Here in the UK, part-time staff still get paid holiday and sick pay.
Yeah the US doesn’t even have national paid maternity leave. Paid holiday depends on whether you’re full time or part time. If you’re part time, you can get time and a half for working holidays, but if you don’t work you don’t get paid. You only get those benefits if you’re working full time usually. That’s basically…
It’s pretty much all of Europe.
Averaged over a calendar year, yes. So for most of the year, you get more hours than you wanted and have to take them or you’ll be fired for disciplinary reasons, and for the rest you’ll get gutted to five.
That internal fantasy keeps lotto ticket sales going strong. Even the most uneducated, bigoted swamp dweller, with the worst job at Walmart can still look up to people like Dumpf and think, “Man, I could be where he is someday, in Murica.” The scary part is, if it wasn’t for his small bank account, we now know he…
Because I am only part time ( I work 35-38 hours a week)
Ccapitalism hates unions..
I remember being astounded that at United Way they worked 8-4:30 instead of 8-5.
No, it’s not their fault, but labor’s never been able to turn garbage jobs into non-garbage jobs without being willing to risk said garbage jobs.
ACA guideline is that anything over 30 hours consistently makes you full-time. “Consistently” is a pattern over months though...
People need jobs, if the only jobs being offered are garbage it’s not their fault. Refusing work and the money that comes with it because of principles is noble but heroically starving to death serves no purpose.
To be fair, you weren’t an employee and were fully nude at the time.
Kind of hard to do that when you’re making $20k a year and just struggling to pay your bills. I get what you’re saying, but calling these people rubes is a bit unfair.
There will be a small (in the scheme of things) period of time where there is still profitability in an automated market with no real worker cost and without the oncoming factor of consumers without funds. There will be people at the top more than willing to ride that train to the bottom, secure their money and…
Yep. But it’s on us to vote for folks that will push for this. Of course, who am I kidding? Half or more of our country doesn’t even understand what you, Hamilton, or myself are saying day after day. It sickens me, and I know it’s only going to get worse.
The best part of that whole smug screed was treating the $120-after-taxes bonus as a comment about disliking taxes and not about disliking the pittance of a bonus being passed off as generous.
Yoir first point is flat wrong. A good business makes sure they’re putting a well trained employee to serve their customers. There is no reason to expect that they wouldn’t.
It takes a real quality human being to think that an 18 year old kid getting aggressive shit from his bosses about continuing his education and maybe having aspirations bigger than being a retail lifer is cool.
I worked for years at a hotel in the Albany area where Robert Nardelli (former CEO of Home Depot) and his family stayed for several weeks while he was looking for a house (he was taking a job at GE at the time). Long story short, Robert and his whole fucking family were utterly entitled, rude, assholes. The wife, the…