Sounds like domestic and childcare workers (for businesses and households) face similar problems:
WTF? How The Fuck this isn’t a crime yet!?!?
The answer to that question probably depends on who benefits from exploiting workers. In the US, there are entire industries that push back on any effort to increase wages. The news is full of stories about companies caught paying off the books, stealing gratuities, manipulating payroll records to avoid overtime rates, hiring undocumented workers who don’t know the law (or aren’t in a position to complain), or outsourcing to pay the lowest possible labor rates.
Even though all but the last one are illegal here, when companies are caught the consequences tend to be a slap on the wrist. Since they are usually fined a small amount compared with the profits they gained, there’s no real incentive for them to stop. The worst case scenario for a company used to be getting audited by the IRS and forced to pay back wages and taxes. Now that the IRS has been de-fanged by the current administration, workers might have fewer options for reporting employers who don’t pay what they should.
My niece is a labor lawyer and worked with a bunch of foreign student workers being exploited by the local McDonald’s. They were successful in getting their owed wages. I’ve given up trying to monitor the number of times I’ve found my employers shorting me-usually they claim their workers are taking the mandated breaks without timeclock data to verify it. Kitchen workers usually don’t get breaks, especially 30 minutes off the clock. A few times it was egregious enough that I called in NLRB.
Why are there people trying to imitate the great Kate Beaton…
“Or?” — Donald Trump
Minor fuck today: learned from a colleague just some minutes ago that our employer is going to call everyone back to office as of next week. Won’t directly affect me, rumor says, because I can use an exception clause.
Same colleague also told me that he does not see the necessity to get a flu shot (BTW payed and delivered by the med service of our employer) because he is not at risk and he never did. Laughed off my arguments.
A minor fuck today, but still a fuck today.
I’m going to bed now. Tomorrow, I plan to pre-emptively going to send a mail to our head of department suggesting that they need to start communicating differently. I don’t like hearing rumors about everyone having to come back, I like to get regular and concise updates.
This makes no sense to me. Everyone is at risk for the flu. Did he mean not at risk for dying from it? Even healthy people get the flu and are down for a week. A “mild” case is still miserable and infectious. I hope he doesn’t get everyone else sick when he gets it.
For your sake, and your coworkers, I hope the rumor is wrong and none of you will be required to return to the office soon.
In the past few months our happy little “farm” has been a big pile of predation. I’m sure lockdown has had something to do with it, but being next to a wildlife preserve is the main issue.
We have multiple confirmed deaths by fox, including yesterday afternoon, at least one by a coyote that I’ve seen napping from the window in front of my desk, and two decapitations of week-old Guinnea Hens in our chick bin that has no openings large enough to get a finger through. We are presuming rats on that last one, which at least means the danger goes away once they’re old enough. (Yes, I built a new, much more secure chick bin inside of our existing coop. No, I haven’t gotten decent pictures of it yet, but I am rather proud of how it turned out.)
This lifelong hippie, who grew up around guns and hoped never to own one again after carrying concealed for a few years back in the day (trust me, I had a very good reason), is now patrolling the property at random intervals like some insane crazy person.
And right after I typed that last sentence, I see that fucking fox frolicking in the field out my office window. Which made for a brisk morning workout, as the back door (and gun) is at the other end of the house. It’s a good thing I was already dressed, as boots were all I was taking time for. The situation is desperate enough that I walk around all day with a ten round magazine in my pocket, so there’s one less thing to grab. There’s not much that could be more antithetical to my core beliefs than that little box of death rattling around in my pocket.
I do not like guns. I do not like violence. But our flock is not for eating, by anyone or anything. When tragedy strikes I dig tiny little graves. And I am sick and fucking tired of digging tiny little graves.
ETA: Caught him on BarnCam right before yesterday’s attack. If you see him, tell him to get his affairs in order.
We just set another state coronavirus record today. Small by most US state standards, but still.
Oh, and here’s what the weekend looks like:
Health care for all is too expensive. Death panels in COVID hotspots.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s 91-year-old ruling emir landed on Thursday in the United States after being flown across the world in a U.S. Air Force C-17 flying hospital, and just days after undergoing an unspecified surgery at home.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kuwait-emir-91-flies-us-064803759.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=ma
Fuck it, this sucks.
Rejected after a month-long application process that included three interviews and a personal statement of purpose. I’ve been carefully husbanding a small store of hope; it’s gone now.
Fuck today.
Is this for a new job, or a job…period?
Both.
Furloughed in March, transitioned seamlessly to unemployed at the end of May, sending resumes into the void ever since.
Can’t say as I blame those folks for not hiring me, we weren’t a good fit – but Mrs. F and I are at the end of our reserves and most any port looks good in a storm.
I plan to drink too much and wallow in self pity tonight, resume failing upwards on Monday.
On the positive side, our mayor has just signed an emergency proclamation waiving the 50-person-indoor gathering limit so that we can all get squeezed into the emergency shelters.
Meanwhile, its so pretty:
I am not sure why this isn’t oneboxing.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCEUQCJ_vD/?igshid=mzw3hullvtd6
It’s probably a futile attempt to bribe the Pentagon, which has clearly indicated there’s a line in the sand they won’t go past.
Attempting to bribe an honest police officer (they DO exist!) is always a huge mistake. He is not going to get what he thinks he’s paying for.
