• Nougat@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    If you lift money from the till, you can be arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced. Now you are A Criminal™.

    If your boss shorts you $100 on your paycheck, you have to politely go ask for it back, and hope they give it to you. Failing that, you get the labor board involved, which takes a whole lot of time, and you’re probably going to be fired, whether the boss gives you your money or not.

    It’s a double standard for the employee; it’s an invented concept (for the purposes of controlling labor) for the employer.