Tag: now your employer can further exploit you

Once upon a time, before I gave up on life itself, I use to work. However, I became disenchanted with the workforce and started to perceive marriage, jobs, and responsibilities in general as life traps and I no longer wanted to be a part of it.
It first started when the great recession struck in 2008 to 2009. We had a great economy but all of a sudden, some yeast infection case in nice clothes and a sweet voice sits in front of a news microphone and says we are in a recession and the economy is bad while things were good a second ago. Then people believed it. Hiring started to freeze up and jobs slowly went from abundance to rare pearls, even the fast-food jobs.
What that did was make a toxic competitive atmosphere. Well, you know this is planet Earth. Therefore, when people compete, they don’t shake hands and say let the best man win and then do to the best of their ability. Nope, what they do to compete is sabotage and gossip about you to a point where you look substandard and incompetent. Next thing you know you get fired or you quit before you set the place on fire. So, I got fired.
When I kept on with the rat race, there was a new obstacle to the newfound bad economy that the news announced, and everyone believed although things were great one split second before they made the announcement. That obstacle was when Obama made health care mandatory for full time employees. That caused employers to hire less full-time workers and more part time workers to save money. Some employers just let go of a lot of people and made the smaller staff do more. Now, it becomes more of a survival of the fittest situation because now you can get fired and not hired for another reason which makes more of a competitive situation and now your employer can further exploit you.
Lately, as I wrote this, I heard they are trying to raise the minimum wage. I predict this will make you more of a slave as an employee because now a job will become a rare dinosaur egg. You will have to compete more which will cause animosity, you will have to do more because you need to have healthcare and a higher wage as an employee, so you now have to be worth the money to the last cent. Let us face it, we may not be worth it to an employer. When the toxicity in the workplace has reached its highest concentration, I think it will lead to violence in the workplace over the stress of keeping the job and it will make employers hire less. Again, a higher minimum wage will make competition at the work place a duel to the death. Thank God I am a bum who lives at his mother’s house.
Here is another thing to consider, by raising the minimum wage, less people get hired which means more people cannot afford stuff because raising the minimum wage is a counter to inflation, but if you do not have a job, you cannot afford the price of living. That will increase unemployment and poverty. I just thought I would throw that out there while I cannot get flagged by social media because this is my site.