ToastedRavioli
@ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
Born to Squint, Forced to See ⚜️
- Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor 6 days ago:
What is the point of having a union if youre going to let union members drop dead on the shop floor?
- Comment on Something something far-left 1 week ago:
They dont even realize that teenagers dont even have jobs anymore mostly
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 week ago:
TIL im “vibeliving”
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 week ago:
The world of online jobs is basically the same enshitification as online dating.
In the hypothetical sense you have the opportunity to find more jobs than at any time in the history of employment. But employers also have to field more (and mostly unqualified) applicants than ever before.
So they can find more potential employees, and you can find more jobs, but ultimately the end user experience 9/10 times is just getting buried under a 10,000 person stack of other applicants. You may be the best person for a job, but not even get an interview because the person on the other end of the machine doesnt have time to actually look through that stack.
And then worse yet, job search companies capitalize on knowing they create a demoralizing atmosphere and use that to push products on people. Resume help, professional career guidance, etc etc
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 weeks ago:
America was built on treating the worker badly. Most of the first people that came here were either slaves or indentured servants. Now we have prison slavery and wage servitude.
The only thing that has ever really improved in American labor is actual safety standards for work environments, equipment, etc. We do a great job of prioritizing that. But actual workers are viewed as expendable, and many of the largest employers are just meat grinders even if they offer half-decent benefits. Walmart is a good example of that
- Comment on "Whole Foods lost, the workers won": NLRB officer sides with union in certification fight 3 weeks ago:
Aldi is also widely regarded as a place that treats workers well, albeit below a co-op level of good. But considering its a German company its no surprise that they tend to have above average pay and benefits for workers.
The best move for Amazon would probably have been to start their own model of wage-slaver grocery mart