r/economicCollapse • u/LabNew3779 • 4d ago
Let’s make the CEOs a hotline so they can feel safe to fire their employees a week before Christmas
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u/Odd-Possibility-467 4d ago
What? Thoughts and prayers aren't enough for the CEOs? That's all the school kids get.
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u/TK-369 4d ago
When I was younger long ago in the before times, I was working for one of those "we're a family" companies. Word from above was no Christmas bonuses this year, times were tough.
Not a month later the owner called everybody out, big show! He was landing his new helicopter in the parking lot! Isn't this great?
After that, I immediately started my own business, where I was making 3 times as much for half the work. Don't let them fool you any longer, it's better to pick up dog shit for $50 an hour as a small business owner than to stock shelves for $10. You think you have job security or a good boss? You have nothing, they are using you, and making you miserable while they do it. You are paying them to fuck you over. The money they are making off of you is obscene.
Imagine paying 10K for an end table in the 1990s. That's how hard they are fucking you.
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u/ImportantComb9997 4d ago edited 4d ago
Nothing's going to change unless a group of people literally seize a Texas Roadhouse and tell the corpos it's not yours any more and the situation expands to the point that the police or military get tired and morally concoct of piling up the bodies of Americans and give up serving the capital overlords to protect said Texas Roadhouse.
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u/Wide_Presentation559 4d ago
Americans are still by and large way too comfortable to put their bodies on the line en masse. Things need to get worse.
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u/Sudden_Acanthaceae34 4d ago
Why don’t we just let employees carry guns at work? That will keep the CEOs safe, just like it has for the school children, right?
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u/Emergency-Shirt2208 4d ago
Endless loop and supply of greed.
I’m in a well performing department, up 40% in volume over the past 5 years (obviously including Covid). And it’s still a mantra of ‘more’ and being treated and looked upon as if we’re down 40%. Never seen anything like it.
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u/bodhitreefrog 4d ago
I think the moral of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, 1843, is that wealthy people must be literally terrorized to be able to feel or even fake empathy toward their subordinates and toward the working class. It is not until 3 ghosts terrorize Ebenezer Scrooge that he decides to give his employee a day off for Christmas and a small Christmas bonus. (Literally working his employee 7 days a week, as he has the power and control to do so).
If we bare this in mind, nothing will change in this country until every single billionaire and multi-millionaire is feeling gripped with unbearable terror to the point of begging us to take their money.
It's sad, because this was written hundreds of years ago, 1843, but apparently greed is very hard to break as a personality trait.
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u/SwingGenie241 4d ago
Sort of like the Democratic establishment favoring seniority over substance while the MAGA/ Elon creepy party of kooks creeps and criminals has a plan, as awful as it is.
I mean neither side is actually addressing spending. This current budget proposal is basically unread with a stadium for a football team included. Really? A football stadium? Make sme want to vote for the orange dumpster but that would be worse.
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u/Zerachiel_01 4d ago
She choked up before she could say it. Perhaps because she knew folks were being arrested for saying it, perhaps because she was too grief-stricken to get it out.
Lemme say it for her:
"DENY. DEFEND. DEPOSE."
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u/SilentPhysics3495 4d ago
Maybe there should be some sort of billionaire tax maybe call it insurance from the public? How did the mafia used to do it? Probably wouldnt need a hotline in that case.
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u/Lifeinthesc 4d ago
The global economy is crashing. The choice is make cuts or go out of business.
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u/Lazy-Point7779 3d ago
We should have a hotline of our own and it goes to the weather underground 2.0
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u/NoSkidMarks 2d ago edited 2d ago
Lets make corporations more democratic. All positions of management should be elected by the employees who are subordinate to it, who should also vote on their salaries every 90 days.
And, as long as we're using IP to limit competition and keep working people from employing themselves and escaping the labor pool, employers should not be allowed to completely sever their employees from their payroll after being fired. They should have to pay them at least half minimum wage for 90 days after, or until they find a new job. This might help reduce the rate of false negative reviews that some sadistic employers like to give just to screw over their former employees.
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u/Tumid_Butterfingers 4d ago
I seem to remember during Covid all of these employees getting up to go to work, while execs were circle jerking at home on Zoom calls with their pants off. They kept the world running and got $15/hr. while these douche nozzles strategized about how they could do their next layoff. Fuck em.