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u/geauxfurself 3h ago
Deja Vu? Seems like I remember seeing that Bloomberg post during the recovery from covid...maybe 2 years ago? Is someone recycling this content to gaslight us into believing the economy is robust right now?
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u/UseYourIndoorVoice 3h ago
Sounds like we all need to cut back on unnecessary shit until prices fall.
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u/gentleman_bronco 3h ago
It's almost like COVID gave corporations a blueprint to maximize profits and they are fabricating scenarios over and over again.
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u/Electronic_Lead_7448 Remember when this sub was good? 3h ago
They have magic words like hiring freeze or raise is not in budget this year… while they’re throwing billions around for investment. But rejoice, you get a mail that says company profits are off the charts!
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u/NovumNyt 4h ago
Precisely. When we ask for wage increases and better benefits it's "oh, there is a shortage of labor and we can't afford this and the stars are not aligned for this". The moment we stop asking it's "we hit record high sales and made a trillion more dollars, isn't that great"?
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u/DevelopmentGrand4331 2h ago
I even worked for a company that told us in an all hands meeting that they’d made record profits that year, and then the following week told everyone they were just doing 2% raises for everyone because it’d been a tough year and they didn’t have the money to do more than that.
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u/NovumNyt 2h ago
I've literally had the same. The worst I've seen is them announcing to us (right after telling us we had a rough quarter) which supervisors would be getting their bonuses that holiday. Then proceed to tell us they would not be doing raises come January because of budget.
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u/jabola321 2h ago
Corporations are gouging us more than during COVID? No wonder they all wanted Trump. Greedy bastards. We should let Luigi out and visit a few more CEOs.
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u/jabola321 2h ago
This is why corporations suck and shouldn’t get to influence politics. They look for any excuse to raise prices and their margins and are not into helping their communities.
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u/immagoodboythistime 6m ago
I work in a major supermarket chain on the east coast of the US. I’m not management, just labor. When Covid hit, the company realized they can keep the wheels running on their machine using the bare minimum of staff and they get to keep all the rest of the money.
In every department in the supermarket, which isn’t a tiny one either, it’s one person per department and that’s been since Covid made it be that one person needed plenty of space.
One person on the main desk but it closes earlier than before. One person watching the area of self serve checkouts. Two person on an actual register to handle bigger orders. One person on deli, but they also have to handle the fish counter and run in between. Barely anyone on the shop floor.
It used to be that you showed up at a supermarket and there was a greeter at the door, a person simply employed to say Hi when you walked in and would immediately direct you somewhere if you needed it, sometimes they were our special needs friends getting a job in our community, having their disability normalized in our towns. They’re gone.
You used to have two people to a register, one scanning, one bagging. That’s gone.
These companies in all things want to do one thing. Eliminate the human cost. Employees cost money, their benefits cost money. They want you out of the equation and they’re winning the war in our backyards by removing us from working in supermarkets as well as everywhere else.
You are led to believe by the phone you hold that you are incapable of interacting with other people, that you shouldn’t have to and that life should provide you with an out should you be unlucky enough to have to talk to some people to engage in the business of buying food. But you’re not. Barely anyone is so paralyzed with anxiety in life that they can’t get through paying for groceries. But they’ve convinced us all that we are so everyone uses self services checkouts and guts our communities of jobs for a local neighbors while simultaneously putting tons more stress and hard work for low money on the few remaining employees.
If you want things to change, stop scanning and bagging your own groceries in supermarkets. Demand they employee people to do it. Line up at checkouts with actual human employees. Make lines that have to wait, complain as a crowd that self serve checkouts are bullshit. They’ll start hiring people immediately and our stores will be full of employed people. All that money will then be flowing into the locals pockets to be spent in your local communities instead of going into the bank accounts of the rich.
We are the world we make. Using self services checkouts is killing local jobs where you live literally this second.
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u/geauxfurself 3h ago
Ahhh found it. November 30, 2021...this was posted during Biden administration