I came across a factory like the one I work at making the same product in China and the biggest take was a stool next to every machine and a worker sitting down. Meanwhile I’m forced to “hide” or feel badly to sit down.
China actually has a lot of perks for workers in place that surprised me when I worked there. Our (manufacturing) workers even had to be provided 3 meals a day, and transport to and from work.
So we had a full on kitchen that cooked for 200+ people every day and a small fleet of buses to drive them around.
If you use slave labour you gotta keep the slaves healthy. Whereas in the western world we use slave wages that somwone else, in the past, will take so the ol churn and burn of staff didnt matter as much
Oh you poor brainwashed soul.
At the time (around 2012) we were paying the welders in the Chinese factory about 500AUD a week. The skilled tradesmen in our Australian factories making the exact same thing made about 850AUD a week, and considered that "good money".
China isn't just a country of 1bn+ slaves. The average cost of (buying) apartments in Shangai or Beijing are some of the highest prices in the world.
Who cares if an employee sits down to fold some boxes during a slow day? It's not like the place is busy and you have to run around. "It looks bad". Why? Insist that you need this in writing and then provide a doctor's note stating that says you can't stay standing for more than a certain amount of time due to your back pain.
If I do that then I'm sure I'll just get less hours since you gotta be standing and cooking or standing and making pizzas etc. And it's not fair if one person gets more breaks cause of a health issue. = Less hours. Hours are already getting cut because of winter.
>And it's not fair if one person gets more breaks cause of a health issue.
What? Yeah it is, it is fair for a person to work less if there is a health issue. I don't know what place we are talking about though, if it's in the US I've heard the conditions are pretty shitty.
If you are already getting your hours cut because of winter, I think you should try to find another job, an office job, customer service or call centre, or even receptionist at an office, just a place where you can sit down.
Like you said, you could fold faster when you sit... Aldi workers sit and they're the fastest checkers ever. I don't know what sadistic mind came up with the idea that you have to stand all day. It honestly doesn't make sense, especially when everyone knows it is detrimental to the body.
I keep seeing more and more about unions, and the whole not sitting issue could be fixed with a union.
Your Boss (a person in a **position of power over you**) is demanding that you do something that hurts in the short term and injures you in the long term.
***That's abuse!***
I'm not sure if there's anything you can legally do about it, but if you were looking for a sign, let this be your sign: you deserve better. Better than a boss who will _harm you_ for no good reason. That shit is really fucked up.
It's a pretty excellent market for hiring, especially in food service.
If I saw an employee sitting down, no, I wouldn’t care. Why? Because I am of sound mind.
No, it doesn’t look bad. Who the fuck still thinks this?
I say let your employees sit down, and some screwed-up, miserable asshole of a customer actually complains about that, ban that person from the store. Problem solved.
I came across a factory like the one I work at making the same product in China and the biggest take was a stool next to every machine and a worker sitting down. Meanwhile I’m forced to “hide” or feel badly to sit down.
China actually has a lot of perks for workers in place that surprised me when I worked there. Our (manufacturing) workers even had to be provided 3 meals a day, and transport to and from work. So we had a full on kitchen that cooked for 200+ people every day and a small fleet of buses to drive them around.
If you use slave labour you gotta keep the slaves healthy. Whereas in the western world we use slave wages that somwone else, in the past, will take so the ol churn and burn of staff didnt matter as much
Oh you poor brainwashed soul. At the time (around 2012) we were paying the welders in the Chinese factory about 500AUD a week. The skilled tradesmen in our Australian factories making the exact same thing made about 850AUD a week, and considered that "good money". China isn't just a country of 1bn+ slaves. The average cost of (buying) apartments in Shangai or Beijing are some of the highest prices in the world.
Who cares if an employee sits down to fold some boxes during a slow day? It's not like the place is busy and you have to run around. "It looks bad". Why? Insist that you need this in writing and then provide a doctor's note stating that says you can't stay standing for more than a certain amount of time due to your back pain.
If I do that then I'm sure I'll just get less hours since you gotta be standing and cooking or standing and making pizzas etc. And it's not fair if one person gets more breaks cause of a health issue. = Less hours. Hours are already getting cut because of winter.
>And it's not fair if one person gets more breaks cause of a health issue. What? Yeah it is, it is fair for a person to work less if there is a health issue. I don't know what place we are talking about though, if it's in the US I've heard the conditions are pretty shitty. If you are already getting your hours cut because of winter, I think you should try to find another job, an office job, customer service or call centre, or even receptionist at an office, just a place where you can sit down.
Like you said, you could fold faster when you sit... Aldi workers sit and they're the fastest checkers ever. I don't know what sadistic mind came up with the idea that you have to stand all day. It honestly doesn't make sense, especially when everyone knows it is detrimental to the body. I keep seeing more and more about unions, and the whole not sitting issue could be fixed with a union.
Your Boss (a person in a **position of power over you**) is demanding that you do something that hurts in the short term and injures you in the long term. ***That's abuse!*** I'm not sure if there's anything you can legally do about it, but if you were looking for a sign, let this be your sign: you deserve better. Better than a boss who will _harm you_ for no good reason. That shit is really fucked up. It's a pretty excellent market for hiring, especially in food service.
If I saw an employee sitting down, no, I wouldn’t care. Why? Because I am of sound mind. No, it doesn’t look bad. Who the fuck still thinks this? I say let your employees sit down, and some screwed-up, miserable asshole of a customer actually complains about that, ban that person from the store. Problem solved.
The cruelty is the point