This man, supposedly, was forced out of his family home as a child and spent time living on the streets. He supposedly knows what it’s like to be homeless because home is too dangerous. And yet we get this bullshit!
I realize its mostly political grandstanding, and that he has no authority to prevent immigrants from moving to Maine, but fuck his attitude anyway.
No, we (and I’m not a Democrat, thank you very much) are trying to make sure people get paid fairly for the work they do! And jab a retractable baton up your asshole alongside of the corkscrew for thinking that people don’t deserve to get paid fairly for their work!
I’ll be glad when this fucktard no longer has any authority in my state. Anyone not from this area, please be assured that we’re not all assholes like him!
Sounds like he wants Chinese Overtime? I don’t think that’s what it’s actually called, but my sister in law went through that when she worked for Eckard Pharmacy. She had manditory oveerime, something like 60 per week. Each hour over 40 she got paid less, and then after like 5 hours it was lower than her regular per hour rate. This was the late 1990s. Does anyone know about that or go through it? Sounds shitty to me, especially when you had to do it without choice.
Did you mean your title to say “telephone pole auger” instead of “corkscrew”?. I don’t think LePage would even notice the latter. I’m all in favor of the telephone pole auger. If you’re gonna do a serious job, you’ll need a serious tool.
Those people should propose what they consider more fair solutions to the widespread problems of
employers exploiting salaried employees for hours of extra labor with no extra pay, and
the real value of the minimum wage drastically lagging inflation, so that in real terms minimum-wage workers now are earning much less than their counterparts thirty-odd years ago.
Just continuing to play the game of Conservative Obstructionism, in which conservative politicians loudly squawk when liberals propose any alleviation of the economic squeezing of non-wealthy workers, but don’t offer a damn thing in the way of any such alleviation themselves, is not an acceptable approach for “those people”. At least, not if “those people” wish to be considered non-assholes.
:dubious: In other words, you do think it’s unfair that they can no longer exploit people in this way?
Congratulations, you’re an asshole.
Or, if you have an argument to make for what you consider a more fair way to avoid such exploitation, by all means make it. But simply playing Conservative Obstructionism against existing attempts to alleviate exploitation of workers, without proposing a better alternative, is an asshole move.
You’re kind of missing the point. Nobody is denying that LePage and his ideological allies are legally entitled to participate in the Republican lawsuit over the DoL regulation (and also to squawk against raising the minimum wage, while they’re at it).
The point of this Pitting is that their position amounts to nothing more than anti-worker Conservative Obstructionism, and consquently is asshole behavior.
