• Serinus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Uh, seems like an odd reason to quit your job.

    I’d have to quit my job twice a week if I left every time my boss said something dumb.

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      1 year ago

      Taking away your labor power from chucklefucks who use the sweat of your brow to continue to oppress you is good praxis.

      People talk about boycotting by not buying things from certain companies, but not enough people commit to not giving their labor to those companies in exchange for a paycheck. That’s a boycott, too. When you’re working for them, you’re literally helping them believe the dumbfuck shit they believe, and allowing them to use their financial largess to influence the media to promote their dumbfuck bullshit.

      Standing up for the people who no longer are “economically viable” means something. But go ahead, let your boss say your parents should just die when they’re too damaged to work. Laugh with them about it. Go ahead and be a callous asshole who won’t stand up for someone who can’t stand up for themselves.

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        Except here it seems the issue is with the boss/manager and not the owner. If they were to take their complaints to the owner and was still brushed away, then that’s a different story. Managers come and go, owners do not. If it was a good job, then it worth fighting.

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          Managers come and go, owners do not.

          As much as “cool bosses” want to act cool, hiring a shitty manager and then hiding behind their shitty behavior is pretty common for “cool bosses” who aren’t actually “cool bosses” because they like having a middle manager shithead to blame all their shitty decisions on.

          They hired the manager, what does that say about them? The idea that it doesn’t say something about the kind of person they want working for them is a joke.

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        1 year ago

        Just went to pay a visit to Craigslist Jobs to see what kinds of companies are there offering employment and man…there’s no warehouse jobs in what was previously packed to the walls with them. I remember seeing the desperation during Covid when the worker shortage just cratered their economically exploitable pool. The amount of companies offering 4 digit bonuses was wild. And it looks like they’re all but gone now, I really hope they went under.

        • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Warehouse jobs are very often through temp agencies. Perhaps that wasn’t the case in your area but things have now shifted that way there.

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      1 year ago

      If they’re in a position where they can quit their job because their boss said something dumb, then why not?

      Must feel pretty good.

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        My ex-wife was like this. Making snap decisions without planning 5 minutes ahead. She did this exact thing one time. Got a job at a gluten-free bakery. They told her she needs to wear a hat or hairnet, and would need to remove her long nails per local health code. She said no, and quit. Mind you, this was her first job in 6 months while I was supporting the household alone. She told me this was a boundary she had. Biggest. Bullshit. I’ve. Ever. Heard.

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          Not sure why you’re being downvoted, that’s definitely something I’d divorce for unless something changed.

          In my mind it was more like, if you have the means (not necessarily by becoming a burden on someone else, but perhaps you have a few months of savings you can live off of) then sticking it to your arsehole boss (which I thankfully do not have) by just scampering, must feel pretty good.

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      Does it seem odd? Seems more odd to me to normalize a boss telling his employees that their parents deserved poverty

      Plus this sounds like an escalating argument the boss made no effort to de-escalate. If the boss didn’t get fired for it that says everything that needs to be said.

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      1 year ago

      Seems insane, honestly. Unless the new boss was actively blocking the parents’ income.