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And, I hate to say it, but this goes back to why I would not have hired her. A $200K white collar worker is not going to put up with that BS and probably walks off the job after 2 weeks. Someone who’s in collections and about to be evicted will. Simple as that.
 
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Handyman said:
Yeah the behavior I see and hear about from friends in the industry is pretty crazy.
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Can confirm. I worked at Meijer. Someone intentionally left a package of bacon on the rotisserie chicken stand. Cooked it and it had to be tossed.

Someone screamed at our produce team lead, ending his vitriol with "WHITE POWER!" Dude also intentionally wore his mask below his chin, and his mask had "arbeit macht frei" on it.

I had my pronouns on my badge. Got called "he" 10x more.

To be fair, I make more money with Door Dash and Uber Eats than I ever did with Meijer.
 
MissThundercat said:
Speaking of labor shortages, Wisconsin is totally fine with letting 14 year olds work as late as 11 PM.
https://thehill.com/changing-america...ork-till-11-pm
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Pretty much irrelevant. Heck, even Minnesota's child labor laws are more lax than the Fed's.

Unless a business can figure out how to exempt itself from the federal rules, they'll still have to abide by their hours. If your business generates I think something like $500,000 a year in gross revenues, or the employee engages in interstate commerce, you are stuck with the federal rules. Pretty much everyone engages in interstate commerce, given how broadly that is interpreted.
 
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So I shouldn't have been working the 7-midnight or the overnight shifts at the local AM/FM radio station back (OK, way back) when I was 15 years old?

What'd I learn in that job? Show up on time, hit your marks, speak slower to go faster, and get out of local radio.
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No

you were a child.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
So I shouldn't mention I was working on the farm years before that ...
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I like how you're proud that you were exploited for cheap labor as a child. Explains a lot.

And before you start pulling your usual schtick, no we're not talking about a lemonade stand, babysitting one night a week, doing household chores, shoveling driveways, or other child appropriate activities.

But yeah, if you were sticking your hand into a combine or other heavy machinery to clear it out because your hand was smaller than your old man's, that was not cool.
 
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But yeah, if you were sticking your hand into a combine or other heavy machinery to clear it out because your hand was smaller than your old man's, that was not cool.
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That's what you do on a family farm. And I'd go and help out on uncles' farms also.

How do you think I learned to weld, drive (cars or field equipment), basic repair, small engine repair, rough construction (framing and electrical), basic machining, and a bunch of other useful skills. Farm kid skills.


What sounds "exploitive" to you is "life skills" to me.
 
100 hour work weeks...they are lucky someone doesn't go postal.

No one will take the job if they make them sign contracts that if they leave before 2 years they owe the company money. Hell I would tell them to fuck off and die mid interview if they suggested that.
 
unofan said:
I want to believe this is as fake as a Penthouse Forum letter, but sadly it's far more likely to have been written by someone I went to college with, given how many wound up in I-banking:

https://www.askamanager.org/2021/10...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
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I'm so sorry your Excel slaves are leaving because being an Excel slave sucks and isn't worth the relatively modest salary (by Manhattan standards) that you're paying and the insane working conditions you're offering.

I used to work with a guy whose older brother was a Wall Street guy. Even in his 30s he was still typically pulling 80 hr weeks. He had a plan to "retire" by 40 and he and his wife were going to move to Chicago where he figured he could get a relatively relaxing VP of Finance or CFO job with his Wall Street resume.
 
I've worked a few hundred-hour weeks in my career. But in every case, I was on business travel to a site where a developmental airplane needed to be fixed so that it could go fly to resume a military or FAA certification campaign. When a company has $10B wrapped up in a project and can't get paid until it completes, you work. When there are 500 people supporting flight testing who literally cannot do their jobs until your part is fixed, you work. That's just the nature of working on a system with 1000's of critical parts. If any one of them is broken and delaying the project, it needs to be fixed right freaking now.

But it's one thing to do that when you're on business travel, staying in a hotel with housekeeping and room service and dry cleaning and driving a rental car that needs no maintenance. You literally have nothing to do except work - no errands, no spouse, no kids, no dishes to do, and you know that it is temporary. Doing that at home for 2 years straight as part of a "normal" work routine? Hell, no. Not an option.
 
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