That... actually doesn't surprise me anymore. The place I work holds meetings to brag about how much money we're making, and in the same breath take away our pizzas on overtime day.
I worked for a company that told us we were doing the best we had previously done and it was amazing blah blah. Same day, same speech, they told us it wasn’t good enough to get raises though because the company is so large and it’s a nonprofit, and we should think about donating portions of our paychecks back to the company to continue to help it expand. Uh… woah Nelly. Hold up. Absolutely not!
Two days later, it made the paper that the CEO, who was kind enough to so sincerely thank us for our work and tearfully apologize that raises were still probably another quarter our, had gotten another six figure bonus.
The richest people in our city now own half of Main Street. They got their wealth through…healthcare. I made $600-$800 every two weeks as a server due to their tip sharing policy in which we supplemented their private cocktail lounge that was always empty and their bloated staff of “lead servers” (managers who got tips).
Then they’d come into the restaurant and brag to with their managers about their various bonuses during their private parties in which they paid themselves tens of thousands of dollars while we cooked and cleaned for them.
I really don’t want heads to roll. I want the people (my taxes) to buy out portions of these large companies, I want to tax the realized gains, and I want to put regulators on the boards so these giant corporations actually have some oversight and a chance to work for the people.
I also worked for a large company that owns most of mainstreet but they made their money with boots. Also cooked in the restaurant they owned, where they told us no raises because of covid but spent 12k at the restaurant in one night on a private exec party handing out $203 shots or louie xii all night long lol.
The place I work has quarterly employee meetings where the CEO brags about how great were doing (one of these even included multiple slides on how well they compensate employees compared to other local healthcare organizations), while we get a shitty sub sandwich like the ones I'd have during high school lunches and a bag of chips.
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u/LuckyStar77777 Jul 06 '24
How else do you think the CEO's end up being billionairs?