I work for a large corporation that a few years ago bumped all of their lowest management up just beyond the threshold of “non exempt” so they wouldn't have to pay us overtime. A normal week for me is 50+ hours and I am even called in at least one weekend a month to cover for us being understaffed with part time workers. Most of the employees on my payroll make more than me, some significantly (one had me print a W-2 for them and they made $17,000 more than me last year). We are severely understaffed because none of our hourly employees are making a fair wage either and have to put in a ton of OT to make a decent living so we lose people in droves to other companies in the area with similar jobs for $5+ more per hour. Others at my level and the next…
Month: April 2022
I was trying to bet with my friend what a very big salary in Western Europe in in a tier 2 city (meaning a big city, with great quality of life, BUT not a capital like London, Paris, Berlin and so on. So for example: Liverpool, Manchester, Bordeaux, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Lyon and son). If you earn something around 150 000 dollars in these cities, you're really, really well off, probably amongst the biggest earners. In fact, very few people make that much in Western Europe. I was trying to ask him what that would be like in the USA, since you guys have so much more to pay (medical debt, student debt, housing crisis / rent, yada yada yada), and he's thinking something around 250-300k…but it seems to me like he's exaggerating. I'm not sure how correct that is though? NB: he was thinking on average compared to similar cities…
Employer doesn’t give me sick leave.
Tonight i vomited two times and i have dairrhea. I did go to work i wanted to give my employer some notice because i thought he could take over my shift whenever he is ready. But now he says he is sick in bed also. And i am sitting 70 m high in a tower crane with absolutely no toilet. My head is full can’t think straight what do you guys reccomend me to do? I know this is’nt my problem. Thanks in advance.
NoBodY wAnTs tO WorK AnyMoRE Let’s find out. If you didn’t have to work at the job you currently have in order to survive, what would you do with your time, energy, and resources?
I am a failure
I am a failure. it's how I feel every day when I get up to go to the job. it's how I feel when I feel alienated while working. it's how I feel when I hear about, or do things that are not of my interest. it's how I feel when I think about how I could spend this time for myself, for my interests.
So I work at a fast food place and yesterday the night was busy because a different location shut down meaning we were the only location open in the area. My manger got super stressed about it. I’m the one taking orders for 6 hours straight no breaks and we’re getting slammed. Eventually I do catch a break and get a drink and take it to the back table and drink it. My manger gets on to me saying I shouldent be standing back there drinking and need to be working. It pissed me off. I also think she might of threw my drink away, then again I was busy and may have just misplaced it or thrown it out my self but it still pisses me off knowing my drink disappeared. I just got more drink and drank in the drive thru window when she was on her smoke…
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. Conservatives support right-to-work laws. Following Karl Marx’s wayward son-in-law Paul Lafargue I support the right to be lazy. Leftists favor full employment. Like the surrealists — except that I’m not kidding — I favor full unemployment. Trotskyists agitate for permanent revolution. I agitate for permanent revelry. But if all the ideologues (as they do) advocate work — and not only because they plan to make other people do theirs — they are strangely reluctant to say so. They will carry on endlessly about wages, hours, working conditions, exploitation, productivity, profitability. They’ll gladly talk about anything but work itself. These experts who offer to do our thinking for us rarely share their conclusions about work, for all its saliency in the lives of all of us. Among themselves they quibble over the details. Unions and management agree that…
“Working is for saps!”
The only thing “free” about so-called free time is that it doesn’t cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work…. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair. Coal and steel don’t do that. Lathes and typewriters don’t do that. But workers do. No wonder Edward G. Robinson in one of his gangster movies exclaimed; “Work is for saps!” Bob Black