It’s a cliche at this point, but if you can’t afford to pay a living wage, you haven’t earned the privilege of being an employer. If it needs done, do it yourself, “job creator”.

It really varies from company to company how they care about shitty customers. It’s the small businesses that tend to let customers scream because they think they “need” the business. I used to be a retail manger for a large chain store, and corporate never, ever, gave us feedback about customer compliments or…

“Those jobs are just for high-school kids” really means that the families of those kids are subsidizing the labor costs of global billion-dollar corporations.

Another factor in this that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough is that the labor supply is also smaller because restaurant work has been one of the most dangerous pandemic jobs. Of course you need to pay more when you are literally killing your workforce.

Yeah, my dad tried that argument a while back and I had to remind him that when HE spent a couple semesters in college back in late 70's early 80's at only $300 a semester, his $5 an hour job went a LOT further. Plus the fact that the first house he bought (in 1982) cost less than a car does these days. Still didn’t…

An interesting article from about a year ago about why no-tipping restaurants in the US are having a tough time making it go, for a number of reasons -

It’s a good thing for now, but unless the minimum wage gets raised to match the new level the pay will start to slide back down soon. Businesses will always find a way to pay the legal minimum somehow...

it always cracks me up when people point to the $7.25 minimum wage and say it’s intended for high-school age kids to earn, not for adults to try to survive or raise a family on... while they go to fast food places during lunch, shop at WalMart during a quick work break, and go see a matinee movie in the middle of…

Conservatives only like the free market when it benefits the owners, not the workers.

By that logic, WP should never let a black person report about racial discrimination because all black people have experienced racial discrimination at some point in our lives. This sounds like a very targeted and discriminatory thing. Do you not get to write about someone committing a traffic violation because you…

Sonmez was rebuked and briefly suspended by her editor-supervisor, after Kobe Bryant’s death in February 2020, for tweeting a link to articles about Bryant’s rape of a Colorado woman. She offered the link, with no opinion or commentary. Her (male) supervisor, another professional journalist, scolded her, saying that…

Rules that apply to women, don’t for men?

That’s straight out of The Office.

I can verify this as a fact. Now that the “office bros” can’t sit in a circle jerk with their male bosses all day for “face time”, I have noticed that women and POC are receiving a lot more praise and appreciation for their work. Turns out, when you are just evaluated purely on your work, the people (ie women and…

Exactly. But we also know that over-working people isn’t for the sake of the economy - it’s to keep the workers perpetually tired so that they cannot challenge the status quo. The rich will happily burn money (in the form of productivity gains and economic activity) to keep it that way.

But that is by design. In my industry full-time people theoretically work 40 hours a week, but the workload is not balanced for that. We don’t have enough people to get everything done in that time. And summers/holidays are even worse because people have to backup up someone else in their department and/or those…

It seems like a shorter work week would also help the economy, no? When people have more free time they do more. Going out to eat, buying a boat to take on the lake, buying a travel trailer, going to concerts and sporting events would be way easier if we weren’t working ourselves to death.

There’s nothing inherently necessary about a 40 hour work week. The purpose of economic development should be to free everyone of daily labor not just the useless offspring of oligarchs that randomly happened to own businesses that took advantage of shifts in the technologies that changed how our economy runs.

A four day work week will never gain traction in the United States because our cultural identity is more closely tied to working and making money than it is to anything that could be considered healthy for the mind and body.

Soomething something communism?