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Why, why do so many "trendy" companies shit on workers rights?
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The funny thing is a lot of people think the company they work for cares about their wellbeing. When you realize they don't care about you, they will feel it. And your pay will go up. I guarantee.
You mind elaborating on this? Are you saying the mentality is to just show up, do the job within the allotted day then head home, knowing the company doesn't owe you thing, no matter how many extra hours you put in?
The same people who wouldn't think twice about some PC expose that ruins a person's life forever, same people will fight for a couple days vacation time... Before you down-vote, what am I missing?
Because not every employee was complicit in that....... And those that weren’t most definitely DO deserve their PTO. The problem is when you say “same people” you’re just lumping everyone together and implying everyone at Buzzfeed news was trying to run articles that ruins a person’s life forever. That’s what you’re missing.
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Because just as individual contributors change employers a lot, managers also change employers often enough that the reputation of mistreating workers doesn't stick to anything. My own employer recently hired a handful of senior HR folks from Uber. They started after I joined. I hate it, but what can I do? I know they were present at Uber during Susan Fowler's very strange year; I don't know if they were actually the…
Talk to the person that hired them, and see what sort of references they came with.
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Laborers deserve to be paid for their labor, and compensated fairly. Regardless of what one thinks of the labor. The concerns of labor should be given as much weight as the concerns of profit maximization.
> Laborers deserve to be paid for their labor, and compensated fairly. Everyone has a different notion of what's "fair". How about we write down an agreement about it on paper before doing business with someone, sign it and then just stick to it?
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Because just as individual contributors change employers a lot, managers also change employers often enough that the reputation of mistreating workers doesn't stick to anything. My own employer recently hired a handful of senior HR folks from Uber. They started after I joined. I hate it, but what can I do? I know they were present at Uber during Susan Fowler's very strange year; I don't know if they were actually the…
Talk to the person that hired them, and see what sort of references they came with.
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The US is just nuts. Are you saying that your earned but unused PTO doesn't have to be paid out to you when you're laid off but is rather at the discretion of the employer? How is that justifiable in any way? Does the bank owe you accrued interest when you close your account or is it up to them to pay it? Why would it be different for PTO?
At my first job in US I had about a year and a half of unused PTO accumulated. I gave my two week notice like a good team player I was and then left on the agreed upon date. I obviously didn't get any of the PTO paid to me and in retrospect realize that I could have just taken my last two weeks off with the same outcome. I was so sure that there must be some law that would force employer to pay out unused PTO, that I…
Don't most companies cap it at 5 days or something?
read your contract when you get hired, people. You shouldn't expect anything more than what's guaranteed right there in front of you.
This x1000. If a benefit isn't spelled out in black and white, it should be considered non-existent. Example: I used to get a ham at Christmas time. This was a gift from the company (i.e not in my contact). We had a bad year in 2017 and there was no ham - that's fine.
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> Laborers deserve to be paid for their labor, and compensated fairly. Everyone has a different notion of what's "fair". How about we write down an agreement about it on paper before doing business with someone, sign it and then just stick to it?
Contracts reflect bargaining power, not fairness.