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Bernie Sanders: Wage theft is an essential part of the business model of many large corporations. (Original Post) Donkees Jun 2018 OP
Yup, wage theft or Sherman A1 Jun 2018 #1
I can't count the number of times I personally mountain grammy Jun 2018 #2
Which is why when people were saying they wanted the country to be Nanjeanne Jun 2018 #3

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. Yup, wage theft or
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 06:59 AM
Jun 2018

Time theft is certainly part of the business model. I recall when I started out working in Retail decades ago, if you wanted to move up part of the requirement was “Church Time”. You either stayed off the clock or you had little chance of moving to assistant department manager and then to department manager. 9 and 10 hour days were the norm of course no overtime should ever appear on your time card and if it did, it would likely get scratched off.

It’s an old problem made worse by technology that never allows you to disconnect from the workplace.

Of course an employee that might grab a cookie from a broken bag that was destined to the trash or credit, was immediately terminated for their terrible deed of stealing from their “benevolent” employer, a guilt ridden charge far worse than anything that had ever happened in all of human history.

mountain grammy

(26,636 posts)
2. I can't count the number of times I personally
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:44 AM
Jun 2018

or someone I know has been victimized by wage theft.. It's the Amrerican way of business because it's widely accecpted.. but it's unacceptable!

Nanjeanne

(4,969 posts)
3. Which is why when people were saying they wanted the country to be
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:50 AM
Jun 2018

run like a business — I felt like pulling my hair out.

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