roofuskit
@roofuskit@lemmy.world
- Comment on California voters reject Prop 32, raising the state's minimum wage to $18 18 hours ago:
Good thing all the people who needed it most stayed home this election.
- Comment on Low-wage workers in the food service industry can’t afford to eat 2 days ago:
Everyone should know how stupid this idea is because there’s no profit it in.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 1 week ago:
I thought we were making dec jokes?
- Comment on Uber, Lyft drivers in Mass. win unionization rights, a first in the nation 1 week ago:
Just in time to be dismantled.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 1 week ago:
It hasn’t been used that way in the English language for many decades.
- Comment on Gorn expansion coming for Star Trek Ascendency 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ignore the Cosplay. Trump's Record Shows He 'Does Not Give a Damn About Working-Class People' 2 weeks ago:
They already spent all their money on his scams. Nothing left for yours.
- Comment on 'We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits 3 weeks ago:
We’ve definitely been there.
- Comment on California voters to consider raising minimum wage to $18 with Proposition 32 1 month ago:
The best part is there’s a lot of data now about how the raise in minimum wage has helped in California.
- Comment on Your Own Personal Version of “The Royale” 1 month ago:
I’m not sure you too away from that story what you should have.
- Comment on Star Trek Attraction And Hotel Rooms Coming To Turkish Theme Park In 2025 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m not traveling to a place that lost its democracy in a purge of academics and political opponents overnight.
I love Star Trek but not that much.
- Comment on Survey: 73% of Amazon workers are considering quitting after 5-day in-office mandate 1 month ago:
Exactly, your best employees are the ones who will most easily get new jobs.
- Comment on Survey: 73% of Amazon workers are considering quitting after 5-day in-office mandate 1 month ago:
Getting fired is a right of passage in the tech world. They constantly shed workers due to their turnover goals and those people can get jobs pretty much anywhere. I bet the prospects are even better when people quit.
- Comment on Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead 1 month ago:
Convict leasing was the souths replacement for slavery. You could arrest a black person for anything after the civil war (that’s changed right?), including for not having a job or a home. So instead of buying slaves the state created them from freed people by throwing them into prison and then leasing them back to the former slaveholders.
- Comment on Harris wants to end subminimum wages for disabled workers—if they're not behind bars 2 months ago:
No excuse was given. I don’t think you comprehended my comment. I literally said I was not talking about the very people you mentioned. I also said their care should not be contingent on the work and that my concern was making sure of that when changes are made.
- Comment on Harris wants to end subminimum wages for disabled workers—if they're not behind bars 2 months ago:
If they are actually exploiting people… I know this sounds like exploitation but this issue is pretty complex and there may actually be no “jobs” for a lot of differently abled people if there isn’t a carve out for certain scenarios. I say jobs in quotes because there are some places that are more or less daycares where adults of certain ability levels can go to work and do end up making less than minimum wage. But they are doing so because they are receiving a level of care and supervision at the same time. These are people who you could not just teach a job and leave to their own devices for any amount of time without endangering them. But they are capable enough to complete certain tasks. I have known adult aged people who’s elderly parents would not know what to do if they had to care for them every day all day.
That said, why in our society are some people put in this situation where the only thing they can do with their adult child is send them off to a menial job for daycare? It’s great that some people get the option to work, but they should also be able to receive care and not have to work menial jobs for sub minimum wages.
Like I said, the whole thing is way more complex than the no nonsense sound bite. If she were to just waive a regulatory hand and eliminate this exemption, without making more comprehensive changes, it might put some families in a very tough position. Having to suddenly pay for daycare for adults who previously were earning some amount of money.
But the places I’m talking about are usually non-profits employing these people to do work for other for profit businesses. It’s not the person at your local movie theater or grocery store working mostly independently and getting paid less than everyone else.
- Comment on Amazon orders workers to return to the office five days a week 2 months ago:
Amazon had never given a shit about their corporate workers. They barley treat them better than the warehouse side. Don’t get cancer or they’ll put you in performance review. They have a planned turnover rate as well.
This is just them doing layoffs without regulatory oversight or severance.
- Comment on Who had it worse: Enterprise-D or Voyager? 2 months ago:
The Year of Hell, full stop.
- Comment on ‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours 2 months ago:
Down their pant legs.
- Comment on ‘Hold them captive’: Australian billionaire boss aims to end staff going out for coffee 2 months ago:
In the US threats to a person are assault.
- Comment on ‘Hold them captive’: Australian billionaire boss aims to end staff going out for coffee 2 months ago:
Even worse, talented candidates always check out companies before applying.
- Comment on Labor board confirms Amazon drivers are employees, in finding hailed by union 2 months ago:
Doesn’t pass the ABC test. I find less and less “contractor” relationships do these days.
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- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 2 months ago:
Do you know why they were striking? Low staffing levels leading to long hours, overworked staff, and building safety concerns as a result.
- Comment on Edgar Bronfman Jr. withdraws offer for Paramount, allowing Skydance merger to go ahead 2 months ago:
Just think of all the efficiencies.
- Comment on Waffle House workers demand liveable wages and tip protections. 2 months ago:
Poor Europe. No restaurants to be found anywhere.
- Comment on Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement. 2 months ago:
I’m going to wager this was implemented to keep drivers from talking on the phone all day and because it’s using machine vision it doesn’t know the difference.
- Comment on 'Groundbreaking' Win as NLRB Rules Amazon Must Bargain With Delivery Drivers 2 months ago:
Give it a month before a federal judge stays it, 6 months until the supreme Court overturns it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That’s wealth redistribution, from the bottom to the top.
- Comment on Dallas Black Dance Theatre fired its entire company of dancers, after they unionized 3 months ago:
In places like Texas they used to hang people for unionizing. So I guess this is progress.