If we work together we can stay one step ahead of the orphan crushing machine!
That’s what I don’t understand. Europe is capitalist like the US, never the less, such cruelty and greed from the employer are simply unheard of.
Europe didn’t buy the crap sold by ‘economist’ witch doctors like Milton Friedman and Alan Greedspan. At least, they didn’t buy it as much.
The US treats capitalism as a religious absolute. The rest of the world regards the US as a fairly extreme example of laissez-faire capitalism.
Lots of True Believers really thought that if you didn’t regulate anything and just let companies become more and more powerful, somehow the world would be a better place for it.
Check out the Chicago School of Economics if you want to know what really has brought us to this point. Hugely influential and hugely misguided, but it made a lot of men very rich and powerful so it was seen as a good thing 🤦
EDIT: Apologies to Witch Doctors everywhere.
Witch doctor here, I’m offended.
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Why doesn’t the employer just give them the fucking sick days
Well you can’t do that cuz if you give one employee sick days for their dying child every employee with a dying child is going to want sick days and that might impact the shareholders.
Parent, forced to choose between poverty and caring for child with cancer, gets a helping hand from coworkers when their employer would just let them starve.
What is terrifying is journalists who work at news agencies can’t tell the difference between a heartwarming altruism story and a slip through the cracks dystopian horror story.
Anywhere I’ve taught, my email has been inundated with requests for sick leave sharing. Depending on where you teach, you have to pay for your sub if you run out of leave.
Inundated? Is that an English word or are you Romanian?
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It’s very common in Romanian to
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Not know a lot of English and
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Use a Romanian word and make it sound kind of English to make a point
Eg: “I gătated dinner” - ‘a găti’ = to cook -> I gateted dinner ~= I cooked dinner.
This is a bad example because it’s not really used, most people know the ver “to cook”, but you hopefully get what I’m explaining.
In this context, ‘a inunda’ is a verb in Romanian, it means “to flood (something)”. If you’re Romanian and you don’t know the word exists in English, ‘inundated’ sounds like one of those made-up “verb+ed” constructions.
So while it’s a silly question for someone who doesn’t know Romanian, it’s also a valid question for someone who has heard these types of bad constructions before, and has never heard of the English verb “to inundate”.
Hopefully the guy’s reply makes a bit more sense now, I don’t think it was actually meant as an insult tbh (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Yeah but the other guy could’ve pasted that word in the nearest search bar, gotten their answer, and not looked dumb.
Also maybe it’s a newer thing but I don’t think I’ve heard people put that suffix on the end of words outside of trying to be funny by sounding dumb.
Oh, I agree. I was just trying to add some context to the guy’s comment, because it seemed like the question (while avoidable with a quick search) was taken as malicious, whereas knowing the context makes me read it as jokey/curious at most.
They could have but there shouldn’t be anything wrong with asking a question, even on social media in the world of Internet search. Because we still have to interact with each other to be human.
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