• @[email protected]
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    16110 months ago

    This is exactly why we need unions. Just like not having weekends off, it’s normal until it isn’t.

    • @[email protected]
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      1310 months ago

      Some industries are weekend industries; for Hospitality, Retail and Tourism, Saturday and Sunday are the equivalent of Monday and Tuesday for the 9-5 crowd.

      That said, Monday and Tuesday are usually the Saturday and Sunday for these workers. Us “Normies” don’t usually particle in fine dining, clubbing or tourist traps on Monday and Tuesdays.

      You are right though, Retail and Hospitality workers do need to get better unions so they can get paid a living wage and aren’t being forced to work 7 days a week for 12 hour shifts.

      • @[email protected]
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        3210 months ago

        Oh man that’s rough, I’m sorry you’ve not had that. I hope you’ve managed to find other opportunities to spend time with family or do things that you enjoy

  • sp3ctr4l
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    6710 months ago

    Wow, I would very much like to punch this guy in the face.

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        Alternatively we could just get whoever designed Lady Gaga’s ridiculous meat suit from a decade back, get another one made, put it on Mr. Punchable Face here, and toss him into an actual shark tank.

        That seems fitting.

        • masterofn001
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          810 months ago

          Just skip the suit and give him the ol French treatment.

          The sharks will still be fed.

    • sunzu2
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      310 months ago

      Daddy regime would never punish a daddy… poliscie 101 really

  • @[email protected]
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    Dear Jing Pan, I really hope you succeed in your journalism career but if you use the word “SLAM” in any of its variations, I’m going to assume you’re a talentless hack and I won’t be reading any articles with that in the headline

  • @[email protected]
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    8210 months ago

    It’s not about money. It’s about being a petty tyrant and lording over the peasants.

    Fuck the wealthy.

  • @[email protected]
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    3310 months ago

    He wants employees to have the same dedication that he has. The thing is, it is not our company, and we certainly don’t get paid millions of dollars. We have other things to do on our own time than making money for you.

    • I'll be on [email protected]
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      2810 months ago

      He wants employees to have the same dedication that he has.

      Don’t be confused - he is categorically not as dedicated as he expects his employees to be, but far, far, far less.

    • @[email protected]
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      810 months ago

      Where’s all the action? All I’ve seen is the sub guy and a ship captain actually follow through

      • @[email protected]
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        1610 months ago

        If I was actively planning on murdering some of the richest people on earth, I wouldn’t talk about it on social media.

        People you’re talking about OWN the violence needed to stop them.

        What I would be doing is joining the organizations that control the violence and either disrupt or try and take control of some or all of it.

        History is going to be very unkind to people like Biden who has the means and legal right to mobilize and contain the fascists that ended American democracy and destroyed modern civilization

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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          110 months ago

          Fight Club style. If you’re able to keep yourself from assimilating or being discovered, it could work.

        • ddh
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          710 months ago

          You join the violent organisations, either you are assimilated, or you are cast out (or worse). That’s how they work.

    • @[email protected]
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      910 months ago

      This whole thing with a series of “CommentX” accounts started because I wrote on reddit once that I hoped for this guy’s death, got permabanned, and made my first new account. I think I was up in the 140’s on reddit recently, still haven’t made an alt for lemmy since I started with 105.

      But this specific guy, who I don’t usually hear much from because I don’t seek out content from/about that environment, said something so ugly about how good he thought poverty and struggle was, that it made me wish the worst for him.

      It’s not that he’s much worse than the other guys in his wealth class, I mean he’s still up there but not #1 big bad by any means, but he’s just so fucking overtly classist and apparently in love with the suffering of those beneath him, it’s shocking.

      It’s disappointing to be reminded of him, and that my wish upon a star wasn’t fulfilled. He should’ve been in that submarine.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      There are just under 3000 billionaires in the world. The questions to ask are:

      Do you start with the richest and move down the list or start at the bottom and see if the top ones give their money away before you get to them?

      Do you sharpen the blade after it starts taking more than one blade drop or just enjoy the tension of the longer show?

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        I’m thinking more of a parallelized operation, and where their holdings have been nationalized or otherwise socialized beforehand so they wouldn’t really have the option to give their money away.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          I should have been more specific and said Give their companies to the nationalized system of ownership and money into the tax coffers.

  • Cruxifux
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    2410 months ago

    Remember when this clown almost ran for Prime Minister of Canada and we all just told him to fuck off so hard that he dropped out?

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      He’s got the charisma of a dead skunk, but I somehow doubt he won’t still involve himself with Pollievre somewhere in there

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      If my slave master acts like this, i don’t care if he does haha

      The demographic changes makes it so that he will have to go hire somebody else more for money with less exp

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    1210 months ago

    This guy is the enemy of the people.

  • @[email protected]
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    13210 months ago

    He’ll fire workers… what workers exactly? As far as I can tell, he hasn’t actually run a business in 25 years. He got rich when Mattel bought his company in 1999, but then they fired him. He invested in a storage facility company, was on the board of directors but never actually had any employees reporting to him, and then he sold that investment, making him more money.

    Since then, he’s had a number of vanity projects name after himself: O’Leary Funds, O’Leary Ventures, O’Leary Books, O’Leary Fine Wines, I don’t know if any of them are still in business, but if they are, I can’t imagine he has more than a handful of employees.

    Now he’s just a reality TV personality, so of course he’s going to say bullshit that gets him in the spotlight.

    Why would anybody take advice from a reality TV personality who hasn’t managed any employees in a quarter of a century? Especially given that he’s probably just saying bullshit to get his name in the spotlight again.

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      This is guy’s grift is playing daddy capitalist while real owners do actual capitalism.

      A useful whore for the regime.

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        1010 months ago

        So, real life capitalism.

        People born on Third Base who think they hit a triple making demands.

  • @[email protected]
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    1110 months ago

    I’m skeptical of the claim that this regulation “allows” anyone to do anything. That’s now how regulations work.

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      810 months ago

      Yeah. The more accurate wording is “forbids employers from retaliating against employees who–”

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      3610 months ago

      Why can’t these regulations be actual crimes, with criminal consequences for the perpetrator. And if he’s ordering someone else to do the firing, it’s “conspiracy to commit regulatory fraud”.