• Kuro@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Seems like something that’s said by an employer that doesn’t pay enough

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      1 year ago

      Employers pay their workers the bare minimum legal wage, yet are shocked when the work is the bare minimum you would need to do not to get fired. Weird.

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    1 year ago

    “Everyone wants to be paid to sit at a desk and make more money instead of dying of heatstroke or getting hit by traffic for peanuts”

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      1 year ago

      “No one wants to work anymore. Instead they want to work at their computer.

      Does. Not. Compute.

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      1 year ago

      When I hear this complaint from farmers, I usually respond with:

      “If you paid $100/hr and offered full time, you’d be beating hardworking employees away with a stick.”

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        1 year ago

        I know very few things for certain in this world but one of them is that I can’t be trusted with honey-roasted peanuts. I’m shoving the next handful in my mouth before I’m even done chewing the first.

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      1 year ago

      That must be a whole lotta peanuts if there are enough to create traffic for peanuts

  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Business owners, if you want to work so bad, why don’t you do it for free?

    Then you could use that money to pay someone who doesn’t want to work to work.

    Productivity would go way up!

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    1 year ago

    See there’s always been a problem with that phrase.

    I don’t want to work anymore

    I never wanted/want to work

    That’s the whole fucking reason you have to pay me to do it. If you weren’t paying me I wouldn’t fucking work

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    1 year ago

    The simple fact that business owners and their lackeys/ilk seem to fail to be able to grasp, most of us never wanted to work for them in the first place. We wanted to pursue our own happiness and joy, not pursue money we will never see for ourselves because they build fortunes on our wasted lives.

    We never wanted to work in the first place you fuckwits.

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    1 year ago

    Damn, who knew people worked to feed themselves and their families instead of doing it as a hobby. I wonder, maybe increasing wages would attract more workers???

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      1 year ago

      Ridiculous, how is the boss going to maintain it’s weekly golf expenses and monthly sailing trips if those lazy workers want more money.

      /s, but I had a boss who did this and “forgot” to increase my pay, so I “forgot” to extend my contract.