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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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If anybody's tempted by those numbers, remember Trump's track record of not paying people.
It's true. The ice employees have not been getting paid. And the bonus is a joke with so many impossible strings attached.
"Did we say 'USD'? Sorry, that was a typo. We meant 'leprechaun gold'."
Close! We actually meant TrumpUSD, an up and coming crypto coin that is expected to go up in value forever!
Are you under the impression he's paying them out of his own pocket
Plenty of government people didn't get the pardons/promotions/etc they were promised under Trump
Not at all. But that "$45,000 sign on bonus?" That was only for experienced, returning agents and only for a limited time (now passed). They didn't say that anywhere in the advertisements. That proves they're willing to lie to further their own ends, and nobody's able to hold them accountable when they do.
The fact that the salary comes out of the taxpayers' pockets also means it's contingent on politics, and the democrats are likely to win in the midterms, and they're starting to indicate that they may actually respond to public pressure and start pushing back.
You only have to look at all the homeless veterans and people killing themselves in VA waiting rooms to see how the empire "rewards" those who serve it. The McDonald's employee who snitched on Luigi never got the reward they'd promised either.
Sign up, be so hated by the public that you have to hide your face, drag innocent people away to secret torture dungeons, get scammed out of your bonus, and yeah maybe you can get your 30 pieces of silver. But at that point, why not just sell crack? More trustworthy employers and less harmful to society.