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Spoken like a true impulsive employee who can't even begin to understand how strategic decisions are made or how humans organize in larger organizations such as corporations.

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I imagine that his point is that workers aren't trying to bring about change. They just want to be done.

Yeah that's a fair point that I didn't consider; you're probably right.

Unfortunately, workers are still shooting themselves in the foot by doing this. Having emotional outbursts is always the wrong move and it's one that might haunt you well into your professional future.

The workers being referred to here have no professional future in the types of employment sectors they are in.

I thought everyone understood the strategy is to use the excess supply of labor to push people to their limit and squeeze them as much as possible. And in commodity businesses with low profit margins, businesses that do not squeeze as much as possible get crushed by those that do.

You know, that could be made illegal. It's called labor law and kind of missing in the USA. Also insufficient in many other places.

Ah yes, you can fire the employee at any time without severance, but how dare we not give two weeks notice, or be more understanding about why the owners schedule late and pay next to nothing, and treat us like disposable trash (spoiler alert- its profit).

That's fine, you can sit high and mighty on your chair. I'm sure as in most things life, it will reward you with a fresh batch of what you call suckers (aka people who have no other choice) to exploit. Generally speaking though, I don't think over large swaths of time your point of view has proven to be sustainable. It did and will crumble eventually, being a sucker (see definition above) has an expiration on it.

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