Felix Allen, a recently fired New Orleans-based organizer at Lowe’s, recounts the measures taken by his employer to prevent his store from unionizing.

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    1 year ago

    Calling them ‘family’, doesn’t make them family.

    They’ll call employees ‘yer lordship’ if it’d save them 2 cents.

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      1 year ago

      This is 100% true. At my last position, they hired a head winemaker at a cheaper than market rate. He had accepted because they let him choose his own title… Wine Overlord.

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    1 year ago

    Obviously here we know its bullshit. But I’m willing to be that a lot of us have worked in places like that before. There is usually some people that work there not doing so well, poor or depressed or both and more, with reasoning that this is not the best place to work but there kinda looking out for me. People with thoughts that I don’t know where else to go, I have no skills,