It was once an idea that if you got into retail sales, you could work your way to rasises, bonuses, and promotions that would make you a considerable amount of money, as well as being able to stay a while at the job. Now? The pay sucks, the work is nowhere carries no glamour or bonuses, and anybody who can last more than a year or two is in danger of being laid off.
Are there any other jobs that went in that route? What are your experiences?
Programmer. In the 2000s Google had a moto « don’t do evil » they change it in 2016 (IIRC) because they could shit on their workforce now
Same thing for Facebook, they laid off a bunch of their workforce because of AI and quietly rehire them with less pay because fuck workers.
When unions say « unionize now » that’s why
They mean “we’re not going to grow unions as a concept; figure this shit out like our guys did”.
The 00s left wings absolutely fucked us by not spreading unions to emerging careers like programming.
That’s not my lecture of the 00s
High tech job were in high demands and companies were happy to give everything the workers asked for … in the hope that they will not form an union.
The left cried and cried to unionize but people choose to not listen
I wanted a union because of the shit that happened in the marketing companies I worked at, but nobody else i worked with cared. They either went on to “better” tech jobs at the bigger companies, or dropped out and became farmers, printers or cooks. Or a few got lucky as stay at home moms or dads.