#Working Conditions

[heartstringsduet]

Choose the one closest to what a full-time position would get and let me know the country and days in the tags if you want.

(Can’t alter the post but didn't think 0 was a thing. 🥲🥲)

aka, the poll I made, absolutely shocked hearing about US vacation days.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

we need to talk about this societal workplace thing where people brag about subservience as if it’s a flex to undervalue and mistreat yourself in the name of capital

“I work through lunch every day” MAYBE YOU SHOULD NOT

“you don’t see me making a fuss about it” MAYBE YOU SHOULD

“well that never stops me from coming to work” FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAYBE IT FUCKING SHOULD!!!!

“I’m being a good leader and setting a good example” YOU ARE BEING A BAD LEADER. YOU ARE SETTING A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE

[cejav13]

It’s honestly been one of the greatest working experiences I’ve ever had. Bruce and Jon (Landau, long-time co-producer and manager of Springsteen) really opened the kimono to Jeremy (Allen White) and me. - Jeremy Strong

[mattsmemes]

[v3lv3tf0x]

So.... I have a controversial thing to say... I have no respect for old people. I mean, not any more than I do for the average human. Maybe less, simply because of they way they treat other people. Especially people in customer service, like me. They are so egotistical and downright disrespectful and, dare I say it, crazy. I have been screamed at, spoken to like a child, told how to do my job, I've had items thrown onto my counter and been told to do stuff rather than asked. All by people clearly over the age of 50. I think it is insane that we are taught to 'respect our elsers' when they hold no respect for us at all. I'm supposed to respect you after you just blatantly ignore me and then get mad when something doesn't work? No. Absolutely not, and I'm not even sorry about it. If you respected me, then yes, I'll be respectful back, but when I'm treated like shit, do not expect me to be kind or happy in return. I will not respect you just because you've walked around a little longer than I have. And don't even get me started on old men in particular. They absolutely disguest me. I am simply doing my job and a customer looks at my older male coworker(whom I really like and did not expect this from) and they begin talking about how I'm going to replace him and he's "training me" and my coworker goes "at least she's one of the pretty ones". Mind you they have not looked at me once. Another time an old male customer spoke to my young male coworker about me saying "Wow, you look just like my niece, so beautiful," and then looked at my coworker with a smirk and said "The kind of girl I'm looking for". Ex-fucking-scuse me? Are you being so serious right now? What the fuck? You just said I look like your NIECE????????????? And, also, the amount of times I have been barked at, cat called, and even screamed at while walking down the sidewalk is absolutely fucking insane. I am only 18 years old and I don't turn 19 for a long while yet. This has been happening since I was a minor. A young girl. It is ridiculous how society accepts these things. Disgusting.

Anyways, to the request marinating in my inbox, I'm trying my best but I've been extremely busy and tired, I hope you understand.

[gameguy20100]

The more horror stories about working conditions in the US the more grateful I am that my manager is actually a decent bloke all in all.

I've never been told that staying home when I'm sick is grounds for suspension at least.

[indizombie]

Bangladesh is a major producer of garments supplying to world’s top brands such as H&M, Lewis, Gucci, Zara and many others. Nearly 4.0 million workers, mostly women toil in 3,500 garment factories supplying nearly 60 percent of global trendy garments. Bangladesh earns nearly $55 billion from exports annually. However, the working conditions of the workers are dire - work day stretching ten hours, with a meagre monthly pay of Taka 8,300 or $75. Though 85 percent of workforce are women, they lack job security, bonus, work safety, insurance or maternity leave and other minimum benefits. The workers are on strike for the last two weeks demanding wage hikes.

Soma Marla, ‘Why Garment Workers in Bangladesh are on Strike’, Countercurrents

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Not until the nineteenth century would anyone have any concerns that women and children were risking their safety and health in terrible conditions:

Women commonly worked underground in coal mines, primarily as part of family teams. While men worked the coal face, women carried or dragged the coal in sledges or tubs through the tunnels to the lifts, or on occasion even up to three surface . . . At lime kilns, women were employed carrying baskets of coal and chalk, while men broke the chalk loose, screened it, lifted the baskets onto the women's heads, and threw the chalk into the kiln. Both sexes helped hack the coal and chalk into small pieces and fill the baskets . . . Women were employed in the loading of slate onto boats in Devon (after it was quarried by men), where the work was described as 'immoderately hard' (by Richard Ayton, an observer in 1814), yet women 'accomplish as much in a given time as the men do.'

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

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[blueclearcloud]

https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/spider-verse-animation-four-artists-on-making-the-sequel.html

"And I do genuinely think it’s a good movie. But that being said, it’s been debilitating for a lot of the artists involved. Morale was incredibly low, and a lot of people reassessed if this was even something they wanted to be a part of. It’s this perpetual emotional give-and-take that’s very stressful; it absolutely affects people’s lives, sleep schedules, energy levels, their burnout. The frustrating thing is at the end of the day the work is good. There’s a lot of high praise that comes out of it. So there’s this rollercoaster of emotions where you go through hell but it makes people happy. And it makes you happy that people are happy. And you want to do it again.*

[tooanxiousforthisht]

Is there anywhere we can show support to the animators in the spider-verse movies and fight to get them decent time for the third movie? Because the people who are making these movies as amazing as they are deserve good working conditions to make them

[leandra-kinard]

Yeah, that is bullshit. Who the fuck even wants a ping pong table? Sure, more responsibilities can be something people aspire to in their careers, but those, too, usually come with a raise (or they should), and not every employee even wants it.

And okay, money alone does not a good working atmosphere make - having a respectful and supportive mentality at the company can trump that - but adequate pay IS important.

No matter where I worked, whenever the company spent a lot of money on events, for example, most employees were like "ok, but they could have done a smaller Christmas/yearly event and given us the money as a bonus instead of flying us out to Amsterdam".

It's always a mix of factors, and yes, in some instances people may decide to forego a higher offer from a different company if they are happy with fair treatment, support, respect, their daily tasks and overall working conditions; if I were offered a different job with 10-20% more pay elsewhere, I would not leave as I already make a decent salary at my current job and know my employer isn't exploitative; there are no investors who make money on my back, and our CEO probably earns just about 3-4x as much as I do. When we have an excess of money, we all get something out of it, and the rest goes into expanding, i.e. hiring more people.

So yeah, there are other important factors aside from money, but out of the three listed, money is the main driver. That explanation of the survey is just plain BS.

[sholawilde]

[polsocmartikhoras]

Communist China Is A Workers' Paradise!

I need to keep this on reference for the next wiseass who uses late stage or just capitalism as summation for abuse and lack of compensation of the working class.

Not that I can just throw capitalism as a buzzword out and solve all of these problems but that indicates that you're using the exact wrong term in order to categorize everything as well as the wrong thinking and lens to analyze the analyze And bring things forward just in order so that you can sound smart or revolutionary as opposed to actually assess what the issues are the solutions that can be applied and the concern for the people who are suffering

But you don't care about that you still want to style on everyone about how educated you are and how everyone's dumb because they don't disagree with the people who you hold in contempt

[bxdtime-ceai]

Talking about working conditions with canadians is so fucking infuriating they are so ignorant to how it was before and how it can still become today. "Oh but why do your students get weeks off for vacation while you only get 5 days?" Dipshit can you use your fucking brain i work for a private company that exploits us. Why would they give us more than the legal minimum at any chance they get. "Oh but why do they not want to give you more?" Do you not know anything about CEOs not seeing us as people????? "Why don't you just get another job" DO YOU KNOW THAT I AM A MIGRANT WORKER!!!! MY LEGAL STATUS IS TIED TO THIS EMPLOYER AND IF I LEAVE THE JOB I CAN GET DEPORTED SO EASILY. We actually need permission from the boss to fucking leave our jobs but they are not legally required to give us the document. So we have to negotiate for it. In my first year I gave up all my vacation days to be allowed to leave the fucking company. "Why do you live there if it's like this" just shut the fuck up man

[penig]

Every one of these crashes has cost at least one company money. Which companies hate! If the driver is driving for a trucking concern, the trucking concern loses money repairing or replacing the truck and goodwill from whoever paid them to haul the goods, which are now delayed. They may have just lost a customer; their contract may require them to eat the cost of damaged goods and delays. If the driver is an independent contractor, he just wrecked his own rig and has to deal with the same customer problems.

I think we can safely assume that the number of individual drivers who do this twice is vanishingly small. This is a new driver doing this, every time.

If he works for a company where someone has done this, there is an excellent chance that a warning about paying attention to low bridge signs, using this specific bridge as the horrid example, has been emphatically issued to him in some form - during orientation, or training, or as part of his assignment to this specific route. If nothing else, truckers talk to each other. The individuals who've done this have been roasted alive by their workmates right in front of the new driver, if they weren't fired outright.

So most of these drivers have probably been warned in some fashion before they ever got near this road. A percentage of them probably assume that the stories they hear are gross exaggerations. But that doesn't mean they can't absorb the moral of the cautionary tale: if your load is too tall for the bridge you have to find another route around.

Clearly, this is not a problem soluble by warnings alone. Another factor, or factors, is coming into play that applies in the moment.

This is, I fear, the visible sign of serious problems in the industry. Ones that also manifest in less spectacular, but even more dangerous, ways.

There's a lot of pressure on truckers to make time. They may be fined for late arrivals; they may be paid by the trip; they may have schedules that allow no margins for normal travel delays like other people's accidents and weather. Truckers are often on the road without enough sleep, cutting their own food, rest, and bathroom breaks in order to make up lost time.

A sleep-deprived trucker amped up on caffeine or speed, whose eyes are strained from driving for six hours straight, is not in a mental place for reading signage. He sees a light go yellow, he sees flashing lights which indicate nothing to his addled brain besides an oncoming interruption of his progress, his reflex is to step on the gas and get past the interruption before it can happen.

And then the top comes off his truck, and then he remembers. The rest of his day is shot, and everyone who isn't laughing at him is yelling at him, and what's he going to say? The meth made me do it?

(Most recurring problems are systemic, don't you find?)

was reminded of that youtube channel that records footage of that bridge that scalps trucks today. one of the fascinating developments that's happened since i last heard about it is that, in one of their many attempts to stop the trucks from being can-opened, they installed a traffic light that detects when a vehicle that's over the allowed height is coming and turns red so the driver can stop and hopefully notice the signage all around that's screaming "YOUR VEHICLE IS OVERHEIGHT TURN AROUND" and avoid an accident. However as a result sometimes drivers see the light turning yellow and IMMEDIATELY start flooring it to avoid having to stop, ensuring that the roof of their truck just gets fucking annihilated instantly. Really beautiful stuff you should check it out