely entered into, we might consider that a person's free choice of employment is hindered by a system that gives their employer de facto control of their health care. It's certainly a disincentive to self-employment or the competitiveness of small businesses.

Companies should just let you have the option of taking the health insurance, or taking the amount they would pay for your contribution and looking for it on the open market.

My current job (just started two months ago) is the first place I've worked since graduating college that is actually cheaper than I could buy a plan on the open market (at least my portion of it).

For me it's more a stability thing. I actually lost a few vacation days and get a smaller match (but on a bigger salary for my 401k) in the move to the current job.

But it was definitley worth it to get out of defense work and into a small company, owned by a medium company, owned by a large company.

z31maniac wrote:

Josh wrote: Well, sort of like how we recognize that a contract signed with a gun to your head isn't exactly freely entered into, we might consider that a person's free choice of employment is hindered by a system that gives their employer de facto control of their health care. It's certainly a disincentive to self-employment or the competitiveness of small businesses.

Companies should just let you have the option of taking the health insurance, or taking the amount they would pay for your contribution and looking for it on the open market.

That'd be much better than the status quo, at least in that scenario there would be a big enough market for individual policies that insurance companies would have some interest in providing competitively priced coverage for that market.