RodISHI
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They either pass along the cost or get out of business.I seriously doubt you have considered it. DO consider the following: What happens when a companies operating costs increase?
I don't wish for companies to pay less than minimum wage or treat their labor force as entirely expendable. It is in a companies best interest from a management standpoint to keep their employees happy. At the same time it would hurt them to be bending over backwards at an employees every demand.
The majority of investment corporations have been bending emloyees and others over for years now. My most recent experiences in the last few years have confirmed that. Slightly detailed below.
No I am not being dramatic. You are being blinded for whatever reason it is that you have those blinders on.Now your just being dramatic. You really believe slave labor is what is going on with a majority of Americans? Does McDonalds pay well? No. But your eyes I guess they should be paying $50k a year to support a family right? How does that $15 McDonalds burger taste now?
It appears as though you must be a corporate lacky as you keep mentioning that "contract" you signed when you went to work. I had no idea these investment corporate group businesses did that until last year. Just so happens for one of the very few times in my life I went out and got what you could call a regular job. Due to the utter ignorance of this person that Petsmart had in control there setting up one of their new Petsmart hotel, I was chemically burn over eighty five percent of my body. These people were so nice they made me drive myself home to take a shower. It took me over forty five minutes to drive myself home. I was in agonizing pain and had a hell of a time driving myself home through the tears. I was so disoriented I missed the turns to get on the right roads towards home.
After I finally made it home and I ran for the shower. As I tried to wash these chemicals off in the shower my husband called the Petsmart manager that had hired me. She refused to tell him what the chemicals were. She just kept telling him that the chemicals were "water soluble" and really "no big deal".
He called her twice during that time I was in the shower (well over thirty minutes). I was still on fire. My skin was blistering everywhere these chemicals had been on me. After several tries to determine what these chemicals were through the employer Petsmart and me being like a fully burned, fully drowned rat my husband gave it up trying to get the information and he drove me to the closet emergency room. It took the doctor at the emergency room hours to try to figure out what to do to help me. Finally she determine to try putting my hands in a large bowl of milk. That helped somewhat and without the information of what the chemical composition was she could only treat me for burns and send me home with a prescription of a heavy pain killer and some burn cream.
My husband wrapped me in towels and I was soaked in milk for about two hours. When I could not stay awake any longer I went to bed. I awoke the next morning looking something like a pumpkin head. I was swollen everywhere to the extreme. My head felt like it was going to explode and my whole body felt like it had been hit by a frieght train. It was all the strength I could muster to sit in the lounge chair for a few minutes at a time. My husband called my employer once again to determine what the chemicals were because it was obvious I was poisoned by whatever it was.
The employer still refused to tell him what the heck this awful stuff was. She just kept saying, "It's no big deal it's water soluble". My husband called OSHA. This gal gave the OSHA guy the run around too. Me I went back to bed and I basically stayed mostly in bed for almost two weeks. My own doctor recommended trying to somehow clean this shit out of my system with juice and liquids and over the phone he precribed immediatly a antibiotic as he feared for my kidneys. It took several days to get the exact composition of the chemicals that had pretty much covered the majority of my body from the chemical spill at work.
It was about two weeks later my hair started falling out by the hand fulls. I also I got these big ugly boils all over. Not to mention I had a rash everywhere for months. It felt like the worst flu you can even imagine having. My knees would not even support me when I would try to stand up. The headache did not go away for months. My heart raced ninety miles and hour at times. The pain in my feet, legs, arms, hands and inside where my organs are was extreme. I threw up for months. I still have a sore throat all of the time and I choke very easily. I have a heck of a time walking any distance now (I run out of breath) and still have pain in my extremities. In a recent test I was informed the reading should have been a six and it was a one.
Petsmart's insurance company refused to provide decent care. Then when the Petsmart doctor released me to go to work Petsmart would not let me return to work unless I signed their employee contract. I never agreed to a contract before they hired me and then poisoned me. Plus they did not even pay the basic required workers comp. So obviously life was pretty awful last winter. My husband's pay at the Sears job he took so we could survive was not even minimum wage. We have lost the home here in Des Moines due to the inability to make timely payments.
I still feel like shit most of the time. One dr./expert said more than likely my esophagus was damaged and that is why my throat stays continually sore. I used to be able to make about two hundred plus per hour with artwork like I had done since 1981 every Christmas season painting artwork. That is not the case now.
It just so happens that Petsmart insurance company, Travelers/Saint Pauls is the same company that represented the manufacturing company that destroyed the wash-plant at my mining operation. That was a put up fiasco also.
Call it what you want. The truth is though corporate investment groups are a scourge to this nation. They run on other peoples money, they have no actual cash value. If I had the notion I could start a business or buy an existing business. It would just be a matter of being creative with paper. Then I could shoot all that paper info out into the cosmos and sell that paper to money marketers that are willing to put their money into my neat and cool new investment firm. Once that company grows large enough I could even get people to believing it is a good bonafide business that people can put their retirement funds into and feel really safe about it. I just will not tell them my ultimate goals or how I am going to treat the people that work for me in order to make a buck. Pay myslef multiple millions of dolars each year and have a board that will go along with me to make up rules that investors cannot make any of these major pay decisions. It is a bit more detailed than that but that is the basics of what transpires.
Heck if was a bank I could talk businesses into banking with me for the perks and then charge their $6.00 to $15.00 dollar an hour employees five bucks to cash their paycheck if they decline to bank with me. Once I have that business and their employees money in my bank too my networth just keeps getting better.
Now tell me again how I do not know how these corporate investment companies treat their employees.
I do not eat out very often never have so MC D can pay their employees more and charge more for their hamburgers..
You are making some pretty heavy assumptions.I asked to address your presumption. Instead you went on as if this whole slave B.S. is the norm or even real. NO COMPANY OWES YOU THE FOOD ON YOUR PLATE. They owe what is the contract you signed. If you don't like why the fuck did you start working for them?
I have owned two companies in my life thus far. I have also personally made millions. I reinvested it. It is not a matter that I worked for someone else until last year. Building my companies I spent my own money and my own efforts to build each of those companies.