If he owns vehicles, then he is entitled to exploit people to drive them.

The system has conditioned him to find a way to rationalize that he is victim.

“What’s the pay? Do you do drug tests?”

MINIMUM FUCKING WAGE. DRUG TESTS.

In a lot of cases if you're driving a vehicle for commercial purposes, DOT requires a pre-employment drug test. Taxi drivers are one of those, and I imagine that's the regulation he's under.

I mean, yeah he's not paying nearly enough to attract people, but the drug tests aren't entirely up to him.

They are the exact ones sucking musk dick and think he’s the god of capitalism crying that “no one understands the owner of a company is supposed to be rich and everyone is supposed to be homeless but grateful to work for them bloblooobloo .”. Wondering why no one has any empathy for them.

I can understand the pay point, but not the drug one. Why would anyone hire a testable drugs user to drive? Which employers are fine with hiring drug users in general?

Did you actually go on a rant like that or was that just in your head?

The younger worker thing fucking shits me. I worked as OPs manager for 11+ years and my GM was always on me about getting younger staff for the cheaper rate. Little did he know I entered everybody under 18 as 18 in our payroll... He expected the same workload from these guys so I was ensuring they got paid the same.

Pay all my bills and give me fun money and savings money or no work.

It's that fucking simple.

Preach. I work for a small manufacturing and production company. The pay rate is $16/hr, they don't offer health insurance, they have paid holidays, they offer 1 week paid vacation after 1 year and 2 weeks after 3 years. They're having trouble hiring people. They've resorted to reaching out to former employees and asking current workers if they could reach out to friends or family.

Edit: The location is South Florida, so $16/hr isn't much here. I live with my parents so it's good enough for me.

An ingrained assumption persists of a particular class of people who willfully identify with providing certain labor for paltry compensation. It is simply because workers want to live well that they are not accepting low wages "even for basic shit like kitting".

They never held any original plan to accept poverty wages in exchange for being relegated to particular kinds of work.

I'm curious, what category are you hiring people in on taskrabbit? Off the top of my head can't think of any that match warehousing.

I was tasking for a while at 30/hr and I'd have to raise my rates to make it worth it. Every customer estimates their task at 30 minutes to an hour but it could be anywhere from 1-4 realistically making it really difficult to schedule consistent work, and that's before you factor in all the overhead/missing benefits compensation.

Used to live not far away from a Mom & Pops pizza joint. Best pizza ever had in my life. 10 years ago, they sold the place. New owner cheapened a lot of the recipes and expanded their menu to compete with a lot of other local businesses, which up till this point had been respecting each others specialities and promoting their own customers to try other places when they asked for something not on their menu.

So they pissed a lot of people off, but the food was still pretty good, for a while at least. Definitely dips in quality, and apparently didn't do much to keep their prices competitive so most of their good cooks and servers would work about 6 months for them then get hired up somewhere else to make more money for less bullshit.

During the pandemic, every other place boosted their wages by a couple of bucks just to keep people on staff since a LOT of people were doing curbside pick ups, so their overall business went up even if their dining areas were vacant. So every other business in town is thriving despite the difficulties of the lockdown and social distances. Except for the pizza place, who despite having a loyal customer base, didn't have enough staff to stay open through the week and by the end of 2020 was down to three days a week.

And then these assholes put up their 'NO ONE WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE' sign next to their pick up window asking people to be patient with their staff because they don't have enough bodies. Curious, and knowing the owner wasn't there at the time, I asked the server what the deal was, and she (un)happily informed me what her wage was, and how she was slated to start working across the street next week for more money. And the kicker being she said she wish the pizza place would just pay more since they'd get more workers and people actually like the joint because it had a lot of history in town.

But nope, these bastards wouldn't increase pay. They refused to budge from their $9 dollar mark, insisting it was good pay because it wasn't minimum wage for no prior experience. My sister worked there in the early 2000s for $9 an hour. Everywhere else in town started at 12. The gas station was hiring 16 year olds for 12 dollars an hour to empty trash and sweep floors. The grocery store was paying 13 dollars for people to bag groceries 20 hours a week. But this otherwise successful pizza place with several generations of customers couldn't keep their doors open because they wouldn't go above 10 dollars for people to cook food, wait tables and sometimes do deliveries. Someone who had helped them with their finances even quitel informed me they probably could have afforded to pay 8 staff $16 per hour and still make a profit thanks to the regular business they had and they were practically losing money as it stood because they couldn't keep their doors open consistently and people were getting fed up with going to eat out and finding a closed sign on the front door.

But hey, nobody wants to work anymore. That clearly is the problem.

Many workers have seemed to feel just fine identifying with the beliefs and values of their oppressors.

"Millennials are killing the job market."

Perpetual job postings is a strong indicator that you should avoid that company. Unfortunately most young people have to learn that for themselves first hand. It's terrible but, hey, an object lesson in how to identify terrible employers is at least one useful take away.

Of course it is necessary to exploit workers while some of us are still alive. If a systemic collapse leads to massive destabilization, then elites will regret any missed opportunities for having extracted greater profits.

I don't know if I've ever met wait staff that agreed they'd get paid more if they got a normal hourly wage. Say what you will about the math out financial skills of an adult in this occupation, but I know I'd prefer steady and predictable income over occasional highs and lows.

I liken it to people that enjoy casino gambling. I'm sure if you spend enough time doing it that you feel the times you get a big payout make up for the losses, but research seems to show otherwise. I've never had to work for tips though, so I couldn't say for sure.