In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses are hurting. And we should have some sympathy for them. After all, the stress of survival can force us into undesirable situations. However, some organizations try to get through these difficult times using such repulsive measures, they deserve nothing but pity. And bankruptcy.
From pressuring people to come to work against clear safety guidelines and common sense to begging for a bailout, the Internet users have been making fun of corporate America, reminding that businesses are nothing without their employees. Continue scrolling to check some of them out and upvote your faves!
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Yep they expect every small business owner who's barely scraping by to get these low interest loans from banks to survive. But these multibillion-dollar companies can't do the same thing?
From small restaurants to multinational corporations, the COVID-19 outbreak has delivered quite a blow to the economy. Companies are implementing massive organizational changes to at least try and stay afloat -- with many switching to full-scale working from home and others going all in on delivery.
"I've done a couple of webinars with groups of companies. As of about a week and a half ago, they weren't doing anything, there wasn't anything different," Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, told ABC News. The expert predicts, "The big test will come when it goes on for more than a couple of weeks."
When it comes to managing employees, Cappelli said there are good examples out there. So far, "We've seen more companies carrying employees for longer than expected if this had been a financial downturn versus a health-related one," he explained.
But there are rotten apples in the basket, too. Pressure is building on Amazon and other delivery companies to improve protection for workers worried about getting infected with coronavirus. Some workers at US food delivery firm Instacart as well as US and Italian workers at Amazon have walked out, complaining about the lack of protection.
Even US senators have been contacting Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to express concerns.
As a response, Amazon said it had adjusted its practices, including increased cleaning of its facilities and introducing staggered shift and break times. However, union representatives are saying this is far from the truth. "Several employees working at the site use face masks for days instead of having new ones each day," one of them told Reuters.
A group of workers at Whole Foods, which is also owned by Amazon, plan to walk out on Tuesday, regarding similar problems.
Let's hope that human decency prevails and employees won't be put at risk for another dollar.
It's because they are publicly traded and focus mainly on shirt term profits to increase share price. Doing so requires them to be leveraged heavily. Go pull a 10K report for any large business and look at how much cash they have compared to total assets. You can see it on the balance sheet under the financial reports section. Mist large companies hold less than 5% of total assets in cash.
Yes and I have no issue with that. These companies make obscene profits in other territories whilst exploiting their infrastructure and talent . They should contribute in taxes to each country they make a profit in.
It seems to dawn on the American people that the American dream is really just a dream. And maybe even that social security is not communism.
And isn't it strange that those now cry loudest for help that rallied against labour laws, market control etc. and called it "socialist"? They now willingly accept the state utilizing them or even buying shares. You either want a strong state or not; a "comprehensive cover" state that does not interfer in good times but backes up in bad times is the epithomy of unsolidary thinking!
And people need to legitimately boycott these places. There's just no way people are going to boycott Amazon though. They're doing interviews all over the country and hurting people into one room and going against all social distancing initiatives yet they're not getting fined or anything else. But if I had 10 people gathered on my porch I could get arrested and fined
The people that give all that money are the same people that are saying that their people should go back to work. But only if they seem healthy and under 55 years old or so. They don't give a s*** about anyone but the 1%.
How about we get rid of billionaires altogether. No one needs that much money.
With an education, you might have understood the odds of actually becoming rich. This is why the rich do not want the poor educated, and how people stay conditioned this way. The american dream is lie perpetuated by the few successfull...
And the worker who organized it got fired. Jeff bezos is the biggest piece of s*** in the entire world.
Actually, I suspect about $5K will kick right back to each Congress member...
As soon as they announced a $2 trillion dollar stimulus package...Andrew Yang was like "Where did we get $2 trillion dollars?"
If employees don't return, the companies may raise salaries to encourage workers. This could be good....
I don't wanna be rude but why are you suprised? Currently you have a born rich president, a "tycoon"; he never faced poorness in his whole life. He clearly represents the US rich minority, which he is part of. How you can expect him to understand the needs of the middle and lower class?
None of this matters, in future china will own the US. Better start learning the language now.
Load More Replies...Australia.....$1500 per fortnight to keep an employee on your books, jobseeker payment doubled, rent and mortgage freezes for some, power bill levies, councils waiving fees......If this is socialism, maybe it's not that bad.
A pity the US is no longer a First World nation. Think what could have been done... Had anyone on Wall Street or Congress not conned Main Street into obeying instead of thinking. Instead... There's a joke in charge of a farce. My ancestors would die of shame, if they hadn't died serving this country already...
I don't wanna be rude but why are you suprised? Currently you have a born rich president, a "tycoon"; he never faced poorness in his whole life. He clearly represents the US rich minority, which he is part of. How you can expect him to understand the needs of the middle and lower class?
None of this matters, in future china will own the US. Better start learning the language now.
Load More Replies...Australia.....$1500 per fortnight to keep an employee on your books, jobseeker payment doubled, rent and mortgage freezes for some, power bill levies, councils waiving fees......If this is socialism, maybe it's not that bad.
A pity the US is no longer a First World nation. Think what could have been done... Had anyone on Wall Street or Congress not conned Main Street into obeying instead of thinking. Instead... There's a joke in charge of a farce. My ancestors would die of shame, if they hadn't died serving this country already...