I understand that not everyone is fortunate to have money saved to be able to have the leeway to leave jobs whenever they feel like it and so forth. But I just feel like people have lost their sense of self-respect when it comes down to employment.

I am a firm believer that if you are working at a toxic place and are being harassed or bullied, to stand up to that behavior and tell them that you’re not going to take their shit, and if they continue you fucking quit and never look back.

I have known people who have not had a savings who have done this in the past and they end up finding a decent job that doesn’t treat them like shit. Do you feel like job Seekers don’t defend themselves anymore?

    • trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      You’re right, but creating an entire movement isn’t easy :p.

      Companies will shut down an entire store before they let the staff unite in some way such as create a union for something as simple as fair pay.

      They’ll get government involvement to stop strikes from happening.

      They’ll use high paid teams of lawyers and rigid contract obligations that you signed when starting if you try typical legal action.

      And hardest of all, they use the narrative “if you’re in a shit job, that’s your fault for not moving”. So that the fault will always be yours and they are never required to change. And what sucks worse is the true reality is that except for the occasional unicorn job, most of them are all shit like that (or turn that way at some point).