Pet Peeve Previews.

I love "pet peeves", don't you? I have quite a few, but two of my current favorites are gasoline prices and corporate greed. As far as gasoline prices are concerned, I notice the price has risen to about as high as it's ever been and ya know what? Nobody is saying a thing. Now back during the Gulf oil spill crisis, it would have been the natural time for oil companies to raise the prices, but they stayed pretty much the same and some were even a little lower. Then there was the annual switch to making fuel oil for heating when prices jump and oil execs claim it's because of the change. Still nothing happened. Now, although slowly, they've climbed way up. And not a word. How come? That's what peeves me about gasoline prices.; They sneak it up on us and pretend nothing has happened.
My other pet peeve is corporate greed. Remember when many companies, not just General Motors, Chrysler and Ford, were in trouble? What did they do? They laid off a whole bunch of employees and got concessions from the rest to lower their pay. That made sense and most unions, if not all, agreed. Most companies made other adjustments that were long overdue anyway, like mismanagement. Well now those companies are becoming profitable again. Management agrees and understands that it was, in no small measure, because of the concessions made by labor. What they don't seem to agree with is that they have a moral responsibility to share in the good fortune with labor for allowing it to happen. That's what peeves me about corporate greed. They don't show any gratitude for the help they get but even more disturbing is that they won't give anything back they're not forced to. And then only with a fight.