Quote (Subzer0isGG @ Jun 16 2020 07:40am)
My industry got rocked with the 20% thats 8$ an hour, 1200$ a month. Ppl were losing houses and vehicles Aswell as filing for insolvency because they could no longer afford anything at no fault of their own. You plan your life based on an hourly wage and when it takes a drastic rollback it’s devastating.
And we got no remorse from anyone over it. And I see public industry crying over a mere 1% aka 0.50cent rollback and there is public outrage. I find it really hard to relate to them.
There’s talk now of being unable to compete and get jobs and that other company’s are now paying 10$ less per hour than what I’m currently making. I want to know who the hell is taking these jobs?! It’s the race to the bottom and it’s only going to get uglier.
This mentality really worries me.
When times get tough you will have people willing to work less, until less becomes the norm....
On a smaller scale this happened at my work.
We lost 8 hours a pay period in part to save me from being laid off only to have two other warehouse workers laid off two months later.
We were all told it would be temporary and was done to save jobs. In large part that was a lie.
We are still working half day Fridays because it has been set as the new normal.... Even though financially the company is better off due to letting two people go, in addition to other layoffs within the company.
Now that business is beginning to pick up you would expect to see some of those laid off come back. Nope. The bar got lowered and once it does it never goes back to where it was. We are just expected to do more work with less staff now.
Case and point with your industry on a grander scale. Someone is willing to do it for less out of desperation.
This cheapens our individual value, so everyone else eventually is forced into doing the same. Seems like we are all getting less.
This post was edited by Killingyouall on Jun 16 2020 07:51pm