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sasra-the-magimin: goldhornsandblackwool: terrasilvershade: uncommonbish: “capitalism is a new slavery” thread When I worked at a fast food place, one of my coworkers(btw all of my coworkers were single moms, not ‘lazy teens’) got her foot run over. I don’t remember how it happened but all the bones in her foot were broken in multiple places and her doctor told her that she needed to stay off her feet for 6 months. The company gave her the bare minimum of paid leave which was only like two/three weeks. And you cannot sit down working in food service. No matter what. She had a signed note by her doctor, and she had to pay completely out of pocket since neither of her two jobs provided health benefits. She asked our corporate for at least another few weeks off to heal. They denied her. So, with a toddler to feed, she had to stand for 8 hours to work. The doctor gave her a boot so it wouldn’t be too bad for her but she said that her foot would never heal properly. She will always have a limp. Forever. Because a multimillion dollar company wouldn’t give her adaquate medical leave. Capitalism. When I worked in mental health, the staffing requirements were also LEGAL requirements- our patients needed staff observation ratios depending on their level of care. And I was employed to do staffing. I could never do my job, because my manager would not allow me to schedule to the ratio, and also would not allow anyone overtime. So when someone called out or a wing came up short staffed, I was supposed to go around and ask people already working if they could stay or come back for an additional shift. Most people said no, and the people who said yes were often denied bc their hours would have run into overtime. When we talk about or envision the American economy/worforce, and you hear about ‘under employment’, lean staffing is its twin. Basically every sector in our economy is running on thin resources and stressed people. The workforce is forced to be anemic to ‘create’ the ‘profit’ business owners accrue. The profit isn’t actually there, it’s just exploitation. The math runs out eventually. Radical changes in our society are necessary. This also was happening over the last three years at a law firm I worked for. We started with enough people. Then the company rolled out early retirement to get rid of the “older people” who wouldn’t adapt to change. But they didn’t hire enough people to replace the numbers lost. It began to feel as though you couldn’t take time off or couldn’t call in sick because there weren’t enough people to cover for you and do their own workload. In addition, they were loading more attorneys on each secretary who all had expectations to get the same support they used to. Eventually, the weight of consistent failure took a toll on my mental health. Lean staffing is destroying the American work force. -- source link