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[@Pheonix0110]

DAMM IT ALEX

[@Rosy-maple-moth46]

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[@jackiele8311]

I WILL GET REVENGE ON YOU ALEX!

[@urbanshadow777]

Good on you Alex, take no shit from the man/woman/nongender entities and every other gender in-between.

[@legorescueairboat8072]

ᵃˡᵉˣ ⁱ ʷⁱˡˡ ᵍᵉᵗ ʸᵒᵘᵘᵘᵘᵘᵘ- some random German fairy

[@Monke16935]

ONE JOB DAMMIT

[@pyrolink1990]

The person *correctly* assessing 1980s poor vs. 2020s poor… we appreciate your lack of rose-colored glasses and your ability to brain.

[@llmkursk8254]

Honestly, it seems like the barrier for entry to “middle class” is just higher than it used to be. Sure, what that person said was true, but they still had the basic necessities. These days, you have to work so much off of the bottom of the rung jobs just to get up to the basic necessities, as the wages haven’t kept up with every higher cost expense.

[@chim-chimkerfuffles9612]

@@llmkursk8254 And to top it all off, inflation will knock you right back down to lower class.

[@mesothelimoa341]

@@chim-chimkerfuffles9612Yep, and as much as people will tell you to go to school and get qualifications, they don’t even help all that much.

[@Nevertoleave]

@@mesothelimoa341 it’s “go to school then to get a better job if you want a living wage” then when you go to school “well, I didn’t force you to go to school it’s your own fault that you picked a degree that won’t pay off your student debt” the career is doctor, lawyer, teacher, etc.

[@moqsavant7365]

1980-2020 $1-$3.70 let's say $4, $64000-$256000 MEDIAN, not average, home price $64000-479500 q4 2022. So approximatey an additional $223500 or nearly double the inflation price of the MEDIAN US home but that refers to the entirety of the nation. Even with additional spending social security and Medicare/Healthcare programs for the elderly comprises 34-40% of annual federal spending not including local programs which depend on the area but hey over 30% (near 40% depending on the year) of the budget goes to your welfare programs while approximatey 30-35% goes to general healthcare programs/institutions, all social services (education, social services, transportation, employment, regional development, etc.), and "actual welfare" like food stamps combined many of which the elderly generations also take advantage of enmass. I will cut this short but if you want to go over the expansive list of direct and indirect benefits (greatest-mid genx) had like specialized loans, grants, lower regulations (I/My FaThEr sTaRtEd An HvAc CoMpAnY 50 yEaRs AgO when everything was simpler and you could straight up release CFC whenever and wherever want), lower productivity requirements (61.8% rise with a 18% rise in income, when compared to federal minimum wage $3.10=12.4 today but federal is 7.25 and even higher min. wage states are not much different with what would be approximate then but everything is exponentially more expensive due to the multiplicative effect of trickle down economics on end-user price), more company benefits, discontinued small business grants that are race/gender locked now, college costs/benefits (many of which were defaulted on since Vietnam resulting in nationalization of student loan debt guaranteed by the government which resulted in higher prices) job availability, all the way to general social cohesion and laws that are CRIMINALLY prosecuted today I'm sure that will be a fun conversation, but hey "by the bootstraps" right.

[@VahlOrpheus]

This is an old comparison, but a great one: Say you had cancer. You had to go through excruciating rounds of chemo and treatments to live. Long after you’re cured, you hear that science has come up with a way to cure people with that same cancer nearly instantaneously without the trials you went through. You then say, “this cure shouldn’t exist because the fact that these people getting cancer don’t have to go through what I did is a slap in the face.” That’s the argument against student debt relief, and it’s sickening.

[@Jennamatic]

Especially when you remember that the real issue should be the ever-rising cost of education. Shouldn't be attacking other people with the same problem as you, we should be attacking the greedy bastards who are exploiting us.

[@erikhermansen3431]

That's not the same thing. Student loans are voluntary. I agree something should be done. At minimum interest needs to go away/be forgiven. However it is NOT the same as getting cancer.

[@markfreeman4727]

@@erikhermansen3431 you mean voluntold in school they make it seem like your going to die homless and starving on the streets, or working for mcdonalds for the rest of your lifewithout a college degree. It may be voluntary, but where raised with constant propaganda that says it essential for our very survival

[@homevander]

@@erikhermansen3431 "Voluntary" is kind of misleading here. Sure you could *choose* to not take out a loan, but then you wouldn't be able to go to college and get a degree that allows you to make any reasonable amount of money. Your other options are joining the military, which like the person in the video said involves risking your life or taking away the lives of others, or going into a trade which often also costs money and involves backbreaking labor for many hours a day. Or you could be homeless.

[@QuikVidGuy]

​@@erikhermansen3431 student loans are taken under duress by people not old enough to legally take out loans, who are also misled about what they entail. People make the same arguments about cancer all the time. "If you never smoked/drank. If you didn't live in that polluted area. If you slept better. If you monitored your health better. If you ate better. If you didn't waste all the money rhat could've been getting treatment on TV and vacations and coffee." At some point you have to recognize that people are being fucked over to the point of death and nothing makes it okay. It's the same logic that the villains in Squid Game use.

[@PQRDG]

That math one is really annoying. They seem to be arguing that “oh because you only work 8 hours a day that means you work the same as 1/3 as many 24-hour days” which is a wonderful way of saying “if I legally could I would have you work 24/7/365 but because I can’t I will make you work as many days as I can”

[@diggitydog998]

Yeah because they straight up do not see us as human. We are labor to them, but they don’t want to pay for that labor so they’d rather literally have slaves.

[@RaineDraa]

Yeah, it's not a mistake. They are basically saying "talk to the sign, because I don't care" Anymore with businesses it's not "not attribute to malice what is explained by stupidity" and is instead the other way around, don't attribute to stupidity what is explained by malice. Hanlon's razor is not a universal truth, and in this case they know what they are doing

[@notAshildr]

Honestly... I'd write them a mail, asking if that sign was to be taken seriously, and if so, on which day they would wish me to work my 24-hour shift. And if not, with all that solid argumentation down the drain, that they can expect me to be off work on that day I wanted to be off work.

[@NicholasBart]

Not to mention they made several major mistakes. I did the math myself and I got that these people work 240 regular days per year, aka 80 full 24 hour days (1,920 hours total). If they took a day off, it wouldn’t subtract 1 from the 80 days, like they implied. It would subtract 1 from the 240 days, leaving you with 239 regular days or 79.67 full 24 hour days.

[@notriver8647]

The first 2 points are correct, after that it goes to absolute shit. Lemme explain: 365 days a year of which 261 are work days, thats correct. After this however, they do some awful math that I dont ever wanna look at again. The holidays and 2 weeks vacation should be taken off first seeing as thats an entire workday gone. Unlike what they did which was taking it off the amount of hours you would actually be working. This means they said the 2/3 of your day your not at work are still being taken off. It would actually come down to 242 days youd actually have work. Now to take 2/3 off of that to calculate the amount of actual time spent working which brings us to about 81 days. They then get rid of the time spent on breakes which is grossly overestimated. In total youd spend about 15 days a year on these coffee and lunch breakes. Problem is most places dont even pay you for this time of even count it as work. Lets say it is part of your 8 hours at work youd still be left with about 66 days of work. (65,46 to without any rounding.) This would be equal to about 18% of the year. If your breaks arent counted youd be stuck with the 81 (80,57 more precisely) days which would be 22% of the year. YOU ARE WORKING ALMOST 5 HOURS A DAY ON AVERAGE!!! Yet they cant pay you enough to live -_-

[@alexisgrunden1556]

This entire subreddit is why the anime _Bucket List of the Dead_ was made. It's about a guy who started working for a place, was full of hopes and dreams, and then realized that his workplace was _severely_ exploitative (one of his co-workers joked about peeing *blood* FFS!) and when a freaking ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE happened, he was overjoyed...because he realized it meant that he didn't have to go into work, and he was free of that soul-sucking hellhole of a cubicle farm.

[@ericgolightly8450]

I think I've seen a clip of that

[@shadow_shine3578]

Also the animation of the new show is absolutely beautiful

[@ryojifan]

and then episode 3 was a guy jumping off a building, completely naked. that episode genuinely made me upset it had sm potential..

[@w3aponex870]

@@ryojifanit was about a guy who’s dream was to be a comedian that’s pretty funny so shhhhh

[@darkxemjas2910]

Okay, I was going to wait on it, but now I need to watch this show.

[@Bokatrice]

I can disprove the "1 day of work a year" thing really easily without even taking a full year into account. You work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. That's already more than 24 hours. Case closed.

[@RuntimeErrorSR]

I got 54 days

[@jwalster9412]

Whoever did that math clearly didn't go to school very long.

[@Cristian_Sub]

@@RuntimeErrorSR i got 49.4 days

[@Cristian_Sub]

@@RuntimeErrorSR if you do the math, you work 6.5 hours a day for 5 days in 52 weeks, so: 6.5 x 5 = 32.5, 32.5 x 52 = 1690 hours a year 1690 hours equals to 70.4 days if you have 14 days of vacation, 5 days of holyday and 2 days for sick leave, you get 21 days less, so: 70.4 - 21 = 49.4 days a year or 1185.6 hours

[@somedude2492]

The moment they compare working days with 24 hours worked is the moment their math stops mathing

[@nebbygetinthebag7263]

Regarding the Dairy Queen post: I actually once worked FOR Dairy Queen and I can tell you that those who made Ice Cream were also those making the food, prepping the food, taking orders and sometimes even running the register all at the same time. Dairy Queens being 1 man bands are not unheard of so...yes. They should be paid enough to live on, they should be paid MORE than enough to live on!

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

True. You work for multiple people and receive not even a quarter of combined salary.

[@ahstiasummers5583]

As I heard online…. “If all those fast food workers left, you wouldn’t be able to get your McFlurry at 3 AM”

[@hanyuuhiiragi3544]

​@@ahstiasummers5583Don't tell them high school students don't work at 3AM

[@Attaxalotl]

Fun fact! The original intent of the minimum wage was that it would be a living wage; $5.87 an hour, adjusted for inflation. Though I think the inflation statistics are a bit screwy, because $5.87 is not a living wage, it's like a quarter of a living wage.

[@MegaLokopo]

If you want a better job, go out and get a better job. It isn't that hard. Dairy queen would pay their employees more if people would simply refuse to work for less than what they claim they want.

[@coder436]

0:48 The numbers are totally wrong since they converted working days to days of continuous work and then kept substracting full days

[@Irreverent_Radiation]

They did meth instead of math, and so would the employees to keep with those, apparently, 24-hour work shifts. They must've done that on purpose to not realize that the though of subtracting the vacation time from the time where you are actively working is stupid.

[@actionjackson3522]

​@@Irreverent_RadiationThey did that on purpose to make the employees' non-working time sound greater. After all, if they did report the accurate numbers, the employees couldn't be as "grateful" from the bosses' perspective

[@Recliquez]

I hope it's a joke because I can't imagine the hell hole that will try to take that seriously.

[@howsjimmysocool]

They also decided to say that 261 days are available each year for work, but then proceed to calaculate lunch breaks and coffee breaks for 365 days of the year Bitch if you wanna pay me for my lunches on the weekends and bank holidays, be my guest. Otherwise gtfoh with this misleading bullshit

[@coder436]

Here's an updated calculation: 365 days/year -104 weekends -5 holidays -10 days of vacation (since four of the weekends are on vacation) -2 sick days That's 244 days of work times 6.5 hours a day of work is 1,586 hours or 66 days of *continuous* work

[@missmadness564]

0:33 "You spend 16 hours each day away from work" And how much of that time do we spend sleeping?

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Also getting to work. Its mostly hour in a day for me (still a lot), but i heard that it is much worse in US.

[@missmadness564]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 if there's traffic it can be

[@THATJustAnAverageHuman]

"why did u miss break" "i want to" "manager told me to"

[@CookingWithCows]

Just take your break then and if the manager complains ask if it is his request that you miss your break if patients require you in order to .. not die

[@nanajosh6697]

If I ignored it, do you think it would default to "I wanted to" or would they send someone to ask why I didn't select one. If anything is select, manager and let him deal with it.

[@BronzeDragon133]

With the nurse shortages, just always select, "Manager." When called on it, inquire as to whether the manager is specifically requesting that the nurse allow the patient to die rather than take a timed break. Pointedly place a phone on Record on the table. You'll get away with it cold.

[@sapphireclawe]

Prety sure that's default KRONOS but who knows.

[@nanajosh6697]

That last one about the submarine is important to remember. The one sad death in that sub was the 19yo that was forced by his father to go. That's the true tragedy there.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

He wasn't forced, he actually wanted to go with them which is why he went instead of his mother. Doesn't change much though.

[@alchemysaga3745]

​@SaHaRaSquad Not neccessarily. Some of his family says that he didn't actually want to go but went under pressure from family to make his dad proud; other family members said what you did about him wanting to go. IMO, it's worth considering that family wouldn't want to think about the fact that he died doing something he didn't even want to do. Even more so if they were the ones who pressured him into it. People are infamous for publicly putting on rose colored glasses about their last interactions with people after they die. Both to alleviate their own feelings of guilt, and in order to preserve their own public image.

[@jamsmarsman]

🤷

[@ectothermic]

@@SaHaRaSquad He was planning to film himself solving a Rubik's cube while in the sub.

[@SteveIsNumbToThisWorld]

I disagree if he was 19 years old that makes him an adult and capable of making his own decisions he chose to get in that tin can stupid decisions have stupid consequences and every single one of these people had way more money than sense

[@EliasOxide]

I quit my job a few days ago on the spot. No 2 weeks. I was getting harassed by my general manager who is at least 70. I'm 15. Was I forced to get a job? No. Did I want to have some extra money? Yes. What I didn't sign up for was harassment, horrible conditions, and being overworked. 5 days a week, 9 to 11 hour days, at least 45 hours a week. 5 people quit in 2 weeks. I worked in a waterpark, so our aquatics manager, a supervisor, and 3 lifeguards, including me, quit. So much drama and management issues happened. How they're still open I have no idea after what I saw there.

[@lmcgregoruk]

Plenty of people NEED the money I guess, although I'm always surprised at how many bosses at minimum wage jobs act like they're doing you the greatest favour ever, like if they hadn't given you a job, you would be homeless. That and the fact they usually expect maximum effort for minimum wage.

[@EliasOxide]

@@lmcgregoruk oh yeah, when I went to go talk to HR, HR wasn't in the building so I told the GM that I quit. He said, "aw but you're such a good lifeguard". And my remaining supervisors tried to get me to stay. No thanks

[@ie_cin]

Hope someone good takes over business after the old sack dies

[@WestGarbage6]

If I ever see a sign like that one, I'm not coming back into work ever again, if they call me I'm just going to tell them "Well, you only give me credit for one of the days I work every year, so that's all I'm going to do."

[@CDE.Hacker]

We had this web developer at the company I worked for back in the early 2000'. She worked her ass off for them. One day they told her she wasn't doing enough and wanted her to put in more time. Being fed up with their BS she got up and in the best Cartman from South Park voice she said "Screw you guys, I'm going home." Epic!

[@QuikVidGuy]

That is a very 2000 move

[@Beefyrulz]

Why is it that companies always, ALWAYS, without fail decide to come down on their hardest working employee's with shit like "You're not working hard/fast enough." I just don't get the end-game of trying to squeeze more out of them when they're already going above and beyond.

[@hamburger7243]

I’m doing this if I ever quit my job. Funniest goddamn thing ever

[@Bloodlyshiva]

@@Beefyrulz They care about numbers, not people.

[@eldritchomen]

​@@Beefyrulzbecause they know that the ones that are willing to work their asses off for them for more work than what they're paid for are more likely to fall into that trap of more work without a raise than people who sign off the moment the clock strikes closing time. That's why treating your job like a job and absolutely nothing more is so important. Almost every job will attempt to take a mile the moment you give em an inch more than your pay grade

[@snoobnoob9343]

Man I’m so exhausted by the older generations around me chewing me and my entire age class of people out every single time they come to be served by me in my customer service job. “No one wants to work anymore, they just want to be pampered,” while I’m standing there thinking NO, they have self respect and have a better idea what their time and effort is worth and it’s not 7.00 fucking dollars fam!!!! I’m just here because I have no marketable skills and I’m too mentally mcfucked to work from home without turning into a paranoid hermit that starts to resemble the main character from The Yellow Wallpaper more than a functional person!!! Like man my grandfathers dream was to get to be rich and own a highly successful company. MY dream is to have enough money to not constantly be afraid of one accident putting my rent or food or general well-being in jeopardy.

[@MegaLokopo]

Go out and get a better paying job. So long as you work hard and don't do drugs, there are plenty of well paying jobs out there.

[@wake6000]

This genuinely sounds like a you problem lol. No one with "no marketable skills" gets payed dough on a silver platter, so you can stuff your "self respect" and actually start working so you'll climb the corporate ladder at some point to reach somewhere respectable. If you never start anywhere because you think work is beneath you, you'll be stuck in your mom's basement, complaining 24/7 like you are right now. It's not that hard.

[@MegaLokopo]

@@wake6000 Exactly. It took me 4 years without a college degree to double my wage from $10 per hour to $20 per hour, simply by working hard, and networking, and jumping ship every time the raises slowed down.

[@KingDeathagorn]

I agree, many members of the older generation have a screwed up view of working conditions and pay. Like they directly benefited from their parents/grandparents fighting and dying for better pay and working conditions in the workplace. But as soon as you want even a portion of those benefits, you just are just entitled. I swear that the history of labor rights in first world countries have to be taught in middle school, otherwise rich billionaires will continue to convince people that some people working 40 hours a week don't deserve even just $10.00 an hour.

[@MegaLokopo]

@@KingDeathagorn Why should you have the right to work in an entry level job for your entire life and expect to get paid non entry level wages? You should move jobs frequently enough to earn enough money to not have to worry about making more money. The moment your employer stops giving you a raise find a different job and put in your two weeks notice.

[@sumthngcool4221]

Reminder: America is the BEST country in the world- for rich people…

[@BronzeDragon133]

Not really. That's Monaco.

[@gavinisdie]

I hate that I was born here but I still feel patriotic and want to do everything I can to make this place better

[@ZeditYT]

“Country”

[@jordanbaldridge2242]

I worked for Perdue (a chicken processing plant) and let them know 2 months in advanced for two days I was taking off FOR MY WEDDING. It was denied, I then proceeded to tell my supervisor "Hey I'm just letting you know, I wasn't requesting those days off, I was letting you know I was taking them off". Got a write up when I came back, so they had to find a new machine operator on the spot ^.^

[@MockG4M1NG]

1:34: There are a couple issues with this. 1) lunch is typically excluded from working hours, so you usually stay at the office for nine hours rather than 8. 2) 261*1/3 = 87, not 91. 3) 365/7 does not equal 52 but 52 1/7, so really it should be 262. 4) 261-5-2-14=240 working days. This is then multiplied by 0.5 hours to get 120 hours spent in coffee breaks. This is only five days, not 23. Thus, correcting these calculations: 262-21=241/3=80-5=75 days of work. It’s important to note though that taking a day off only removes a third of one of these “workdays”

[@TheDarwinProject1]

I got 65 if lunch is included in the 8 hours, which many people also do if the company is trying to keep under 40 hrs a week.

[@bellablue5285]

Unless you work a 9/8, in which case you have to be working 10hrs on those 9hr days, and 9 on the 8 (I can't complain too much, we have flex and some level of remote since 2020, when it was all hours in office usually had to go in on the off Friday)

[@josh8584]

​@@TheDarwinProject1I got the same number.

[@TuffMelon]

Also a large part of that 'off time' is sleeping, so you can't really get anything you need done during that time.

[@jojoycon5775]

You made an error in your calculations. You need to subtract the number of lunchbreaks and coffee break (in that case 240) to the hours in total of the year. By simply dividing by it, you made half of your work hours coffee breaks, wich is, while mostly desirable, not really applicable.

[@_ksm0922]

I hate the whole “this job isn’t meant to be survivable” or “it’s meant for high schoolers” bullshit. Those jobs NEED adults. How else are these jackasses gonna get a quick meal on their hour lunch break on a Monday afternoon when they’re too goddamn lazy to prep their own lunches and all the kids are at school? People who attack and dehumanize food service employees are always the ones who utilize them the most and need them the most.

[@hmnhntr]

Plus, they were survivable jobs when the people saying that had them.

[@asinglesliceofbread8198]

According to Grammarly, words synonymous with human are: Compassionate Benevolent And also the word Humane If someone is in support of things that damage people’s lives, ESPECIALLY without reason, *THEY ARE NOT HUMAN AND SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS SUCH*

[@alexreid1173]

My dad’s company used to make him come in person, but obviously they worked remotely during COVID. The entire IT department was SIGNIFICANTLY more productive when working from home, even with the added COVID stress! They now have him come in like once every other week for a handful of things, but they’re still remote otherwise and more productive than ever lol (while saving money for commuting and parking, not to mention the extra time!)

[@fabianfeilcke7220]

That might be his perception. Do the others feel the same way? Our IT became significantly less helpful since a lot of them were in home office. Before when a problem was not resolvable remotely, they would come by in person to look at it. Now it often means that they can only come the next day to fix things, reducing my efficiency in the process. Now they have a new rule that they have to stay in office at least 2 days a week and the support is workings much better again

[@Perdix64]

That’s actually what my mom’s work does, she works in Macy’s and they found them far more productive at home. So they sold the office and allowed them to work from home.

[@MrTemplarViking]

I found i was more productive when working from home, but ended up spending more money on utilities than I would spend on gas when commuting to work. Significantly more. Working from home meant more power, water usage. And much more natural gas to heat the house in winter. Working from the office, I can set the thermostat lower, use less power, less water. difference was about $150 a month. $50/month on gas for commute vs almost $200/month extra for utilities when working from home.

[@Anthonybrother]

@MrTemplarViking Wow, your place has insuficient insulation.

[@Irreverent_Radiation]

Ah yes, people working 9-5 each day (about 8 to 9 hours per day) for sure are working only a day of the year. I would've pissed on that sign.

[@realtrader450]

so uhh is it weird my school's classes are 9 to 5?

[@Sealjumped]

@@realtrader450not

[@Pilk4life]

​@realtrader450 that's 8 hours, most schools are from 8 to 3 so only 6. Depending on where u are that's a long school day

[@actionjackson3522]

I would have wiped my butt with that sign during a "coffee break" and taped it back to the wall.

[@smedgert1812]

@@Pilk4life for us its random well kinda the general exit time is 3 but due to a rule that we dont study thursday evening so they need to replace 2 hours + en extra hour so we out on 3pm 2 days 4pm one day 5pm one day and 12 on thursday

[@hanyuuhiiragi3544]

I'm STILL finding it difficult to find work. People still ask me why I don't just work at McDonald's or something. 1. I want to be paid an adequate wage 2. I don't want to be yelled at or worse because of a mistake or something out of my control. But corporate America doesn't give a shit about anyone with PTSD, not even the people who got it fighting for an oil company. Edit, since some people wish to question this for....some reason. Why do I believe these things? 1. I'm autistic. Only 50% of autistic Americans get hired. And only 15% work full time. I have been trying to find a job since COVID began to wind down. Avidly. 2. I grew up in and around domestic abuse situations, and yeah, the cops HAVE been involved before. Same goes for plenty of bullying as a whole. You think I wanna relive that at my job and possibly have a flashback? Then I'm out of a job because workplaces, like most Americans, don't give a rat's ass about mental health. 3. Apparently it's too much to ask to be treated like I'm actually.... Y'know, a person? That's crazy.

[@MegaLokopo]

What city do you live in? There is a worker shortage in almost every city in the country. If you don't do drugs, and show up for work, most places will hire you.

[@MaiBoricuaTai]

i don't understand why people don't get no one wants to be treated like crap at their job and when you know a job is like that, you avoid it. No one gets a job to be harrassed and screamed at. I'm sorry you're struggling, I hope something lands in your lap sooner than later and I hope it's a game changer for you!

[@wake6000]

Then you better get a degree or be self employed, because everyone starts like that lol. The world isn't going to give you a cushy job for no qualifications

[@MegaLokopo]

@@wake6000 Those jobs do exist, the problem is no job is perfect, that ideal job you mentioned exists, I had it for a few months before I got bored and left to make more money actually working. The problem is you generally have to move or sacrifice something else in order to get an ideal job.

[@wake6000]

@@MegaLokopo that's how it is for everyone, like I said, if you want a cushy job you need to have the qualifications for it. If not, too bad.

[@StockterBaxman]

My dad, who is partially disabled and has one child with chronic illness, has been treated like shit by managers because our family has frequent hospital trips and doctors visits.

[@guts60]

remember, the $15/hr argument has been going on for so long that the living minimum wage is actually now around $24/hr Edit: I meant that the living minimum wage is $24/hour but no businesses want to accept that and don’t raise it. Most places are still $7-$15/hr, and won’t go any higher

[@MegaLokopo]

It depends on the city you live in. Also if you want more money, get a better job it isn't hard.

[@MaiBoricuaTai]

THIS! 100%

[@j_g9109]

@@MegaLokopoYou clearly live a very blessed, very sheltered life. You can be deny it, but your comments expose you. Based solely on your delusional view of the economy and careers, I know exactly the type of person you worship & vote for. Be careful. Life has a way of taking the entitled down a peg or two. 🙏🏼

[@Katchelina]

@@MegaLokopoYou realize minimum wage was MEANT to be livable, right? Also, if you believe entry level workers should leave their jobs and get better ones, stop using their services and making their jobs NECESSARY

[@trustedroot]

​@@MegaLokopoyou're just a few bad months away from homelessness

[@actionjackson3522]

4:33 We're only 100 years from a time when bosses could legally lock employees inside the building and evade criminal charges for the deaths of those employees in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Let that sink in.

[@BronzeDragon133]

A few states are happily voting to bring that back, including for children. I'd say let that sink in, but let's face it. It's bleedin' obvious.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@BronzeDragon133 See them protesting when they realise what shithole they just created. I hope they will be not allowed to escape, since they will do same thing in otherwise "free" state.

[@errantwinds-up8uu]

I came here to comment "Triangle Shirtwaist Fire!" Let's not be doing that again thanks.

[@CherryScorn]

Unfortunately there are companies who do still do this to this day; there have been instances of employees locked in buildings during factory fires making fast fashion items in Bangladesh & Philippines in only the last few years ☹

[@hanyuuhiiragi3544]

I immediately thought of this when that clip was brought up. Our 10th grade history teacher taught us about this and everything else that came with the brutal reality of fighting for the most basic workplace rights we have to fight to keep now.

[@Snowthree]

I recall hearing a theory a while back that said that slavery was extremely deterimental to society and kept it from progressing. Because slave owners, instead of looking for better production/harvesting methods, improved technology, skilled labor, or the like, would just bring in more slaves and find ways to cut back on 'expenses' like food when they wanted more money. I bring this up because I feel like the same thing is going on with a bunch of companies today. Namely that, instead of trying to find new methods to improve production, they'll increase their profit margins by finding ways to cut back on wages or force workers to work harder and, if a worker quits, they can be replaced. So instead of, say, finding better and faster ways to churn out more high-quality product, they'll outsource production to sweatshops and force employees to work 12 hour shifts 7 days a week for the rock-bottom minimum wage.

[@ShadowLibrarian]

Let's just be brutally honest here corporations just want slaves back.

[@Bloodlyshiva]

No, they have slaves back. Prison labour. They want to revert fully to feudalism/Roman times. The rich have everything and the poor have nothing. Which they have mostly done.

[@Arsenic71]

Wasn't there discussion in the US recently about allowing kids to work again in some states? I seem to remember hearing something about it and just /facepalmed.

[@innocentbystander3317]

ESG and DEI is pushing for that very thing. The amount of control over your personal life, your medical decisions, and your personal and political opinions is actually quite insane as their agenda advances.. I work for a massive corporation that is only 20% owned by Vanguard, and the ESG agenda is in full swing.

[@purplepenguin43]

What are the biggest investments in tech right now… AI and mechanical automation. At least steel and silicon cant feel i guess.

[@Anthonybrother]

Canada minimal age to work is going back down. Hurray free market.

[@QuikVidGuy]

That paper from The Incredibles is basically saying, "You don't get paid to work here, you're paying us to work here. This is not a choice. Also, this is your choice." And yes, there are companies that do this. Not usually all at once, but most of it, including phones and parking

[@Alysm-Aviation]

For the ICU nurse, I would just hit Manager request. Because it sure as hell isn't voluntary

[@Josh_the_jester]

5:23 I remember an argument on reddit where someone claimed with no explanation that you do not need to enlist in the military just to afford college, someone proved him otherwise and finished "I hope that rock you live under has AC"

[@kadan2889]

The fact I get the numbers only makes me more angry with the first one - they're taking the "days of work" too literally to take the piss, because nobody works 24hrs straight. If you have a 12hr shift without breaks or lunch, then they won't consider it a work day until you do it twice, essentially, which is where they're getting those stupid numbers.

[@actionjackson3522]

0:23 I bet the hospital gives the nurses those two - and only those two - options to avoid a lawsuit, like what's happened with GEICO and other comapnies.

[@Nightfire613]

As someone who is disabled and cannot drive, I cannot get a job, even if I meet their other requirements, because public transportation in my town is nonexistent, and so many companies post "remote" job listings only during the interview to say "um, actually, you're gonna have to come in daily to start and then after a while we *might* transfer you to remote 2 days a week after three years." It's so goddamn infuriating, especially because they KNOW people who don't have or cannot use cars would not be able to take the jobs, so they are using it as a way to discriminate based on physical ability and economic status and get away with it because legal loopholes. "Well, why don't you just Uber?" Someone might ask. Oh, suuuuuure, let me just give a different complete stranger everyday the information of both my place of living and my place of work, which in today's society would probably be the only two places I'm able to go, assume that they would have a vehicle that could accommodate my disability, and have to pay MORE than someone who owned a car to be able to make probably less money (due to gender and ability discrimination leading to unequal pay) while haveing exactly none of the freedom of a car.

[@MegaLokopo]

Make more friends and move to a city with better public transit.

[@clockside]

Ignore the ableist buttface who's leaving their crap all over the place in this video's comments. They're being obtuse and self-righteous on purpose. I'd accuse them of being a troll except there's way too many people who delude themselves into thinking they're good people while acting like this buttface is. Your struggles are valid and your obstacles are real. It's not fair to expect you to put your safety at risk just to get to a job for a company that lied to you in the first place. It's absolutely bull and an attempt at getting information to use in a discriminatory manner that would be illegal if they were honest about it. Moving isn't some magical solution either and the idea that you should "just make friends" who you could move in with is laughably stupid. No one is owed your story. And the people who treat you like crap and still blame you for being in the situation you're in aren't worth wasting any emotions or effort on. You deserve better than that. Your disability does not remove or diminish your humanity. People who choose to treat others with no compassion are the ones acting in betrayal of their humanity, not you.

[@MegaLokopo]

@@clockside I never suggested they move in with friends, but friends can help you load a moving truck and can help you commute to work if you don't want to move. Their first complaint was a lack of public transit, that problem would be fixed by living in a different city. Even if you can't move a muscle below your neck, moving is not impossible. In what world is providing real solutions to real problems treating someone without compassion?

[@Katchelina]

@@MegaLokopoThis is just an unreasonable expectation. You want to pay for them finding a new house and moving? You’re very clearly one of the most ignorant of the job situation and economy looking at your posts throughout this comments section.

[@hanyuuhiiragi3544]

​@@MegaLokopo You're living in a world assuming everyone has these options. I have friends but I can't ask them for that because public transit is 200 to 300 a month for a pass. And they would be working the same time I would be working. And uh...veeeeeeery bold of you to think a disabled person would have an easy time finding any work...and the application process for disability pay is just as humiliating. Something you clearly never faced because you assume every person here that is going through hard times can just drop everything and get what they need just by asking for it.

[@maxpaulll]

"Only one day of work available for year 😢😢😢" and then they're begging their employees not to clock their overtime on a 40hr week

[@ACKamikaze]

I worked at a call center for a bit... Literally, I could do that from my home PC but they don't offer most of those jobs remotely, because they get a corporate tax break for you being under their watch. We live in a slave-based economy when you literally cannot afford to live most days.

[@brycethoreson9216]

So they realize everything shuts down if Alex leaves. He's obviously important. But apparently not important enough to give him a raise and treat him right to avoid quitting.

[@thekirstenempire]

1:44 explanation on how they got such a low number: they didnt realize that some breaks fade into eachother. They talk about your two days off, but also add your holidays, without realizing that there are weekends they counted in the holidays. So basically they separated them when it should be a much bigger number.

[@Alexa-Raine]

Lolz no. The issue comes when they add up 16 hours a day off work(other 8 hours per day at work) and subtracted that from the total days, as if they hadn't worked. This is a calculation of hours, while looking at days as 24 hour periods. That literally means they are expecting 24 hours of work to qualify as 1 day of work. 😂 1:50

[@chrisbeer5685]

0:25 No lie, seeing that screen alone would make me quit. The kicker is that whoever made this knows dann fucking well that there are other reasons, but hopes to essentially steal worker's time by making them click the "voluntary" option.

[@beeame]

At my old medical manufacturing job, we used to get raises every year about 2%-4%. 2020 was our most profitable year due to covid but management did not give any raises. The company was also preparing to be sold, so they cut severance pay by more than half, increased the years to qualify for more PTO, and ended profit sharing. Many good people left.

[@MegaLokopo]

That sounds earily similar to a place I used to work, max doesn't ring a bell does it?

[@wm9482]

I checked the math on the post at 1:26, but instead, ran all calculations in hours instead of days. Two things became quickly apparent, the creator of that poster has an inconsistent definition of a day, switching back and forth between defining a day as merely one full rotation of the planet, as well as merely the sum of 24 hours (which do not need to be consecutive hours). The other thing I noticed is that some of their calculations make no sense when actually examined.

[@hmnhntr]

You see, when it's them 'giving' you a day, 8 hours is a whole day. But when it's you 'taking' a day, 8 hours is only a third of a day. You just have to realize that a worker is only 1/3 of the person an employer is!

[@TheScarletSlayer]

Its amazing the jobs we consider bottom tier no experience or education needed are the ones society would immediately collapse without.

[@MrRant790]

12:25 is a perfect example of what I just went through. I worked in the healthcare industry for almost 2 years and we got a new manager completely new to the company. She went on a power trip, and decided to openly yell at me for not giving her my cell phone number for “work” reasons. Mind you, we have 4 other ways of communicating with staff members at the facility. - our comm log, the office phone, work emails, or talk during staff change. My personal cell phone is not required, and will never be disclosed to any job, or company. I never had a problem with anyone or the company at all until she came along and started this out of nowhere. She clearly was off her rocker and was almost twice my age (im 28) - I felt really uncomfortable and this was not the first time she done something like to me. I didnt even put in my two weeks notice since HR didn’t do a thing about this kind of harassment. I found another job within 3 days and and they offer better pay and benefits. I never had an issue with my income, but everyone at my new job already accepts me for who I am, and respects my privacy. Thank you for the informative video!

[@skeep502]

I actually did the math, to what, I believe, is the correct number of full, 24 hours days, that an employee would work. It was 63.69 days

[@TheDarwinProject1]

I got 65. My math written out is in my comment.

[@josh8584]

I also got 65. Most of my math is in my comment.

[@skeep502]

@@josh8584 @TheDarwinProject1 Y’all are right, I redid the math and got 65

[@Beanz-on-Toast]

Bare minimum wages are hitting hard rn as i job search. I recently got qualified to drive heavy plant/machinery in construction (ride on roller and forward tipping dumper) and it cost me over £1k to get that card and i see job listings for £11 an hour, thats JUST above "living wage". On my first ever job under that title i was on just under £19 an hour and that was straight off the course, no experience, thats just what i got and to see companiess asking for experienced drivers and only want to pay them £11 is disgusting.

[@noreasonatall3852]

as a high school student who takes a specific elective i can make $19 an hour getting a job with my school. the fact that adults with proper training and degrees aren’t getting paid that is disgusting.

[@autobotjazz1972]

14:38 that used to be a real thing it was called Company script, the men who worked in mines all across the US up until it was outlawed were paid in company script only redeemable at the company store. The company even owned the house you rent and often deducted that from your pay. This lead to mounting debt and debt bondage to the company as your pay was enough to keep you afloat but never get ahead enough to be debt free. This was famously sung about in the Song Sixteen Tons By Tennessee Ernie Ford, noted in the line " Tell St.Peter I can't go i owe my soul to the company store. ".

[@thundrakion]

0:29 365 days a year available to work. 2/7 of those are already off, Of those, you spend 2/3rds of each day away (which shouldn't count to begin with) Of the 8 hours a day you come, you spend 30 minutes on a coffee break and 1 hour on lunch (some states take lunch as part of your time off, which is why I work a max of 9-6/11-8 shifts) You probably get sick, but they failed math and forgot we've already eliminated 2/3rds of each day, so this should say "3" to make it "21 days" Holidays are off to spend time with your family, but once again, this dude should've made it "19.3 days" 14 days vacation, but since we've already sliced the days, it's "14.6" For the record, that's 352 hours, or 44 8 hour work days. Realistically, lets go back to 261. We aren't counting the hours of the day you aren't working, or the breaks, as that's expected in your day. 5 holidays makes that 256, minus the 2 sick days makes that 254. Lets assume you take the vacation. 14 days off to make 240. 240 8 hour days. 1920 man hours. Even if we counted the breaks in the time, that's 1560 hours or 195 days.

[@theprisonbottle3832]

1:00 is so generous, they expect only 24 hours of hard work each year

[@anothermereapostleofjimpickens]

People aren’t “poor” anymore. We’re destitute and starving and dying and being taken advantage of at every turn

[@samh2340]

Fixing math. Tldr, according to the sign about taking days off, you'd be working 67.67 days a year or nonstop with no sleep for two months and one week. 365 days a year and 52 weeks per year. 52x5 (as opposed to 7, to figure out how many working days there are) is 260 work days. Already their math is off. Next, let's count hours. Each work day is 8 hours, aka 16 hours not working. So a full work week is 8 hours 5 times a day, which is *already* 40 full hours, or well over a single day. 8 hours times 260 days is 2,080 hours, or, if you count that as continuous days, 86.67 days straight. 30 minute coffee breaks are usually not paid breaks, and have absolutely no bearing on this math. The one hour lunch is also almost never paid, especially in establishments like this, so you're still working 8 hours, just cut up across the day and not continuous. Thus the lunch break also has no bearing on this math. 5 holidays and 14 vacation days is 19 days less, which brings us down to an aesthetically pleasing 67.67 continuous days of work, or just over working *completely non-stop* for two months and one week. I failed half my math classes. But I have a very functional ability to use logic, which whoever wrote that sign clearly doesn't have.

[@urbanshadow777]

13:30 We love ya Robin and you definitely earned what you have. Long live emkay and the team.

[@wesleyward5901]

I will never get why companies shit on remote work so much. Unless you physically need to be in a location to do your job, remote work should be optional with the exact same pay, hours, benefits, etc. of on-site work. Just think about it. Employees are usually more productive as they get to relax and not be in a high-stress environment, it's more efficient as the employee doesn't need to spend time travelling and the employer doesn't need to hand out company cars or pay for travel expenses, and much more.

[@rolandhansen812]

I totally agree. I work in IT and everything I do is remote whether I'm in the office or sitting in my bedroom. I am controlling computers in another building, another city or half a world away. I am NEVER physically touching the computers I am working on. I have been working fully remote (from home) for more than three years, since Covid started. If they ever require I go into the office, even for 1 day a week, I would retire immediately. My elderly father can no longer be left alone. I want to retire but they pay me too damn much for me to want to give up the money.

[@dasten123]

They don't trust the employees to do the work when they don't see them. They _could_ be playing video games half the day. I'm not trying to defend employers like this but that _is_ a risk for them.

[@DarkNetLurker]

It's because the company rents the office and is under contract to pay it. If no one is there they pay for an empty building. That's their problem frankly bit that's why

[@hmnhntr]

​@@dasten123If you can't tell that's happening and fire those people, either A) You're a terrible manager who isn't actually aware of your employees' productivity B) They're getting all of their work done anyway, so who cares?

[@dasten123]

@@hmnhntr A) There is not always a manager B) The employee cares because they are on a contract to work for them X hours

[@shadow_shine3578]

As a former dairy queen worker i can tell this lady would be the one I was kindly helping when she made a rather unsavory comment about one of the new employees and I'd have to grit my teeth to stay in form.

[@jonnywilson4408]

Sending that nurse a bill for her training is actually illegal unless it was in her contract when she signed on

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

That Insuricare Notice would be tried once and when someone took it to the State Department of Labor, that Company would have MULTIPLE new Waste Disposal Orifices ripped into them by the DoL...that kind of thing has already been deemed Illegal Deductions from Employee Pay by Labor Law...

[@frog4099]

bioshock and finks factory really captured the difference between the working man and the people who make them work, really icks me every time i replay it, never felt bad when fitz killed him

[@uumatter_0106]

For anyone wondering about the "Day off" thing: They started bullshitting on the coffee break and lunch hour thing You actually still work for 60 full days every year which equates to 1455 hours

[@jacquelinewarner-smith1770]

Today, my mom apologized to me for bringing me into such an awful world. It wasn't this awful 26 years ago.

[@kamilslup7743]

Man, antiwork is back, the reassurement of not living in america being a good thing has returned. Also people saying that some jobs shouldn't have living wage expect people to live like larry from the amazing world of gumball

[@wake6000]

What logical people are saying is that a company isn't responsible for attending to every need of their workers, especially when they're about as replaceable as grains of sand. Y'all complain about "managers" and "CEOs", without realising that they actually either have the qualifications to get there, they literally own the company, or they worked up from the bottom.

[@riccardozanoni2531]

@@wake6000 "a company isn't responsible for attending every need of the worker"... you can't be serious lol

[@wake6000]

@@riccardozanoni2531 I am. It's responsibility lies in its profit. Workers are simply the medium for its profit lol. They aren't obligated to give workers anything beyond their legal contract

[@riccardozanoni2531]

@@wake6000 it must be incredibly interesting to see the world from your point of view. I've always wondered how extensive brain damage affects conscience; let me know how it feels😉 for academic purposes, that is.

[@wake6000]

@@riccardozanoni2531 it must be great to see the world from an uneducated point of view

[@elaexplorer]

9:54 I also want to point out that IT is exempt from overtime requirements, so that's why they feel so confident about their on call requirement. And to put it into perspective, in 1998 I was hired straight out of school with that very certification making that much and I was hired making half what the men were making (manager was soon fired (for making inappropriate comments to the only other woman programmer) and my pay was being raised every couple months, cause they were worried about being sued). So this is way under the current market rate.

[@calebreese2311]

In regards to the Incredibles clip, keep in mind that they showed that letter immediately after the boss basically said, “Won’t someone think of the shareholders?!”

[@sylwiawiszniewska6384]

0:48 the math isn't even done correctly for most of the calculations. If that would be calculated correctly they amount of 24 hour working days is exacly 75 days or about 277 days of working in that place which is way higher than what they calculated.

[@alexharwell9956]

12:56 Erika Flow is probably telling the truth according to her. How so? All the people she knows have to deal with her!

[@sandrahughes1004]

hey, im in a tough spot, im a young lad and my mother has lost her disablity despite being disabled and confirmed by her doctor, the landlord that owns our house also hates us currently and might kick us out, and we might not have really anywhere to go, so i just wanted to say i really love your content i hope you read this.. im sorry for my spelling... but i wish u the best luck and i'd like to be like you one day.

[@CommonInternetLurker]

Can confirm about remote working. My job has always been a WFH since I started in May 2019. It's brilliant because I fit my work around my leisure time, not the other way about. It helps that my bosses are chill and that they let you make your own hours. As long as your contracted hours are logged in the system (e.g. 30hrs a week) and your work is done to a satisfactory degree, they don't care if you work consistently at 9am-5pm or two blocks of work like 11pm-2am and 12pm-5pm, as long as your hours are logged by 11:59 Sunday night.

[@Omewump]

Trying to read that letter at 2:04, might be wrong... Due to financial setbacks, you will now be expected to ___ ______ all office supplies, including but not limited to: pencils, erasers, pens, paper, stationary, ____, staples, paper clips, ____, and photographs. All personnel(probably?) will now be ____ by the (book maybe?). (Honestly not sure about the next sentence much at all, I see phone charges will be extorted from your paycheck.) (Not sure about the company name, haven't watched) wants to thank you for your selfless sacrifice during this time of financial insecurity. It is because of you, the employee that ______ has recorded the highest profit in years. _____ & resourceful company makes the successful (finger covered, not gonna bother with the rest). Didn't see anybody trying to put the letter down so figured I'd take a go. Feel free to correct me if you have seen this and know what the letter says or can just see the words better than I can, as a lot of it was guesswork based on what the words looked like and context of the rest of the sentence. Edit: Lmao I didn't move forward in the video before making this. Didn't realize it says literally right after.

[@athenaraines]

7:25 The way that’s written screams satire but it is Twitter (oh, I’m sorry, X) so I really can’t be sure if it’s actual satire or if that person does truly have that little empathy

[@Playing096]

Entering military service is another option, you can make a living out of it and get housing, water, internet and electricity on the military barracks

[@blablup1214]

I think it is no satire and she means a person with a job like that should do muliple jobs or live in a group with more than one person working ....

[@hanyuuhiiragi3544]

​@@Playing096And then get tossed into the streets after a tour or two because you can't fight and you're too horribly shell shocked to function normally since mental healthcare doesn't exist here, not even for the vets we pretend to care about.

[@Playing096]

@@hanyuuhiiragi3544 who the fuck said we'd be fighting in wars? Dunno about your country, but here in Brazil, military serviceman are very respected by the government.

[@RandarTheBarbarian]

I used to be one of those low level managers, I wasn't paid enough and I knew damn well the people beneath me weren't paid enough (and on paper the entire store was employed by my department because they couldn't get anyone to work at all for the wage of anyone not on the tech team). I closed 5 days a week (a shift the other managers didn't want but I didn't mind) and did basically everything in my department myself with the exception of one other guy because he enjoyed it and was just as skilled (because I knew most of them were only put under me because it meant an extra $1.50, the manager that did that was a good guy, miss him), and did high effort stuff myself like unloading and sorting freight (even if I did want to push that stuff onto a worker being paid a shit wage there weren't enough people to do it) or the gross stuff like cleaning the bathrooms most nights. I tried to encourage my people to unionize and made sure to inform them it would be illegal for the company to take retaliatory action if they did, something obviously I was supposed to try and stop if I heard about it (yeah, not for $14.50 an hour), eventually when the new GM fired me after an argument about half the workers quit (I don't think it was ME being great so much as her being lazy af, taking 3 hour lunches and never setting foot outside the office). They started closing early all the time due to the lack of staff until the GM got fired 3 months later, and the district manager was also asked to step down a little while after that... Unionize, people! not only is it your right to do so but solidarity is the only way to get even a portion of what you deserve from these cretins. Labor is entitled to all it creates!

[@Luscinia_Nightengale]

That $5.00 iced latte tweet had me in the first half, not gonna lie. I got all mad, correcting him on how it's $35 a week because there are 7 days a week, how it's better to count years in weeks not in weeks per month, and how $1,820 isn't a lot anyway... Then the second half comes out and I realize that I've been baited and bamboozled. Well played sir.

[@michaelmann7816]

About the "day off" image: it's a fairly old (and semi well-known) trick. The catch is that several hours/days are counted more than once (as an example, look closely at the lunch hour entry and note that 68 (the "remaining days" from the previous entry, and as such the number of valid lunch hours) divided by 24 (hours per day, just in case anyone got lost) only comes to 46 (alleged number of days lost to lunch) if you are really bad at maths.)

[@FutureVegeta]

If your boss insists on those rules to prevent you from taking a day off, that also means you can use those same rules, to work 1 day, 24 hours, and get payed for the rest of the year, cause according to his calculations, you worked 1 years worth. Also if your boss forces you to buy your own supplies, just do without them, if that impacts the work that's his problem. One more thing, the definition of management is, the process of dealing with or controlling things or people. Managing people is correct.

[@darkxemjas2910]

Boss: "I don't care if the entire factory is on fire!!!! I'm paying you to work, not to run around like chickens with their f**king heads cut off, looking for an exit to escape from!!!!" Also Boss: "Great, I can't keep the doors locked anymore, because of 'OSHA Regulations,' and we need 'Fire Exits' in case there's a puff of smoke. I could've had a huge bonus if not for this stuff!!!!" Me: And that's why Anti-Work reddit exists.

[@Attaxalotl]

If I'm ever in charge of a super massive company, I will make it unchangeable policy that anyone who saves us money gets a sizable percentage of the money saved as a raise.

[@littlelibbitt87]

7:14 The funny thing is that we *have* a society that can't live off these jobs! Real funny

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Amazing lifetime to be in, you can see everything deteriorating by months, deeper and deeper in the sink. But after that sink there is entire sewage that will come on us one day as a new industrial revolution. Just as merciless and destructive.

[@decker7452]

I walked out on my Walmart job. Fuck that shit.

[@amberrichards2778]

Yes good

[@Jennamatic]

Software error would earn a pizza party.

[@wisemysticaltree42069]

tbh we need to protest about this damn corporate greed

[@Bodacious_Crustacious]

I think a revolution would be more proper at this point.

[@Sawyer14]

Forget that, at this point it’s gonna take a revolution to fix things

[@wisemysticaltree42069]

@@Sawyer14 nah we need to start the crusade again

[@intelchip_x86]

@@wisemysticaltree42069 man, just start a civil war

[@artmanxp]

@EnKay 2:10 the office is requesting staff pay for there own office sapplies

[@ChaosXOtaku]

what sucks for me is that while i work. I have to pay into a pension, thanks uk government, which i'll probably never get access to cause by the time i get to the age that i'm allowed to access it, i'll either be dead or to old to enjoy it as they keep putting up the retirement age.

[@actionjackson3522]

Over here in the U.S., full-time and part-time workers pay into FICA or social security. According to the government website for social security, we won't qualify for full benefits until age 70. It used to be 62 (for baby boomers) then kept increasing every year. Oh, BTW, FICA deductions don't adjust for income; they're a *percentage* of every paycheck. And that's a deduction in addition to state and federal taxes, neither of which pay for dental, health or vision insurance. Part-time employees here in the U.S. are unlikely to qualify for insurance. Full-time employees face *even more deductions* for "employer sponsored health plans."

[@ChaosXOtaku]

@@actionjackson3522 for us in the uk we have a % (i cant remember what rate of % we have to pay) taken out for taxes, national insurace (basically the NHS heath care) & a pension that we have to sign up to when we get employed.

[@redwolf9998]

My grandparents had some sort of a pension. Doesn’t really give them much nowadays. The bank they put a ton of extra money in for when they got old lost it all because I think it filed bankruptcy. I’m not too sure how this stuff works, but they rely on my parents for some stuff they don’t get that they should’ve

[@ChaosXOtaku]

@@redwolf9998 that really sucks as the same thing happened to my step mum at least they've still got my dad's pension but they could of had double than what they've got.

[@squamiferum]

1:06 so i need work for 24hours for a year ? ,damn thats good deal

[@cookingmama_]

my mother has worked in a senior position at a large corporation for over 20 years now. over the years management has: -fired nearly her entire team in large scale layoffs -took away her personal office and forced her back into essentially open cubicles -increased her workload significantly without increasing her pay enough to compensate. despite that, the job has good benefits and pays well and she does like the company on a whole, so she’s stayed. when covid hit, she was required to work from home (obvi) and found that not only was she way more productive, but she, a huge introvert, absolutely loved it and never wanted to go back. after about a year and a half, they tried to make her. for the first time in over 20 years, she put her foot down, HARD. essentially politely told them “no, im not coming back, and you literally cannot do anything about it but let me go.” she’s still happily working from home, and it looks like she will be able to until she retires.

[@birdlord4210]

Well, it sucks that I’ll never be able to buy a house because I was born at the wrong time

[@nitrovan]

Robin, we appreciate you! Thank you for being an influence in my, and so many others', lives.

[@M4lfucnt10ned]

thats not robin thats lexi /s

[@sleepingkirby]

5:32 Okay, here's my story. I graduated in 2000. As a model minority and with a family that couldn't help me with college fees, I was pressured, if not bullied to get a student loan. This was done by some councilor's, teachers, relatives, friends of my parents and even my peers. They all said the same things. "The economy is good, you'll pay it back in no time." "You'll get a high paying job and it'll be paid off in a few years." "The chances of something happening where you can't pay it back is so low, it'll never happen." "It's practically free money. You'd have to be stupid for leaving free money on the table." "That's just how things are done." It was pretty relentless. I heard it every time I paid for community college classes. Every time someone heard I was going to community college. There was even a time where I working full time and not taking classes and people were like, "Just take out a student loan. Why go through all this?" I never did because it never made sense to me to take on a risk when you don't have to. I did the math and figured a way I can get a degree without taking a loan. And then I did it. It was hell. My own academic advisor, who ended up being the advisor for my senior project, literally said, to my face, that what I was doing was be almost impossible for me to graduate. But I still did it. (Yeah, I'd have to say an academic advisor that tells you you're not going to graduate is not a very good advisor. In fact, he knew that I was working full time and going to school when I was asked not to be put on as a team lead and it happened anyways because "I have a strong personality". But that's a whole other story.) Do I want student loan debts to be forgiven? No. Why? Because spite. I want all those people that pressured me all those years to conform, be more American, do what everyone is doing because that's what everyone else is doing, to feel the repercussions of their actions. For spending all that time pressuring me, badgering me, again, almost bullying me to get me to take on student loans. Again, it was hell to do what I did and they didn't make it any easier. BUT, if the US wants a stronger and more profitable economy (for everyone, including the people at the top of large companies), you NEED TO forgive student loan debts. It makes sense mathematically, logically and is supported by economists. And that's excluding the whole "Let's not make humans suffer because someone else wants number to go up." thing. So, even thought I don't want the US to forgive student loan debt, I still support the idea of forgiving student loan debts. My petty spite isn't more important than millions of people's suffering.

[@jonasholm-mw5bn]

If I can’t get a day off, then I’ll just ask for 8 hours off

[@stoney202]

I like how the response to cancel student debt gets it so incorrect. The person didn't ask that they should serious reduce or even make public education free. What they said was that to cancel the debt of others who decided to leverage themselves is a slap in the face. He's completely true. Asking poor Americans who do not have that level of education to pay for the ones that had it is the biggest slap in the face imaginable.

[@uncoeur]

Thing is... there are NO public colleges... ALL of them are private, government subsidized (limitedly), institutions. Which is why we pay for tuition and books. Public basic education is free... higher education is not. Wish there was but it still isn't seen by the higherups as a necessity and therefore exists as a 'class gap'.

[@RisingRevengeance]

I stopped working to live on whatever wellfare I can get. Life is honestly better this way, sure I had a bit more money to throw around when I worked but I don't completely hate life now.

[@youdontknowwho505]

Right off the bat, I can tell you that this is just about 100% true. My mother is a nurse and among the pandemic, being understaffed, and generally bad working conditions, she almost never has the time to eat almost anything. That and her step average for those days is close to 8,500, I think. Oh, and they can’t have water at their nursing stations. Imagine: You’re running a 5k, and you can’t have water or food (because you don’t have the time). Also, last thing. For nurse appreciation week, you want to know what they got from their boss? A pizza party and a bag of branded knick-knacks (pens, makeup mirrors, mini-sticky notes, etc.)

[@linuxares]

The mental gymnastics for the numbers are amazing. It's not how real math or life work.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Math dont work that way, sure. But there is some people delusional enough to believe that bullshit and i knew them for some time. So it kinda works on practise.

[@staticbuilds7613]

4:46 Umm, that entire factory in New York where workers were falling out of windows to escape the flames as they were locked in the building. Was definitely not one guy and a lot lost their lives that day Triangle Shirtwaist fire for anyone wondering. Happened back in 1911 and is horrific. A bit like the recent London Grenfell tower in 2017

[@chromegaman]

The remote work boom during COVID lockdowns proved that menial office jobs can be done comfortably, without the need for traffic or stress; companies badly calling for an end to remote work either want to return to the intrusive micromanaging style with the assumption that all their lower-level employees are time thieves (despite provable evidence that productivity overall increased with work from home models), or they have offices that are a mark of "prestige" and cannot justify on paper keeping the offices and doing nothing with them or the equipment in them. There are a few jobs, like mine, where remote work is difficult due to handling sensitive information, or requires a lot of physical paperwork for reference and audit purposes, and those jobs *should* note that as part of working for those agencies and companies, but for the other jobs that require minimum screening or online-only interactions (digital sales support, warranties, call center, etc.) you can let the person work remotely without needing to also futz around and hand-wring over not being able to see that person.

[@benjamintomassennordahl7911]

For the first one, I would respond management request everytime I missed the lunch break due to the mentioned examples. If management can't staff enough people, they inherently content to people working through their lunch, if they want it or not, same with patient dying, I am sure the hospital don't want any associated lawsuit.

[@Yuruble]

1:20 - The math ain't mathing. I'm pretty sure I work more than 24 hours in a year...

[@amirsmith3053]

I could not have clicked this notification any faster I love r/antiwork videos 😅

[@MaryArts]

5:40 this part is so important. Also he made an oath to kill people if someone tells him to. He is not allowed to say no. Imagine he is thinking, that this is a normal thing to do, just so you can get an education.

[@matildarose]

I know for a fact the 'you want a day off' is an ancient artifact from the days of faxing, when stuff like this, off-color jokes, rude humor, etc was passed around via fax.

[@justsayin2085]

13:08 it is kinda true, been working as chat/call and email support on a certain online shop for 8 years, going home based was a boon on my health and a lot of my coworkers life. Not only do people not wake up 3-4 hours early to avoid traffic, people can now eat properly to without red lining our wallets.

[@skylerthegey3320]

13:40 ngl ever since they started uploading a LOT ive been worryed it was becoming bad for the narrators but im glad its good

[@Note_Creator]

2:55 well if im paying for all this, get out of my chair.

[@melkhiordarkfell4354]

Seriously, why don't companies want remote working, you save so much as a business, you don't have to pay rent for huge office spaces, pay to heat and power it, pay security and you don't need cafeterias to staff, stock and insure, you don't need cleaning, repairs, electrical, plumbing etc. If your staff work from home, they pay for their own power, heat, food and office supplies, you can ACTUALLY BE the evil boss in Incredibles and you still have happier, more productive workers that like you more for doing it.

[@matrixphijr]

Robin: “Hell yeah, I’m loud quitting!” Also Robin: “I love working at Emkay, it’s the greatest job ever!” 👀