This is exactly why we need unions. Just like not having weekends off, it's normal until it isn't.
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I've been working 40 years, I have never had weekends off.
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
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.
I'm gonna steal this, it's beautiful!
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.
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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.
Boss announces he will break the law.
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".
It'll keep getting worse until heads suddenly start rolling.
It's not about money. It's about being a petty tyrant and lording over the peasants.
Fuck the wealthy.
Wow, I would very much like to punch this guy in the face.
With a car.
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.
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German has a word for this guy:
(colloquial) a punchable face; a face "in need of a punch".
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Up next on the news: abusive boss wonders why he can't retain staff. Should the board step in? Shareholders say yes
Nobody should give a shit what another reality TV show host business marketing shill grifter has to say about labor regulations. He's the last person I would care about an opinion from on the topic. Not seeing a link, did the article also include a response from labor leaders?
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What a fucking baby, when did we start letting children lead?
Nah, its now we're putting some restraints on these children who have been free to do what ever and now they're having an entitled little tantrum about it, because god fobid the peasants get to relax.
When hasn’t it been this way?
Ashamed this piece of shit is Canadian..
Not if you ask half his province.
This old asshole doesn't talk to his workers.
If it’s a new regulation to not answer phones off the clock, isn’t firing the employee for it illegal?
Yes. But you can best believe they will find something else to fire you for. If you have nothing, then it's an easy case win for you.
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?
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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He needs a baseball bat to the knee and a diarrhea to the face. It will improve what comes out of his mouth.
Idk who Kevin O'Leary is but I'm pretty sure he's not my supervisor.
Do it, they'll approve my unemployment.
If someone like Kevin O'Leary is pissed off, then it's probably a good thing.
If you look away slightly from that picture, your peripheral sense of a complete fucking asshole will fill in the cigar in his right hand
This guy is the enemy of the people.
How this FTX pumper is not in prison is beyond absurd
It's so gross how the .01% love being villains to hardworking folk.
Tbh, if you're working that high up the chain that O'Leary calls you personally, you probably are a very wealthy workaholic anyways.
I’m skeptical of the claim that this regulation “allows” anyone to do anything. That’s now how regulations work.
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