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Cat Cafe's avatar

WHAT an ASSHOLE!! omg I'm in the WGA and as much as I hate the AMPTP, it's sunshine and unicorns compared to how much I FUCKING HATE THIS GUY UGHHHHHHH!

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Dave's avatar

this asshole is the reason unions exist and need to be stronger.

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rlcornelius's avatar

So when he says, "unemployment has to jump 40 to 50 per cent, in my view" does he mean he wants unemployment to be at 40 or 50% or does he mean he wants unemployment to increase by 40 or 50% from what it is now. And if it is 3.6 in Australia right now, that would mean it would be 5.04 to 5.4%? In other words, does he understand the math he's saying and how he phrased it, or is his math skills similarly lacking to his empathy skills, economic skills, sociology skills, psychology skills, history skills, etc.?

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乜 𝗖.𝗨.𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵's avatar

*cries in hunter gatherer*

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

yeah well he doesn't speak for all of us down here - most of us think you should be able to live on minimum wage, and not have to work 3 jobs to survive

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Tosca's avatar

There's a big industrial relations package currently going through the Australian parliament. It includes greater protections for gig and casual workers, and makes deliberate wage theft a criminal offence. Business groups are LOSING THEIR MINDS.

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

and lying about it - they don't want to admit that they are essentially stealing wages and ensuring that people are working in risky situations without the protections that they should (if there was any justice in the world) have. it's making me mad, to say the least.

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Tosca's avatar

My personal favourite was a business group spokesman, saying that the criminalisation would force business closures. So...the only thing keeping some businesses afloat is deliberate theft from its workers? And you think that's just peachy keen? GFY.

Pay workers. Jail thieves. This is not difficult.

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Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

Not unlike the emperor what's got no clothes this here megalomaniac got no soul.

All controlled and controlling psychopath, zero — nay: negative — empathy.

Once again godz of chaos, my Lords and Ladies of entropy, i beseech thee from my cold dark core:

Send me to a civilized planet next life🧐

SER (AKA TPTG), as always: thanks for the heavy lifting. U da shit, yo

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Mike McGuire's avatar

Ah the lamentations of a luxury land pimp, er, developer. All those property managers, landscapers, carpenters etc. and their employees just need a bit of the whip to be reminded of how lucky they are to work for him! Wonder how is social-worker parents feel about this?

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JB's avatar

Gurner probably cracked a grin when he heard the Walton family will cur the salaries of thousands of new Walmart employees by $1 an hour.

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Bruce's avatar

Put him in the guillotine face UP.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

"We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around."

If nobody is willing to work for your company, you don't have a company, asshole.

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FuzzyLogician's avatar

It’s easier to get willing workers when the only options are slavery or starvation.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘐 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢 “𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯” 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧. 𝘏𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴, 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 (𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺) 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥.

As the NYT revealed a few years ago, that is Amazon's whole approach to floor workers. It's literally why they tend not to promote from within. After a few years, people might start thinking they're entitled to things like raises and bathroom breaks.

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Tosca's avatar

This arsehole is somewhat hampered by being Australian, because unions work differently here, employer payments into superannuation funds are mandatory, social security benefits exist (although they're wildly inadequate) AND health care isn't tied to a job.

He can't actually kill his workers and their families by firing them. He must HATE that.

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Bruce's avatar

OT, but what sort of arcane wizardry did you employ to induce that first sentence to lean to the right in the format I believe used to be known as 'italics'???

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Bruce's avatar

Thank you!

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Mike Gesing's avatar

Yet another example of sociopaths getting promoted up the corporate ladder.

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Momo's avatar

With such a bad attitude, no wonder nobody wants to work for him. I expect wealthy people to belittle laborers, but it's really sad that many laborers share his view, and are willing to be hollow-eyed productivity machines.

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Tessie's avatar

“People decided that they didn’t really want to work so much anymore"

"We need to see unemployment rise —unemployment has to jump 40 to 50 per cent, in my view.'

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Pick a lane, jackass.

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Emil Muz's avatar

Jesus, he could sell ad space on that noggin. He and Gaetz separated at birth?

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