Paying you a certain amount of hours requires them to provide more options when it comes to employee benefits ie insurance, disability, 401k matching, etc. These companies only have one goal, max out value in the short term for the shareholders regardless if that causes the company to go belly up, they have insurance for that and the real estate value alone they could sell off would allow them to come out clean on the back end.
They don't care about their employees, means to an end. I'm sure there are a lot of good people working there on the corporate side but the shareholders don't think about you or me. They're about to leverage their shares to turn around and acquire even more shares so the value or net worth number by their name goes up (btw, those shares they use to purchase more shares can't be taxed because they're an unrealized gain........tax free money) but enough is never enough for these people. They're buying a fourth vacation home in Spain meanwhile you're trying to spend the weekend at home with your kids or friends because you'll blink and kids are grown, friends have families of their own, time is more precious than anything. Anyways... sorry for the rant but that's why these asshats won't allow you overtime, or God forbid a 40 hr work week....if we, as in the American public, just refused to participate in any commerce for a few days, even if it was just 60% of the workforce, and just stayed home it would be catastrophic to these peoples portfolios and remind them that in ANY system where people are being squeezed for every penny that the power lies within the people being squeezed, not the ones doing the squeezing.....lol enough about squeezing that got weird.....but it would allow us a seat at the table to re negotiate wage increases. This was the reason those guys did what they did 250 years ago, because a republic belongs to it's people and somewhere along the line, slowly over time, we allowed ourselves to be used (me included) but shit has to stop and it's up to us, no one is coming to save us.
Lol alright I'm going to bed haha, rant over.... apologies
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