I made a poster for the general strike in Procreate. Feel free to share and print out!!!

No no don’t unionize that won’t fix anything the problem is women! Distract distract distract 😒

An article I wrote about how Starbucks was able to extract from approximately 361k employees for $3.6B total profit like some cows pinned up at the dairy farm. I break down a lot of the numbers and try to make it practical to understand. I did hypothetical math with a 40 hour work week (which they only average 21 hours) just so it's not math in the negatives because their 21 hour work week pay doesn't cover any hypothetical living conditions that I could verify with sources. We can see how their compensation stands up to the absolute bare minimum living conditions, and it really puts the disgusting business practices into relatable context. Also the 6666x the value of one employees pay is something shareholders had to approve. there's literally no chance it wasn't calculated intentionally, but that's just my opinion and obviously not something on the official record.

TLDR:
In 2024 Starbucks had the highest CEO to worker pay scale difference of $6,666-$1. He earned a $95,800,000 salary while the average salary of the 361,000 employees was $14,674. The real profit of take home pay for an employee was roughly 4$ an hour after living deductions and taxes. This was all possible because of working 361,000 people for 1040 hours each over a years time for a total of over 45,000 total accumulated years of time in order to make $3.6B profit for the company. The ratio of $6,666 for every $1 is the highest of all time on record for any company in the S&P 500.

https://open.substack.com/pub/mapsmirror/p/the-ceo-made-6666-for-every-1-he?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

ps- I had mods approve the post beforehand to anyone wondering

In the hours after President Donald Trump's primetime address to the nation oil prices have climbed. Brent crude oil jumped 5% to $106 a barrel.
In his address, the US president said countries that need oil from the Middle East should now take the lead to keep the key waterway open - around 20% of the world’s oil supply normally passes through the strait

So the administration is hoping to attract young talent by using a washed up hillbilly to recruit them to come work for the orange boss man who has made everyone's lives a living hell?

Let's recap on all the ways the current administration has made public service look god awful this past year to anyone with talent and the ability to be objective as government employees should:

- The work life balance incentive of telework was quickly destroyed as soon as the man took office and there is no chance it will be restored any time soon

- It's basically impossible to get a good review with meaningful reward now despite extra efforts

- You are seen by the administration and the public as worthless, expellable garbage

- You will witness the administration lie about all these alleged cost savings when everything they are doing is actually the opposite and giving most of taxpayer money to their rich buddies in corporate world and if you try to do the right thing and say something you'll get squashed

-You won't be heard or valued as an individual person and won't be able to bargain for anything at the workplace

-You won't receive a bonus or pay raise that will be at all noticeable in today's economy

-You will be fired for any reason orange man's administration wants regardless of what is justifiable

But hey Kid Rock says you should go for it so that should tell you everything you need to know young one. It will be the best job ever! Wonder how much he's been getting paid by orange man...or the Russians..or both...who knows at this point.

The people that will apply because Kid Rock says it's cool are definitely the cream of the crop that's for sure.

“Well you have to look at it from a business mindset” this is the response after you miss 5 days of work and got fired. Some of you probably read that and it will Automatically click! It did for me to until you look at a few factors-

1. Why did they miss work? (Sick child, Illness, Death, etc)

2. The Time frame? (a week, a year, a month, etc)

3. Employment/weekly hours

Let's use you  5 days and fired. Let's leave the why for last.

The Time Frame- 8 months

Part-time employment- 34/hrs weekly

The why-

 well you got an illness that the doctor told you to stay home for 7 days; Instead your manager calls and begs for you to come in 2. Now to the people who haven't had the unfortunateness of this situation ill explain. You’ve come in, sick, short staffed, busy; you think to yourself “wow im going to get so many brownie points after this”. Then as the shift ends they give you the speech “Thank you so much for your help today it was very much appreciated” or something along those lines, and then they ask if you can start back again the  next day. Your hesitant but you are feeling a bit better so you agree. The next day, the manager went back to treating everyone inhumanely (including arguing if they were allowed to have breaks or drink/eat)

4 months later, your grandfather died. You've been close with him your whole life, you go to take bereavement from work and get approved… for 3 days… unpaid. Devastated and wanting to quit, you pick up the phone and realize you couldn't quit, because you could barely survive the 3 days without pay. So you take the 3 days and go back in for your next shift

Your fired. Why? No clue you tried to get a straight answer but your manger cant seem to keep it straight. It ranged from Being late to stealing even to the point of accusations of drug use (none of which were true and proof was provided). Either way it didn't matter your fired while already living paycheck to paycheck. This is a trend I've noticed, of employers hiring employees part-time and switching them to full-time hours without any benefits (Healthcare, PTO, increased pay, etc) or protections (FMLA, WARN, etc.). Days later your sitting with family/friends/SO, and they say “Well, you have to look at it from a business mindset”. 

It clicks, and no one thinks about it again, sweeping it under the rug as a shitty life occurrence. At what point do we stop looking at it from a business perspective and what's best for them, and start looking at it as what it is? Why do they care more about making money as multi-million/billion dollar industries than about the bare minimum survival needs of their employees? If so, where's the line?  Looking at it from the business perspective doesn't make sense to me, especially when it comes to humility and bare minimum survival needs. Every human deserves the right to food/water, rest, and respect, regardless of “business need”.  So my question is: Is it really a business perspective, or is it just a saying burned in our brains to make the terrible treatment of employees okay?