Increasing salaries of older employees to match those given to newer employees

The issue lies not with HR, but with corporate managements who have, as their primary agenda (and correctly so) reduction in the overall payroll payout. Typically the new employee to currently employee ratio in any given year, will be anything between 5 to 20% depending on the growth and the current size of its workforce.

Let's say that we provide a 20% increase over current salaries to the incumbent 10% employees. That is a total increase in payout of 2% over the previous year. Now, to provide some measure of equity to the current employees, their salaries are also increased by 20%, so that nobody is unhappy, the total increase in payout is 90% x 20% = 18%. Considering that 60-80% of an IT organization's costs are payroll, we are talking of a nearly 60-80% x 20% = 12-16% increase in total costs over the previous year.

Try convincing the top management to release 15-20% more budget this year, of which only 2% is new employee acquisition expenses.

I think if we think from the HR point of view, they have no option but to let people go, than to increase everybody's salaries by 20%.

Why did Hitler really hate the Jews so much?

Written in answer to a question on Yahoo Answers : Why did Hitler really hate all the Jews so much?
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If you read his autobiography Mein Kampf, he's written a lot about why he hates them.

One of the reasons I understand is that his personal belief system said that pure-blooded Germans were racially superior to the immigrant Jews. To quote a fictional parallel, something like Voldemort and his gang felt about Muggle-born "Mudbloods", or closer to reality, what the Ku Klux Klan felt about the Negroes.

However, despite his feelings of superiority, Jews were the single most powerful community in Germany. Now if a community were to be "inferior", they couldn't be rich and influential. Besides, superior and inferior are relative terms. I would say the Hippopotamus is superior to the Human in terms of its ferocity, or the Hummingbird is superior to the Human in terms of its ability to fly unassisted, and the Hammerhead shark is superior to the Human because it has a more complex respiratory system that lets it swim underwater forever, by breathing in dissolved oxygen.

But the intellectually inferior Hitler did not know that.

Hitler wanted to strip the Jews of all their wealth, because he knew they had a lot of it, and would never give it up for use in his megalomaniacal ambitions. Then, having appropriated every last penny from their possession, he was faced with the challenge of displacing those whom he stole from. That was what he called the "Jewish Problem". The world sadly, knows its brutal solution.

What shocks me is that the extent of the Jewish genocide could not have been achieved by one man leading an army alone. It had to be supported by other everyday Germans who hated Jews because of their wealth and influence, and whom Hitler used to achieve his objectives.

This hostility felt by part of one society towards another has to come from deeper sources than one individual's invectives alone. There may have been some truth in what he was saying for them to believe him.

It is not for no reason that William Shakespeare represented Shylock as a Jew. Many, (but not all) adherents of the Jewish faith in Europe were often narrow minded and selfish businessmen or money lenders who cared for their own immediate profits and the betterment of their own community above everything else, no matter whom they lived among and many everyday Germans at the heart of the Great Depression would surely have resented that a lot and eventually tagged on to Nazi beliefs, whether they were right or wrong.

None of this can explain the horrible genocide of course. That was the handiwork of the handful of Germans who were close to Hitler and who implemented his heinous solution to the "Jewish Problem" to the letter.