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In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses are hurting. And we should have some sympathy for them. After all, the stress of survival can force us into undesirable situations. However, some organizations try to get through these difficult times using such repulsive measures, they deserve nothing but pity. And bankruptcy.

From pressuring people to come to work against clear safety guidelines and common sense to begging for a bailout, the Internet users have been making fun of corporate America, reminding that businesses are nothing without their employees. Continue scrolling to check some of them out and upvote your faves!

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Too Big To Take Out A Loan And Pay It Back?

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Mando Lando
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep they expect every small business owner who's barely scraping by to get these low interest loans from banks to survive. But these multibillion-dollar companies can't do the same thing?

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From small restaurants to multinational corporations, the COVID-19 outbreak has delivered quite a blow to the economy. Companies are implementing massive organizational changes to at least try and stay afloat -- with many switching to full-scale working from home and others going all in on delivery.

"I've done a couple of webinars with groups of companies. As of about a week and a half ago, they weren't doing anything, there wasn't anything different," Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, told ABC News. The expert predicts, "The big test will come when it goes on for more than a couple of weeks."

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Just Sayin'

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Hans
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She has a good point. The corona crisis would be a good time to get rid of all this tax-evasive behaviour. Maybe finally Europe the the US can work together in proper taxation, instead of each side protecting "their" companies for the damage of everybody.

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When it comes to managing employees, Cappelli said there are good examples out there. So far, "We've seen more companies carrying employees for longer than expected if this had been a financial downturn versus a health-related one," he explained.

But there are rotten apples in the basket, too. Pressure is building on Amazon and other delivery companies to improve protection for workers worried about getting infected with coronavirus. Some workers at US food delivery firm Instacart as well as US and Italian workers at Amazon have walked out, complaining about the lack of protection.

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Even US senators have been contacting Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to express concerns.

As a response, Amazon said it had adjusted its practices, including increased cleaning of its facilities and introducing staggered shift and break times. However, union representatives are saying this is far from the truth. "Several employees working at the site use face masks for days instead of having new ones each day," one of them told Reuters.

A group of workers at Whole Foods, which is also owned by Amazon, plan to walk out on Tuesday, regarding similar problems.

Let's hope that human decency prevails and employees won't be put at risk for another dollar.

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Fun Fact

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Bob Beltcher
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's because they are publicly traded and focus mainly on shirt term profits to increase share price. Doing so requires them to be leveraged heavily. Go pull a 10K report for any large business and look at how much cash they have compared to total assets. You can see it on the balance sheet under the financial reports section. Mist large companies hold less than 5% of total assets in cash.

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#6

"Philanthropic" Billionaires Be Like

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Robin hamp
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes and I have no issue with that. These companies make obscene profits in other territories whilst exploiting their infrastructure and talent . They should contribute in taxes to each country they make a profit in.

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Ted Cruz

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Colin L
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've always wanted to pay politicians double the minimum wage and force them to pay for medicine and retirement out of pocket.

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#8

Capitalism

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Natalie Bohrteller
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It seems to dawn on the American people that the American dream is really just a dream. And maybe even that social security is not communism.

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#9

Corporate Bailouts

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And isn't it strange that those now cry loudest for help that rallied against labour laws, market control etc. and called it "socialist"? They now willingly accept the state utilizing them or even buying shares. You either want a strong state or not; a "comprehensive cover" state that does not interfer in good times but backes up in bad times is the epithomy of unsolidary thinking!

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What. The

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly it's no joke.. https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/las-vegas-parking-lot-turned-into-homeless-shelter-during-coronavirus-crisis/amp/

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am absolutely gobsmacked that someone actually thought this was a great idea. What the actual f**k was going through their heads. These are people not bloody cars in need of a parking space. Absolutely disgusted.

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Dutch VanZandt
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First of all it's appalling to treat people this way... could at the VERY least supply camp beds and proper bivvy/sleeping bags. And secondly, the spaces are far too small and the distance between people too small- it's as if they want the virus to spread.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly what I came to say. You know it would be a tax write-off for anything donated to them. It's vile and disgusting to treat human lives this way. The very least they could do is donate tents and portable showers if they want to entice them to stay in one parking lot. People are too apathetic. One day, for no better reason than Now, other people may find themselves in horrible situations beyond their control, in this time of world suffering. Everyone should ask themselves, what if it were me or my loved ones...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unbelievably, this is real: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/las-vegas-homeless-parking-lots/ What is even more ludicrous is that the boxes are about eight inches apart, hardly enough to qualify as "social distancing". In effect, Nevada has begun rounding up the homeless and crammed them into one place so they can easily infect one another. S**t. I don't care what you think of the media coverage and government response to this "pandemic", you have to admit what is going on in the U.S. and a lot of the rest of the world is downright wrong, shameful, and an ominous sign of things that very well may come.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should put up a sign nearby: "Stay healthy!"

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Gabby M
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not an umbrella in sight. It gets hotter than Hades there!

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Bill
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How full is the strip right now? Isn't this one of the world's highest concentrations of hotels in the world

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The reason this happens is because taxes are being raised, company's are becoming more greedy and not paying their staff enough. Especially in fast food restaraunts. Many homeless people have jobs, they just aren't payed enough for the work they do.

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Jack Evans
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You might want to check the thread with the woman saying homelessness is “multilayered and complex” ... @Amy79175729 actually sees no problem with keeping homeless people in a car park. In fact, she gets extremely aggressive and abusive to anyone raising moral and ethical concerns.

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Tiffany Marie
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The homeless rate is terrible in America. This is real.. People that don't make a dime honestly don't matter. They are considered worse then trash.

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Christina Uhlir
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In North California so many people working full time are forced to live in cars.

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Uchman
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to talk of the area with the highest number of hotel room per capita probably in the whole world

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Lawrence Carter
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah go after the private corporations that have to answer to stock holders and ignore the Churches that don't pay taxes and supposedly model Christian Values...... Bet Joel Osteen and his ilk are living large in their mansions during all this..... he was super good about opening his church to hurricane victims!

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Sandra Llewelyn
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is absolutely the grossest thing I have ever seen. So glad I am in the UK, we may not be great but we are not so scared of anything unrelated to capitalism to treat people like this.

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Youdontneed2know
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

even in the squares, they aren't technically social distancing. They could sleep on the edge of the square for example.

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Analyn Lahr
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First, that is not a good way to help the homeless. Second, they're still too close.

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WilvanderHeijden
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You wish. They painted those line so the rich wouldn't park their cars too close to each other.

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Lucy Hill
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to mention they’re completely useless as ppl are still sleeping less than 6ft apart...

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Viv Hart
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why don't the casinos put them up, casinos should be closed anyway.

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Ayasophya Alturas
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why not use the empty hotels? at least let them have an abandoned building??

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Cheryl Fontaine
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would be nice if they provided some thick foam for beds at least or let them stay in all those empty hotels. I'm not impressed with the painted parking lots

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh f**k off. Does Christy Fletcher let homeless people sleep in her car at night?

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Vanities
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are empty bedrooms at people's home too. Have you offered up yours, snowflake?

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Chris DiFonso
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@Vanities, have you offered yours? Have you done ANYTHING to help others, EVER?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A man at Las Vegas catholic charities tested positive for the virus and the facility had to close.This was a make shift solution. The best no, but there is also all sorts of services there too to help. Our casinos and hotels are closed. All the casinos donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in food and supplies to charities like Three Square. Our greedy casinos are still paying employees wages and health benefits, most until April 30th. Opening the casino hotels would be a solution yes, but who is going to clean, cook etc?

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#11

Us Bailout Policy In One Image

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Weren't "simple solutions" the answer of Trump for everything since he became president?

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We Can Usually Make This Happen

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And people need to legitimately boycott these places. There's just no way people are going to boycott Amazon though. They're doing interviews all over the country and hurting people into one room and going against all social distancing initiatives yet they're not getting fined or anything else. But if I had 10 people gathered on my porch I could get arrested and fined

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#14

A Conservative Arguing For Workers Rights To Paid Sick Leave...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The people that give all that money are the same people that are saying that their people should go back to work. But only if they seem healthy and under 55 years old or so. They don't give a s*** about anyone but the 1%.

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Sad But True

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Slowly, this series gets only sad, not humourously critical...

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Sad True

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With an education, you might have understood the odds of actually becoming rich. This is why the rich do not want the poor educated, and how people stay conditioned this way. The american dream is lie perpetuated by the few successfull...

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Solidarity

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the worker who organized it got fired. Jeff bezos is the biggest piece of s*** in the entire world.

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When You Wear A Watch On A Plane, Time Flies

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Airlines are such greedy companies squeezing money out of every little thing they possibly can, and now they expect the customers' help and loyalty. Maybe be reasonable and treat your customers better and people would have more interest in saving your business

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Seriously

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, I suspect about $5K will kick right back to each Congress member...

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#23

It Really Be Like That

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On $1,200.00 I can't afford to waste food. That Cheetos is being eaten.

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The Scheme

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's it! And everyone questioning it will simple be called "socialist" or "snowflake". However, nearly everyone is being cheated on.

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#25

Corporate Jerk

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Hans
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha, and this in a country with like 10 unpaid holiday days in total (25+ paid in Europe, just for relation).

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Capitalism

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

However, capitalism doesn't prevent bailouts of private corporations

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Wall Street

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Carol Emory
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As soon as they announced a $2 trillion dollar stimulus package...Andrew Yang was like "Where did we get $2 trillion dollars?"

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Some May Even Die, I Don't Know

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If employees don't return, the companies may raise salaries to encourage workers. This could be good....

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Just Saying

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