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.
RubiksIsocahedron@reddthat.com 1 year ago
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”.
Veraticus@lib.lgbt 1 year ago
If you think your boss can just murder you I’m not sure what to tell you.
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.
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.
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.
Veraticus@lib.lgbt 1 year ago
I don’t think most people would consider this slowly killing you, except in the most metaphorical sense.
RubiksIsocahedron@reddthat.com 1 year ago
If you think he can’t, you must not live in the U.S.
swnt@feddit.de 1 year ago
Exactly.
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.