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5 Ways Businesses Exploit Their Employees That Will Make You Laugh, Then Cry
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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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.
They forgot this: Law: You have to pay your employees at least minimum wage and provide benefits for anyone working 40 hours or more. Company: Then we will pay them minimum wage, but only if they work less than 30 hours so they will be forced to file for state assistance to be able to feed their families and get medical coverage. That way we get paid by the government two fold when we don't have to pay for medical insurance AND we get a huge tax break.
And "polotics" can't understand why everybody needs 'welfare/, medical assistance' when the unemployment rate is so low.
And, in the united states, companies like Walmart sell food stamps to their employees, who then use their stamps to buy food from Walmart.
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.
They forgot this: Law: You have to pay your employees at least minimum wage and provide benefits for anyone working 40 hours or more. Company: Then we will pay them minimum wage, but only if they work less than 30 hours so they will be forced to file for state assistance to be able to feed their families and get medical coverage. That way we get paid by the government two fold when we don't have to pay for medical insurance AND we get a huge tax break.
And "polotics" can't understand why everybody needs 'welfare/, medical assistance' when the unemployment rate is so low.
And, in the united states, companies like Walmart sell food stamps to their employees, who then use their stamps to buy food from Walmart.