I actually have a life outside of dKos, a lot of which involves banging my metaphorical head against metaphorical walls.
My current trouble is this: My eMPloyer, who Shall remain nameless, is trying to negotiate our contract in the media. As part of the management's scare tactics, they are promulgating some statistics, the most egregious of which compares our total benefit package to our salary.
In order to make the stat as scary and misleading as possible, they have included every possible figure they can in the "benefits" category--including the employer-paid portion of Social Security.
Now, I was under the impression that fringe benefits were the negotiated parts of an employment contract, and the last I knew Social Security was, like, a federal law.
So, my question to you, my farly and widely flung friends on dKos, is whether or not you--or your employer--consider Social Security a fringe benefit, just so I can kind of get a sense about how totally screwed up (or not) my employer is. Please take the poll . . .