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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

For each count of not paying the helper's salary no later than seven days after it was due, Wu could have been jailed for up to a year, fined up to S$10,000, or both.

Instead she received no jail time and one S$10,000 fine when there were dozens of counts.

[–] pycorax 26 points 1 week ago

That's such a slap on the wrist for what she has done.

[–] Mango 3 points 1 week ago

As someone with an interest in math, I can see how this could be an infinity money fine.

[–] 555 41 points 1 week ago

I’m gonna put my taxes in “safekeeping” so the government doesn’t blow it all at once on some dumb purchase like the military

[–] JeeBaiChow 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm really starting to think enployee abuse is not necessarily a corporate CEO thing. It may be human nature when given power over another human being thing.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what the prisoner/guard experiment showed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ehh that experiment had it's own flaws but it certainly produced some interesting results worth seeing.

[–] tb_ 4 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, very interesting results when the "experiment" was rigged:

The participants in the experiment, who were male college students, didn't just organically become abusive guards, reporter Ben Blum wrote in Medium. Rather, Philip Zimbardo, who led the experiment and is now a professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University, encouraged the guards to act "tough," according to newfound audio from the Stanford archive.

https://www.livescience.com/62832-stanford-prison-experiment-flawed.html

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ha! I thought that was the maid getting paid the extra money.

That super happy lady is the one who got the fine!

[–] mkwt 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fine? That sounds like a thirteenth amendment situation.

Edit: not US, no thirteenth amendment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That’s just slavery with extra steps.