• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    “I’m not paying you today. We got lots of profits and I don’t feel like wasting it on employees.”

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      They do this with wait servers, cooks, farm hands, and construction people. They also conduct layoffs to create more short term profits

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        “Thank you for doing the work. It’s done now, so I don’t need it any more, so I won’t be paying you. Also you can’t sue me because you read my magazine once back in the 80s and it’s in the fine print, but here’s a t-shirt with our logo across the front and back, and a commendation on your CV. It says, ‘good worker, no complaints.’ That’s exec talk for, ‘you can screw this guy over without worrying, so go ahead and hire him.’”