Today I was fired from my remote supervisory position at a call center. I really didn’t care about my job or the company, but it was an easy position for $18/hr. My workload only took up about an hour of my 6 hour shift and I could essentially do whatever I pleased the rest of the day.
For months now the company has been outsourcing customer service and tech support roles to the Philippines. Instead of having to pay the American employees $15/hr, they can get away with paying the Filipinos around $5/hr.
I reckon they realized my position could be just as easily filled through outsourcing, knocking yet another wage from $18/hr to $5/hr, all for the CEO’s bottom dollar. I know this happens with most major companies, but it was the first time I experienced it first hand.
Getting fired is not what bugs me. Even outsourcing itself isn’t the issue. The issue is our shitty, greed-ridden, max profit system is exploiting people worldwide. These people from third world countries and nonaffluent backgrounds are carrying companies on their shoulders, yet only receiving pennies a day for compensation. It’s wage slavery on steroids.