Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Biden DOUBLES DOWN on Abortion Despite Polls, ALU Loses Albany Election" video.

Being submissive in life it gets you nowhere but stepped on. people who constantly work at hostile work environments need to ask themselves why? I put up with it one time for 5 years when I was in my twenties and didn't know any better. Never again. I can't underline that enough. I'm not in my twenties anymore.
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Never allow anyone to treat you like a slave, first hard lesson in life I had to learn. Not in your personal life and not in your work life. There are other jobs out there. Nothing is worth getting treated with obvious disrespect.
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I could never love sorting packages at a rate high enough to cause me repetitive stress injury this much to put up with this kind of treatment. I applaud people's valiant efforts to demand more but sometimes the battle isn't worth fighting when you're up against organized psychopathy. Even if they paid me $100 an hour I wouldn't work at amazon. I would never work somewhere I couldn't take pride in and whose upper management didn't have at least the minimum level of decency that I could tolerate. I don't know why other people don't have these standards. There are other fucking jobs out there for fuck's sake. I'd rather work for crumbs then put up with one tenth of this. They got a stronger stomach than I that's for sure.
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No amount of money is worth working in a hostile work environment or being mistreated at work. I understand these workers need this income but I would rather live on the street than get treated this way. I would rather go hungry than put up with any level abuse from any human being inside or outside of work. I hope some of these poor people decide what their dignity is worth. For $15? You're damn right it isn't worth it. You can't put a price on peace of mind or dignity.
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@lynns4426 for sure. I mean I know it's not always easy when you're in a not-great work environment to say 'take this job and shove it', there are practical considerations, most people don't have the luxury of just walking away whenever we want because most of us are not able to put away that much savings due the cost of everything and the fact that wages for most people have been lagging for decades, I fully understand this. I've been there myself. But at the same time, staying at an unhealthy and toxic workplace, regardless of the specific reasons why it's bad, isnt good either. It's not always easy to walk away, especially if we have a little savings to fall back on, and families to help support, but sometimes it needs to be done. I know it can be scary, but what's the alternative? Staying in a dead-end job with a negative atmosphere and a crappy management structure? we got to spend a lot of our lives at our jobs and we don't have to love them they should be something that we can have some positive feelings about. I'm really happy to see workers organizing and advocating on their behalf in any environment in any industry. You can never have too much of that. But at the same time, one has to ask himself if the prize is worth fighting for, meaning is a long-term position at a place like Amazon with an obviously hostile and toxic management was even worth having? I'm not saying we all have to love our job, but I think it should have to meet minimum tolerability standards. Even with a better pay, is a long-term job working in a floor position at Amazon even worth having? does someone really want to spend 10 years pushing packages on their factory floor? I've heard they're really resistant to promoting their workers into management. so what they really want is a bunch of human automatons not people with needs and aspirations for the future. It seems like a pretty dead end job to me. The asshole management is never going to come around, and from what we hear the pace of the work sounds completely abusive and excessive. Even if someone enjoyed the work of sorting and processing packages, and I could see how someone could, (I've worked production before and I didn't mind it) but in this case it seems like a completely unpleasant and undesirable situation. Totally hostile management, total disregard for worker safety or well-being, high stress from the unreasonable work speed required ... Sure 15 to $17 isn't a horrible starting wage but unless you're living in a rural area, that's not a lot to live off of. Its better than minimum wage but that's hardly saying anything. Sometimes a job just isn't worth it. I have to wonder if a lot of these people work at Amazon wouldn't feel a lot better about themselves if they just cut their losses, turned their back on that place and looked for a better opportunity elsewhere. Sometimes something isn't savable. Kind of like a bad relationship.
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Why work for such a terrible boss? People are way more masochistic then is healthy. Yikes. The Labor struggle is important but not at a shit place to work like Amazon.
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Minus a few hundred ofc
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Big Live Energy
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Democrats have had 50 years to protect women's rights to control their own bodies and futures and medical decisions. They clearly didn't care, preferring to keep it as a constant football that they can hold out for us in order to lure us to the polls. Let's start getting some real Leftists into office from some independent parties. Let's stop being the Democrats' bitches. In the meantime I guess we have no other choice but to vote for the lesser of two evils, which they really aren't anymore, but we need to ramp it up to 1000 to build a viable Left party in this country so we can have a chance at replacing these fools.
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He's never cared and never will. Biden is trash. Always has been. He's a shameless servant of the 01%. always has been
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@dorothygaydosh897 you're right about that. All Labor battles are worth fighting but sometimes people have to ask themselves how long they want to put up with an unpleasant work environment? I get I get we're talking about people who don't have degrees who are looking for more entry level positions, I don't even have a degree yet I end up doing military time for a while and then some other things happened after I got out and I haven't gone back yet. So I understand not everybody has the skills to choose from white collar jobs. If they feel they can't get better pay anywhere else, and unfortunately considering how shit wages have been intentionally suppressed for the last 40 plus years that's very believable, they may be willing to tolerate a high level of workplace nonsense. I guess it all depends on the person. If they don't mind the type of work and management stays out of their way other than once in awhile, I could see it being tolerable. My big worry is the speed demanded. I'm not sure if I was working there I could consistently meet that extreme pace. I don't mind a fast pace, but there's fast and then there's excessive. It sounds like Amazon's is clearly excessive. I had to put a production line job was because I couldn't quite make the speed required. After my first couple weeks my hands overnight became very painful and throbbing and that kept up for two or three days. Now perhaps in time that would have gone away but I had no way of no one. So I quit. It's possible everything would have worked out had I stuck with it and my hands would have accommodated to their new demands, but I was able to find some other work locally so I decided to do that instead. I could probably put up with loser management if I didn't have to interact with them on a daily basis but the excessive speed is something I'm not sure I can get used to. I wouldn't work in a place that is purposefully disregarding the worker safety, has an unfair attendance policy, and chooses to set a deliberately excessive and unnecessary pace, all practices that Amazon has been routinely accused of.
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Until corporate punks start getting locked up even for a short time and fined enough to hurt them, this billshit is going to only continue.
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Obviously the people who do this don't give a shit.
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I mean that's mostly true though. All we're doing is learning about the history that has already happened. Our federal government exists at this point to prolong permanent war and aggressive geopolitical situations. It's what they want. It's all easy to find out with just a little digging.
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@scottheathco7323 if you don't like it why are you here?
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@scottheathco7323 well don't come back here. There's a minimum requirement of a three digit IQ to enter this platform. Get out and stay out.
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@scottheathco7323 well don't you sound like a mature lad. Get on get out of here.
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@scottheathco7323 hey, virgin, I'm done here. Bye.
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I defend Russia, they're doing God's work in Ukraine right now. They're going after the Nazis and ultra-fascists who have taken over the government for the past 8 years and neutralizing them from continuing the 8-year ethnic cleansing/civil war that they've perpetrated in the eastern Donbass regions that they began soon after the CIA helped put them in power through a murderous coup in 2014, where at least several people were lit on fire and about 20 were killed, in the well-known Maidan Square massacre at Maidan Square in Ukraine's capitol city of Kiev. Got all that?
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@JJTeam-yr6tb wise words
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@JJTeam-yr6tb agreed.👍
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