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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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I'm a graphic designer and I applied to over 100 jobs before a recruiter got back to me and said she loved my portfolio and sent it up the chain.
And how long ago was that? And have you heard back since?
That was earlier today so I haven't heard anything yet.
I also read an article recently that companies are posting "ghost jobs" where they don't plan to hire anyone at all.
Yes, the "ghost jobs" are for two reasons:
Yeah I've experienced the first one. I accepted a position somewhere else long before, but by the time one of the companies had gotten back to me, it had been 7 months since I applied.
Also the whole, "post a job with impossible requirements, back fill with cheap imported workers/my mate when the position is inevitably unfilled".
Careful, if you talk about how the USA's H1-B visa program is a steaming pile of horseshit designed to allow corporate America to commit fraud and give away 80,000 skilled jobs a year to underpaid imported workers instead of paying market rates to well-qualified US citizens and green card holders, you might get downvoted. Folks here have trouble with balancing their hatred of corporate America with their hatred of the word "citizen" being used unironically.
Good luck to you my friend
Thank you!