#capitalism moment

[dogs-wearing-tuxedos]

when theres a question on a application that asks if i have any disorders like autism, adhd, depression, ptsd, etc etc and i say no:

[disappointingcabbage]

I just realized that it’s highkey fucked up that my dad had to drive me to and from my first job. Like I had a whole ass job but I wasn’t old enough for a driver’s license.

[petrichormore]

English bunny stalks q!bad with him for several minutes and then shows up enquiring as to how much children are worth

[panelsofalltime]

The 2099 comics are fucking bleak god damn.

Timestorm 2009/2099 (2009) #1

[stars-in-my-damn-eyes]

Got put on the family plan spotify for christmas 😎 this is going to last literally until i go back to uni at which point spotify will shit itself abt me nOt LiViNg At ThE sAmE aDdReSs or perhaps even the same country. Bestie you are a streaming platform why do you CARE

[sadisttore]

Fuck companies, fuck all of you. Every company.

An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States

"We'll fire you if you tell others how much you're making" The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can't reveal someone else's wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)

"If we can't fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we'll just fire you for something else the next day." This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn't retaliatory.

"Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination" Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren't allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they're obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.

"If you unionize, we'll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off" Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.

"We can have any rule we want, it's only illegal if we actually enforce it" Any workplace policy or rule that has a "chilling effect" on employees' willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.

"If you [protected action], we'll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again." Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone's job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.

"Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye." Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you've been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.

"We'll deny that you ever worked here" not actually possible unless they haven't been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they're guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there's nothing they can do about that.

[enby-keith]

Jobless mfs be like “what the move?” Idk man hopefully out of your parent’s house.

[gnawing-on-cheese]

PSA

Don't call minimum wage workers useless and scream at them just because they don't have a bag big enough for your giant box of paint

[the-cosmic-creature]

terrified i wont get a job after college and i’ll be poor and in debt with no way to pay it off 😁😁😁😁

[gnawing-on-cheese]

Sometimes I forget how much this makes my heart ache. To sit with the fact that I may not have a future, my parents won't get to see me and my siblings prosper. The world was never built for humans, we mistreated it, and we're finally being punished

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Michael refuses to be gaslit on “THE BITE OF 83”

[quantumninja]

God grant me the backbone to say no next time I'm asked to do back-to-back 10 hour shifts

[pipiandraws]

my stickers have been reuploaded onto temu with no goddamn shame at all lol. they took screenshots of the listings and then turned them into the bumper stickers. and then it goes and gets 80 sales!! whats up with that... why are ppl cool with buying stolen art? ive found my art on aliexpress as well but they dont have nearly the same amount of sales lol.. so just fyi. if you sell stickers on etsy theres a good chance theyve turned up here.

[yaaboi-jay]

Yeah most of the time when something "costs" a company money it just means they expected to be able to make more money and not actually losing them money

honestly this screenshot just says everything

[nevereacheaven]

I can’t have an opinion on barbenheimer I work at a movie theater

[henrick-at-large]

the things i do for capitalism 😒😒 (sell my soul to the coffee overlords only in exchange for a massive gaping shin wound and a whole pile of medical bills that i didnt have to worry about before i started that job)🌜‼️