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[-] DoYouNot@lemmy.world 154 points 3 weeks ago

This is exactly why we need unions. Just like not having weekends off, it's normal until it isn't.

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

I've been working 40 years, I have never had weekends off.

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

Oh man that's rough, I'm sorry you've not had that. I hope you've managed to find other opportunities to spend time with family or do things that you enjoy

[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago

Some industries are weekend industries; for Hospitality, Retail and Tourism, Saturday and Sunday are the equivalent of Monday and Tuesday for the 9-5 crowd.

That said, Monday and Tuesday are usually the Saturday and Sunday for these workers. Us “Normies” don’t usually particle in fine dining, clubbing or tourist traps on Monday and Tuesdays.

You are right though, Retail and Hospitality workers do need to get better unions so they can get paid a living wage and aren’t being forced to work 7 days a week for 12 hour shifts.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 147 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Tower@lemm.ee 54 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

I'm gonna steal this, it's beautiful!

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Where’s all the action? All I’ve seen is the sub guy and a ship captain actually follow through

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

If I was actively planning on murdering some of the richest people on earth, I wouldn't talk about it on social media.

People you're talking about OWN the violence needed to stop them.

What I would be doing is joining the organizations that control the violence and either disrupt or try and take control of some or all of it.

History is going to be very unkind to people like Biden who has the means and legal right to mobilize and contain the fascists that ended American democracy and destroyed modern civilization

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

You join the violent organisations, either you are assimilated, or you are cast out (or worse). That’s how they work.

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[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

There are just under 3000 billionaires in the world. The questions to ask are:

Do you start with the richest and move down the list or start at the bottom and see if the top ones give their money away before you get to them?

Do you sharpen the blade after it starts taking more than one blade drop or just enjoy the tension of the longer show?

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm thinking more of a parallelized operation, and where their holdings have been nationalized or otherwise socialized beforehand so they wouldn't really have the option to give their money away.

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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 126 points 3 weeks ago

He'll fire workers... what workers exactly? As far as I can tell, he hasn't actually run a business in 25 years. He got rich when Mattel bought his company in 1999, but then they fired him. He invested in a storage facility company, was on the board of directors but never actually had any employees reporting to him, and then he sold that investment, making him more money.

Since then, he's had a number of vanity projects name after himself: O'Leary Funds, O'Leary Ventures, O'Leary Books, O'Leary Fine Wines, I don't know if any of them are still in business, but if they are, I can't imagine he has more than a handful of employees.

Now he's just a reality TV personality, so of course he's going to say bullshit that gets him in the spotlight.

Why would anybody take advice from a reality TV personality who hasn't managed any employees in a quarter of a century? Especially given that he's probably just saying bullshit to get his name in the spotlight again.

[-] rainynight65@feddit.org 105 points 3 weeks ago

Boss announces he will break the law.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

Why can't these regulations be actual crimes, with criminal consequences for the perpetrator. And if he's ordering someone else to do the firing, it's "conspiracy to commit regulatory fraud".

[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

It'll keep getting worse until heads suddenly start rolling.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 78 points 3 weeks ago

It's not about money. It's about being a petty tyrant and lording over the peasants.

Fuck the wealthy.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 62 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, I would very much like to punch this guy in the face.

[-] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 weeks ago
[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Alternatively we could just get whoever designed Lady Gaga's ridiculous meat suit from a decade back, get another one made, put it on Mr. Punchable Face here, and toss him into an actual shark tank.

That seems fitting.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

Just skip the suit and give him the ol French treatment.

The sharks will still be fed.

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 18 points 3 weeks ago

German has a word for this guy:

Backpfeifengesicht

(colloquial) a punchable face; a face "in need of a punch".

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[-] Wooki@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Up next on the news: abusive boss wonders why he can't retain staff. Should the board step in? Shareholders say yes

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody should give a shit what another reality TV show host business marketing shill grifter has to say about labor regulations. He's the last person I would care about an opinion from on the topic. Not seeing a link, did the article also include a response from labor leaders?

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 33 points 3 weeks ago

What a fucking baby, when did we start letting children lead?

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 9 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, its now we're putting some restraints on these children who have been free to do what ever and now they're having an entitled little tantrum about it, because god fobid the peasants get to relax.

[-] TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 weeks ago

Ashamed this piece of shit is Canadian..

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like an easy lawsuit tbh

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Not in Ohio.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This old asshole doesn't talk to his workers.

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 24 points 3 weeks ago

If it’s a new regulation to not answer phones off the clock, isn’t firing the employee for it illegal?

[-] icedterminal@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

Yes. But you can best believe they will find something else to fire you for. If you have nothing, then it's an easy case win for you.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 23 points 3 weeks ago

Remember when this clown almost ran for Prime Minister of Canada and we all just told him to fuck off so hard that he dropped out?

[-] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He's got the charisma of a dead skunk, but I somehow doubt he won't still involve himself with Pollievre somewhere in there

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

So you are saying he is as charismatic as Trump? That is worrying.

[-] GarlicToast@programming.dev 21 points 3 weeks ago

He needs a baseball bat to the knee and a diarrhea to the face. It will improve what comes out of his mouth.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 19 points 3 weeks ago

Idk who Kevin O'Leary is but I'm pretty sure he's not my supervisor.

[-] Atropos@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Who dreams up crap like Kevin O'leary??

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[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

If someone like Kevin O'Leary is pissed off, then it's probably a good thing.

[-] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

If you look away slightly from that picture, your peripheral sense of a complete fucking asshole will fill in the cigar in his right hand

[-] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

Tbh, if you're working that high up the chain that O'Leary calls you personally, you probably are a very wealthy workaholic anyways.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

How this FTX pumper is not in prison is beyond absurd

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

It's so gross how the .01% love being villains to hardworking folk.

[-] sashin@vegantheoryclub.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

This guy is the enemy of the people.

[-] vordalack@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Dude is crazy. Isn't he a grifting, fake guru?

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Fire me, daddy

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