More trips to go skiing and other vacations Mom planned

Mom loves to plan vacations for us. We went to Kenting for New Year's, then onwards to Japan in February, and then there's this other place that I think is a farm that we're staying at. She says there will be less trips this year, though, since the economy is in a slump. Her company's GM likes to plan activities for his workers when the company has surplus budget. i guess the company is going to be more conservative in the near future. i agree with my mom. I think companies should start at the executive level in making decisions about firing people. There are a lot of ways to make the company more efficient without firing tons of people. One way is to cut benefits and salary of top-earning executives. Some companies do that and enable people would otherwise be jobless to continue earning a living. Those are the ones with integrity. Generally, a lot of executives choose to lay off people because either the company's even higher up people want to or because they want to still live the way they do without having any conscience for the workers involved. that's when strikes happen. I hope more people in Taiwan and in other places realize that they are being cheated out of their rights as workers in the larger companies. Companies should also screen people based on character and ability, not just ability. That way in the long urn there will be less difficulties and other problems.