• JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    In 2023-2024 I had a job where I quickly became aware that I was working much harder than they were paying me and I started to track every dollar against my efforts, becoming increasingly aware & bitter that 37% of my time there I was breaking my body as an unpaid volunteer because that’s how much the govt was deducting from my paychecks. And the net pay I was left with was not enough to survive. So glad I escaped & found a slightly better situation.

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    Haha, it’s usually worse than that. Especially if you do manual labor and don’t have a union. Friend of mine was receiving 6% of the value of his labor after we calculated it.

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      That’s exactly it. Sure taxes take 40%, but capitalists take 100-1000% of your salary, and last I checked they don’t build roads and schools.

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      I wish I made 6% of the value of my labor. My power plant has $1M+ days sometimes and there’s only 30 of us running it. I make good money, but not $30k/day good. A couple months ago when we saw sustained deep freeze temperatures for like a week straight, we saw $5M+ days.

      We also work crazy hours for those situations. Last week I pulled 72, and the next couple weeks will be 84 hours. But at least they ordered pizza for us.

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        When they make that much money, why don’t they hire another 30 or 60 people so everyone can have a normal 32h work week? Are the employee benefits really that good that it’s worth it? I hope they are much more than just pizza. Why would you let yourself be exploited by them, on such an insane level that you are willing to work almost triple work weeks? They are stealing your life while having the financial luxury to just hire more. Have you talked to your union? Work to live, don’t live to work mate.

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          Lol there isn’t a union here and my coworkers are too brainwashed to understand that a union would benefit them.

          I would love for a Danish company to headhunt me and yank me over to Denmark. I don’t think that’s gonna happen though.

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            In my country (the Netherlands) there is help for expats to settle. Getting a job, house, etc. There’s even a tax cut for expats if you have a specialized job. Denmark might have something similar, I’m not sure. Their language is a pain to learn though (not like my language is fun lol). But like the Dutch the Danish are very good with English, especially in cities. Getting a job while only speaking English is not a problem. Denmark is a beautiful and amazing country, with amazing people. But we have bitterballen.

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    Yea, Im not going to object when the guillotines get rolled out for these Operation “Epstein Fury” masterminds.

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    But they NEED that 40% to buy more bombs to send to Israel or use themselves on the middle east.

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      most people in trades are conservative, and mostly white people, with a side of hispanic groups. people wonder why more arnt going into the trades, likely they arnt hiring people outside of that political demographic.

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        It’s because when women and black people meet all the criteria and are begrudgingly allowed in that’s when the haze out circus begins. I’ve seen some horrible things and there’s no accountability. In my union in a dark blue state Union officers were putting nooses and writing kkk on a group of black men’s things to the point they had to file a police report. And the state didn’t do a damn thing. https://www.courthousenews.com/mitsubishi-accused-of-ignoring-years-of-workplace-racism/

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        Yeah, I’m a straight married bearded husky white guy who has taken up carpentry as a hobby, and I have no interest in being part of that industry. I have a relative who is a trumper plumber and the culture fits him perfectly, lol.

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        I’ve been a scientific monitor for construction projects and they will tolerate you, but you will mostly be excluded. I of course as bearded man from the South had an easier time than some of the younger women that were my coworkers. Of course they generally don’t like the monitors much, but they have clear preferences.

        Honestly the drama on a construction site is peak. These grown men are so petty and cliquey

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          Female 15 year elevator mechanic here and I agree it’s like none of them matured past middle school. I have so many crazy, funny and sad stories. It’s like lord of the flies but dumber. I’m in school for an MA in industrial design so I can pivot out of the KKKlan in the field

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    Absolute slander. The pedophiles drink the children. They dont eat them. Apologize to the pedophiles right now!