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The tipping point
There's so many people in this sub from other countries who constantly ask us why we haven't rejected the awful system we have in place in the US, and it's so easy to explain how the system is meant to keep us down so we can't fight back…what do you think will be the actual tipping point at which the working class will fight back. Like, people can't get approved to buy homes and are forced to pay ridiculous amounts in rent and work 2 jobs just to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table, and corporations are out here buying up homes to rent out at above market value while inflation is rising…something has to break and presumably soon…what do you think it'll be?
The cost of public college tuition has increased 2000% in the last 45 years. For private tuition 1600%. Looking from 1978 it’s an increase of 1225% which compared to shelter (despite how expensive it is) has only increased 370% in the same time period. I wonder how much these organisations would raise prices if students would go regardless of whether they would typically be able to afford it, or whether their preferred subject isn’t feasible to study at because that field doesn’t pay well enough to justify it. (Not an argument against doing so, just pointing it out) Aren’t costs already ridiculous enough? If it would cost you $50,000 total imagine if you paid $50/hr for 1-1 tutoring in your desired field… that’s 1000 hrs 1-1. If the average salary of a professor is $101,000. how is it so expensive as a student to sit in a room with so…
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Hiring Sucks
Everyone I interview is either underpaid or unemployed. I'd hire them all if I could. But I can't. I get to hire one and feel bad about the ones I couldn't help. Except is it even help? Because this place has issues. Decent pay, but high BS. Particularly with this role. I feel like an asshole.
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On Stealing
One topic that comes up on this sub from time to time is stealing. This may make some Folks uncomfortable—after all, r/antiwork about fairness, right? Surely, we shouldn’t become what we hate? However, this misses the point. The point is not that stealing is better than not stealing. The point is that there is stealing that is worth worrying about, and then there is…everything else. Oh, someone was “stealing” money and food from a hospital cafeteria, including by not ringing up food items for patients and their visitors? Well, I can absolutely guarantee that such a person could not in 100 years steal or give away the amount of food that would come close to offsetting the amount that that single hospital steals from its employees in unpaid wages/overtime or overcharges its patients in the last 12 months. Please, take some time to think about this graphic. Really think about…
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This will be long but thought my donut shop drama would fit well here. TLDR at the end. When I was 22, I worked for a local donut shop that paid me $8 an hour. I’d open the shop, leave at 3, and then go to my nannying job which paid about $12 an hour plus some extra green if you know what I mean. I vastly preferred the nannying job and it was under the table. Then a new owner took over and among other things did not have a single clue about how to keep the business staffed. Many times, I was late to my nannying job because he was scheduling people late or not at all and had to send someone from their other store over to cover. Then one day at 330 I call the owner asking where the next shift is because I need to…
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I’m done! I’m finally gone!
The relentless overtime started as soon as we got back from the Covid shutdown, back in 2020. I thought it would be temporary. It was not temporary. People started leaving. Eventually, they had enough people either leave or get fired on second shift that nobody on that shift knew how to actually do the job, including management. I thought they would move some people around, get some training done, and get right. I thought it was temporary. It was not temporary. They laid off what was left of second shift, and put the other two shifts on 10 hour days. Then, we got bought by another company. I hoped that the new guys would see how poorly everything was being run. I thought things might get better. They did not get better. The new owners gave the job of fixing all the problems to the people who had caused them…