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Yes and the line-worker making $2.75/hr plus tips has no power at all to help you and is just working a job. In all likelihood they have less power than you to
by Spivak 2y ago
Yes and the line-worker making $2.75/hr plus tips has no power at all to help you and is just working a job. In all likelihood they have less power than you to affect change in their workplace. Making random front-line workers economic whipping boys (https://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=2589 https://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=2589) is just one powerless angry customer being mad at a powerless worker while the owner laughs.
Assuming the anger will get run up the chain requires the people at the top give even one shit about how their workers are treated. And they're paying them the least they're legally allowed to
and not providing benefits so… no they don't.
- halJordan 2y agoI dont accept the "im just a worker and powerless." Employees have more agency than any customer and also the execs are themselves just employees working a job. If it's not right for them to meekly acquiesce then we should hold the whole enterprise to the same standard.
- Spivak 2y agoYou can't really draw an equivalence between a grocery store cashier and their director of pricing in terms of agency. It just doesn't make sense, what do you want them to do? Complain to their manager who also doesn't set the prices? The thoughts of a random rank-and-file employee fall on deafer ears than a customer. You have a better chance of getting a meeting with an executive with decision making power than the cashier. If the cashier makes noise they'll be fired and replaced, they can't fire you. Berating literally the lowest-ranked employee at a company who if they had any agency at all wouldn't be working that job will accomplish nothing except making their day worse.