Is The Fight for the $15/Hour Minimum Wage Dead?

[BvBPL]

I fully endorse efforts to put hedge fund managers out of jobs.
Other things, I'm not so sure about.

 

[Kozmos]

It's not that managers will be put out a job, but that corporate America will radically expand the tool further driving down work satisfaction and making work even more miserable as you are consistently surveilled and measured. Good for business certainly, but long term consistent stress for employees.

 

[Farm Boy]

Boy Kozmos, I wish I could be scared by that. But I'm not. I'm a little gratified, really. That reality of work came to me over 10 years ago as a warehouse tech, night shift, just shy of thirty grand a year with shift premium. Your location and productivity was tracked the entire shift, if you accidentally caused any measurable damage to property while driving your pick vehicle around, you were stopped, escorted to a testing facility, and required to urinate in a cup with a minder in the room to make sure you didn't substitute urine. Pick errors were recorded and retained on a rolling 3 month schedule. Future errors reset the roll. You were constantly informed how many errors you were from termination. Time of service was a non-factor. This was, and is, a pretty good job. It was inside, clean, and if you hauled ass and never made any mistakes, management wouldn't bother you much.

Is it something that matters now that our financial princelings might theoretically get "stressed out" in return for their elevated compensation? Welcome to the club, I suppose? Fraternity, all that?

 

[Kozmos]

Hey nobody loathes management more than I do. 9 times out of 10 a monkey provides more value to an office than a manager. I just see this as hitting everyone a lot, while once again providing benefit for the few. But what else is new, right?

 

[Farm Boy]

That's what I'm saying. That ship sailed a long time ago for people in working areas, why should they care now that people who make way more than them might start getting the stresses? Nobody stopped it for them and now that it's gone on for so long, it's expected and normal.

 

[Hygro]

If you conducted your labor with less diligence but over the same length of time you would still experience the same consequences.

I've been sitting on this quote for almost a week and I guess I'd like some clarification because it sounds like you are counting time as the only bodily resource.