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Who here hasn’t received a pay increase through out the pandemic ?

The company I worked for has been hovering around $15M-USD year on year leading up to the pandemic. Ever since Covid they have been taking in $30M-USD+ for the last 2 years so thats $60M double their revenue. Alot of the good employees have left to find something else, but I realised one thing. Ever since the pandemic I have not received a single pay rise, even inflation is 7.5%+ or even worse double digits. All I ever get is words, that we are valuable employees and a essential to the business, management thanks us for our efforts blah blah blah etc… Every pay-check that I look at makes me depressed seeing it being fixed while housing has gone up 30%+ and the cost of living is just ever more expensive 10%+… I'm thinking of leaving my job and just live on government benefits instead. Perhaps file for mental illness…

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This is how MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) works.

John Maynard Keynes was an economist in the early 1920s who released a series of books about monetary policy and how governments operate under “fiat currencies”. (The Federal Reserve Note) This is a few paragraphs from one of his books. A Tract on Monetary Reform, chapter two 'Inflation as a Method of Taxation'. pg 43 “Let us suppose that there are in circulation 9,000,000 currency notes, and that they have altogether a value equivalent to $36,000,000 gold dollars. Suppose that the Government prints a further 3,000,000 notes, so that the amount of currency is now 12,000,000 notes; then, in accordance with the above theory, the 12,000,000 notes are still only equivalent to $36,000,000. In the first state of affairs, therefore, each note = $4, and in the second state of affairs each note = $3. Consequently, the 9,000,000 notes originally held by the public are now worth $27,000,000 instead of…

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The Normalization of The Taliban – The Centers of The World System Discover Islamofascism As a Repressive Instrument of Crisis Management in The Periphery

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Advice on how to handle situation – description in comments

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just thought I’d share this absolute wild interview schedule

For context, this employer had no previous contact with me and didn't respond to any prior emails I sent. I withdrew my application as soon as I saw this o3o https://preview.redd.it/q0tcumrkzyh81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=54b7e274358ece7c896a44e4b5fcc4ae2683ae75

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How do I convince my employees to strike?

Basically the title. I recently got promoted to a management position at a very large restaurant. Like, makes my year's salary in a day large. Employees here have good benefits, but the area CoL is vastly outstripping their pay. Off-the-street hires make nearly as much hourly as our most senior full time staff, and the union is doing fuck all about it. Now, part of my promotion is I'm no longer covered by the union, so organizing and going to union meetings is off the table. Also, due to contracts, myself and my direct superior have no authority to give raises, all raises have to be negotiated. But I watch these people bust their asses day in and day out, for what is no longer a liveable wage in my area. Don't get me wrong, I am extremely pro-union. This is literally the first time in my working life I…

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Possibility of strike looms at Samsung as government wage arbitration fails

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Do any of you guys feel like interpretation of job advertisement buzzwords have been sugar coated when represented in articles on the subject?

I've noticed this in looking up job advertisement buzzwords here and here and here. Though to be fair, i first searched for 'job advertisement buzzword code”. A second search of 'Job advertisement red flags' seems to give you more inline results with what 'red flag' suggests, but from less prestigious websites seen here and here. In searching “what job advertisement buzzwords really mean” i feel we got quite a bit clearer here but it still mostly rather vague and watered down like here. One calls 'Fast paced': “Do you do well with last-minute work, unexpected fire drill assignments, unplanned late hours, and multiple deadlines? Use of this word in a job description can imply long hours. It may also indicate a company in flux, or prone to unexpected changes in direction.” Which seems completely false to me. It typically means your going to be ground to the bone under work…

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Manager made another employee hit me last week + more

I don’t want to give too many details (I am in contact with a lawyer), but in short I made a joke at work and the manager decided to tell another employee to slap me for it. I said that I did not consent to being slapped, and said that it was assault after I was slapped. The manager then laughed it off and left after saying that “he can’t do it because he’s a supervisor but my co worker can.” After he left the co-worker who slapped me apologized and I don’t really blame her as she needs the money from the job and didn’t want to risk any trouble with management. In my first few weeks of employment I was asked why I was changing my gloves so often. This is a food service job, and I sure as fuck wouldn’t want cross contaminated food if I were…

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Sure, blame the worker again – “Record job-switching rates are pushing U.S. inflation higher, Chicago Fed study finds” (found this on Reuters)

The unprecedented level of job switching seen last year as the U.S. labor market rebounded from the pandemic gave workers more leverage to ask for better pay and played a role in pushing inflation to its highest level in decades, a new study suggests. An increase in the share of people who searched for jobs while they were employed helped boost inflation by about 1 percentage point throughout much of last year, according to a paper released on Monday by the Chicago Federal Reserve. That suggests job-switching at times accounted for roughly 20% of the price growth seen in 2021. “Workers' propensity to search for another job is an important driver of inflation,” said Leonardo Melosi, a senior economist for the Chicago Fed and a co-author of the report. People who search for new work while they still have a job can end up with higher salaries – and more…