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Unpopular opinion: small businesses are facing a lot of the same problems we are.

I saw a post about a small business going out of business because they can't find employees. Don't get me wrong they probably were paying minimum wage and that's wrong but they also likely have skyrocketing rents, raw material prices skyrocketing and their personal expenses are the same as ours. Basically the big companies such up all the cheap goods and set low wages and small business takes crap for being stuck just like us. I work in a not super small factory and people complain our prices went up but we are having rmtrouble getting raw materials in at any cost. Yes we have profits but they actually pay well and just have higher costs of production.

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The cheapest pre-sliced deli turkey at my US grocery store is now $7.29 per pound. Is this how it’s going to be for the rest of my life?

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Amazon sending text out to tell their employees to vote against forming a Union.

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Can my employer give me a pay cut without telling me? I was making $17 an hour and just checked my last three checks and I’m now getting paid at $15.33

I didn’t think anything of my last three checks and their amount because I only went in three days one week and again three days for the week after and three days last week.

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Accepted is my favorite antiwork movie

I love how the characters in that movie are fighting for the right to explore the world on their own terms and create their own learning experience. I wish someday to afford that life of aimless wandering, discovery, and friendship.

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Is my boss breaking the law?

So i am currently employed by a self proclaimed small business. I have reason to believe that the owner is lying that he employes less that 26 workers. With him claiming this he is allowed to pay us below minimum wage. This was fine with me from the beginning. But recently in the beginning of January i got covid. I was unable to work for about 2 weeks. With me working in California, covid pay was retroactively approved from Jan 1 and onwards. But now he doesn't have to give me covid pay because he claims less than 26 employees. The main reason i believe he is lying is because he owns 9 retail locations. The one I work at has 5 employees. It just doesn't add up. Another major issue i have is that he is currently recording video and audio. He never asked us for consent. I never…

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3 jobs, salary of 1. It’s interesting they at least tell you the “content creation” is a 24/7 job – no time off.

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BEST FEELING EVER!

Submitted my resignation this week! I received a job offer for something out of my career field but for more money, less days and I enjoy doing more than the job I'm currently at. I'm tired of wearing myself so thin for a toxic company that doesn't care. Management tried to convince me to stay longer to help train employees. But would not offer more money…… best of luck! While I feel bad the other employees on the already understaffed shift will have to work more shifts most likely, I am relieved to know there is light at the end of the tunnel!!!!!

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Baristas are on strike at Great Lakes Coffee in Detroit, demanding better wages, working conditions and union representation. @JortsTheCat

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Chewed out today for helping

I work at a dog daycare, and today I happened to have a lot of down time as I really only had work every other hour/hour and a half. So I figured I would hang out up front and “run dogs” – essentially either putting dogs that came in into the play yards, or grabbing the dogs who's parents came to pick them up. Turns out the owner of the business was watching our cameras, and doesn't want people “hanging out up front doing nothing” or running dogs when they aren't scheduled as a runner. Fine by me, I just ended up finishing what I had to do and going home instead of sticking around to help. We also have TVs in all of the yards to communicate with the yard counselors which dogs need to be sent out to go home, but today they were out of commission. So…