seeCseas Mod ,

businesses: “we had to raise our prices because of supply and demand, it’s just natural economics”

also businesses: “why can’t we get good workers at this shitty wage, we’ve tried everything!”

AidsAcrossAmerica ,
@AidsAcrossAmerica@kbin.social avatar

I'm solidly middle aged, and I don't want to work either. But I don't want to be homeless either, so I'm going to get as much money as I can, for as little labor as possible. That's capitalism baby.

pizza_rolls ,
@pizza_rolls@kbin.social avatar

My dad used to work in manufacturing. He had a pension. He got yearly raises. He was able to switch positions to make more money and they paid for his training to be able to do that. Hell my grandma used to work at FUCKING KMART with full benefits including a pension!

Now people are paid fuckall, get fuckall for retirement, get maybe a 2% raise every few years, and companies want to invest $0 into keeping and training them. No shit no one is loyal and no one wants to deal with that shit. Go back to what you were doing before if that's how you want employees to act again.

For some reason my comment keeps showing up as a reply to this comment instead of a reply to the entire thread so let's just go with that lol

MxM111 ,
@MxM111@kbin.social avatar

Your comment look just fine for me, in the right place.

As for your point, I guess people prefer to get cash and spend it themselves, rather than to trust companies to invest and spend it in their name. If people were to prefer smaller salaries but larger benefits, then situation would be different. One thing is still important though - medical insurance. Getting insurance yourself, especially before Obamacare was much more expensive than for business to buy it for you.

hamster ,

They used to get cash and a pension. It wasn't an either-or thing.

pizza_rolls ,
@pizza_rolls@kbin.social avatar

They were getting enough money to afford a house, kids, etc on a single salary AND a pensio

Entropywins ,
@Entropywins@kbin.social avatar

Are you that stupid or being purposefully obtuse?

roofuskit ,
@roofuskit@kbin.social avatar

In the US a lot of manufacturers keep as many people as they can as temp workers and just cycle them in and out often enough to avoid having to pay benefits or offer anything other than substandard wages.

circuitfarmer ,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Alternate headline: Businesses fail to pay fair wages; young workers avoid

Gray ,
@Gray@lemmy.ca avatar

Spent four years in college, went $60k in debt for it, and I still have to take fucking personality tests as part of the interview process for the one fucking interview I get for every 50+ jobs I apply to. Not to mention that entry level jobs are basically nonexistant and professional workplaces only care to get employees that already have experience from God knows where. So that leaves us starting out in our careers with the strategy of “fake it till you make it”, which creates further scrutiny during the interview processes. But no, apparently the problem is that people are too lazy. Fuck everything about the hiring process these days.

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