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.
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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.
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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.
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And they spent the last 40 years brainwashing working class conservatives that unions and basic employee rights are somehow hurting corporations. Brainwashing them to believe that they are on the same side as corporations. Fairly amazing snow job.
I will let you all in some fundamental secrets to happiness in the workplace. Stop working for s**t hole companies. Stop doing business with s**t hole companies. I have left jobs I liked doing because I was not treated correctly. I no longer do business with companies with exploitative hiring practices (ie: WalMart).
I agree with you, but unfortunately, some people have no other option--especially in small towns, Walmart put all the independent retailers out of business
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Full time is 32 hours or more a week, I long ago learned that HR isn't there for the workers - but there to protect the company.
Where are you Lisa? In VA any business can make its own full time hours mark. Last place I worked was 36+. In 1995 ( another company) their policy was 39 hrs. But they also offered a lot more oppurtinty to make up time.
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And people wonder why Unions exist, then they wonder why union members make more money. Yes, a union can be corrupted, anything can, but they are good overall for the workers.
And Union companies seem to make bigger profits per quarter, and have every benefit imaginable.
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That one about temping hits home so hard for me. I was a temp freelancer (not by choice) for the longest time, hoping they'd hire me on as a full-time employee, but it was always the same--after a certain time, they'd let me go and "hire" someone else and do the same to them. Thank GOD I finally got a real job (no more freelancing or temping).
They forgot: Make employees salaried so you don't have to pay them overtime
Not everyone can be classified as salary to prevent that kind of thing. If companies could, I bet they would
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YOU FORGOT TO MENTION the new abuse of companies is to pile on so much URGENT WORK with deadlines that the employees feel the need to give up their vacations...if you don't they will give you an unfair review at the end of the year for being "unmotivated" and "not a company team player".,.that means no raise, possible demotion, termination the first time you really do screw up (we all do, they know that)..WHAT JERKS!
Wrote this in another BP article a few month back. I worked for Travelers Ins while going to college. I took the job because they had a college reimbursement program that paid up to $5500 annually. I applied 3 semester straight in a row. After following up for a year I asked the VP of our location directly why he was not approving it. He told me he never once received anything. HR then told me the next day I didn't qualify because the degree is not needed for my current job. Each year we have to fill out a "where do you see yourself in 5 years" questionnaire. I always put down that I wanted to do bond underwriting. Told this to HR and was told that "Yes that job requires a degree but education reimbursement is only for your current job". I quit a few months later. There is no law to force them to pay benefits they claim to offer. They can say they offer you $1B for being the best employee but there's no law that will force them to pay it.
There's one thing about bad practice that wasn't mentioned. HR : We have a no-bullying policy in this company so you can't bully people. Reality : Yes we can but we do it in such a way that we can twist workers' words to make it sound as if it's their fault, not ours, and we will bully them until they become ill, take time off work, then when they return to work, we can say we no longer need them because they've taken too much time off work and we've found that other people can do their job instead. It's endemic and it works, and it's atrocious.
Anybody who disdains liberal "pukes" needs to read this. If Republicans took over everything, these stories would seem paradisiacal compared to the horrors that would come. NO minimum wage. NO benefits. Workers replaced by automation. OK, Mr. Fat Cat, how is your company supposed to make any money when nobody can buy your goods? No wonder socialism is starting to look good.
Oh for crying out loud, I'm not that old, and my first few jobs had no benefits. I worked in a union shop, and paid union dues and got paid less than the shop that wasn't unionized. if there wasn't a minimum wage and mandated benefits, then companies would compete for the best workers. And truth is, that's what scares a lot of people, because they can't compete, but they want the same as everybody else regardless of drive or talent.
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I had a summer job working at almost minimum wage. We had to wear a uniform. The employer is required by law to provide uniforms for its employees at minimum wage. So of course my employer paid us 5 cents more per hour so we would have to buy our uniform, worn for less than three months.
In germany interns have to be paid minimum wage, which is about 1.500€/month. But only if it's a voluntary internship. If it's a mandatory internship, which some universities require their students to do companies can pay them nothing. So what do the companies do? They of course only hire students and pay them 500€/month if they pay them at all. The first time I heard of this was when I was applying for an internship and HR asked me if I still was a student. I said "No, I already graduated." They told me straight to the face that they aren't going to hire me because they don't want to pay me minimum wage. They suggested that I should just enroll in a university and then apply again, then they would have hired me. Well done politics, well done leaving this big f*cking loop hole in. Edit: I forgot to add, that it wasn't a small family business, where they really couldn't afford a minimum wage intern. It was one the biggest and richest publishing company in the world.
This should be called "5 Ways AMERICAN Businesses Exploit Their Employees..." Businesses exploit law loopholes everywhere in the world, but these are very specific to the U.S. and would not be possible in many other countries for legal reasons.
Law: full time is 40 hours a week. Beyond that you pay time and a half. Company: Full time w/ benefits is 32 hours. We won't pay time and a half until you go OVER 40 hours. Which is extremely rare.
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This happens in most countries. I went to Japan to work for an American company. If you work 30 hours or more the company has to pay into your pension AND health care ... so instead the put you on a 29.5hour contract so then you have to take out the individual government health care and pension plan.
Ok stop it. Businesses see what they can do to employees (because they are an expensive part of operating costs) and employees see what they can get away with without being fired at least 30-40% of the time so don't act like it's BIG BIDNESS. And don't give me that rubbish of employees being loyal cause they will leave over 50 cents per hour to go elsewhere. Ever leave early and not clock out? Take too long at lunch? But yea it's about big business. And wages are what the market holds. It takes 0 brains to cook fries. You should be paid like $4/hr because a 10 yr old could do it. Running a company takes skills most of the time so don't compare that to the bag boy. And if you didn't have a financial stake in a company, don't expect to share the profits cause you sure as hell will not share the losses. And 0 poor people have hired anybody so quit wanting hirer taxes on owners and business. So blow it up...starting...now
Then they shouldn't be in business. FDR said as much back in the day: "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” If your company can't afford to pay people properly for the labor they're giving you, then you need to give it up and do something else.
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All of that is true but irrelevant since minimum wage isn’t livable for anyone anymore and it used to be. And everything was okay then so clearly we know the world won’t fall apart if Tammy the cashier makes $12 an hour rather than $7.
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What a completely unrealistic thing to say. I am shocked that there's someone out there that thinks like this.
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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.
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... And they spent the last 40 years brainwashing working class conservatives that unions and basic employee rights are somehow hurting corporations. Brainwashing them to believe that they are on the same side as corporations. Fairly amazing snow job.
I will let you all in some fundamental secrets to happiness in the workplace. Stop working for s**t hole companies. Stop doing business with s**t hole companies. I have left jobs I liked doing because I was not treated correctly. I no longer do business with companies with exploitative hiring practices (ie: WalMart).
I agree with you, but unfortunately, some people have no other option--especially in small towns, Walmart put all the independent retailers out of business
Load More Replies... Full time is 32 hours or more a week, I long ago learned that HR isn't there for the workers - but there to protect the company.
Where are you Lisa? In VA any business can make its own full time hours mark. Last place I worked was 36+. In 1995 ( another company) their policy was 39 hrs. But they also offered a lot more oppurtinty to make up time.
Load More Replies... And people wonder why Unions exist, then they wonder why union members make more money. Yes, a union can be corrupted, anything can, but they are good overall for the workers.
And Union companies seem to make bigger profits per quarter, and have every benefit imaginable.
Load More Replies... That one about temping hits home so hard for me. I was a temp freelancer (not by choice) for the longest time, hoping they'd hire me on as a full-time employee, but it was always the same--after a certain time, they'd let me go and "hire" someone else and do the same to them. Thank GOD I finally got a real job (no more freelancing or temping).
They forgot: Make employees salaried so you don't have to pay them overtime
Not everyone can be classified as salary to prevent that kind of thing. If companies could, I bet they would
Load More Replies... YOU FORGOT TO MENTION the new abuse of companies is to pile on so much URGENT WORK with deadlines that the employees feel the need to give up their vacations...if you don't they will give you an unfair review at the end of the year for being "unmotivated" and "not a company team player".,.that means no raise, possible demotion, termination the first time you really do screw up (we all do, they know that)..WHAT JERKS!
Wrote this in another BP article a few month back. I worked for Travelers Ins while going to college. I took the job because they had a college reimbursement program that paid up to $5500 annually. I applied 3 semester straight in a row. After following up for a year I asked the VP of our location directly why he was not approving it. He told me he never once received anything. HR then told me the next day I didn't qualify because the degree is not needed for my current job. Each year we have to fill out a "where do you see yourself in 5 years" questionnaire. I always put down that I wanted to do bond underwriting. Told this to HR and was told that "Yes that job requires a degree but education reimbursement is only for your current job". I quit a few months later. There is no law to force them to pay benefits they claim to offer. They can say they offer you $1B for being the best employee but there's no law that will force them to pay it.
There's one thing about bad practice that wasn't mentioned. HR : We have a no-bullying policy in this company so you can't bully people. Reality : Yes we can but we do it in such a way that we can twist workers' words to make it sound as if it's their fault, not ours, and we will bully them until they become ill, take time off work, then when they return to work, we can say we no longer need them because they've taken too much time off work and we've found that other people can do their job instead. It's endemic and it works, and it's atrocious.
Anybody who disdains liberal "pukes" needs to read this. If Republicans took over everything, these stories would seem paradisiacal compared to the horrors that would come. NO minimum wage. NO benefits. Workers replaced by automation. OK, Mr. Fat Cat, how is your company supposed to make any money when nobody can buy your goods? No wonder socialism is starting to look good.
Oh for crying out loud, I'm not that old, and my first few jobs had no benefits. I worked in a union shop, and paid union dues and got paid less than the shop that wasn't unionized. if there wasn't a minimum wage and mandated benefits, then companies would compete for the best workers. And truth is, that's what scares a lot of people, because they can't compete, but they want the same as everybody else regardless of drive or talent.
Load More Replies... I had a summer job working at almost minimum wage. We had to wear a uniform. The employer is required by law to provide uniforms for its employees at minimum wage. So of course my employer paid us 5 cents more per hour so we would have to buy our uniform, worn for less than three months.
In germany interns have to be paid minimum wage, which is about 1.500€/month. But only if it's a voluntary internship. If it's a mandatory internship, which some universities require their students to do companies can pay them nothing. So what do the companies do? They of course only hire students and pay them 500€/month if they pay them at all. The first time I heard of this was when I was applying for an internship and HR asked me if I still was a student. I said "No, I already graduated." They told me straight to the face that they aren't going to hire me because they don't want to pay me minimum wage. They suggested that I should just enroll in a university and then apply again, then they would have hired me. Well done politics, well done leaving this big f*cking loop hole in. Edit: I forgot to add, that it wasn't a small family business, where they really couldn't afford a minimum wage intern. It was one the biggest and richest publishing company in the world.
This should be called "5 Ways AMERICAN Businesses Exploit Their Employees..." Businesses exploit law loopholes everywhere in the world, but these are very specific to the U.S. and would not be possible in many other countries for legal reasons.
Law: full time is 40 hours a week. Beyond that you pay time and a half. Company: Full time w/ benefits is 32 hours. We won't pay time and a half until you go OVER 40 hours. Which is extremely rare.
Did you know that you can get paid to do simple jobs on Facebook? There are thousands of businesses around the world and in your local area looking to hire people just like you to work on simple tasks such as: Posting Facebook comments Moderating Facebook groups Uploading photos and tagging people Generating Facebook ‘likes’ and followers Most of these jobs don’t require any prior experience and the only skills you need are a good knowledge of how to use Facebook. Click the link below to get started: https://clicktrix.com ?david2587
This happens in most countries. I went to Japan to work for an American company. If you work 30 hours or more the company has to pay into your pension AND health care ... so instead the put you on a 29.5hour contract so then you have to take out the individual government health care and pension plan.
Ok stop it. Businesses see what they can do to employees (because they are an expensive part of operating costs) and employees see what they can get away with without being fired at least 30-40% of the time so don't act like it's BIG BIDNESS. And don't give me that rubbish of employees being loyal cause they will leave over 50 cents per hour to go elsewhere. Ever leave early and not clock out? Take too long at lunch? But yea it's about big business. And wages are what the market holds. It takes 0 brains to cook fries. You should be paid like $4/hr because a 10 yr old could do it. Running a company takes skills most of the time so don't compare that to the bag boy. And if you didn't have a financial stake in a company, don't expect to share the profits cause you sure as hell will not share the losses. And 0 poor people have hired anybody so quit wanting hirer taxes on owners and business. So blow it up...starting...now
Then they shouldn't be in business. FDR said as much back in the day: "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” If your company can't afford to pay people properly for the labor they're giving you, then you need to give it up and do something else.
Load More Replies... All of that is true but irrelevant since minimum wage isn’t livable for anyone anymore and it used to be. And everything was okay then so clearly we know the world won’t fall apart if Tammy the cashier makes $12 an hour rather than $7.
Load More Replies... What a completely unrealistic thing to say. I am shocked that there's someone out there that thinks like this.
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