American Reacts to Tell Me You Work in America Without Telling Me
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- Опубліковано 9 сер 2022
- American Reacts to Tell Me You Work in America Without Telling Me
In this video I react to Americans telling their stories of working here in a America. Buckle up, they're as much horror as they are work stories.
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In 2019, I was working part-time in retail here in the UK, my son was killed, and even though I was only part-time I took 9 month off work on full pay, the company was absolutely fantastic, when I was ready to go back to work they insisted I had counselling, in fact said I could not go back until I had been given the all clear by the councillor, the company paid for it's all, on my first day back the regional manager came in to say hello and check I was doing I'm ok, thank God I live in the UK and not the US
I'm retired now, I worked at a heating element business called Isopad and when my wife called to say my first baby was about to be born, I went to the boss whom was pretty nasty anyway and said I need to go home and take my wife to hospital he said dont forget to clock out and be back in tomorrow or before. We had our baby girl and the next morning went back to work. Boss says why didn't you come back in yesterday. I told him baby wasn't born till 2.oo in the morning and he huffed and walked off. They stopped me 2 1/2hrs for that day. I didnt understand seeing as I was a good worker. I've had some crappy jobs.
Sorry for the loss of your son. Glad you were treated so well by your work.
Those jobs and employers are far and few between..... those jobs Nobody leaves and will have a very very long waiting list for any vacancies 👍
@@chrisspere4836 Was Isopad in Borehamwood by any chance?
@@silverghostcat1924 thank you
Best thing for Americans in learning about different countries, they broaden their horizons, worst thing they realise what real freedom looks like
The thing is many Americans have a different way of looking at freedom.
They want freedom to.
Freedom to choose their healthcare insurance, freedom to own guns, etc.
Europe has more freedoms FROM.
Freedoms from having to worry about healthcare, freedom from having to worry about being fired randomly, etc.
@@Londronable They forget the GOV works for them, so ALL that we have across the pond is because WE have the GOV work for US rather than against and we are not pushed and pulled by Corporate ..
@@gsyguy1 Correct. As of now, the US government is beholden to corporations. Remember the "corporations are people too" slogan to give them lower taxes, more benefits and cop outs.
One big difference is that in Europe generally, people are more socially aware, in the US it's more a case of everyone for themselves.
@@grahvis Law of the jungle. Survival of the fittest.
Germany showed WALMART the door. Good riddance, everyone in Germany supported that for banning WALMART
They haven't tried Australia. I haven't heard why but our Workplace Laws would go against their operations I bet
Wow, I didn’t know about this
We now have Aldi stores here in the US.... I bet they are operating under US labor laws and making bank cus once a capitalist scum.... always a capitalist scum hahahahaha but no seriously.... I wonder how Aldis is treating its US employees?
walmart wasnt banned. all their contracts were terminated as beeing unconstitutional and then they decided to run.
Walmart: We want to have stores in your country.
Germany: Okay but you needs to treat your employees as actual human beings.
Walmart: Nah screw that I can't do that.
In case you ever wondered why Walmart failed in Germany, this is it.
And they failed in the UK no doubt for the same reasons as in Germany. Laws mean they can't exploit their employees.
Probably wouldn't happen anymore. Uber operates even with not allowed to do so, Tesla operating ilegal loading stations for their cars and no one cares. American corporations doing ilegal stuff, but courts don't do shit.
@@atorthefightingeagle9813 I think they failed in the whole EU. For them we are communists.
@@atorthefightingeagle9813 oh and dont forget that Germany brought in a law that made Walmarts business model illegal XD
@@atorthefightingeagle9813 Walmart owns ASDA
In France it is illegal for an employer to contact any worker out of hours.
Same thing in Germany. If they do cauz you work in IT and the servers are down for example, then they have to highly compensate that.
@@roarbahamut9866 Hi Roar, can you confirm or refute a rumour I heard years ago. If as a German citizen your company makes you redundant they have to pay you 10 years salary?
@Paul Bangash Hi Paul, one of my colleges was recently in Paris on a business trip and he told me that its illegal for someone to have their lunch at their desk or workplace. Is this true?
@@leewat3742 it is indeed illegal to have lunch at your desk, it's also illegal to not take all your holiday days off. There's also an old law which states a business must buy all its staff members a bottle of wine every Friday and they must drink it at the end of their shift. Legally this is the only time you can drink and drive in France because it's Friday and you've been given your wine to start the weekend.
@@roarbahamut9866 +1
To blow the mind of people from a certain country, here how it works in Germany (with a few notable exceptions, like doctors, nurses, truck drivers and IT):
- if you work, your normal hours, each will count and will be paid.
- if you work more hours, you'll get (increased) overtime pay OR have to be given a chance to take an equal time of inside the next year.
- you are not allowed to work more than 8 hours a day. And not more than 48 hours a week. Under rare circumstances that can be extended to 10 hours a day, but that has to be compensated by time off.
- if you have to be on site to be available (Bereitschaftsdienst, standby), the time you are NOT working counts for half, as soon as you are working, the clock ticks at full speed again)
- if you are "on-call" meaning you can stay at home, but have to to react RIGHT NOW once your beeper/phone goes off (think some emergency or IT jobs), that count's for 1/8th. Again, the moment you answer said call, your clock is ticking at 100% again.
- if you are not "on-call", you are NOT on-call. Meaning you'll not be called from work during your time off, or holiday and so on.
how can you call it a free country when your life is dictated by your employer
Well said👍
But they are free....to be unemployed, homeless, that's the choice they have.
Sad state of affairs.
Get another employer. It's sometimes harder than it sounds. But I've worked a couple places where there were mass walkouts that quickly caused changes in policy.
38 hours is classed as part time???? WTF!! Talk about exploitation! Feel genuinely sorry for you guys over there as some of those stories were absolutely sickening.
Companies are allowed to decide what full time is for their workers. The minimum across the board is 40 hrs, but for some it's way more than that.
If I remember correctly, in the UK, usually anything below 35 hours is classed as part time and anything over is full time.
Mad. I'm part time now, before I retire at the end of the year. Brit in Austria. I work 3,5 hours a day.
This is what happens when you don't have strong unions that fight for workers rights.
It varies with the company. Where I'm at now there is no part/full time distinction. But you have to average 38 hrs/wk to get paid vacation.
The last place I worked everyone got vacation, it was based on your hourly average. But you had to average 32 to get insurance.
I,m sitting here in Europe and absolutely spitting with anger at this video. Dear God, when are americans going to finally stand up to fight this nonsense? What has to happen before they do?
People are quitting work in droves and not just retail. Teachers and nurses are quitting too. Schools and hospitals are panicking, but they’re not willing to pay people to work.
Americans are SLOWLY waking up. Its hard to get to that point because all our lives here we have been fed the "pull yourself up from the bootstraps" and "You gotta work hard to get anywhere" and etc etc that stems all the way back to the Puritans. I mean I literally saw a vid a few days ago of some corporate CEO who isn't even American (from Canada) talking about the whole new (not really new... just finally has a name) quiet quitting trend that is going on here in the States and how it's "UnAmErIcAn!" These shithead CEO's literally want us to bleed for them.... give up our entire lives for our jobs and shit and it's all just profits for them. Profits rule the US its all about $$$$ and nothing else here. Also the fact that our VERY HEALTH depends on having a job ie... no job no health insurance... makes it hard. Corporate America anti union propaganda is also next level here not to mention the lack of a solid working class conscience .... a lot of Americans are still just looking out for themselves. Also.... dont get me started on this whole hustle culture we have going... these shitheads who love working 80+ hours a week and somehow think its healthy and that if we all just acted like them it will all be good. damn I hate those fuckers!
@@sallyintucson People are leaving the country in droves as well. Have been for the last decade. The brain drain is forcing US companies to hire foreign talent, mostly from Asia. But even they soon leave.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
~John Steinbeck
@@hemidas Everything that says “Public” on it is Socialism. Schools, roads, libraries….. the list goes on and on.
I work in IT for a broadband company in the UK. Been there 20 years. I work 36 hours per week and I get 32 days annual leave per year. I now realise how lucky I am. This kind of employee bullying should be illegal. Clearly driven from the very top downwards. Let's start a revolution :-)
Whats funny (work in IT as well) is I get so many job offers from the US (I also studied there for years) that are very well paid and If choose to accept one I can work remotely , I don't even have to move there , with vacation leaves and even paid leaves. Seems american companies mostly mistreat americans only
@@AgenteusaRR I think that's because only Americans are willing to put up with that shit.
@@Kraska93 Think it's also got to do with competition. You can treat people from the US worse because their options are most likely going to offer them the same thing. But if, say, an American company wanted to hire someone from Sweden, then they need to compete with what work in Sweden is already offering that employee. Otherwise, why would he bother?
I know we rag on US companies specifically being that they're the domestic market for US citizens to work in, but lets not embellish here. There are plenty of companies from other parts of the world that offer US-stationed employees the same as the US companies do both for better and worse because they know their employees probably won't have better options. It's the rules of the economic game. Which is precisely why the country's government needs to be there to keep balance by setting standards for all companies to uphold.
I think that's less luck but something to thank previous generations for who achieved those workers rights. (In some parts of the world but not in others)
@@AgenteusaRR they cant do it in Europe because we have actual laws that protect employees well :)
This annoys me so much that people are treated this way! I'm a British living in Britain and only after watching videos like this makes me realise how lucky I am.
Me too, however not everything in the UK is bright either. There was ... at least for a period of time... a loophole that employers were exploiting to the max. They could hire people to work for free for 3 months, as a trial period before hiring them normally. The employers who did that, they never kept anyone more than those 3 free labour months. They'd just get another person for free for 3 months and then another and so on. But I think there was some correction in the law later on and they cannot exploit people that way (I think).
@@Gretaly GretG Under UK employment law that is completely illegal. You can be given a probationary work period but you have to be paid for the time that you work or it amounts to something like slave labour. If they terminate your contract at the end of that probationary period it has to be with justification, eg you couldn't do the job you claimed you could, your time keeping was bad etc.
@@scrappystocks Yes, it is illegal, but there was a short period of time when the employers were doing it. I know it first hand and it wasn't just a singular experience.
@@scrappystocks I'm assuming they're referring to YTS (Youth Training Scheme) which was a highly abused scheme in the 1980s but has been changed now so employers could no longer take the piss
That wouldn’t be possible here in Germany as well.
To me it sounds like employees have no rights in the US. I can’t imagine any country in Europe where employers could treat their employees this way. Laws prevents that.
I worked for a bank. When my dad was in a coma and on life support my head of department told me not to worry about work at all. I was just to turn up when I could and not worry about calling in if I couldn't. Since my parents lived in a different part of the country it was difficult. My mum was deaf and partially blind and I had to stay with her, only going home and to work for a couple of days a month for 3 months. I offered to take a pay reduction or work weekends until I paid them back, but my boss refused the offer saying that I was already stressed and tired enough without having that to worry about. I will always be grateful to him and the bank for that.
OMG. that girl that found the missing child should be rewarded and given a bloody medal. the kids parents must have been so relieved and she gets that shit laid on her.
Alan while i love how you express yourself, please do some comedy reactions and lower your blood pressure after this
If i were her this would have been in the news!
@@utej.k.bemsel4777 Exactly and the police would have commended her.
That girl will probably think twice before helping a stranger, again after this experience , and i can't blame her. rIf eporting a missing person gets you into trouble, Giving CPR in an emergency can get you sued, etc,etc it's no wonder U.S society has become harder and more egocentric .
Exactly what trouble did she get into?
@@chrisross1703 Told on the manager's friend and cutting off the manager's easy access to children?
"Something tells me this is gonna be a rant video for me"..... Something tells me it's justified!
I got a week off work (paid) because my dog died but that person expected their employee to come on the same day their mum died... 😳 where is the humanity?
Humanity? Nah, it's all about profits here. Humanity (unless the boss or owner of a small business creates a family type environment) goes out the window for the greenbacks.
The one where she literally had died 20mins ago.. ok well she dead now, come in.. Mindblowing
I’m Canadian and my Dad had metastasized prostate cancer and was in a hospitals palliative care. He was not close to me and I used all my points to fly and stay in a hotel nearer to him. I saw him every other week for about 5 months until he passed. I was on salary and Everyone covered for me. My boss paid me the entire time because family is first. I am very thankful.
England have been cocks as usa has
Open up whats ya surname
What? I don’t even know what you are saying and why the hell do you want mi sir name?
American worker to the company: "Sorry I can't go to work today cause I've finally cracked and murdered someone cause I'm under such pressure to pay my bills and everything I didn't control myself, probably will never get back to work."
Company response: "Are you sure you can't come to work today?"
Worked for an American Company who was operating in my European country and who operated under US law. every time I booked and took my leave entitlement I would come back to a written warning. Now I work in a company that adheres to our employment laws. This is what happened to me this morning. My Manager calls to tell me that I have been working for over three months without taking my holidays and that this is concerning them as I must take care of myself. My type of work is mentally tough and my manager reminded me that a week off fully paid is important. I get 24 paid days off a year together with 14 days paid sick leave and 3 days paid force majeure leave but this can be extended depending on circumstances. If I get interrupted on my breaks I am also entitled to restart my entire break too. This is common across Europe. I will never, ever work for a US company again. 😒
Thinking I may need to move to a European country.
@Nicky L The US sadly never really abolished slavery - if they had, there wouldn’t need to be an exception, an exception they put in for their own slaves.
My last employer sadly bought out !was 25 days leave + birthday , 8 bank holidays , right to buy an additional 10 days plus after 6 years service an additional day holiday for every year up to 10 days so 54 in total if you bought the ten also if you had a hospital appointment day off . Now down to 38 days and only 3 months full sick pay and 3 months half pay , almost fort the free hospital fund eh ho , good old USA
@@TheEclecticBeard Welcome! :D
That US company that tried to uphold US laws while operating in Europe could have been closed down quite quickly. Lots of potential jail time but mainly huge legal costs and huge economic settlements...
Honest mate, I really don't know how the average person copes over the pond tbh, you really need decent employment laws to protect hard working people.
...and then they wonder why someone blows a fuse and turns up with an automatic weapon 🤣
@@catfrab it is an extremely sick society ( for want of a better word).
Driving it’s citizens mad.
If anyone asks for that they are branded a " Commie " and cant get work.
The Republican party would reject them all and they are assholes… Capitalism at its best👍🏼 not.
Yeah because it’s so great over here 🤷🏽♂️
I had a stroke some years ago and had a year off on full pay as my sick leave had accumulated due to my being in good health to that time. As for Walmart, when they looked at opening here in NZ they were not happy with our labour laws and protection of the right to unionise and tried for special consideration (because they are important). Let's just say there is no Walmart in New Zealand and somehow we get by.
Work in a UK engineering company where a colleagues wife died, he took six weeks paid leave and the company paid for his daughter to fly back from China for the funeral. This company has a third of it’s staff with over 30 years service and they all started out as apprentices. Owner of the company’s favourite phrase - you give you get.
I don't want to stick my nose into how another nation runs it's business. However ask any American what they are the greatest nation on earth? You will get 'freedom' 'liberty' and the 'constitution'. The thing is that was quite radical in the 1780s but the rest of the world has moved on. Free healthcare, work/life balance, minimum leave time, a fair regime and laws to protect them are as much a right these days as having democracy. There are now Eastern European countries that about 35 years ago were living under communism, who's workers have more laws protecting them than the US.
To be fair, most of those eastern european nations even under the communism had more laws protecting them than the US has right now..
Their constitution is just a copy pasted version of the Dutch constitution, bastardized it and called it a day.
Because Americans are like beaten kids whose mom keeps telling them it's much much worse in other countries/homes and they should be thankful just to be living in this greatest country in the world.
Land of the free? Land of the ripoff more like.
In 2016 my wife and I took a holiday in Cuba, two days after we returned, while I was at work my wife called, she had suddenly become blind, I called my boss he told me to go straight home. She was diagnosed with a brain tumour and given six to eight weeks to live, when I told my boss he said you take as long as you need. After she passed away, my boss told all my work colleagues they could take the day off to attend her funeral, he came to pay his respects too. I was again told to take as much time as needed. After three weeks I said I was ready to return, my boss said are you sure? But I had to get back to work and some sort of normality.
I'm glad they treated you well after everything you were already going through 💚
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 thank you, that's very kind.
These employers would end up in employment court in New Zealand and be fined for breaking employment law. And if that didn't happen the weight of bad publicity would bury them and they would be forced to fix it, this sort of shit is not acceptable here even if it happens to be legal.
Yes, much the same in Australia, and as it should be!
German here. From my experience, everything they do would get the business shutdown that same day if they pulled that anywhere here in Europe. Gotta love truly free countries like New Zealand, Australia, UK and the EU ;D
Lets be real, this is true in all developed country except one maybe two (Canada, I'm not that upto speed so I may be wrong on this one)
I live in the Uk and while I was on holiday 300 miles away I was phoned from work asking if I would come in for a shift tomorrow. I said I was on holiday in Cornwall with the kids and was told well I thought you might just come in. The guy that asked me was American.
I honestly think some people in the UK live a better life on benefits, than some in the US do working full time.
True , and I am glad it is so..
People deserve better.
Definitely.
Believe me they do
They do. It ends up being almost the same things.
Some might, the vast majority don't - the living wage is high here.
A while ago I saw a reaction of a software developer on a job add he saw. He couldn't apply because they requested 5 years of experience in a specific coding language... the coding language he himself developed 2 years before.
Saw that myself. You could tell the people who put the advert out had no idea about the job itself. Tick box merchants.
The funny thing is that Walmart tried to do this in Germany. No surprise that they failed spectacularly as most of their business practices are illegal there.
I worked for Asda here in the UK. It was a great company to work for, we were a big happy family - until Walmart took over.
They learned nothing from their disastrous time in Germany. They tried so hard to impose the dreadful workplace practices they got away with in the US.
Unfortunately for them, we have employment laws here. However they slowly cut all our extra benefits (even closing the staff canteen! ) I hated what they did to the company. Colleagues with 15, 20 and even 30 years service left taking all that experience away. Standards fell due to lack of staff and everyone was unhappy... I hate Wal-Mart too..
welcome to capitalism, oh and keep an eye on workers rights now the tories can cut them to pieces because the eu cant protect us anymore
@@eatthisvr6 The UK had workers right long before the EU existed, Holidays with pay started in 1938 and was brought in by the conservatives, So stop scare mongering.
@@deanrolph6912 Blink though and it's gone
@@deanrolph6912 these Tory’s ain’t the same as in the past , big move to the right
@@deanrolph6912 As John Major said 5 or 6 years ago. The C & U Party is not the same now as the Party he worked for & led in the past. O hour contracts, & hire & re hire are uncommon in the EU but common place in the UK because the UK is following the failed USA model. The regulations that the UK are scrapping are UK laws. Check out the new draconian laws that have been passed recently. Deregulation means that employers are no longer obliged to treat or pay workers fairly & if they do so it is at their own discretion. Human & worker rights & protections in the UK are being eroded routinely but not reported accurately in the main stream media. Priti Patel does routinely add amendments to legislation after scrutiny by both houses. The ERG & UKIP rule the roost not the C & U Party which brazenly refers to itself as Tories ( a term of abuse that means thieves).
I feel so desperately sorry for the American people. I just can't get my head around the way they are treated. In my opinion it's abuse. Why don't American unions stick up for their members or anybody for that matter. It's WICKED.
I think many believe that unions are socialist, so not many of those in many places.
I get the impression that unions are a "NO-NO" in most of the work place in the US. If you are trying to improve your workers rights in the work place, but being sacked the moment you try to setup an union, you cannot win. Don't forget in the US if you don't have a job then you don't have medical insurance. The catch 22
they get treated exactly like they want get treated, its their own fault to accept that working conditions
@Lew Rodd Look at what happened to workers at Amazon when they tried to set up a union. How is the US any different to Russia?
@@wessexdruid7598 Exactly. Capitalism/consumerism is exploitation of the people.
After watching this, my first thought was oh my how happy I am to be born and live in Sweden. This could not happen here.
I think this everytime I hear anything from america of late, there's not been much in terms of good news or happy news from that damn country. I remember being a 13 yo kid when the towers collapsed, I wanted to visit america so bad cus it seemed such a great place. That veil's shattered, HARD.
@@JohanHultin It's still a great country. Just a country that also has lots of issues. Only the future will tell if the US people will fight to solve these issues or if US will run themselves to another internal war and maybe end up breaking apart.
As of now, US politicians fights for themselves and not for their country. And that is obviously a huge fail.
@@perwestermark8920 My theory is that the root of all these problems is lobbying being legal in the USA.
@@germangarcia6118 Yes, it's a b8g issue that it's legal to bribe aka buy politicians.
My bereavement leave for my grandma who I was a caregiver for was denied by my manager because I didn't submit the request 14 days before she passed away.......
Yeah, you read that right!
It was a sudden death as she was more healthy than me
I only got the time off when the entire staff threatened a walkout after seeing my hysterical breakdowns while trying to work.
Alan, very sorry to hear of your wife's experience. I wish her - and yourself as support - all the best until she feels it's fully behind her, and my condolences for the loss of your father. For those of us in Europe these experiences on the video are incomprehensible. I had over three hundred employees who worked for me, and for any reported occurrences like an accident or a family emergency I would be demanding to know why they were still stood there, and why weren't they already gone ? Ring me when you are able, and good luck, your work and your income are safe. Seriously, there's too much of a common theme in some of these videos, isn't there ? Regards to you both.
That happened years ago and the dude that did it wasn't a very smart criminal as he went back home to the subdivision right behind where she worked at, was promptly arrested, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. She's working an office job where for the past 2 months before they were able to get someone in this week, was handling payroll, the business of the company run dirt pit, book keeping for the company farm and dispatching dump truck drivers. She's well past it and an awesome woman.
@@TheEclecticBeard Very pleased to hear you're so proud of her, she probably says the same of you. At your age, you'll understand it takes two, doesn't it ? Regards.
Are you serious. I'm 63 in the UK and can't do my experienced job the last 13 years because of a medical records error and medical negligence. The horror companies, and government mandated work schemes benefitting pirvate companies for zero, is completely out of this world. I'm surprised this happens in the US, but it CAN be infinitely more horific here. Everything is the responsibilty of the "self employed" or umbrella company scammed worker. I delivered trade cars as an example. You have to "bid" to do a job but it;s set too low. You pay your train and bus travel out of that, walk 4 - 6 miles in your boots/ shoes, use your phone and data to send inspection photos on their app. If the job is incorrect you lose your pre paid train home (because you bid on the job against the cost of the train yesterday), pay in full for a later train or take it home and deliver the next day for zilch. 16 hours with eating out, 4 miles in the rain and you clear £40 - 50 IF the job went as planned (60%).
I refuse EV vehicle deliveries to customers because you charge them up near the client, so 2-4 hours if ports available, plus washing none of which your time is paid for.
I worked for a Jaguar Land Rover service franchise (worst rep. in the country), as a chauffeur in a luxury retirement village, did a few months in an embassy / high commission (nice people (wrong residences location). Offered a role at another embassy but they pay you £8-9 ph for 9 to 5, you get £4 ph for the majority of evenening work.
Sorry about the rant. Those are not the best examples except the first engineius car trade one.
Nothing is paye. All foreign fly by night, work in gangs, who cares about laws and rules type workers.
I'm glad youve been able to live in Alice in Wonderland's England for decades, because it's nowhere near here in SW / Central London.
I've been in all practicality homeless for a long time, permanently broken wristed, ill, medically and benefits / work - help wise completely let down; absolutely destitute and suicidal.
It's a horrible country, but I won't be going back to ireland after 35 years.
Keep wearing those blinkers.
@@pomerau Sorry to hear you've had such a poor employment experience, and I know it is widespread among those in the gig economy. I've never lived in Wonderland unfortunately, I'm sure it would have been a lot more comfortable than some of the brutal experiences I've had in business over the years, dancing around homelessness sometimes, and whilst the bulk of my working life has been in the northern areas of England I lived in SW19 for quite a while. As my businesses grew, I always took extra care and note of the junior - and thus less well paid - employees, and used to satisfy myself they had a roof over their heads that they could afford, and similarly food. For me, and most of the people I met and associated with in business it was a no brainer, your employees are absolutely the most important asset in a business and need to be properly trained, properly paid and continuously encouraged and appreciated. Maximum effort into the relationship from me, maximum effort and productivity from them. Simple and effective. However, you are quite right to point out that this is not the case in many enterprises which feel able to mismanage employees in the manner you describe because there's always someone to step into your shoes, isn't there ? I share your views on foreign gangs, non payment of PAYE and the like, don't get me started either. Jaguars used to be my daily car, and I had an excellent relationship with the workshop personnel at my local dealer, who were always invited once or twice a year to a barbeque at my house. Of course, the next dealership might have been dreadful, mightn't they ? I now live very simply in rural southern Spain, but I've a similar relationship with the lads at my local dealership who service my car. Anytime they go above and beyond, there's a case of beer handed to them with my thanks. Society has a number of ills within employment that I cannot correct, but I dealt with those who worked for me with respect, courtesy and commitment. I'm sorry that hasn't been your experience. Regards.
I suppose we just cant eliminate the idiots who think the work is more important than humanity. As a manager i once sent someone home who was ill with a contagious infection and literally couldn't do work. My own manager found out and made me phone them up and tell them to come back in.
This is why trade unions are so important, and it's so depressing to see them being eroded here in the UK. Need unions to fight for your rights, otherwise you will just get screwed.
Unions when kept in check work. Unfortunately in the US too many either priced themselves out of the market, or became too much of a pain to deal with.
Transportation costs also dropped, which damaged them greatly. One of the UAW's biggest sources of power used to be "Where else are they going to build cars?" When the answer became "Almost everywhere" they began to crumble.
Unions no longer represent working people - too busy helping the globalists divide and rule on racist lines.
@@christopherconard2831 Also the anti union propaganda here in the US is next level... seriously
@@christopherconard2831 yeah. The companies need to make money, so it’s important to balance looking after the workers with making sure you don’t sink the company.
I worked in a big callcenter some years ago. I was working as I got the message that my brother had died. Without even asking, I logged off my computer and phone, got to the HR office, told them the reason and that I'm not in the condition to work anymore and have to go home. There were no questions asked. They just condoled me, and let me leave I was out of the building like 5 Minutes after I got the message. Next day I went back to work just to apply for "Sonderurlaub im Trauerfall", which basically translates to "special leave in the case of grief" and got a week and a half off by full pay. That's law for you here in germany. Though how many days your employer has to give you is not clearly specified as it factors in different things, most of the time people here have some effing decency. (I know of other cases where it went not as smooth as for me, but there are ways to fight back and you basically can't be fired in this case, if you take the correct actions accordingly).
In the late 90s, I was covering reception at my work (a supermarket warehouse). This is in the UK. I took a call for a guy on the warehouse floor, saying his young (5 or 6 year old) son had been in a serious accident, and wasn't expected to live more than a couple of hours.
I dropped everything and went to find the guy in the warehouse. He was too afraid to leave because his supervisor was at lunch. A couple of his co-workers and I convinced him to just go - I said I'd take the heat, and they agreed to send his supervisor to me so I could explain (I was just an office wonk, nobody special).
The seeming difference between the UK and the US - there wasn't any heat. I talked to his supervisor, who said he did the right thing. And I grabbed a chat with his overall manager, who was completely horrified at the idea he might not have gone. Watching some of these, and having heard American friends talk about their experiences, that might not have been true in the US.
(Best bit of the whole story though, though - the kid made it.)
In Germany it illegal for your employer to phone you outside working hours
Oh that must be awesome
That's ok, but once my boss had to phone me to let me know there had been a small fire in the office, and my desk might not be available on Monday, to check if I could work from home.(I couldn't) I was told they would find me a desk downstairs.
I have a few people work for me and sometimes they want to do bits here and there when they are off and I do not allow it. Down time is important.
This is soooooo bad - I really don't know how everyone copes - just one thing - in the UK it is no business of the employer as to why you take your days off!
but some of the middle management are arseholes still, a former employer of mine knew that my partner's niece (6yo) had cancer, the day she died, i wasn't scheduled to work, but went in to book 2 days off for travel to and from the funeral. The floor manager understood and approved it.
The next day (a few days before the funeral) while working my shift, the rota for the next week was issued and i was scheduled for the days i'd booked off. I spoke to the assistant floor manager (the floor manager was travelling to india for a family wedding) only to be told someone was off sick with a doctors note so i was needed to cover the shift. I ended up having to explain the situation to him, infront of customers, while balling my eyes out. Which got the response "I'm sorry for you loss but we need you here". So i told him to fuck himself i wouldn't be coming in, "then you'll be fired!" not a problem, i said i dont want to work where i'm not allowed compassionate leave.
Went in to grab my wageslip when i got back from the funeral and the area manager was there, i knocked on the cash office door and asked for my wageslip, and was met with confused looks. I explained to the area manager the whole situation, she gave me the rest of the week off. When i got back from that, the first staff member i saw came over really excited, what had happened was the last straw for the assitant floor manager, apparently he'd had several warnings and ignoring approved time off was a step too far and he got fired.
Apparently he had bullied a lot of other people into cancelling their time off too but people just accepted it because it was usually nothing more than using up some holiday days.
I work 37.5 hours a week and I'm above minimum wage. I'm full time with maximum benefits. You guys deserve better,.
Hi! I used to think USA was the epitome of quality of life. Maybe until the end of 20th century was like that, I don't know. The point is I consider Europe so lucky for having restrictive work laws. For example this is the mandatory system in Portugal: I work 40hrs a week, 9 to 6, I am paid 14 months a year (11 months + the vacation month + the vacation 1 month salary of pocket money to spend on my vacation + the Christmas 1 month salary of pocket money to spend on Christmas time) plus 22 days a month of meal pocket money. And no one can fire me unless there's a very serious issue on my fault against the company.
You would be shocked with our work laws.
And it's mandatory the companies pay for the 5 days absence caused by direct relatives death. Some companies even send flowers to the family or even in some cases they send an executive to attend the funeral.
I live in Scotland ...I work a 36 hr week over 4 days and get a full 8 weeks holiday....when my dad died I was off for nearly 6 months on full pay and no pressure to return early....catch up USA....hope your well EB
Sick troll.....people deal with grief in their own way....
People in the US deserve SO much more.
Why? They have the Governments and laws they choose.
@@1chish No, they don't. It's effectively a One-Party State.
@@albin2232 They have two parties both of which would be considered Right Wing and Far Right Wing here in Europe. But if they REALLY wanted change they could start another party but they keep to their two tribes so they don't deserve anything better.
But they still have a choice. Albeit between daft and outright stupid.
@@albin2232 And who's fault is that? I hope they get much more, better and kind to eachother. But deserve? They made the bed they're now having to lie in.
@@JohanHultin Start with yourself.
5:00 we don't have sick days... in a good way. They have no limit, just thresholds on how it's paid (company, government/taxpayer, etc.)
31:33 honestly, I don't see it as a problem, it should be a problem for the employer, one way or the other.
What amazes me: firing people because they got sick ? That in itself shouldn't even be allowed.
Hey ,fella greetings from Manchester 🇬🇧. You come across as a decent Man.
Oh wow, the girl that took a nap in her car breaks my heart.
While our Dutch laws are better, a week after my mom (57) unexpectedly passed away in 2007, my boss asked if I could come to work for half days. They were overwhelmed, so I did, it definitely had a huge impact on me. I even think I still suffer from the effects of not being able to properly and freely grief. Because you can’t compartmentalize sadness. So I had to swallow away my tears so many times back then. Nearly exactly a year later, I started my current job because that, and the general atmosphere there was awful and it was such a shock to my system. So to see people expected to come in the day of/after their mom passed away is horrific.
In my current company, if our requested vacation days have not been approved after 2 weeks, they’re automatically approved.
Also, these write ups make ZERO sense to me, at all. Here you only get some sort of reprimand, is if you willingly do something to harm anyone, or the company.
It's f****** bad living in America I feel so sorry for you love.❤
Alternative title: Im overworked and still poor.
Pretty much.
My dad died a couple of years ago, aged 84, from cancer. My manager was brilliant - as soon as my dad was whipped into hospital and we knew it was seriously close I was told "take as much time off as you need, just keep us informed" - that left me free to go and visit my Dad in hospital, see my mum, and keep in contact with the rest of the family
Same thing with the funeral and all the arrangements before & after - if I needed to drop offline or take time off, just do it. "family is important, this is just a job"
My boyfriend lives in America at the moment so I know the struggles he is going through
Working 10 hours a day 6 days a week. I’ve told him what it’s like to work in the U.K. he emigrated to America with his family when he was really young, they are originally from London and he wants to come back here
He should
He can. British citizenship is inherited from his parents.
I live in Québec, Canada I was union president for 20 years in the shop where I worked. I am a 70 year old man and I retired 8 years ago. We have health care for all since 1970 so that leave a lot of space in negotiations. I should mention that Québec as the higher unionized jobs in North-America, 40%. From the time I turned 55 till I retired I had 6 weeks vacation plus 14 payed holidays. In Québec our M4A plan do not cover eye care or dentist care but our collective agreement did $400 for glasses and $1000 for dentist care each year plus prescription drugs were covered at 80% and the price of drugs are so much cheaper in Canada. When I hear what US workers are going through it makes me sick. I live only 85 miles from the border, listening to this it could be anywhere in a third world country. Very sad.
I am shocked to hear them telling there stories 😱
And so Sorry to hear What your wife have gone through 😁
My mother died in hospital. Getting close to her death the hospital supplied me with an extra bed in her single room and toothpaste plus toothbrush, towels and soap.
That last night was stressful . I called the school I worked at the next morning and the headmaster told me to take my time with her and they'd find replacement for me.
My stay didn't cost anything nor did hers and every colleague was so mindful. I am German.
This video sums up exactly why Americans yelling about how "free" they are really are saying the dumbest thing anyone in Europe can imagine....UK Maternity leave 12 months, Paternity leave , sick leave, family leave, 28 days holiday minimum, at my last job I'd been there long enough to be entitled to 35 days, & we had a total close down over Christmas & New Year that only required me to use 1 day of leave......now that's freedom
have a look folks in the UK - we're already halfway there, with zero contract hours and rights taken away... join a Union if you can.
Sign petitions on line, badger your MP, fact check every lie at the dispatch box, Whitehalls' own publications (& some times leaks - bless the whistle blowers) use social media to pass on the truth, read the foreign press (New York times, Reuters etc) Find out the truth about the EU (TLDR would be a good place to start)
Just to listen to you being so upset and you are American, then imagine how crazy it sounds to us in Europe. And America is ment to be the best country in the world.
It's not the greatest country in the world far from it and please get that idea out of you're head you are being lied to.
There are country's that are so much better than the Divided States of America the so called land of the free it's not.
I hope that you have a great day😊
And greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱
@@DidierWierdsma6335 I know it's not. That's why I said America is MENT to be. I am not having a good day because it's too bloody hot. 😓🤢
It's not - at all.
Well it is if you're a billionaire.
It's not.
That's used for the gullible and the too many of them.
I'm genuinely curious but why would this upset Europeans but when it doesn't upset you guys when people in India and China have shitty work conditions?
Having a background in the UK and working there and in the EU, I have been taking certain things for granted. When I hear these stories, it makes my blood boil and it's not even my country and I am far from being a solialist! You do well to point these things out and there have been many stories along the same lines in recent years. So why is nothing changing? What will it take to shake up the prevailing mindset?
If it is your day off DONT ANSWER THE PHONE!!!! If work is calling.
This is something which I just never could understand in the US, why don't they give their workers more holiday time? A rested worker is more useful than one who is burnt out. Having to replace even a low level worker because they just can't keep up anymore as a result of stress is more costly than giving them a couple of weeks off in a year so they can relax and spend time with their families.
Yes that's logical to do that, if you actually care for your employees. Usually though, large business are happy to have their employees work themselves into the ground because they can just replace them with fresh meat.
@@jimb9063
They can't just replace people as easily as you believe they can. Most jobs, even the simplest labour roles, often require a familiarity with the particular business and the other employees in order to work efficiently. The training time for lower end roles is short but two weeks is usually required for people to "settle in".
Giving that same two weeks for someone to have a holiday seems like good business. Unfortunately the US lab our market is not accustomed to such thinking.
@@laughingachillesWell I've seen it happen in multiple workplaces for years!
I'm talking about non skilled factory and warehouse jobs. You can't easily replace skilled workers obviously.
The simplest labour roles need about 2 minutes training, e.g. pick up the part from the line, put it in this box, when it's full get a new box.
I've seen agency workers turn up, work for ten minutes, then decide they want to go home. No one is surprised or angry, it's expected with these type of jobs. Get on the phone, and get someone else.
shut up you damn commie!! /s
Get a written warning for working to much lol American employers are really a bunch of greedy Bsd
“….I….couldn’t….take…a….sick….day….” Yes, that sums this “reactions topic” in one small but complete sentence - We ought to be shocked/appalled/astonished/disgusted by the USA retail and it’s unbelievable “Corporate Policies” - but we have, in the UK and Europe. have heard of these true reactions before …. And the retail employers wonder why they have a “staffing crisis” in their stores and supermarkets??!!! 😳🙄😡
About a month or two before I changed jobs a bloke from Texas started working at the company. And being the bloka I am I started talking to him. I was also the person most fluent in english at the company due to my mother being Australian so it was quite natural.
I was quite peived when he told me he was not planing on taking any of his parental leave if he could avoid it since he thought he would have to use those days if his toddler got sick and the company had not told him about how various things worked in Sweden. He did get quite shocked when I told him that parents can take up to three days off if their child is sick without having to show a doctors notice and that would not cut into any vacations days or parental leave. I also had to educate him how we did not have "sick days" like in the US. if you are sick, you take the day off to get better. yes you do not get paid for the first day away but after that it is 80% of your wage until you get better. I also told him that by law the company is not allowed to refuse him to use any of those parental leave days if he told the company with 3 months notice.
So it ain't only US companies that does that stuff... Specially against people that have just moved to the country and does not know the rules yet.
Made him get into contact with the companies union rep and now when I meet him he has a much better understanding on how things work.
A bit of a rant from my side as well.
Good job buddy helping the guy out sound
In Germany, you get your full salary for every day you are sick, for up to 6 weeks for the same illness. After that, your health insurance pays you 60% of your salary until you are well again.
15:28 Here in the UK, if your employer phones you at home it is considered harassment except in certain situations (lost keys or passwords). If too many people have had their holiday signed off and left the shift short then it is the manager or supervisor that will have to solve the problem. The staff are protected. The company can cancel holidays and it does happen but very rarely and only as a last resort. Most places will offer overtime to cover or simply "manage" the situation.
seriously, I don't get so many things about America, but seeing people talk about situations like these is ridiculous, unless you're a Hollywood actor or something (earning millions), working in America is not worth the hassle
You'd need to be an A list or B list actor. If you're not pulling bank for the studio, they treat you like shit.
@@Luubelaar Basically it's this,
Rich/wealthy/High position in business(successful) = seen as actual US citizen
Everyone else = slaves, suckers, property and other low level being. Almost forgot, not a US citizen.
I remember seeing a job for a software engineer ( can't remember which software) the advert said must have 6 years experience of the software only thing the software had only been available for 3 years
That works if you were on the development team for it.
Here in Finland, I got diagnosed depression oct 2017. So I was on 'sick leave' with full pay till June 2018, when I decided to resign, because I just had to get rid of the load. Paid sick leave would have continued.
When I resigned, I got a full pay from those 35 vacation days I earned during that previous year. Everyone gets, That's the law.
We have no "sick leave days". If you are you are sick, that's it. Stay home please and get paid.
Of course I had to see doctors of all possible fields, but it was all paid by my employer. As it goes here.
By the law, every employer has to provide health care. Every one of them.
This means that no matter you have a fever or broken leg, the law obligates the employer. And it works.
Sorry about my English. I think you got the point.
I seem to remember Americans complaining that all their immigrants come from 3rd world countries.
Maybe if they watched this, they'd understand why.
Hahaha. The old saying. Only in America.
Not paying overtime ?!
Feck that .. if I work over time before midnight I get Time x 1.5 , If after midnight I get Time x 2 ... That is per hour !
If I havr to work on a bank holiday I get a day off AND paid for it !
WOW, I can't actually believe some of these stories! Here in Northern Ireland, I worked for a company, and once when I was on holiday leave, I received a phone call asking me why I hadn't turned up to work. I explained to them I was on holiday leave which I had booked off months ago in advance, and they apologised and ended the call. When I came back after my holiday leave, the company apologised several times again for disturbing me on my break, and gave me an extra 3 days fully paid leave for my inconvenience! What a far cry that is form the stories I see on here!
i got the chop while off sick with medical condition while it was up to the limit they can get rid of you they never did it the proper way the same guy screwed everyone that was ever working there
Wow
@@Cons2911 Yeah it happens. Im in England and I have gone into work on days I was supposed to be off to help out and they have given me the time plus extra in return as well as double pay.
Some company's really appreciate it when you go above and beyond and they do their hardest to keep you working there because of it.
Again ,, they appreciate you , your not just a number.
Sadly these are not as plentiful as they once were.
Oh by the way, I work a 28 hour week, but am considered full time and get 25 days holiday a year, plus national holidays.
I worked in a retail company in the UK for 20 years and I have to say over that time there were gains and losses in contracts (loss of double time for bank holiday days) but overall it worked out OK for colleagues in general. Over 30 Hrs is full time but it didn't matter part time had exactly the same benefits as full time. In fact part time had some extra benefits if you were a part time colleague and they were contracted for 20Hrs but they worked say 30Hrs every week then if they took holiday they would be paid an average for the weeks of what they had worked for the year instead of their contract. So if they averaged 28Hrs they got paid 28Hrs when on holiday even on a lower contract. That worked up to 39Hrs. You accrued a bank of sick days (I think 1.25 days per uninterrupted month worked) up to 11 months banked on full pay depending upon length of service. Similarly paid holidays started on 5.4 weeks pro rata (including 7-8 bank holidays) going up to 6.8 weeks with length of service. Any overtime you did you got paid however under 39 hrs paid time over 39Hrs paid 1.5x or you could have the time back quite often I think they might of dropped it for just 1x now but I don't work there anymore. I wanted to go back into education and I used my annual holiday to essentially work a 4 day week for pretty much the whole year apart from their peak season for 2 years but I was paid full time just using my holiday for the missing day it mean I didn't have a long holiday in one chunk but it suited me. If you had a medical/dental appointment that couldn't be made outside work hours not a problem you are allowed to go, when my mum passed they gave me 3 days and then I took a couple more days holiday so with weekends I had 9 days to sort stuff out. In the UK you are legally allowed to have time off (unpaid) for appointments for non medical reasons if you can't arrange it outside work time (home visits/deliveries/hard cut!!! yep even a hair cut). I worked in a lot of locations and pretty much all the people I worked for were good. Maternity in the UK is 9 months paid (extra unpaid optional) and paternity is 2 weeks (with extra unpaid) I think it might be more I don't have kids so I'm not sure. As for COVID see you in 10 days don't come to work stay home. In fact normally if you have anything contagious that's anything other than a mild cold etc go home!!!
This attitude is a serious and growing personality disorder especially in the US. Karens, managers, bosses and police. There are some unbelievable stupid (and incompetent) people with a high sense of self worth/importance in some of these roles. Once they have delegated IT IS NOT THEIR PROBLEM anymore. I am dying to know how/why this is happening.
Why? Because the human species IS a behavioral byproduct of environmental influences. And the US social/economic model is scientifically invalid. And it is the socially invalid environment that is responsible for all the social decay that plagues it today.
Thank you for all the enlightening videos! As a South African, I am horrified that, in general, working conditions and private healthcare is better in a devloping country than America.
Every video about America has this kind of comment: I live in a developing country, but it is not as bad as in the US. classic, I love it!
@@DerInDenWindPubst must be true then
As my mom has always said “Walmart is evil”
This is just unreal , comming from a guy living in Norway
My question is why do people still live in the so called land of the free it's not.
So glad and blessed to still live here in Europe where it's so much better.
The quality of life in the Divided States of America is in a vast decline seriously why stay there?
Other than that a great reaction/video keep up the great work EB
And greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱
because as a american I can confirm that from birth we are brainwashed to believe that the USA is the greatest nation and has no flaws.
@@ShahggTF2 Oh it has many flaws no country is without flaws no country is ever perfect even my own country the Netherlands is not perfect but it's still way better than the Divided States of America no offence hell the whole of Europe is so much better than you're country once again no offence.
Seriously come to Europe as well you are more than welcome over here you won't regret it trust me😊
Other than that I hope that you have a great day over there in America and greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱
@@DidierWierdsma6335 I guess i wasn't clear that i fucking hate my shit country. and I agree that pretty much any country in europe is 1000x better than here.
@@DidierWierdsma6335 I'm starting to wonder if we complain to fast in Europe, groetjes van een buur.. 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪
In the UK, my girlfriend's mother got hit by a car. I went to work after getting her to the hospital upon arrival and explaining the situation to my manager, I was told off and sent back to look after my girlfriend. Ended up with a full week paid time off to deal with the situation and used zero holiday hours.
I know that Asda over here that is owned by Walmart was forced to raise the wage of employees cause they threatened to strike
Here in the uk we get a week off if you’re mum or dad pass away paid by the company
And maybe longer.
Minimum.
Mate, you do good rants and they are cathartic for us.
I´m speechless right at the beginning. I worked as a storemanager for a big retail company in germany and it never came in my mind to treat my employes this bad. Afterall, retail could get worse. I like your videos and the different views you gave.
One of the few good news coming out of the US recently is the resurgence of unionization movements. A healthy and educated working class is the foundation for any functioning democracy.
During the time between ww1 & 2 it was discovered that most of the population was so physically unfit that they could not even be 'used' as cannon fodder. The UK Welfare state was devised & eventually implemented. Over the intervening years between then & now the Tories of all parties but mainly of the C & U Party have systematically dismantled it while pretending to the Public that all was well.
Great channel, with extra information in the background that helps to indicate how angry, annoyed, frustrated, disgusted that EB is - listen for his fingers drumming on the desk.
Well done EB, for keeping your language within UA-cams censorship guidelines - your drumming is still a great indicator of “saying what you think, without saying what you think”.
My stress levels would go through the roof if I had to put up with such bad management! You made the right life choices EB 🖖
I got robbed at gunpoint at mcdonalds. After the police left, the manager told us to get back to work. We later heard rumor that the manager was about to be promoted to general manager. So when it happened, every single employee in the store quit.
There's a lot of things going wrong in corporate america, for sure. But I also don't want you to fall victim to the "Grass is greener on the other side" effect, so lemme share a story as someone who was born and lives in germany.
I left university with two classes and my thesis missing. The classes were 3D animation and Computergraphics. I applied for a job at a company in system integration. I was wholly overqualified, but I needed a job. First of all, I've sent out well over 100 applications, and they were the only ones responding.
Anyway, I sit down for the interview and they tell me they want to hire someone for an apprenticeship. I told them "Learn me into the job, it will take me 3 months and then you'll have a fully fledged employee." and I got the cop out answer that they look for someone with a degree and work experience to fill out the apprenticeship, which is to say: We hire you, use your expertise for 800 bucks a month, and shortly before the 3 years are over we fire you. That is a common thing companies do in germany. In fact, it's *normal*.
This starting to happen in the UK now, that's why I went self employed
Management here is crap
And I thought I had it bad as an European.
America seems to be a complete nightmare world in terms of insurance, work and how they treat people.
If you look at most places in the world, the EU is one of the best ones to be in. Australia and New Zealand seem to be very good aswell tho.
Dude, love your videos.
Greetings from Portugal.
Alan, love your videos as you give an honest take on what we hear the US want to forget/ignore exists. Watching this video reminds me to appreciate what we have in Aus.
This makes me want to cry EB you all deserve much better .
I had a bad employer once in the UK, working in a kitchen. On one occasion they said that while I was waiting for food to cook in the oven they didn't consider me to be working and so I didn't qualify for overtime. Also I shouldn't be allowed holidays because I was too fat to enjoy them. I was so happy to finally leave there.
Ironically, they just talked themselves INTO a disability discrimination suit. A disability in the UK is classed as an impediment to regular living.
Wtf 😳
In Australia, if you take on casual/part time work, not as full time employee, you alsobdo not get sick leave, holiday pay, long service leave but the salary paid is given a boost over normal payrate of full time equivalent job pay rate. This is to offer some compensation for not receiving these extra benefits. Whether you receiving rates based on correct full time pay is a bit upto knowing normal fulltime wages for your job. However as has frequently been happening in past years companies are being caught not paying correct wages and in review of the underpayment the Casual rates are also assessed and many people have had payments, some in thousands of dollars, years after having been underplayed. The casual adjustment is set legally, not by the company. For example in my engineering job, doing casual hours even up to 20hrs per week I had around 20% above my prior retirement point salary. In theory here non full time employees are NOT disadvantaged by not having full-time position. By the way a new employee normally may have a number of months before confirmed full time, but during that period normal full time pay applies. Yet the employer has a period to assess your position and whether to put you on full time, or let you go without extra reasons to terminate your position. Mostly the full-time job is given, and usually good reason will be provided to not put you on full time. You are however never payed under the rate for your job. Yes mistakes occur and if caught underpaying, catchup payments must be made and the company suffered fines and reputation loss, as the underpayment is made publicly known if it is normally a commonly known company. Small businesses may not suffer publicly but certainly within their employee and customer base, so a company is ill advised to be doing illegal underpaying.
I have cancer. I was off work for 5 months. They told me if I went past my second medical on August 10 I would be fired, so I went back to work,even though I wasn't ready.
Capitalism vs. Sosial democracy in a nutshell...
I'm always amazed that American employers don't appear to have heard of the principle of 'enlightened self-interest', surely it must be obvious that by treating workers fairly and being empathetic to them as individuals they will foster a more happy, loyal and therefore more productive workforce?
40% of Americans believe the Earth was created in six days less than 10,000 years ago. They are not enlightened.
That one about being called to cover during a holiday? Yeah, I had that too. Was on my two-week holiday, got a letter stating I had gone "awol" the past week, and when I called was told there was "no proof of approved holiday" DESPITE it being on the system, which I could check on my work portal. They also tried not to pay me for it, but I did in the end after a lot of fighting and showing proof of the approved holiday. Also when I've been of sick, sighed by a doctor, and sending in the proof, and they reply stating they got the paperwork... oh no, I still get letters claiming that I've just gone awol and management "have no idea what I'm talking about" when I call. Working for ASDA was a nightmare. Never again.
I've been struggling with work lately (not because of my work, I love them, love working there), struggling with sick kids etc and taking time off, but watching this video has made me so grateful to live and work in Aotearoa and not US ... We really don't know how lucky we are down here....
Back in the mid 70's I took up a job with Rockwell International in the UK.
It was ridiculous. I worked in finance and our working environment was crazy. We started work at 7:30am and hardly ever left before 8pm. Sometimes I'd get back in the morning to find guys who'd worked all night...no sleep. At month end we usually got home around midnight or 1am and weekend working was the norm. I left despite them offering me a job in the States. I was newlywed and hardly ever saw my wife and a social life was impossible.
I've always worked long hours in stressful situations but Rockwell was just insane. What kind of a life was that?
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that was 50 years ago Britain is 3 rd best country to live in fact
was so sorry to hear about your wife's experience. condolences for your loss of your dad. l iam fortunate to still have both of my parents. if someone asks me about living & working in the USA, i'd tell them to work in any other country except there
Loving your comments. As a worker in the UK 38 hrs is a full week. Plus 25-30 days paid leave included. Sick pay also included and we have Universal Healthcare. Wow couldn't do these hours with no basic rights.
"Do you hear the people sing, singing a song of angry men. It is the music of a people who will NOT be slaves again" FFS America, everyone knows the problems, nobody does anything. The founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.