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Uben

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5. Incompetent business owners use wage theft....

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 10:29 AM

Sep 2014

....to compensate for their inadequacies. If they really knew how to run a business, they could pay their workers a living wage without stealing from them. Too many of them are just greedy dumb-fucks who want to skim every dime they can to support their life-style without having to do a damned thing. They see workers as chattel that are easily replaced in an age where jobs are scarce. They use worker desperation to their advantage. Who wants to work for ignorant fucks like that?

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NYT: More Workers Are Claiming �Wage Theft� [View all] Omaha Steve Sep 2014 OP

Not surprising Depaysement Sep 2014 #1

A friend of mine got sued for this. AngryAmish Sep 2014 #4

Good nt Depaysement Sep 2014 #6

Why is the NYT putting the term "wage theft" in quotes? meow2u3 Sep 2014 #2

Good catch. In New York, it's a legally defined term of art. closeupready Sep 2014 #7

Now employees are prey? Faux pas Sep 2014 #3

Incompetent business owners use wage theft.... Uben Sep 2014 #5

Kick Cal Carpenter Sep 2014 #8

The sad thing is daredtowork Sep 2014 #9

We work for peanuts, the CEOs rake in billions. Initech Sep 2014 #10