/labor/ - Labor

>>803
this webm is why I know what salting is

this webm is literally why i created this general

>>804
yay ^_^

>>803
thnx for explainin anon, I was only thinking of iodized salt and was very confuse

fast food places are incredibly easy to get a job at, the only issue I had was I had to apply online to 4~ different locations multiple times. eventually they will text you though.

ive worked retail (walmart) and call center stuff, but never fast food. I start at the end of the week. building a plan.

What's the best industry to salt?

>>896
Fast food is messy.
Depending on which, you may be expected to wash dishes all day and take out trash. That's not bad within itself.
What's bad is how other workers pile all the work onto you.

>>898
job is transient, many people who take them won't be there for long and the companies know this (that's why they pay weekly), but at the same time, you also have the true believers and those who buy the propaganda. It seems like the majority of the people who work at the location I will be at are older as well, which will make it more of an uphill battle.

Before you can start talking about organizing you gotta make yourself well liked and respected within the small clique that must exist, there's also a strong hierarchy with shift leads, assistant managers, etc, which makes it harder to form solidarity.

Whataburger goes crazy on this sort of propaganda and the south is very anti-union.

>>898
my pibba hut had several puddles of grease about a meter long and half a meter across that had a little makeshift causeway made up of cardboard. once its got soggy we'd just put a fresh layer of new cardboard on top. We had to remove it once and it was back within a day or two.

>>897
Manufacturing, but it's best to salt operations your friends work at.

Started this thread, there's some good info in it already: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1kgi5br/salting_and_im_not_talking_about_the_fries/

>>803
>>804
>this webm is why I know what salting is

That webm is an "audiobook" (for lack of a better term) of a 2005 article from the IWW website that no longer exists except in web archives.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110605071434/http://www.iww.org/en/organize/strategy/salt.shtml

Is this about that Traven book, the cotton pickers I think?

merge with /praxis/

>>965
Why? It makes sense to have separate threads for distinct topics like this. Merging all those different things together means that you have to sift through to find info about a specific topic, and the thread will have faster turnover.

The cost of a new Pitco SELV14-C/FD fryer, fast food industry standard, is approximately $24,574. The average yearly pay of the person working the fryer is approximately $15,000.

I would imagine the control panel, should it malfunction, is the most probable way for the repair costs of the machine to outweigh the replacement cost, like when your motherboard is fried. I've attached the manual. https://www.pitco.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/L20-406.pdf

There is minimal camera coverage near the drink syrups due to the way the freezers are laid out. I have no idea if this is standard. Drinks are incredibly high revenue items and even a day of no drinks would cut into revenue significantly. The syrup runs from the back of the house to the front, there's a full system of CO2 and air pumps, lots of moving parts to consider.

One of the things I was informed of was, "Look, when you come in, make sure you eat before you come in. Even if you work a full shift, you're probably not going to get a lunch. They're not too keen on giving people lunches—usually, we're too busy, and it's just better to work through your lunch."

That's a pain point. I don't know how it works in Texas but when I worked at Wal-Mart in Louisiana they were super adman ant about your 1 15 minute break and taking a 30 minute lunch. Same at the gas station I worked at, so I'm thinking either: Fast food is different and breaks aren't the norm, or this is a pain point to consider further.

Manager also let it slip they have not been using their schedule system, everyone but 1 of the people on the shift tonight was not on the 'schedule'. I'm not going to press the issue, I can benefit from the lack of accountability via scheduling to finesse more hours and have more lee-way later down the line. But it's a pain point, erratic scheduling has been a known major paint point for fast food.

I don't think minimum wage is ever going to go up. And if it does go up, it's like hyper-localized. Like, yes, it's great that the minimum wage is $20 in Seattle. But if it's only $20 in Seattle, it doesn't help very many people at all. It's still $7.25 in the majority of places in the U.S. And there are jobs that pay minimum wage. So a job like Whataburger where you're getting paid $12, that's great, awesome, because Subway starts you off at $8.50 still. But $12 isn't enough to live on. And that's just a fact of the matter.

The fryer that we operate costs $24,000. The person operating the fryer makes about $15,000 over the course of a year. I'm just saying every penny of profit they make is labor stolen from you. If you're not going to be able to get that money back in the form of a wage, well, maybe you can at least cost the company something.

Once people start going into these low-paid jobs with that mindset, that shit spreads like a cultural rot. These companies depend on churn employees like high schoolers and people like me who are only going to be working there for a few months to come in, suck it up, work, and then leave. But if we come in and we start trying to organize the workplace, start causing malfunctions, start working to rule, all of a sudden these companies can't risk hiring the same people they rely on because it's damaging their bottom line.

Yeah, we're never going to get a wage that's livable, and yes, these jobs will never be treated as the socially necessary jobs they are under our current system, but it doesn't mean that there's not things that we can do even if unionizing these stores is a hopeless endeavor.

>>970
no offense but jobs like fast food shouldnt have minimum wage raise, but I do believe in better treatment of workers.
Whats disturbing is the normalisation of service industry jobs as the default for adults.
imo, what leftists should do is advocate for career/trades.

>>969
Good investigation

>>969
your post is good but god do i hate that meme. no a homeless man with rotting teeth dressed in rags and exposed daily to the elements of the outdoors and the abuse of the people, possibly suffering from substance addiction and/or mental illness, possibly even PTSD, is not in the same situation as a broke dude with a "harder fit" just because they're both broke. The smoothface lad staring into the camera sleeps in an air conditioned building each night. He wakes up in the morning and shaves with warm water. It's not the fucking same aaaaaaaaaah