Month: April 2022

Let’s say I make 100k/year (for simplicity’s purpose), my toxic boss finally agreed to add one more person to help me, I’d be overseeing this new hire’s work. So in a group chat I was asking the internal recruiter if we found new candidates, she said all the candidates that have the qualification we want ask for 160k/year or above. I bet my boss is not very happy the recruiter shared that information with me lol, considering I’m only getting paid 100k after working at the same company for 2 years and no raise. But thanks for the recruiter I now know my worth, and will be sure to use that info when I negotiate my salary with this other company that I’m interviewing with.

My brother-in-law worked for a Menards for 8 years as a middle manager and worked up to an AGM position. He's going to have a kid soon, his first child. They asked him if he could take only 3 days off. After that he had enough quit and had another job in 2 weeks with a good employer that might not pay as much but would give him plenty of time off. Just fuck Menards.

My intention isn’t to belittle any country! We could all do so much better including the UK. I’m just shocked by so many of the screenshots, emails and actions of employers.

(I'm not from the US.) It's always baffled me that exploitation in the US has been framed as a “right to work”. As if companies were doing you a favor by taking your labor and underpaying you. You almost have to tip your hat to whoever decided to frame exploitation in such a positive light.

I work at a mushroom farm and every “safety measure” adds so much work to our already crazy job. People have died from getting mushroom lung, and the work is absolutely messed up. i will say tho that this job has finally made me realize that I am tired of working for someone else. I’m pursuing a trade and opening a business with my wife soon, that’s it for me helping build these massive companies that break your back and your spirit

A century ago, there was a need for a vast number of laborers in a particularly low-status, ill-treated, and rather poorly paid line of work. Society, as it was configured at the time, could not function without them because so many new innovations that were driving the economy forward depended on what they produced. Those were coal miners. Today, there is a need for a vast number of laborers in a particularly low-status, ill-treated, and rather poorly paid line of work. Society, as it is presently configured, cannot function without them because so many innovation that are driving the economy forward depend on their services. These are material handlers, or warehouse workers. Are warehouse workers the new “slave base” of the economy, that lower rung that the higher echelons cannot function without but who are treated with disdain and abused on a regular basis? Will unionizing them pave the way…

Another post I was debating this in seems to have been deleted, but I’d like to continue the conversation. There seem to be some landlords and landlord-sympathizers on this sub that don’t understand the concept of being anti-landlord. To be clear: I AM ANTI-CAPITALIST, I do not support making a profit off your fellow humans, hoarding resources, or forcing others to scrape by to afford basic necessities. With that being said what I wrote below is being explained through the lens of capitalism since some folks can’t (or don’t want to) see beyond that. Currently, the USA is experiencing a housing shortage (I’m aware that there are housing shortages elsewhere but I’m not educated on them enough to comfortably speak on them, though I’m sure some of my points apply elsewhere too). The current supply of houses is not meeting the demand for housing and so when demand is high…