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camarillobrillo  ·  3166 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your job will never love you.

I'm 28 years old. I work at a chemical plant whose parent is based in Europe and whose tentacles reach around the world.

I've worked there two years under contract from a staffing company. I make around $55,000 a year but I receive no benefits, no 401k, no future. For every $1 I make the staffing place charges my employer $10, AND THEY STILL MAKE MONEY OFF ME.

Twenty years ago I could afford a house, a family, but now? I can barely make rent. But where else can I go? Every other bigname BIZNESS is going the same way. We let THEM convince our parents that unions are the Devil and now what do we have? Companies where if you even talk about employee rights you're blackballed. You may as well hit the gate.

What really pisses me off is the "company" I work for is based in a place where they wouldn't dare treat their employees like that. But they can here. Because we're used to it. Because we're desperate. Just like me.

    "I'll take a little cancer so longs as I can get a job."

It's a deadend with nowhere to go but down and out and it really gets to me sometimes.

To paraphrase Carlin

    The rich pay nothing and get all the benefits. The middle does all the work and pays all the taxes. The poor are there... just to scare the fuck out of the middle class.

I hope one day this will change but I'm way too cynical to think it'll happen in my lifetime.