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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  daycare corporate

  What. The. Actual. Fucking. Fuck.

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  • Quokka@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Daycare is a multibillion dollar industry. The previous company I worked at here in Australia was owned by big an American private investment firm (Bain Capital).

    My centres company owned about 70 centres under them, and their owners had many other childcare corporations they owned across the globe.

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    • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Bain Capital? The Bain Capital? Ugh.

      In his 2009 book The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy, Josh Kosman described Bain Capital as “notorious for its failure to plough profits back into its businesses,” being the first large private-equity firm to derive a large fraction of its revenues from corporate dividends and other distributions.

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At least they don’t turn their charges into fertiliser, in the way that private equity-owned veterinary chains do.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Orphan Crushing Machine LLC

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s like the matrix, but for children.

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  • OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, it’s perfect for corporate America. If fits the bill perfectly for abuse through corporate consolidation:

    • working class people NEED it to survive
    • workforce theoretically doesn’t require an advanced degree so is therefore ripe for exploitation

    These two things together are the holy grail of American capitalism because it means if a handful of companies control all the daycares then they can screw over both labor and consumers through corporate consolidation.

    We know the government will never break up the conglomerates, so that leaves unions to hold the ghouls accountable in which case they just close any daycare that unionizes, look for scabs, or try to replace humans with AI.

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  • EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Probably for KinderCare or something similar to them

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  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m honestly slightly confused by this response. Any business type will end up with some that do well, open more locations and get some manner of central office. It’ll inevitably be some manner of corporation because that just how we structure any business beyond small. The daycare is where the kids go and the office their handles local stuff like contact forms and medical notes, and corporate office handles billing and such.

    Like, yeah it’s weird for something as personal as childcare to be a franchise, but no one gets too worked up about corporate pharmacies and that’s literally trusting a stranger giving you a bottle of drugs to eat not to hand you the poison they keep a few feet over.

    It’s weird and kinda dystopian, but I’m confused by the shock.

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    • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      because if it involves a profit motive it involves exploitation inherent in this motive. to apply that exploitation to a service that provides care for children would mean there is a nonzero chance the place is not prioritizing child care and safety over profit.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Daycares aren’t Mom and Pop shops anymore. They are chains.

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• LeTak@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  LOL I did the same when I tried to reach the company of the landlord. They never go on the phone, so I searched and found a job offer on Facebook. They instantly got on the phone …. I love it

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “OH SHIT!!! WE ACTUALLY FOUND A WOMAN WILLING TO RAISE OTHER PEOPLES KIDS FOR PENNIES IN PAY??? YES I’LL TAKE THE CALL!!!”

  “Hello, I’m some lady, trying to get ahold of corporate”

  “…how did you get this number???”

  “I know who you are. I know what you don’t want. If you are looking for an employee I can tell you I don’t need money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter get a juice box now that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.”

  “Good luck!” click

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Hi, this is Agatha, the ChildCorp AI agent. How can I help you?”

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “human”

    “I understand but I can help you”

    “No you cannot”

    "Please allow me to try!

    “No”

    “I understand, but…”

    Holy fuck I hate this AI generation.

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    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve begun to use nonsense statements, made up words, and random vocalizations to make the bots think they couldn’t help me. That usually gets me to a human faster.

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