Headline from 100+ years ago:
‘Who dreams up this balderdash?’: Andrew Carnegie slams new idea pushed by labor unions that will force employers to give workers two days off at the end of every week
or maybe:
Republicans continue effort to erode US child labor rules despite teen deaths
Oh wait, no… That one was from last year https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/20/republican-child-labor-law-death
Frustrated by this news, Carnegie would later hire Pinkertons to kill his own workers.
That is what CMU calls it college team right? The fightin’ pinks?
he said in a clip he shared of a recent interview with Fox News
ahh yes, as broadcasted to the group who are consistently brainwashed to vote against their own best interests. mission accomplished
When asked whether he ever encounters employees who silence their phones outside of work, O’Leary didn’t hesitate with his response: “The next moment is — I just fire them.”
TBH they’re better off.
Hm, unemployment collection and/or EEOC action for constructive dismissal, cool. My disability is “unable to work when off the clock”.
Canada has worker protections, too, so that would get expensive if he tried it at home.
Fucking gross.
Unionize, folks. Solidarity forever!
Kevin O’Leary should be in a gulag.
If the prick wants people on-call 24 hours a day then he needs to pony up the wages to match with accompanying extended holiday for downtime.
Kevin, seriously, what actual value do you serve to the human race? What do you do that makes life better overall? I don’t mean new toys or new companies that produce more shit, what do you make for the average person that makes their life better? Nothing, is that answer. You had a chance way back, educational software could have been a human life changer… but no, you couldn’t make money on it. So go fuck your self. Vafancullo
It’s time to hold idiots like this guy accountable.
The first time you watch Shark Tank, you might think this Kevin guy is a bit of an asshole. However, if you carefully study his history, his successes, and dig deep into what the man himself is like, you discover that he is, in fact, a piece of shit.
But Kevin O’Leary is a very honerable man /s
Not-slave owners?
That dude is a great illustration what Engels meant by comparing slavery to wage slavery.
Oh that’s employees boss. We’re the majority actually. And if you stop us from organizing or voting we’re still the majority, just angrier.
i think this is a good idea in 95% of cases. Some jobs obviously require being on call. In some cases, it’s necessary to have meetings with people in +/- 8h timezones. there should be appropriate compensation naturally.
Some jobs obviously require being on call.
If you need 24/7 coverage, you also need to pay those people to wait around on call. But just buzzing people at odd hours and demanding Just-in-Time employment puts a disproportionate tax on their unpaid time.
Medical staff will often have these extremely long - 20 to 30 hour - shifts because they want to maintain continuous care on a patient. But they also get paid for being active for that time frame. They don’t just teleport to the hospital when an ambulance arrives and teleport away again as soon as the patient is stable. Professional Fire Departments keep people on call in rotation so there’s always someone available in the event of an emergency. The volunteer system yields much worse results, as people holding down households and second jobs can’t drop everything on short notice to rush halfway across town with ease.
there should be appropriate compensation naturally.
But that will cost money. And paying more money means keeping fewer profits.
Worst Canadian in the world, maybe top 5 worst human.
He makes me ashamed to be Canadian.
I’d say Elon Musk too.
If he were my boss I’d ignore him during work hours too, tbh.
My general sense of this dude from Shark Tank is he’s an asshole. After reading about him for 5 minutes, he’s definitely an asshole.
Fuck you, pay me.
You beat me to it 😂
but that’s why we made you salary with low wages!
The only correct answer. Pay for that availability if needed around the clock.
He’s also ignoring the fact that if your job’s responsibilities are mission-critical, chances are you have a contract which stipulates situations in which you can be contacted after hours. It’s about Joe Schmoe IT guy being called in at 7pm while he’s having dinner with his family and being told to come to work because Greg the assistant to the Sales VP forgot his password again. Greg can fuck right off until tomorrow morning.
The server going down at 2am is mission-critical and the guy in charge of it will definitely be answering that call to fix it.
At my job we’re expected to at least try to be available if needed after hours which in my 3 years here has happened once and it took about 30 minute and I waited until my son went to bed for the night.
In return we get to leave for doctors appointments, picking up kids, errands etc without having to use PTO or make up the time. It’s a pretty sweet deal for the developers and no one abuses it to much.
At my old job they tried to get us to work after hours pretty frequently for a fraction of what our hourly rate was, we were salaried but when you broke it down you’d be getting like $20 an hour instead of $50. Ridiculous and almost no one did it.
Right, but he’s placing a subtle idea on people that wage theft isn’t a thing, overtime shouldn’t be a thing, and we shouldn’t have regulation for that. There’s a reason SREs get paid so much money, and it’s because it’s in their contract that they have to be the ones to rotate shifts and be up at 2am during an upgrade or otherwise, and he’s just mad he can’t pay everyone less and make more money
Just average capitalist things. Nothing to see here.
He’s exactly the person you’d unfairly assume he is based on his face.
Isn’t it weird how common that is though? There’s like some kind of cosmic force shaping people to look like how they are. Probably fashion.
