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He may be working more than 27 hours a week, his employer got in trouble for clocking people out before they actually stopped working. He has to take the bus &
by Klinky 14y ago
He may be working more than 27 hours a week, his employer got in trouble for clocking people out before they actually stopped working. He has to take the bus & sometimes misses the last one late at night causing him to walk home. Commuting alone could very well be his other part-time job.
It's probably not terribly easy to find another part-time job when you're a Haitian immigrant without the best English skills and not much on your resume. Even if he found another job would it conflict with his current job? Most jobs don't care if you have another job on the side, they want you there when they want you.
Also sounds like his ego/pride has taken a beating from the treatment he's received. When you live at the bottom for awhile you start feeling like you're going to be there forever. The honest truth is that many do stay at the bottom forever.
I am not sure why the food industry loves to underpay people. I think the last thing we need are lowly paid workers, with no healthcare, pressured to come in when sick making our food.
- antidoh 14y ago"I am not sure why the food industry loves to underpay people." Because they can. Your boss or company would do it too if they could. Or if they're too nice, the rest of your industry would do it if they could, and then your boss or company would feel that that's just the way it is.
- Klinky 14y agoCheaper, "better", faster is actually doing us quite a bit of harm in the food industry. Such as foods that are meant to look pretty but have poor flavor & nutritional value, food borne illnesses, over-consumption of unhealthy foods & factory farm pollution.
- antidoh 14y agoAnd there's the benefit of hyper cheap labor, it leaves resources available to get the avocado just right.
- Klinky 14y agoNot really. If the idea is to source things as cheaply as possible to get the most profit then focus is on higher yield crops, not higher quality. So ultra cheap labor + ultra high yield = more profit. It does not = better product.