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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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    Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah if departments like OSHA and the EPA didn’t enforce safety laws and shit there would be a lot more industrial death videos on LiveLeak than there is now
    
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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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    SeducingCamel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I will break far before I’m allowed to retire
    
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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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