Rather than paying a living wage, Broward college has decided to distribute food bags to their employees. 50 bags for 500 employees 👍
(They do regularly do this for students too)
A place I worked for always had “turkey drives” for the poorer families around thanksgiving. I wasn’t popular because i would ask why we as a company can’t pay every employee enough to cover a turkey but i never got an answer.
I ask the same shit whenever giant multi billion dollar companies canvass and harass me for money to feed the poor..
Like bitch, your company made more money then every customer currently in here for 5 minutes, then we collectively see in a year. They can fucking pay for it.
Goes for tipping too. Fuck you, pay fair. Dont ask me to support your staff with charity.
Fair enough, but still...the moment you order food from a server that doesn't get paid a fair wage is the moment you are culpable. If you are eating out at a tipping establishment, not tipping is a dick move.
By all means, advocate for living wages for servers and vote for candidates who will try to do something about it...I certainly do. But make your own meals at home if you aren't going to tip.
I cant remember the last time I went to an actual restaurant, that shit is way too expensive these days. I also dont live in America, and we have only a rudimentary tipping culture in comparison, but it is being pushed more and more because it is cheaper for the bosses. And I hate it.
Gotcha. And yeah, all I know is US restaurants. If this shit is becoming the norm where you are, then hell yeah, let the restaurant owners have a piece of your mind and fuck-all from your wallet.
~~Not only do they guilt you into contributing to their charity of choice, but the company also 1) get to be the ones whose name is attached to those donations, 2) gets a tax break as a result, and 3) talks themself up on their website about how much they donated to the cause.~~
I learned something today about how businesses can't actually claim point-of-sale charitable donations that show on a receipt for a tax write-off. Also, I learned about how no one can claim tax write-off for cash donations into a charity jar.
In the US they do not get a tax break for that unless they break the law. You can however take a tax deduction for it.
Seriously?? I've only ever seen turkey drives as a charitable thing for the community, not internal to a company. Craziness
First of all, I 💯 agree with you that all employees should be paid a living wage!
Obviously some people will fall on hard times despite what they’re paid, so it’s good to have this service in general. Let’s hope not too many employees have to utilize this on the regular.
This is a public community college in Florida. If it’s anything like my public university here in North Carolina, the state probably allocates the salary budget through legislation, and the school itself has very little (if any) say in what employees earn. So, unless I’m mistaken, the blame for the living wage argument would rest solely on the state; and if that’s the case, I would give kudos to the college for offering this service in spite of the state.
The wages are published, but the school is for profit and decides the salary. Incremental raises are established with union contract.
All fifty bags went within twenty minutes, and they had to turn employees away.
That is a damn shame. I feel like for-profit schools shouldn’t exist.
Although of course, no matter how much you're paid random stuff happens and I support assistance for employees. It just seems dystopian to have to offer food for more than 10% of your workforce.
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