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[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Retaliatory tactics are all too common. Your life is made miserable within the workplace (if you don't get fired) and then good luck being hired somewhere else in the same field.

You can be fired after a year without a severance package for no reason.

Where I work now we're short staffed on pretty much every department and yet we won't offer higher wages to attract new hires, cause then you'd need to raise the wages of the tenured people as well.

Instead, you squeeze the everloving shit out of whoever stays for the same money as the last 5 years while inflation is still soaring.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for taking the time to reply!

I understand the retaliatory bullshit would definitely scare more people than we should allow. Say your entire department decides “Fuck that. I’m taking my two days off.”, what would that do as a whole? Would they retaliate on all the people or just the ones who they know need a job more than others?

I’m not dumb and think that that’s even possible, because organizing is a lot harder than we’d all like to admit. I’m just genuinely curious about how that would work out long term I guess.

You don’t have to reply or anything, and I hope I’m not coming off any type of way. I just can’t believe this is something they thought was a good idea.

Thank you! :)

[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

People are scared. Most employers will prefer hiring friends and relatives and all their families rather than skilled workers. You do what you can, I know many people living paycheck to paycheck. They just can't afford to revolt.

Thankfully there are unions that help workers organize, but in many sectors you're discouraged from joining one.