At the last few jobs I’ve had? Yeah. Cheap bastards made me buy my own fucking tools
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Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Do you own the machinery that makes what you’re helping to make? Most things aren’t made by your hands alone.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Would that make you a contractor? You own the tools you use then you can go wherever else. If you aren’t a contractor then refuse and go elsewhere.
roy_mustang76@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Nah, it’s not uncommon in the trades in the US to expect workers to bring their own tools. It’s bullshit, but unfortunately we’ve normalized lots of bullshit here.
Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
And when every company in my industry requires me to own tools?
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
To quote a wise and angry man: "Fuck the G rides, I want the machines that are makin' em"
GreenMario@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The machines are but worthless scrap without the human labor to operate it.
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
They cost more too. Point is the boss has made numerous monetary investments and you just sell your time to make them work.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
Boss pays other people to build the machines.
Boss pays other people to gather resources.
Boss pays other people to run the machines.
Because The Boss is so hardworking he gets to decide who gets the money.
This is capitalism.
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The boss spends the money and takes the risk. Your risk is screwing up and getting fired, not losing millions of dollars. Easy enough to get a different job if you don’t like it.