> raise wages by four percent over the next two years Matching inflation is not much of a raise.
June CPI is up 5.4% YoY and 4.5% ex food and energy, so this doesn't even come close to covering that.
I'm a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week
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#122Anyone knows why people decide to do this kind of time consuming work? Is the world getting hard enough that there is no alternative? Whenever I see people working really hard in other parts of the world, especially when the country is filled with other opportunities, I always wonder is it just everyone else that is raising the bar and now the standard is very time consuming work. For example, there's year long touri…
Most of these workers have no technical skills. Their jobs are very physical and laborious in many cases. My dad was a maintenance tech at Frito for a very long time and he never experienced anything like this. They still would not promote him to management because he had no degree, despite him being the most senior and experienced maintenance tech there. They often flew him to other plants to set them up, do PLC magic, etc. Anyway, the packers, cooks, and all the unskilled labor are treated like replaceable cogs. There is zero upward promotion in these roles. It takes almost no time to train someone up for most of these roles. They will use them up and hire the next person who will burn out in 6 months. (I think these kind of working conditions are terrible, but it’s pretty clear why Frito can do this).
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone knows why people decide to do this kind of time consuming work? Is the world getting hard enough that there is no alternative? As someone who had to do similar work for years the answer is that there were no alternatives. No one takes a shitty job on purpose.
That then raises the question of why they're paying time and a half to work their employees to death.
Overtime may be cheaper than hiring another worker because then there are healthcare benefits and pension for one more head.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
That then raises the question of why they're paying time and a half to work their employees to death.
Overtime may be cheaper than hiring another worker because then there are healthcare benefits and pension for one more head.
Does that equate to 50% of the base hourly pay?
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#125Off topic tidbit from the article - note only corn based snacks are made in Topeka. One presumes there are factories in Washington and Idaho for the potato chips. Shipping vegetables is shipping water.
Vegetables bought from contract farms (most of them) are bought by weight. This means the farmers have an incentive to over water right before harvest weigh in heavy. Even for stupid stuff like ketchup where more energy is then spent to dehydrate the water right back out.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because they can get away with it and because of greed.
How would greed lead them to paying 40+ hours of time and a half OT instead of hiring another worker?
Companies tend to work (as we humans do) under the principle of least effort.
More employees means more HR work, more administrative work, more legal work, more work in general, and unless the benefits of hiring more people are great, they will just abuse the employees at hand.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
All this will do is drive up the cost of housing as remote workers compete for it, driving out the locals. Remote workers also don’t fully contribute to the economy of the rural area because their place of employment is not in that area. If the company the remote worker works for does well and grows, that won’t grow the rural community.
> All this will do is drive up the cost of housing as remote workers compete for it when you stop competing for the same strip of land, 10 miles from the pacific ocean, it turns out there's a sort of stupendous amount of land. while, yes, there will technically be some competition, in the areas under discussion i don't think it will meaningfully effect housing prices. (i could divide the amount of land in rural ameri…
It’s pretty incomplete to figure that the coast or the weather are the reasons land is expensive in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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#128Jeez! 59 year old guy with the same salary for the last 10 years. People working in 100 degree temperatures with no air conditioning. This is depressing to read :(
It’s these people I think about when reading the weekly threads here on developer burn out.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
All this will do is drive up the cost of housing as remote workers compete for it, driving out the locals. Remote workers also don’t fully contribute to the economy of the rural area because their place of employment is not in that area. If the company the remote worker works for does well and grows, that won’t grow the rural community.
> All this will do is drive up the cost of housing as remote workers compete for it when you stop competing for the same strip of land, 10 miles from the pacific ocean, it turns out there's a sort of stupendous amount of land. while, yes, there will technically be some competition, in the areas under discussion i don't think it will meaningfully effect housing prices. (i could divide the amount of land in rural ameri…
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Overtime may be cheaper than hiring another worker because then there are healthcare benefits and pension for one more head.
Does that equate to 50% of the base hourly pay?
Probably more. At 20/hr, salary is 40k per year. At my workplace employee overhead is >100k on top of salary, so 20k overhead seems verry low