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and if employer wants everyone in the factory for 14 hours 7 days a week, well...
by codesnik 3y ago
and if employer wants everyone in the factory for 14 hours 7 days a week, well...
- CamperBob2 3y agoWell... then they can pay for it.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoThey do pay for it in Bangladesh or other countries.
- RGamma 3y agoSays the 35h/w white collar rich guy.
- CamperBob2 3y ago"Stereotyping: It's OK When We Do it!"
- shortcrct 3y agoI wouldn't see the issue here if the employer was willing to "pay handsomely" to have their employees work those hours. Some white collar workers work those hours every week - if not longer - and are paid well for it.
- rconti 3y agoFunny how "paying handsomely" turns into a race to the bottom.
- randomdata 3y agoIt is, indeed, fascinating how little respect workers have for each other. Any little concession they can offer an employer to screw over the guy beside them, they will take it. Unionization helps develop somewhat of a brotherhood to keep the nastiness at bay, but even then the members generally want to keep it an exclusive club, not something for all workers to join. As a result even union members still see external pressure from the workers outside of the union still trying to them screw over.
- Ylpertnodi 3y ago>Unionization helps develop somewhat of a brotherhood to keep the nastiness at bay, No, being comprised of humans, it absolutely doesn’t.
- birdyrooster 3y agoThe only person paying handsomely (hastening their illness and death) is the one working 7 days a week for 14 hours.
- plagiarist 3y agoActually I'd prefer OSHA set some sane limits on hours worked instead of assuming an Invisible Hand will stop employers from working laborers to death.
- HPsquared 3y agoNobody will sign up for that job.
- Flipflip79 3y agoThat’s an incredibly privileged point of view, with all due respect.
- Noumenon72 3y agoI worked in a plastic factory in a small rural town that always struggled to find workers. People will refuse work and prefer poverty for a lot less than 14-7 working conditions. Lacking air conditioning is enough.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoWith all due respect, so is equivocating having to sit in the car for an hour with the desperation of choosing between starving and a long work week
- Flipflip79 3y agoNot sure where I even remotely did that? The comment above was my only contribution to this thread. It’s an isolated reply to the comment I replied to
- s1artibartfast 3y agoYou didnt. I was making an additional contribution which related to yours and the parent post. Both are extremely privileged and ignorant positions. That nobody would work 70 hour weeks, and that going into an office is a comparable struggle.
- chrstphrknwtn 3y agoThere are plenty of people who find themselves in desperate enough situations to be taken advantage of in such a way. It is for that reason that things like social welfare and employment regulation exist today.
- Bostonian 3y agoCommuting to work 5 days a week is not a health hazard. Most people did it before the pandemic.
- katbyte 3y agoAnd many died in car crashes and other accidents on their commute https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/reasons-to-take-the-train-to-work-instead-of-dying/ https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/reasons-to-take-the-...
- mullingitover 3y agoDriving is the most dangerous activity that the average person engages in. Just because it’s common doesn’t mean it’s safe.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoNo, eating is.
- perhonen 3y agothere's got to be a reasonable point on the spectrum between "child labor is legal" and "government mandates color of post-it notes in offices" if a company decides they function best with all their employees in the same physical space, and hires with that condition as an explicit criteria for working there, do you really think that's a violation of human rights?
- 1270018080 3y agoA reasonable point on the spectrum between "child labor is legal" and "government mandates color of post-it notes in offices" is "People should be allowed to work from home for a job that can be done from home"