this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Every day a new rich cunt demanding the enslavement of the poor. It's pretty tiresome.

[–] franklin 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If I'm ever in charge this guy gets to work 70 hour weeks at Popeyes.

[–] Beelzebob 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even worse, a Waffle House in north Florida.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Compared to the productivity of 30 years ago, we probably work as much as the people back then would have to work in a 70 hour workweek.

Weirdly enough pay didn't raise close to productivity...

[–] unfreeradical 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You are roughly four times as productive each hour as your grandparents.

[–] Caradoc879 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget tgat was typically off judt grandpa's salary so really you're 8x as worse off.

[–] unfreeradical 3 points 11 months ago

The measure is given as value produced per man hour (I know).

Nevertheless, the wage gap, housing commodification, and the erasure of the family wage are also extremely relevant issues.

[–] TallonMetroid 26 points 11 months ago

Shit like this, as well as the fact that they take a ridiculously hefty cut out of what client companies pay to have positions filled (something like 70/30 or even 90/10), is why the company has an atrocious turnover rate here in the US for anyone who isn't held hostage by visa issues.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Yeah, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that dude.

[–] Heisenberg9999 12 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Aren’t billionaires and their opinions just great? ®

Simply amazing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I used to work for a company that outsourced most of its developers to Infosys. I managed a few of them. They were lovely people, treated like shit by my company and by Infosys. I did my best with the little power available to me to give them reasonable projects and maintain reasonable expectations, they said I was the best manager they ever had. After I got laid off, they all quit too and most I think ended up working for Oracle somehow, I don't know how they're doing these days but Oracle sounds like it's probably a fate worse than death, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only if they lead by example :^)

[–] unfreeradical 2 points 11 months ago

Please don't follow their example on anything.

[–] Treczoks 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, that was what people in Germany and Japan did after the war. I fail to recognize, though, which devastating war had been lost by India lately so they would have to rebuild the country from scratch.

[–] Zeth0s 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's a boomer myth. They used to work long hours but much relaxed pace. Go and show them the modern schedule and stressors of many modern job, and they are absolutely higher than in the past. Every honest european boomer agrees with this. Millennials europeans are working much more intensively and more effective hours overall, even in Germany

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Boomers used to go home too, and not have a device going off in their pockets every 55 seconds. They were able to unplug. The boss didn't dare go to the boomers house. Today, your boss doesn't even blink at calling you at 2am.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I have a separate phone for work and turn that thing off immediately when my 8 hours are up.

[–] unfreeradical 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Your struggle is our struggle, Narayana. We all share the same interests.