If they can't pay their workers a basic livable wage they can't afford to automate their entire workforce and pay the maintaiance and techs to repair the shyt
Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end
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Not really. American Airlines laid off and furloughed a lot of people once they no longer have to abide by the PPP guidelines.exactly...companies been greedy, its time to pay up...look at what just happened to american airlines all that shyt they was doing to their workers finally caught up with their ass...
This story puts all the finger pointing at the people and not the corporations who pay executives millions while short changing the people.
corporations gotta come after the people. Right now it’s the opposite
SheWantTheD
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I was getting paid $8.25 an hour at target in 2012.
Right now they are paying them what about $13 and up? That's a good change to me.
And the bad thing is all employees get the same starting pay (there are exceptions) regardless of position.
So the brehs working in the hot ass warehouse/back unloading trucks into the store was getting paid the same as me in comfortable ass air conditioning stocking shelves.
I was so glad I wasn't doing that shyt lmao.. definitely wouldn't have for no $8.25 an hour. Nikkas can't even see no bad bytches coming in to the store unloading trucks in the back.
Right now they are paying them what about $13 and up? That's a good change to me.
And the bad thing is all employees get the same starting pay (there are exceptions) regardless of position.
So the brehs working in the hot ass warehouse/back unloading trucks into the store was getting paid the same as me in comfortable ass air conditioning stocking shelves.
I was so glad I wasn't doing that shyt lmao.. definitely wouldn't have for no $8.25 an hour. Nikkas can't even see no bad bytches coming in to the store unloading trucks in the back.
Godless Socialist CEO
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There can never be a balance, because that’s not how capitalism is designed to work there will always be suffering somewhere
Several slave narratives show that slaveholders often skimmed on food and care to increase their profits. Productivity among enslaved people was maintained through violence. A historian showed productivity increased after the slaveholders started using the whip.
Similar to today, capitalists will always seek to increase their profits.
Yeah but when the story broke on reddit no one blamed the worker the media made it a sticking point, to point out the ceo's and mgmt got the ppp loans and bonuses meanwhile the workers got laid off and furloughed how can they be blamed???
we know how this happened...
The problem can be resolved if these managers, CEOs would simply just treat the workers with respect..
You think I would drive across town everyday to take shyt from some CAC or some jerk off for chump change when I can sit home and make more? Hire people that can give respect and you'll see change
You think I would drive across town everyday to take shyt from some CAC or some jerk off for chump change when I can sit home and make more? Hire people that can give respect and you'll see change
Rhyme n Tekniq
Superstar
That's the thing about using fear to exploit others, There's a fine balance, a threshold you must stay within for fear to keep people subdued.
When you cross that threshold, when you push others too far, fear becomes irrelevant and people will adopt a 'nothing to lose' mentality, and push back, thus what we're seeing now in this country.
Since 9/11 we seen a paradigm shift where the rich have squeezed the middle class with the pressure becoming exponentially greater with the passing of time. Running roughshod over the working class and small business owners with impunity as the line between corporate interest and government regulation has been blurred.
The rich have gaslighted the working class with the fallacy of trickle down economics, but what's really going on is 'double-down economics'; The rich know exactly what they're doing by lobbying for deregulation, union busting, increasingly shyttier worker's rights laws, and outsourcing (cheap overseas labor). They've been confronted multiple times over the past two decades and the response every time is to double down on the fukkery and apply even greater pressure.
Now here we are in 2021, Millenials and Gen Z have had their taste of the koolaid that is the American Dream and have become privy to the bullshyt. You're dealing with 2 generations of people who are burnt out, depressed, jaded and disillusioned by the reality of the indoctrination given to them. We would rather opt out of the system or burn this bytch to the ground altogether.
We were already down , Covid came through and exposed alot of ugly truth about this country. Also, for the first time, alot of us discovered what true work/life balance is. what it's like to breathe for once; which cause us to re-evaluate what's really important to us-- time and peace of mind.
and now the rich are trying to once again run that same tired ass Scrooge McDuck game they've been running for the past two decades and MFs aint having it.
It's not surprising. The American Dream once acted as a buffer from complete uprising of its citizens by guaranteeing some measure of success as long as you played the game and followed the well trodden path --school/college/cozy white collar job/skilled trades. You may not become insanely rich, but at least you could find solace in the fact that you'd live a comfortable life with some degree of control over your fate in this world. The rich and powerful saw to it that they could fukk you over at every turn, because they can-- which is ultimately what drives you once you've amassed all the wealth a human could possibly have. Where the powers that be fukked up at is by overplaying their hands and thinking they can go on an indefinite power trip without also feeling the blowback of the same toxic, societal decay they created. Life is a series of ebb and flows and everything has its seasons; the pendulum always swings back the other way. Trying to go against the tides of nature is futile and will only delay the inevitable outcome, What we're witnessing is the pipes finally bursting after 2-3 decades of pressure placed upon the working class. America loves hierarchial structure, but the ones at the top have forgotten that it requires a middle or lower level for this whole thing to work. It's no wonder why this country has shyt the bed collectively.
When you cross that threshold, when you push others too far, fear becomes irrelevant and people will adopt a 'nothing to lose' mentality, and push back, thus what we're seeing now in this country.
Since 9/11 we seen a paradigm shift where the rich have squeezed the middle class with the pressure becoming exponentially greater with the passing of time. Running roughshod over the working class and small business owners with impunity as the line between corporate interest and government regulation has been blurred.
The rich have gaslighted the working class with the fallacy of trickle down economics, but what's really going on is 'double-down economics'; The rich know exactly what they're doing by lobbying for deregulation, union busting, increasingly shyttier worker's rights laws, and outsourcing (cheap overseas labor). They've been confronted multiple times over the past two decades and the response every time is to double down on the fukkery and apply even greater pressure.
Now here we are in 2021, Millenials and Gen Z have had their taste of the koolaid that is the American Dream and have become privy to the bullshyt. You're dealing with 2 generations of people who are burnt out, depressed, jaded and disillusioned by the reality of the indoctrination given to them. We would rather opt out of the system or burn this bytch to the ground altogether.
We were already down , Covid came through and exposed alot of ugly truth about this country. Also, for the first time, alot of us discovered what true work/life balance is. what it's like to breathe for once; which cause us to re-evaluate what's really important to us-- time and peace of mind.
and now the rich are trying to once again run that same tired ass Scrooge McDuck game they've been running for the past two decades and MFs aint having it.
It's not surprising. The American Dream once acted as a buffer from complete uprising of its citizens by guaranteeing some measure of success as long as you played the game and followed the well trodden path --school/college/cozy white collar job/skilled trades. You may not become insanely rich, but at least you could find solace in the fact that you'd live a comfortable life with some degree of control over your fate in this world. The rich and powerful saw to it that they could fukk you over at every turn, because they can-- which is ultimately what drives you once you've amassed all the wealth a human could possibly have. Where the powers that be fukked up at is by overplaying their hands and thinking they can go on an indefinite power trip without also feeling the blowback of the same toxic, societal decay they created. Life is a series of ebb and flows and everything has its seasons; the pendulum always swings back the other way. Trying to go against the tides of nature is futile and will only delay the inevitable outcome, What we're witnessing is the pipes finally bursting after 2-3 decades of pressure placed upon the working class. America loves hierarchial structure, but the ones at the top have forgotten that it requires a middle or lower level for this whole thing to work. It's no wonder why this country has shyt the bed collectively.
To be fair we would be in a much better position if we kept most our manufacturing and didn't take our dollar off a gold standard and infinitely inflate that, could you even call that capitalism when the market only plays in the favor of one direction?
Pay their workers properly, have unions again, and make 4 day workweeks.
But these employers want to pay people below $12 an hour, and expect people to comply in 2021.
They shyt outta luck.
That tune will be quite different once unemployment ends in Sept. What's the alternative? Live in the shelters, off the grid, with family?
They will come to their senses.....
Read this again and again, TLR. Especially to corporate bootlickers.