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I would start to suspect my employers of bank robbery.

Organize, O toilers, come organize your might;
Then we’ll sing one song of the workers’ commonwealth
Full of beauty, full of love and health.

I’ve seen an elderly man working at the HEB I frequent. He looks frail. I wouldn’t want to be bagging groceries at his age.

Rule of Acquisition #91: Your boss is only worth what he pays you

A lot of cases end in a financial settlement where the company doesn’t admit guilt.

Every company always claims they did nothing wrong. Is it even necessary for journalists to ask for a statement from a company? Just take it as read they deny whatever they’re accused of. You think a CEO is going to make an evil cackle, twirl their mustache, and admit everything?

Also look back on the history of the French Revolution and how many aristocrats literally lost their heads.

The danger is that places that don’t get cold often get hot. And don’t forget about climate change with regard to heat. Some homeless around Houston die every summer when they don’t have access to air conditioning.

Won’t someone please think of the corporate real estate market!?

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

That would require the job websites to 1. care and 2. have staff to handle the reports

The Atlantic slave trade says what?

The banks should pull themselves up by the bootstraps and cut down on the avocado toast. That’s the path to financial solvency, right?

I won’t dispute that, but this is someone I knew in real life, not just an Internet acquaintance.
I can’t fully discount the possibility they’re deceiving me, but it would be out of character for them to do so.

We live thousands of miles from each other.

It can be exhausting for the one giving aid, though. I have been supporting a friend by drawing down some savings and foregoing some luxuries. I judge keeping food on his table more valuable than those luxuries. But I don’t want to keep it up forever.

It sounds like you’re male and so your sexist patient is nicer to you than to your female colleagues. The tone of this post strikes me as dismissive of their experience, like because he’s not so bad to you, they must be exaggerating. You’re not obligated to hate this patient on your coworkers’ behalf, but maybe express some empathy for them?

These companies trying to do away with civilized negotiations, you’d think they want to go back to the bad old days when Labor got the bosses to come to the bargaining table by blowing shit up.

I lay this at the feet of financialization. Companies decided that their _share_holders were the only _stake_holders that mattered. If all you care about is “line go up” it’s much easier to treat employees as fungible. But you can’t “line go up” forever: the planet’s resources are finite. One of those resources is goodwill and “line go up” has been burning it for fifty years.

Firms aren’t trying to be deceptive, argue some recruiting experts – it’s that candidates often don’t understand what a salary range represents on a listing.

Firms aren’t trying to be deceptive, they just want to give an impression which is contrary to reality.