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TODAY: The dam has never been more profitable, now that we've fired all the folks with their fingers in the little cracks.
THIS TIME NEXT YEAR: Oh no! The dam has failed! Please help us, we need bailouts!
"If only we had workers that cared! It's all their fault for not wanting to go the extra mile!"
"What monsters would just abandon their family like this??"
I hate feeling like an expendable human resource. When I was laid off it was completely without advanced notice, they're never considerate enough to notify you two weeks in advance (like we are supposed to do).
It's not like the executive types are known for their empathy. I've seen the Chairman of the Board throw full on temper tantrums (and throwing stuff) at his subordinates. They have zero qualms laying us off if it means it increases this quarter's bottom line.
That’s why I quit recently with no notice. They asked and I said “you didn’t give one the last 4 rounds of layoffs, so why should I?”
In fairness, you usualy get severance that is more than 2 weeks, and you don't even have to go to work to collect it. That said, in like spain, I think they have to employ you until you find a new job or something.
Lol, severance? Did you get lost and end up in the 50s?
Everyone who gets severance is a real human being, I think you're referring to so-called "people" like myself that are blue collar. Our severance is "don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, we'll make you pay to have it cleaned."
At least when you’re union your rep hands out step by step instructions on how to file for unemployment and tells you that the company won’t fight it.
What’s crazier than your weirdly combative, out of touch comment is the fact 6 other people decided to upvote it.
When large corps make news laying off 30% of staff, those people are getting severance packages.
Did you get lost and end up in the 1850s?
Been part of large corp. Was laid off during a “reduction in force”. No severance.
Non-union/non-CBA covered staff have no legal mandate to receive severance (depending on state). Severance is exclusively between the employer and employee.
Severance today is pretty much and attempt at hush money. In order to get the money, you usually have to agree to not sue them, and keep company information secret. They also often try to toss in non-compete clauses into the terminology.
The more risk you are to the company, the larger the severance package is.
My first layoff, I knew the entire companies 5 year plan (I wrote it) and was debating a hefty lawsuit against the head of HR and CEO for illegal termination and retaliation = Full-year severance + full benefits and a placement service. Gave me time to reassess swap to a different area of the industry.
My second layoff, I knew all of the companies suppliers, plans and strategies. They laid me off and only gave me 10 weeks of severance. I have since fucked them over by talking 95% of their suppliers and over half of their customers. They have had 10% layoffs every year since then. They should have paid me more.
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I was an Assistant Manager of a well-established, popular restaurant franchise about eight years ago now. Business was fine, probably showing a modest black line on their financial reports.
"This location is no longer in operation."
That's all the advance notice I received when I arrived for my scheduled shift and all the doors were locked. No two-week-notice, no severance package.
Publicly-traded corporations don't care about their employees, their only concern lies within how to spend as little money as possible. Employee benefits included.
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Every salaried employee I know got severence when laid off. Not sure what you are on about.
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Everyone I've met has gotten severance.
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I live in a country where the company or you need to notify the other 2-6 months in advance. You can only quiet earlier if it is mutual.
I recommend joining a Union so you can also have the safety benefits that we do.
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Yup. Post-COVID, the rich were scared by the newly empowered worker who had just finally begun to understand their worth and power, and have declared war on the working class in retaliation. There's plenty of evidence for this by now; the pattern is obvious.
So real talk time, what are doing about it?
Why aren't the remaining workers walking out in protest? Why aren't sympathetic industries and collectives talking to all of these recently released labor force members and collectively organizing marches and strikes, encouraging workers to refuse to do labor until executives take massive paycuts?
What do we have to do, and why aren't we doing it?
And if you are somebody out there doing it, what do people like me have to do to get involved?
Yes! My thoughts exactly!
During the pandemic when this was all happening, it was a bright spot of optimism that things could finally begin to get better as people realized how much nonsense wasn't necessary.
But the propaganda machines were in full force pushing fabricated tales of people who "missed the energy of the office", and everything was about "getting back to normal" instead of making a new, better normal!
Heck I even saw edgy righties on places like iFunny getting all based saying "I can't believe we're being exploited like this! Jobs are such a scam."
It was beautiful.
Where did it go?! Why do we so easily forget??
Why aren't the remaining workers walking out in protest?
I fear homelessness.
What do we have to do, and why aren’t we doing it?
The list of worker protections needed for that kind of solidarity would take a book series to properly explain. The majority of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, meaning they can't walk out without losing everything. They would pretty much instantly lose their jobs, which is a huge deterance.
And culturally, the situation is fucked. The U.S. has a much workers solidarity as La Croix has taste. Nobody wants to be the first to stick their neck out for a general strike. Nobody takes the ideal of a general strike seriously. A third of the population is republicans, whom vehemently oppose unions and worker protections.
The culture, values, and worker protections of this country need to dramatically change. And I wish I had solutions.
The list of worker protections needed for that kind of solidarity would take a book series to properly explain. The majority of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, meaning they can’t walk out without losing everything. They would pretty much instantly lose their jobs, which is a huge deterance.
I mean I hear you, and I agree with all of that... But people are already losing their jobs without these safety nets anyway. This meme is in response not to just the general discontent, but specifically the trend of corporate layoffs despite record profits.
We are already taking losses in the battle without ever actually stepping onto the battlefield, so what the hell do we have to lose?
But people are already losing their jobs without these safety nets anyway.
And it's absolute bullshit. But from the average workers perspective, there is a strong incentive to not lose your job even if you know there is a high chance of losing it to begin with. So the resulting behavior is that workers try to keep their head down and postpone that eventual job loss.
Until a worker can be confident there will still be food on their table and a roof over their head when they strike or try to form a union, the incentive to keep your head down will continue to remain too strong.
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Unionization is the only possible answer.
Unionization is the ~~only possible answer.~~ first step towards abolishing capitalism
100%! First step to organize the required worker solidarity for further change.
- First step: majority of workplaces unionized
- Second step: all workplaces unionized
- Third step: majority of companies worker-owned co-ops
- Fourth step: all companies worker-owned co-ops
- 5: Ethically profit
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Didn’t Microsoft just report massive profits after reporting they played off tons of people? Maybe it was in reverse order, but they knew they had massive profits at the same time they were laying off tons of people.
Laying off a lot of people does wonders for the end of year report...
Yes, and also months after Bobby Kotick left, taking a $300M severance package with him.
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This is basically why the French Revolution happened
It's pretty crazy how much they can raise employees salary by getting rid of ceo pay.
If the company had 1000 workers, they could each get a 30k raise.
Nvidia gave their engineers stock options that would years later net them millions. That caused a lot of their senior and experienced staff to either retire early or just stop putting in extra hours and now people are writing articles like "is paying your employees well a bad thing?"
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Ain't capitalism grand?
Cool comic but is it necessary that we see corpo and ceo bad posts every day? I didnt know this is boringdystopia. Lets either coordinate strikes or not talk about it at all.
Yes
Leftist propaganda is kind of our thing on lemmy. That's not a complaint, I love it
I dont mind leftist truth. Its not propaganda.
I just found an article about the large problem of leftist extremism published by the german „verfassungsschutz“ that proclaimed that extreme left violence is a huge problem. They cited an attack on three people on 2020, one doxxing and one attack with „buckets of color“ on the doxxed peoples cars.
I wondered: if leftist violence is such a problem, maybe my opinion that a lot more fascist hate crimes must be committed regularly is false?
Turns out, 20967 violent fascist crimes were commited in germany in 2022, which is 57 per day.
I‘m not against doing something about this. I just dont want to talk about it all day. I went to a large anti fascist event with 15k people. Lets do something.
Propaganda is a tool that facts can be used for. It's not inherently good or bad, valuable or a waste of time. It's just a means to an end. Whether it's commiserating over capitalism or lauding successes of leftist activism. If people are intentionally spreading it, it's propaganda. Encouraging activism like you're doing is propaganda. And propaganda is a form of activism. (Not to say posting is praxis, online posting obviously has it's limitations).
How would people know how/where/when/why to attend anti fascist protests without propaganda?
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If you want strikes, you gotta talk about it more. The people on the other side pump out as much propaganda as they can.
Until it changes, yes.
Talking about it is the pathway to coordinated strikes.
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