Comment on it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know

Veraticus@lib.lgbt ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• RubiksIsocahedron@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your boss can’t do any of that and if they try the government should stop them.

  They should, but they don’t. Over here in real life, the government works for the corporation. When the boss murders, he’s called an “innovator” and a “job creator”.

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  • Veraticus@lib.lgbt ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you think your boss can just murder you I’m not sure what to tell you.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Take out a gun and shoot you on the factory floor, probably not. But deliberately and systematically violate safety regulations with impunity, expose workers to materials known to cause health issues and cover it up for decades, or just threaten you with loss of the income you need to survive? Employers do that all over the country, on a daily basis.

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      • Veraticus@lib.lgbt ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is true. On the other hand, it is the government’s job to uncover and persecute this. Obviously it could do a better job of it, but OSHA and the EPA actually do police employers for exactly these sorts of violations.

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My boss is slowly killing me. He claims 8 hours of my life every day, except weekends, and who knows how many I have left.

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      • Veraticus@lib.lgbt ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t think most people would consider this slowly killing you, except in the most metaphorical sense.

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    • RubiksIsocahedron@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you think he can’t, you must not live in the U.S.

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      • swnt@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Exactly.

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    • Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean there’s a history of employers actually killing employees for unionizing. It’s not a secret.

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• cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The government is legally authorized to separate you from your possessions, your freedom, and even your life in extremis. Your boss can’t do any of that and if they try the government should stop them.

  there was just a work email put out where I work about how employees shouldn’t be going to the bathroom super often and if they are in the bathroom they should only be doing bathroom things.

  I can’t report them for that but it is fucking extreme and dehumanizing. To be policed in the bathroom. Because company time is more important than bodily functions. Or whatever other reason someone might be in the bathroom.

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  • Veraticus@lib.lgbt ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I get this sucks but you can quit your job and walk away from your employer, theoretically.

    If the government decides to separate you from your possessions, your freedom, or your life, you can’t walk away from it and find a new government.

    Your boss and your government are just totally different.

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    • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I get this sucks but you can quit your job and walk away from your employer, theoretically.

      Yeah and be homeless.

      And I don’t participate in government shit unless I have to like taxes cause they’ll come for me if I don’t pay for them kind of thing.

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      • Veraticus@lib.lgbt ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean that’s the difference right there, right? If you quit your job, you’re homeless. If you don’t pay taxes, you’re arrested.

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