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In reply to the discussion: Why your job sucks: Sub shop employees fired two days before Christmas. [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)10. So if they want to make subs, they start their own and compete with the bastards.
Maybe it does suck, or maybe we have just lived on the plantation too long, and need to take responsibility for fixing our own condition. Because, clearly, those who own the assets are only in it for themselves, and we are never going to legislate them into caring...
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Why your job sucks: Sub shop employees fired two days before Christmas. [View all]
riqster
Dec 2013
OP
That only works on T.V. Many people dredge up the French Revolution, but they just read chapter 1,
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#8
What's going on will hit more and more people that thought they were safe. It's just too
brewens
Dec 2013
#5
Sadly, a conscience is needed for that to work. It's the one thing these owners lack.
QuestForSense
Dec 2013
#15
So if they want to make subs, they start their own and compete with the bastards.
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#10
>advantage they reap is bulk purchasing and merchandising deals< Which can be largely offset by
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#43
We have\had unions. They lost. And the Industrial Unions that might have done something were
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#42
Easier said than done. If a person doesn't own the building, a shop start up rent can run
bluestate10
Dec 2013
#51
Nothing easy about servitude either...but if one doesn't try to start walking away, it's
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#57
The only problem with that approach is that it can be used to the employers' advantage.
riqster
Dec 2013
#35
It's too bad we don't have any effective labor laws or an administration willing to enforce them. nt
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#31
It's a chain, run out of CO. This is the only location that was closed in this manner.
riqster
Dec 2013
#45