Working Mothers and the 5% pay cut.
Thank you for all the emails of support. Many have reached out to me as fellow working mothers who are feeling the effects of the economy. For those who do not know, EMC announced a 5% base pay cut for employees. I have read through the emails and I can relate to all of the emotions within them. Believe me I did not bounce up and down for joy when reading the internal EMC announcement about the pay cut. I immediately went to that “knee jerk” place of what this was going to mean for me, my family, and our situation. The truth is that it took a critic to snap me out of it. In the blogosphere EMC took heat saying that this decision shows that EMC is not a family oriented company. I was angry, because for me, this decision shows that the truth is the opposite. EMC is thinking about us as a family. WE are saving 2000 jobs.
Think about it, if you sibling or parent were in trouble wouldn’t you sacrifice to help them? A small pay cut to save 2000 people is the right medicine, even if it is a tough pill to swallow for some of us. Polly Pearson posted a tweet from our all hands a post saying that there was applause at an employee all hands when this decision was discussed. EMC is made up of many incredible people. Smart people that are aware that banding together is the right choice for our business and our families.
I admire that the executives took pay cuts first, and will take another along with the rest of us. I think it is right that the least paid levels of employee will NOT be asked to take a cut. These are not pretty times in our global economy. I am comforted by the fact that I am on a winning team and that I genuinely believe EMC has a very bright future.
Dad always said, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”. LETS GO EMC!
P.S. Dad also said, “When things are too tough for everyone else, they are just right for a Corridan.” That is another blog post for another day, but suffice to say I think I am in the right company at the right time.
