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So, I work as a full time employee for a "big tech company located in downtown Seattle", my employer can terminate me anytime, on the spot, for any reason. But
by natas 3y ago
So, I work as a full time employee for a "big tech company located in downtown Seattle", my employer can terminate me anytime, on the spot, for any reason. But if I was a uber driver, I'd receive some "protection", why is that?
- slater 3y agoLobbying.
- endisneigh 3y agoBecause they voted on it. They could vote for the same for big tech if they’d like.
- momirlan 3y agocoz your "privileged"...
- morkalork 3y agoPerhaps you should be asking why you don't have those protections?
- wahnfrieden 3y agoThis guy is already real upset about UPS workers making tech salary wages, why pile on more?
- tick_tock_tick 3y agoIt's gonna take 5 years to ramp up and I wouldn't call just $170k "tech wages". But I'm glad UPS drivers are getting more it's a backbreaking job.
- wahnfrieden 3y agook?
- qbasic_forever 3y agoIf you're terminated you still get benefits like COBRA healthcare and can in almost all cases file for unemployment (which is money you've already paid into the system anyways). You have protections and a basic safety net. Gig workers have _none_ of that help. You should probably reflect on why you don't seem to realize the extreme privilege and benefits you have and instead choose to blame or vilify low paid gig workers who are subsidizing and delivering the treats you demand and consume daily.
- whatwhaaaaat 3y agoDoes asking a question vilify? Do the gig workers pay in to unemployment? Do you know for a fact OC uses any of these exploitive services or companies at all?
- qbasic_forever 3y ago[flagged]
- Sebguer 3y agoIt was a bad faith question, much like your own.
- slg 3y agoWhen one group of people fight for and/or win new rights, it doesn't mean that people believe that is the only group who deserve those rights. So yes, you should be protected too. Same with those gig workers. We all should be protected and we should celebrate anytime someone gets that protection. We don't have to view the world as a zero-sum game in which someone else getting something means you lose something.
- tom_ 3y agoPost salary
- asynchronous 3y agoYou’re not [current thing]
- moshegramovsky 3y agoIt could be like this if we lived in a society where labor and capital had equal footing.
- hospadar 3y agoyou receive WAY more protection than an uber driver (even with these rules) - federal law (and probably state?) dictate a whole host of reasons that employees may not be fired for, and there are an army of attorneys who will happily (and are legally empowered to) sue your [former] employer in an actual court (not arbitration), and what's more they'll almost always work on contingency. Why else would uber be so desparate to prevent their drivers from being classified as employees?
- Brian_K_White 3y agoTotally the same context in every way. Those fatcat parasite uber drivers deserve to be taken down a peg eh? Why isn't the question why you have to live without any sense of security and basic human dignity? That is essentially the life of a prostitute. You get paid today if you're lucky, and it might even be a lot, but are neither seen as or treated like a human, just a "provider". You give up the autonomy of your own business and the lions share of the rewards for your own work to be a mere employee, in trade for all the same risk as being out there on your own. That's showing 'em. I would actually be embarrassed to admit that I had so little self esteem and dignity that my uber driver has higher minimum standards for professional relationships than myself, but hey that's just me.
- balls187 3y agoNothing is stopping you from quitting your job and driving for Uber.
- themitigating 3y ago"Other people have rights I should have, stop them!"