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That's $603 million, which would have been like $60 million profits shared between 10 investors, who would have sat on that money and let it accrue in their portfolio. Every single worker with an extra $10,000 is spending it in the economy, to cover needs and essentials.
#Union
There was a point where the for-profit home health agency that was owned by the for-profit hospital, when I was technically employed by both gave end of year fingered bonuses.
No, really, they did! My first year there, I was eligible, and got something like 500 bucks. Mind you, I was only making a dollar over minimum wage, but still.
My fourth year as an employee, we got a turkey. That we had to drive to a distribution center to pick up. And if you were scheduled to work during the one day and five hours of that day, that they were available, oh well.
This was despite being a profitable business still.
Of course, the profits had dropped for the home health branch, so getting raises was limited. You might get a dime an hour raise. And good luck getting scheduled enough hours to qualify for insurance. But hey, the business wasn’t doing well, so we all gotta tighten our belts.
Then, in an amazing turn of events, the head of the home health branch didn’t come to work one day. Nobody could contact him. This went on for about a week, with a missing persons investigation started.
Turns out, he took a vacation! Flew down to some island and didn’t come back. Luckily, he could afford to live there now, since he had moved about a million in funds that he’d embezzled from the company into the kind of banks on islands that did not care about the funds actually belonging to the person holding the account.
Now, you might think that the next admin would not only fix the profit downturn, but go back to the policies that made the home health agency a well respected provider across three counties. Well, you might think this if you were an infant. No, the shitty policies stayed in place, profits went back up, and went higher, but everyone that generated those profits by being literally elbow deep in shit (not always elbow deep, but you’d be amazed how often that was true) saw no improvements in their employment.
And most of those employees had refused to even try to unionize.
Well goll-ee boss man, thank you for the extra $4 gross per week. That certainly makes me feel appreciated. Maybe I’ll buy most of a coffee or something with it.
You know, this takes me back a couple of decades.
There was a point where the for-profit home health agency that was owned by the for-profit hospital, when I was technically employed by both gave end of year fingered bonuses.
No, really, they did! My first year there, I was eligible, and got something like 500 bucks. Mind you, I was only making a dollar over minimum wage, but still.
My fourth year as an employee, we got a turkey. That we had to drive to a distribution center to pick up. And if you were scheduled to work during the one day and five hours of that day, that they were available, oh well.
This was despite being a profitable business still.
Of course, the profits had dropped for the home health branch, so getting raises was limited. You might get a dime an hour raise. And good luck getting scheduled enough hours to qualify for insurance. But hey, the business wasn’t doing well, so we all gotta tighten our belts.
Then, in an amazing turn of events, the head of the home health branch didn’t come to work one day. Nobody could contact him. This went on for about a week, with a missing persons investigation started.
Turns out, he took a vacation! Flew down to some island and didn’t come back. Luckily, he could afford to live there now, since he had moved about a million in funds that he’d embezzled from the company into the kind of banks on islands that did not care about the funds actually belonging to the person holding the account.
Now, you might think that the next admin would not only fix the profit downturn, but go back to the policies that made the home health agency a well respected provider across three counties. Well, you might think this if you were an infant. No, the shitty policies stayed in place, profits went back up, and went higher, but everyone that generated those profits by being literally elbow deep in shit (not always elbow deep, but you’d be amazed how often that was true) saw no improvements in their employment.
And most of those employees had refused to even try to unionize.
Well goll-ee boss man, thank you for the extra $4 gross per week. That certainly makes me feel appreciated. Maybe I’ll buy most of a coffee or something with it.