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Is Not Taking Any Shit From An Employer A Bad Thing? (lemdit.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's a reason the term "wage slave" exists.

As long as people need to work for someone else in order to eat, this sort of exploitative power inbalance will exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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Doesn't that point to the need of better labor laws, where workers have more protection? I feel like that's the only reason more people don't stand up to shitty employers/bosses, and why it's even a question in the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes that is a worthwhile goal.

Doesn't change the current situation, though.

And, the cynic in me doesn't see that goal being achieved in my lifetime, no matter how hard I might be able to push for it.