Wages are flat but the cost of doing business has gone up. Every piece of the supply chain raised their prices so raising prices on goods and keeping the salary flat might look like record income but it isn't in reality. It might be a way to ride out the storm and keep the company in place for another year when things might level off. Also - insurance costs went up. Fuel prices and delivery prices are up. Literally everything is up just to do business.
While I know lots of folks like to complain about the evil corporations take a step back. Do you have any employees that are 100% dependent on you for their job? Do you have 10 or 100 or 1000 people that depend on you to make good decisions so that they can continue to receive a paycheck? I've watched my spouse work for small and large companies over the years. I'm type A take charge and let me make decisions. They are not. And thankfully the owners of the companies they've worked for are because it's THEIR job to make sure there are new projects lined up to keep the company running. They fail and the company fails. That's a little pressure....
Just like our principals when we get mad because they don't think we, band, are the most important thing in the building because they have a thousand students in their school NOT in band who also have parents and expectations and needs. Maybe there is more to these companies bottom lines and profit dollars than, "stock your shelves with stuff even though you need to pay for it now and not sell it for 6 months just so I don't have to wait for anything"...
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