Why should a full-time employer be permitted to pay an employee less than it costs to merely survive? It’s like you WANT to live in a culture where humans are exploited and thrown away when they break.
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listen1377@lemmy.world 1 month agoWell, maybe they shouldn’t, and should go find another job that pays more, you know, like normal people?
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
listen1377@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because it’s not a full time employment. It’s hourly.
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 month ago
You sounds like you’ve never held a job before and these terms are brand new to you. You’re using them wrong.
listen1377@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You don’t realize how funny that is.
Jerb322@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I get paid by the hour, 50 years old. And the same job for 20 years. Full time.
listen1377@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If it’s hourly it’s not fulltime. In US at least.
Zetta@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I’m hourly and make a good living wage, are you implying that hourly means you don’t work full time or should be entitled to a livable wage?
listen1377@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You are not actually entitled to anything. Nobody owes you anything.
Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If you work 40 hours a week and paid hourly that is full time. You don’t have to be salary to be full time employee.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Just go away. We don’t want you here.
You’re either a troll or lack all empathy for others. Neither are anything to society.
listen1377@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe you should go? I don’t give a shit about what you want.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Damn. Look everyone, it’s a shit stain of a human
listen1377@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Spoken from a true piece of shit as yourself.
peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 month ago
You’re right. I’ll quit my job tomorrow and apply to be the next Elon Musk. Give me 6 million in seed money now please.
listen1377@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why should I? Go earn it. I did.
HookedSiren@lemm.ee 1 month ago
How out of touch are you?
nobody works there because it’s their life dream. If they work there it’s because of some benefit like having some money vs no money.
who should be working there then? Like, someone has to. Who do you think belongs there?
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Personally, I don’t mind doing an reasonable amount of work - it can be cathartic like exercise or give a sense of purpose. The problem is, the employers want people to be like hamsters on a wheel, driven to exhaustion and then disposed of for the next rodent to be worked to death.
Workers are being abused - ghost jobs, inconsiderate scheduling, impossible requirements, no overtime pay, manipulation, and so forth has corroded the social contract. At some point, there is just no point in working.
I belong there, as would many other people, if society was willing to treat us fairly.
HookedSiren@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I agree. I wasn’t trying to shit on the job itself, but point out how fast food workers are treated. If fast food workers were treated like human beings, i bet people would love to work there.
listen1377@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t care. I don’t eat fast food. Let them go bankrupt for all I know.
trum_pam_pam@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If I don’t do something, than fuck everyone who does it, let 'em burn. Definitely big brain time.
3abas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The root cause of the problem IS the mega-corp fast food chain that sells us expensive shitty unhealthy food and pays slave wages to its labor force that it treats like annoying obstacles and constantly threatening to automate away. They take away jobs from real restaurants too, until they shut down, and all you have left is fucking McDonald’s.
Dismissing that people work there out of desperation is out of touch, but to disagree with “let fastfood restaurants go bankrupt” is where the REAL BIG brains are at.
Why can’t we just have a discussion without insults. These corporations are the problem, convincing them to pay you more until they automate you away is not a solution, the solution IS for them to be bankrupt.
I also don’t eat there, and think it’s morally outrageous to give them any profit that helps them achieve the distopian future they’re working so hard towards.
listen1377@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you care so much, go pay em, big brain man. Or you just good for blabbering on the internet, as all good for nothing leftists.
ghterve@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, nobody has to. The problem of them under paying would solve itself if nobody was willing to work for them at those low wages.
HookedSiren@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Maybe if we had UBI or something, which is why the powers that be are so against it, because being homeless and hungry are powerful motivators to put up with more bullshit.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Collective action? Now that sounds like communism to me…