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In reply to the discussion: Why your job sucks: Sub shop employees fired two days before Christmas. [View all]greatauntoftriplets
(175,813 posts)29. Meanwhile, they were Scrooged!
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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