Northwest Airlines shows it's compassion for laid off workers!

[Dr.Phool]

Dumpster dive for things you need, like food and clothing.

Don't go out to dinner or a movie. Instead, take a hike.

In the meantime, the incompetent executives, who got them into bankruptcy in the first place, will get their retention bonus's and their pensions will be covered by trust funds.

Welcome to Republican, corporate America.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14410893/


COMMENTARY
By Brian Tracey
Business Editor
MSNBC




Here's a sure sign your company's morale may be in a tailspin: Bankrupt Northwest Airlines advised workers to fish in the trash for things they like or take their dates for a walk in the woods in a move to help workers facing the ax to save money.

The No. 5 U.S. carrier, which has slashed most employees’ pay and is looking to cut jobs as it prepares to exit bankruptcy, put the tips in a booklet handed out to about 50 workers and posted for a time on its employee Web site.

he section, entitled “101 ways to save money,” does not feature in new versions of the booklet or the Web site.

Northwest spokesman Roman Blahoski said some employees who received the handbook had taken issue with a couple of the items. “We agree that some of these suggestions and tips ... were a bit insensitive,” Blahoski told Reuters.

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We've come from Democracy to serfdom and fascism.

Give me that old-time compassionate conservatism.

[AllyCat]

1. That's why they are NorthWorst

How nice of Congress and the Bush Administration to at least make sure those CEOs have nice places to take their dates!

[Deja Q]

2. Don 't execs whine that they deserve the money because they are

held responsible for their actions?

[Aviation Pro]

3. The money they spent on the consulting company....

...they hired to produce this bullshit should be taken back at gunpoint and put into a fund for workers.