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5 Ways Businesses Exploit Their Employees That Will Make You Laugh, Then Cry
Greta J. BoredPanda staff
What makes a business good if not screwing everyone it comes in contact with? Fed up with dirty tactics employers use to exploit their employees, tumblr users have started adopting the mindset of a businessman, poking fun at the total lack of human decency in every decision it makes. And it doesn’t matter if HR or the law tries to stop it, if there’s a rule, there’s a way around it. Scroll down to check out for yourselves and if you can of more examples, please, write them down in the comments. (Facebook cover image: Wesley Fryer)
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Why doesn't the Government, any Government, reduce the salaries of PM, Ministers, Gongressmen, Mayors, advisors of PM and so on, and increase the minimum wage at least. I wonder...
What about the salaries of CEOs? An Google exec was just "left" because he was sexually assaulting employees--he was given a severance package of 9 million!
If they had an employment contract, then it would depend on the language of the contract. In most cases, such an agreement has language where if an employee is terminated for cause, and it depends on what the cause is, they may not receive any pay out. If the employee leaves on their own accord, then they may be eligible for a pay out.
Here is the very real problem with that. So if you are smart you will go into the private sector because it pays a heck of a lot more than public service. There are not many in public service who get paid well except for the few bigger positions, and many positions at the local level are volunteer meaning that most people cannot focus on the position, or only the independently wealthy can do the job. So if you keep the salaries lower for public officials, it will attract less capable people or make it so only the wealthy could afford to participate. For those who do engage in these positions but don't feel that they pay enough, they will subsidize their pay by taking money from special interests. Government paychecks are not the issue, it is the income gap between the highest paid and lowest paid workers. CEOs do not work that much harder and require that great of intelligence and skill to warrant a 400X salary increase above the lowest paid worker. Simple fact.
No idea how this got downvoted when it’s just a reiteration of the central post. OP randomly making it about mayoral salary was very dumb.
Absolutely
The lower the salaries are for this kind of people, the higher the risk of corruption and willingness to take kickbacks.
That's the excuse they always give. A very shitty one I think. Look in many Asian countries. Rich and powerful politicians are corrupt as hell there. Giving them higher salaries only gives them more power...
Because they are all in on it as well. These companies 'donate' to the ruling parties (i.e. bribe them) to not change anything and all the elites are kept happy.
I've always said that each and every college out there, Ivy league included, should force their students to live in poverty for at least a year so they can understand why the people at the bottom are so desperately trying to survive. If these fools had to live off the same state assistance programs, they'd be whining everyday they were on them.
Because that isn’t the root of the problem. Corporations are the problem, not the salaries of mayors.
Mayoral salaries aren't the problem, but most politicians are in bed, so to speak, with corporations. They make the laws that benefit the businesses that benefit them. Not always, but often enough. Do you really think that having Clinton or Bush or any other former president speak is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars? Then they and their kids become board members of various businesses and organizations and are again very well compensated.
Yes Xia, therefore, the root of the problem has nothing to do with how much mayors get paid. OP says they should be paid less. But how much they are paid doesn’t matter if the problem is that corporations buy them off. Seems pretty glaringly clear to me, not sure why you all are having such a hard time with it.
A company that pays minimum wage sends a very strong message to those employees: "I'd like to pay you less, but I could go to jail."
In some states, if you're under 21 for the first 90 days you work for a business, they don't have to pay you minimum wage, they can pay you less.
Yes Nadine. Virginia is a 'right to work state' and its aimed to hurt the employee. We call it" the 90", or "first 90". You miss a day, break a tiny rule, you rub somebody the wrong way, show up late, you're fired. And dependent on wording you get a 'training wage' until your 90 is up. ( one's I'm familiar with pay min wage, then boost it to main pay rate.)
What!?!
That is inexcusable!
I saw this happen with many companies, being given not enough to claim benefits. Then employees have to work two or more jobs to make a living, and again, no benefits. They also have to run from job to job, and juggle schedules. If you're a single parent, you are screwed. It keeps people poor. These companies are making millions. They could easily afford to care for their employees. And don't companies need loyal employees? They need to be taken to task by the government
Yep, it's usually a full time manager and a bunch of part timers. One reason customer service has gone to hell and I don't blame them.
I manage a grocery store deli. We don't have enough staff for how busy we are. We also don't have the labor dollars if we did. I'll cut my own hours back to help give associates hours, but I can't cut too much because I have to be there to make sure the department runs as well as I can. We barely have time to service the customers, let alone do production AND clean properly. Slicers are to be cleaned EVERY 4 hours...but when there's 3 associates working (that's all that can be scheduled) one on their lunch break, 6 customers at the counter who want lunch meat and 2 slicers are due to be cleaned...does the cleaning get done? No...the customers get helped first. It's wrong, but the customers will get angry. If I had more staff, things would be cleaned properly.
Why doesn't the Government, any Government, reduce the salaries of PM, Ministers, Gongressmen, Mayors, advisors of PM and so on, and increase the minimum wage at least. I wonder...
What about the salaries of CEOs? An Google exec was just "left" because he was sexually assaulting employees--he was given a severance package of 9 million!
If they had an employment contract, then it would depend on the language of the contract. In most cases, such an agreement has language where if an employee is terminated for cause, and it depends on what the cause is, they may not receive any pay out. If the employee leaves on their own accord, then they may be eligible for a pay out.
Here is the very real problem with that. So if you are smart you will go into the private sector because it pays a heck of a lot more than public service. There are not many in public service who get paid well except for the few bigger positions, and many positions at the local level are volunteer meaning that most people cannot focus on the position, or only the independently wealthy can do the job. So if you keep the salaries lower for public officials, it will attract less capable people or make it so only the wealthy could afford to participate. For those who do engage in these positions but don't feel that they pay enough, they will subsidize their pay by taking money from special interests. Government paychecks are not the issue, it is the income gap between the highest paid and lowest paid workers. CEOs do not work that much harder and require that great of intelligence and skill to warrant a 400X salary increase above the lowest paid worker. Simple fact.
No idea how this got downvoted when it’s just a reiteration of the central post. OP randomly making it about mayoral salary was very dumb.
Absolutely
The lower the salaries are for this kind of people, the higher the risk of corruption and willingness to take kickbacks.
That's the excuse they always give. A very shitty one I think. Look in many Asian countries. Rich and powerful politicians are corrupt as hell there. Giving them higher salaries only gives them more power...
Because they are all in on it as well. These companies 'donate' to the ruling parties (i.e. bribe them) to not change anything and all the elites are kept happy.
I've always said that each and every college out there, Ivy league included, should force their students to live in poverty for at least a year so they can understand why the people at the bottom are so desperately trying to survive. If these fools had to live off the same state assistance programs, they'd be whining everyday they were on them.
Because that isn’t the root of the problem. Corporations are the problem, not the salaries of mayors.
Mayoral salaries aren't the problem, but most politicians are in bed, so to speak, with corporations. They make the laws that benefit the businesses that benefit them. Not always, but often enough. Do you really think that having Clinton or Bush or any other former president speak is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars? Then they and their kids become board members of various businesses and organizations and are again very well compensated.
Yes Xia, therefore, the root of the problem has nothing to do with how much mayors get paid. OP says they should be paid less. But how much they are paid doesn’t matter if the problem is that corporations buy them off. Seems pretty glaringly clear to me, not sure why you all are having such a hard time with it.
A company that pays minimum wage sends a very strong message to those employees: "I'd like to pay you less, but I could go to jail."
In some states, if you're under 21 for the first 90 days you work for a business, they don't have to pay you minimum wage, they can pay you less.
Yes Nadine. Virginia is a 'right to work state' and its aimed to hurt the employee. We call it" the 90", or "first 90". You miss a day, break a tiny rule, you rub somebody the wrong way, show up late, you're fired. And dependent on wording you get a 'training wage' until your 90 is up. ( one's I'm familiar with pay min wage, then boost it to main pay rate.)
What!?!
That is inexcusable!
I saw this happen with many companies, being given not enough to claim benefits. Then employees have to work two or more jobs to make a living, and again, no benefits. They also have to run from job to job, and juggle schedules. If you're a single parent, you are screwed. It keeps people poor. These companies are making millions. They could easily afford to care for their employees. And don't companies need loyal employees? They need to be taken to task by the government
Yep, it's usually a full time manager and a bunch of part timers. One reason customer service has gone to hell and I don't blame them.
I manage a grocery store deli. We don't have enough staff for how busy we are. We also don't have the labor dollars if we did. I'll cut my own hours back to help give associates hours, but I can't cut too much because I have to be there to make sure the department runs as well as I can. We barely have time to service the customers, let alone do production AND clean properly. Slicers are to be cleaned EVERY 4 hours...but when there's 3 associates working (that's all that can be scheduled) one on their lunch break, 6 customers at the counter who want lunch meat and 2 slicers are due to be cleaned...does the cleaning get done? No...the customers get helped first. It's wrong, but the customers will get angry. If I had more staff, things would be cleaned properly.