pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
I ate him in the end. I was so fucking hungry. He was OK in a lamb shwarma as long as you tipped a load of chili sauce on, and reminded yourself of the scourge of Ali Baba.
What's the most obviously exploited you have been?
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I ate him in the end. I was so fucking hungry. He was OK in a lamb shwarma as long as you tipped a load of chili sauce on, and reminded yourself of the scourge of Ali Baba.
As a teen I used to work for various agricultural gangmasters in East Anglia, without exception a bunch of crooks who'd try every trick in the book to try and rip you off. I particularly remember the one who threatened me with a monkey wrench.
Nowadays they appear mostly to employ immigrant workers, I'm guessing they're easier to control; and ime many locals would rather life on benefits than working for a gangmaster and I cant say I blame them.
Nowadays they appear mostly to employ immigrant workers, I'm guessing they're easier to control; and ime many locals would rather life on benefits than working for a gangmaster and I cant say I blame them.
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
Well I've never thought about it but I suppose my clients pay from £90-120 and hour and I get paid £10. But there's lots of machines that do most of my work and they don't get paid anything so I don't feel that exploited.
In fact someone's paying £90 an hour for me to sit here right now, and I'm only browsing message boards really so perhaps I'm doing a bit of exploiting too. If I was paid double I'd probably do half the amount of time-wasting I do so it all works out in the end.
In fact someone's paying £90 an hour for me to sit here right now, and I'm only browsing message boards really so perhaps I'm doing a bit of exploiting too. If I was paid double I'd probably do half the amount of time-wasting I do so it all works out in the end.
Probably a toss-up between cooking in a chain pub (on a good Sunday the kitchen could take about two grand, use about 300 quids worth of ingredients, and I got paid £4.20 before tax to do all the work) or a call centre job where you had to call a list of companies and try to get through to their CFO to ask them to take what you were told to describe as a five minute survey that actually took about 15 mins. No completed survey meant no money, so some days you could work a full day and make nothing at all.
working for Pets At Home, aged sixteen.
and having to dress up in a tweety pie outfit and hand balloons out to small children (97.79% of which burst into tears. the children, not the balloons).
all for the princely wage of £4.70/hour.
almost as exploitative but far more fun was dressing as a nun for a fiver an hour, and handing out flyers for the church of pop in leeds of a friday night.
got a quid back for each discounty flyer that punters handed back in.
we earned about a hundred and twenty quid between two of us one friday
the last night, however, we just got stoned in a square in town. and made a grand total of a two quid 'commission' between us
that's in employment terms.
see boyfriends past for other examples
and having to dress up in a tweety pie outfit and hand balloons out to small children (97.79% of which burst into tears. the children, not the balloons).
all for the princely wage of £4.70/hour.
almost as exploitative but far more fun was dressing as a nun for a fiver an hour, and handing out flyers for the church of pop in leeds of a friday night.
got a quid back for each discounty flyer that punters handed back in.
we earned about a hundred and twenty quid between two of us one friday
the last night, however, we just got stoned in a square in town. and made a grand total of a two quid 'commission' between us
that's in employment terms.
see boyfriends past for other examples
Yeah but the person taking the profits is doing fuck all.
kittyP
Pluviophile
Working for a certain department store aged 16.
They put me on customer services as I spoke nicely.
All the other people on the desk got paid about double what I did as they had been there for quite a while.
I was 16 and had to deal with people screaming at me all day about faulty goods and knowing nothing about the place.
I had to stand in one place for sometimes 7 hours as my lunch break would for some reason be missed (I was too shy to kick up a fuss) and end up crying as my legs, feet and back hurt so much.
Now I am pretty exploited but for very different reasons.
I love it though, so not really complaining.
They put me on customer services as I spoke nicely.
All the other people on the desk got paid about double what I did as they had been there for quite a while.
I was 16 and had to deal with people screaming at me all day about faulty goods and knowing nothing about the place.
I had to stand in one place for sometimes 7 hours as my lunch break would for some reason be missed (I was too shy to kick up a fuss) and end up crying as my legs, feet and back hurt so much.
Now I am pretty exploited but for very different reasons.
I love it though, so not really complaining.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
This thread makes me fucking angry. Not least because unemployment is rocketing inexorably upward and it's as certain as getting wet when you fall out of a boat that employers will use the situation to treat their workers even worse, and to use ever more blatant scams to add a few pennies to the balance sheet at the expense of the peons.
My flatmate has been owed over two hundred quid in mileage allowance for months and hasn't recieved it because that would involve her manager ordering a copy of the claim form which supposedly costs a whole £5. How a simple form could possibly cost five pounds is a mystery to me, as is the fact that employers are able to pull this sort of shit with absolute impunity.
As for me, in my most recent job I was paid under the minimum wage, not given any breaks and was usually only informed that I had a shift to work an hour or two before it started. I soaked all of this up, because I was dirt poor and had little choice in the matter, and still my boss decided to fire me without even having the decency to actually tell me I'd been fired.
My flatmate has been owed over two hundred quid in mileage allowance for months and hasn't recieved it because that would involve her manager ordering a copy of the claim form which supposedly costs a whole £5. How a simple form could possibly cost five pounds is a mystery to me, as is the fact that employers are able to pull this sort of shit with absolute impunity.
As for me, in my most recent job I was paid under the minimum wage, not given any breaks and was usually only informed that I had a shift to work an hour or two before it started. I soaked all of this up, because I was dirt poor and had little choice in the matter, and still my boss decided to fire me without even having the decency to actually tell me I'd been fired.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
That's pretty standard. That's about what my company charges for my time and I get less per hour than you do.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I worked for a manufacturing company that required us to be at our station and working before the shift started. That meant getting to work 20 minutes early so you could set up your work area and get your materials.
At the end of the shift we were required to keep working until the bell sounded and then cleanup time was on our time.
The managers would yell nasty shit over nothing. You'd get called a stupid bitch on a daily basis.
They'd get about 45 minutes of free work per worker per day. And no, it wasn't legal. It's difficult to complain though when you don't have any other job options. All this for $5.10 an hour.
At the end of the shift we were required to keep working until the bell sounded and then cleanup time was on our time.
The managers would yell nasty shit over nothing. You'd get called a stupid bitch on a daily basis.
They'd get about 45 minutes of free work per worker per day. And no, it wasn't legal. It's difficult to complain though when you don't have any other job options. All this for $5.10 an hour.
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