maugust09

maugust09 t1_ix34dd7 wrote

I used to work at a sports bar. The number of wings I've made would probably disgust most people.

If you eat 6 wings, at least 2 chickens had to be slaughtered for you. The numbers get skewed when you wonder if 2 wings/legs came from the same chicken, or if 6 chickens needed to be slaughtered for 1 part each to make your meal.

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maugust09 t1_iwdc7xa wrote

I don't really understand how places can just not give feedback/answers/decisions during this process. I once applied for a job that I got a rejection letter from 2 months later. I appreciate they sent it at all, but kind of assumed the rejection when I didn't hear from them in a timely manner.

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maugust09 t1_ivqlw0d wrote

Totally fair! I just think people tend to glorify the American work force and don't really understand how most of that labor is treated.

I've worked in the food service industry for just over 15 years from washing dishes to managing the grocery department of a $1mil/week store and it's pretty shitty all around despite doing pretty well for myself.

Just my experience/opinion!

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maugust09 t1_ivo6pa4 wrote

On the contrary side... imagine how cheap your burgers would be if we used slave labor techniques... instead I need to make some $7/hr worker make me a $15 McDonald's meal that would cost them 2 hrs of work to purchase themselves.

I'm not at all saying you're wrong. But slave labor is justtttttttt about everywhere, even if they call it things like 'minimum wage'.

Read up (if you haven't already) on the early Banana Republic and how those people were treated just for the US to get bananas.

This applies to all global industries... someone is getting exploited for someone else's benefit.

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maugust09 t1_ivo4oeu wrote

Even in the US we have minimum wage which just translates to the lowest wage possibly paid by an employer before it's slave labor. And when you have someone working 3 of those jobs to make rent/buy food... isn't it basically slave labor anyways? Maybe indentured servitude is a better term.

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