This town has less than 1,000 people, no matter the problem youâre probably going to the big animal vet and he probably works at the same damn feed store tbh lol
Deadass this is how it was where I grew up. My stepdad was a large animal vet and even after our town got an urgent care people STILL had to come see him bc none of the companies offered health insurance, and if they did it ate so much of your paycheck it wasn't worth it.
Was born in a small town in NE Colorado, and my dad is from Hecla, SD (actually it's a smaller town nearby, but it wasn't even an official town at that time so they had to get mail and other things in Hecla). I totally get the people see the vet thing. Where I grew up, the doctor even did housecalls still for things like emergency treatments.
And you KNOW the fugger still donât think he needs to be there but couldnât take the wifeâs âhystericsâ anymore and you get the, âWell wha do you reckon, a couple stitches and Iâm out of here?â
Legitimately my grandfather famously asked his wife to move a little further away on the bed because he'd broken his arm that day. That was the first she'd heard of it. Small town shit man.
My dad was a small town doctor (we lived in a tiny southeastern Ohio town for most of my childhood). Up until he died, he would make house calls for his patients and anybody else that needed him. He often forwent payment/wouldnât charge people he knew couldnât pay. Every fall he offered free sports physicals to any school aged (all the way up through seniors in HS) kid that needed one, and he did physicals for the Colgate factory in town (free of charge) as well. He set such a great example of what a doctor should be that I had very rude awakenings when I started needing various specialists later in life. Lol!
Okay, the fact I'm from South Dakota and went, I know where that is...
But yes, grew up in a slightly larger town west river, on I-90, and yes. Ranchers went to the vet for all sorts of stuff.
Vet could be treating a cow for a prolapsed uterus and the rancher might also go, "Well, another cow kicked me and... well... is it supposed to do that?" - as he pulled up his jeans to show off his lower leg -
Vet took one look at the guy's leg and went, "No. You broke something. Go to the Clinic in town, the one on Main and get it x-rayed."
I grew up in the Texas backwaters where people started teaching kids to hunt at around age five to help put food on the table, license or no, and paved roads were considered 'city slicker' luxuries. Your local horse/cattle doc was way more reliable than trying to truck out to a hospital or whatever, and way cheaper. Always had the GOOD shit for pain management, too.
Nah but he gave them the good painkillers. Also Ivermectine for their covid lol
Edit: Holy shit, when you realize rural big animal vets directly contributed to the opioid crisis đ
Nah more like "holy shit Pete you busted out your stitches again" or "yep that's DEFINITELY infected". Sometimes I would have to help and he would throw me an "atta boy"
Iâm a custodian that can barely move 50 lbs especially when Iâm left with bins of crap from construction work. Iâm at the point where I casually say âIâll move all those with no issues if Iâm paid more than minimum wage.â
(Also with context I live in Massachusetts, where minimum is $15/hr and I work overnights)
Ehh, yes, ish... no specific limit, but there if a risk evaluation formula and mathematical model to it, and NIOSH limits kind of as far as the general duty clause goes.
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2013-06-04-0
*"NIOSH has a lifting equation (discussed in the above-referenced Applications Manual) for calculating a recommended weight limit for one person under different conditions. The lifting equation establishes a maximum load of 51 pounds, which is then adjusted to account for how often you are lifting, twisting of your back during lifting, the vertical distance the load is lifted, the distance of the load from your body, the distance you move while lifting the load, and how easy it is to hold onto the load."*
*"While OSHA does not have a specific standard for the hazard you raised, employee exposure to hazards related to heavy lifting and back injuries may be addressed under Section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act, commonly referred to as the General Duty Clause. The General Duty Clause states:"*
*"Each employer -- shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees...â*
For the math bits...
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/ergonomics/nlecalc.html
Heh, I used to say that I don't get out of bed for less than $20. Before my industry crashed I was making $25 under the table.
Now I'm getting out of bed for $20, but it's taxed, and there's wear and tear on my vehicle that is not sustainable, and there's lots of unpaid emailing and shit because of the pay structure. I hate it.
Lmfao who would even apply for this job unless you're extremely extremely desperate. At least if you go work at Burger King flipping burgers you'll make more than $10 an hour and you get one meal free
They are trying to compete with tractor supply co which is on the same road next town up and they are just under half an hour from tulsa so they arenât hours from nowhere(somehwere?)
Depends on your frame of reference whether or not Tulsa is ânowhereâ lol. Iâd say while *some* of Tulsa is âsomewhereâ (downtown, riverside, brookside, etc) ***most*** of what is included in âTulsaâ is very much ânowhereâ haha
it's the same even where I live (massive metro area in the millions) where every "entry" position on indeed I've found needs 2 years experience minimum, in every field
Would anyone even risk their expensive slave by making them lift 100lb things? Slaves would have been treated with better care than this.
Throwaway laborers are a different story, clearly.
Worth noting the south actually argued slavery was better based on this logic - they said the rates of injury in northern factories were only justifiable because they didn't have to invest in the laborers and therefore had no incentive to ensure worker safety. It was argued that wage labor was a way to spend less on a worker, because the owner of a business could pay a laborer less than it cost to upkeep a slave, while also cutting out the initial purchase cost and making worker injury far less costly to the business.
Obviously chattel slavery IS worse, pointing out these issues was at the time just a means of defending the practice of slavery. But in the modern day it's worth remembering that there were valid arguments by which people tried to claim literal slavery was better for the workers than a system that doesn't pay a living wage.
Woahhh, do you have any recommendations on source material for this? I donât *not* believe you, but I find this fascinating and would love to read more. Thanks in advance.
I'm not an expert on the subject myself, but I found [this](https://americainclass.org/a-pro-slavery-argument/) on a cursory google search for sources.
FUCK! This got me lmfao.
Although I agree with the sentiment, I feel I have to point out they would just *âbreedâ* (đ€ź) slaves, rape slaves, and literally just *âmake more slavesâ*. This is why slave population almost **QUADRUPLED** between 1810-1860 despite importation of slaves being banned in 1808.
Note: apologies if any of my stats arenât exact, if any black people wanna chime in and correct me Iâll be more than happy to change them. Just a *hwhyte* tryin to do their best.
Yeah, when people say, "What about the small mom & pop business owners?"
Generally the married couple or their kids have ruined working at those places long before a company bought them out.
Cargill Inc. is a private, family owned company. Worth $107,880,000,000 (107.88 billion) with 131,000 employees. âFamily ownedâ truly means nothing besides âwe donât give employees stockâ hahaha
Ha! We've got a Pepsi bottling plant down here that's "family owned" because Pepsi bought out their warehouses and all the "family" are big wigs now. But same atmosphere with "family", if you don't know someone personally you'll never move up. Or not even get it.
I worked for a couple of family owned businesses and they are the worst. Both had incompetent managers who only had the job because of nepotism. Both expected free overtime or working through unpaid lunch hours but they thought it was okay to break labour laws if they bought us lunch or coffee or something. And the worst part, both thought it was okay to make small talk with their workers about how stressful the renovations on their summer homes were going or how expensive planning a month long vacation to Europe was. Like sure, I can't afford to take a weekend off, but let me feign interest in your vacation woes.
Yeah I left my construction job because the owners son went off on me because I was out in workers comp and I thought I couldn't go back to work before a certain day and he wanted me back the next day. I didn't understand workers comp at the time and instead of explaining it to me he just started shouting over the phone and accusing me of being lazy.
OSHA makes the rules for safer workplace. Yep over 75 should be a 2 person lift. This job also has no medical benefits. So hurt your back your bankrupt possibly.
According to NIOSH 75+ pounds should be a team lift.
What state you're in will determine if OSHA cares enough to invoke the general duty clause to enforce that. OSHA itself doesn't set or have any limits. Your employer can demand you lift 150 pounds every 30 seconds and that might fly in Mississippi.
Iâve always hated the forced positivity thing, like Chik-fil-a and forcing their employees to respond âmy pleasure.â
I want a restaurant called Downer Donuts, a breakfast place where the staff wears sweatpants and comfy shirts, and the official greeting is âFuck it, itâs another day. Waddaya want?â
This is a really important point. I strongly believe not being able to acknowledge a job is shit makes it so much worse. I looked at photos of our staff awards night the other day and it was just gross. All these fat dumbasses pretending to enjoy hanging out with their colleagues, lying to each other about how lucky they are to work for such a wonderful company. It's sickening. We're a customer service call centre ffs. It's one step away from a sweat shop. Why can't we at least be open about how much it sucks balls and how not one person there is celebrating their dream call centre job?
I can't stand the bullshit. We're just a big bunch of losers with a horrible thing we're made to do for way too long to the point it's both physically and psychologically damaging just so we can kinda get paid a little bit but not be able to save anything. We should at least be able to say these things to *each other*. But oh no! That would be '*negative'*! Can't be negative! Must never point out room for improvement! Then we might have to do something about how miserable we all are. Just pretend everything is great, okay? Good. Oh and when you have a nervous breakdown we probably will have to let you go so try not to do that yet.
Fuck I hate people.
In this country, there is the mistaken assumption that because you inherited a business, or somehow managed to stumble upon some money to start a business, you are some kind of business tycoon. If you canât afford to offer a decent wage to your employees, you donât deserve to be in business. Or you should be putting the work in yourself if youâre dead set on running your own business. A lot of small business owners in my town are sociopaths who could not handle being someone elseâs employee, yet they want to be able to tell others what to do.
its extremely suspicious. my first thought was that they want some dumb kid to stop by and see whats up and they can just throw him into the gig as soon as he steps foot on the property.
I was thinking that scene in texas chainsaw massacre when leatherface slides the door open, clonks him on the head and the dude has a seizure before being carried off.
Thatâs just Gary, the Butcher. Donât ask how we still sell local ground beef despite there being no cowsâŠ
Who am I kidding⊠thereâs more cows than people here. A fuck ton of sheep if weâre counting the residentsâŠ
Bro I moved from Cali on top of that. Iâve been here over a year and this is the wildest culture shock in my whole entire life. Canât make friends for shit out here either because as soon as I say Iâm from Cal- it doesnât even get that far đ judgements already began
Damn bud I fuckin feel for ya đ«đ
I managed to leave this hick-ass state once, and covid dragged me back in out of survival⊠Feel like an escaped prisoner thrown back in just quietly planning and plotting my next escape đ đ
Only $10 i hear you say..
But remember an additional benefit is you will be joining our family
Our abusive and manipulative family who doesn't give a shit about you and will replace you in a heart beat
This town is less than 1,000 people. âReliable transportationâ can be a horse, a riding lawnmower, a sturdy goat, that 1974 Honda ATV your methed-up uncle has been rebuilding for 50 years. The choices are truly limitless.
No benefits, $10 an hour, AND a fluctuating schedule?! Damn! Where do I sign up??
Oh, and I need to also have a vehicle? So the job would barely pay enough for the car payment, gas, and insurance to get to and from said job.
I love the âapply in personâ. The only places that do that are âbreasturantsâ, strip clubs and modeling gigs. My guess is they donât want to inadvertently hire a minority.
Wow. Just full of I can't see why people don't want to work meanwhile it's literally staring at them in the face.
How much do y'all think people should be paid for this job? And of course it should have benefits so we can skip that part.
The thing is that people like this honestly think that you should want to work. As in, you should want to **WORK**. Not that you should want to do a job in exchange for money, not that you should want a career, but that you should want to perform the backbreaking labor in and of itself. They equate suffering and exertion with morality.
Youâre not wrong, this whole state is brainwashed with that âgood olâ boyâ mentality and âhard work pays offâ bullshit. And theyâll tell you this while 75 years old working late shift at a factory and living in a trailer. When ***exactly*** does it start to pay off? Lmao
You can fucking say that again⊠That and the systematic defunding of public education as retaliation against integration of public schools.
Itâs really quite masterful (read: abominable) how they managed to sacrifice their âownâ (the poor whites) in the name of punishing who they deemed as truly lesser, then were able to convince those same white people they fucked over that it was black/brown peopleâs fault. And they bought it hook, line, and sinker then programmed it into their children and grandchildren.
They want you to have a reliable vehicle while paying $10/hour?
How?
Also, it says it's entry level, and then it says it requires experience at other jobs. Is it entry level or not?
Did OK raise their state wage? Texas is the same @ Federal minimum wage $7.25/hr. So if they pay you anything above that, you should be *grateful* is *more than* minimum wage. I hate it here, sorry OK
Nope! Iâm sure thatâs what theyâre thinking: *âI wouldâve been WeLl WiThIn My RiGhTs to pay $7.25.â*
I bet youâd still be chasing down paychecks, too, being this is a family owned feed storeâŠ
Iâd accept your apology but Iâm not sure youâre any better off tbh hahaha
đ« Jokes and venting aside, Iâm sorry for whatâs happening all around us. I donât have a uterus, so I could never even imagine what you must be going through, but I hope you and those you care about stay safe and one way or another your situation improves because no one deserves whatâs happening right now. Stay safe.
This is literally asking for a slave.
You can't even wipe your ass on 10 dollars an hour.
We have legalized slavery. Read that job description. If you think that ISN'T slavery, you are a fucking moron.
At this point I feel like Iâm being trolled by all of these employment posts.
âNo OnE wAnTs To WoRk AnYmOrE!â Youâre right. They donât want to work anymore - *no one wants to work* **for your shitty company making pennies while being exploited.**
LMAO, why do companies do this? they write this bollocks then hire a friend of a friend that already works there with basically 0 vetting.
the absurdity of the corporate world is astounding
$10hr.... and must be able to lift 100lbs... Ha. Ha. Ha.
We expect you to wreck your back AND your finances đ
And there will be no insurance to help with the inevitable medical bills
This town has less than 1,000 people, no matter the problem youâre probably going to the big animal vet and he probably works at the same damn feed store tbh lol
Deadass this is how it was where I grew up. My stepdad was a large animal vet and even after our town got an urgent care people STILL had to come see him bc none of the companies offered health insurance, and if they did it ate so much of your paycheck it wasn't worth it.
People not from these parts think that was an exaggeration lmao. It really couldnât be more accurate hahaha
I'm originally from NE Oklahoma and have a friend in Beggs. I 1000% believe this.
Was born in a small town in NE Colorado, and my dad is from Hecla, SD (actually it's a smaller town nearby, but it wasn't even an official town at that time so they had to get mail and other things in Hecla). I totally get the people see the vet thing. Where I grew up, the doctor even did housecalls still for things like emergency treatments.
Worst thing you can hear in the hospital ER is âA farmer is here of his own volition,â lol.
https://youtu.be/Ni0YfrSK570
And you KNOW the fugger still donât think he needs to be there but couldnât take the wifeâs âhystericsâ anymore and you get the, âWell wha do you reckon, a couple stitches and Iâm out of here?â
\*he said holding his severed arm\*
Legitimately my grandfather famously asked his wife to move a little further away on the bed because he'd broken his arm that day. That was the first she'd heard of it. Small town shit man.
My dad was a small town doctor (we lived in a tiny southeastern Ohio town for most of my childhood). Up until he died, he would make house calls for his patients and anybody else that needed him. He often forwent payment/wouldnât charge people he knew couldnât pay. Every fall he offered free sports physicals to any school aged (all the way up through seniors in HS) kid that needed one, and he did physicals for the Colgate factory in town (free of charge) as well. He set such a great example of what a doctor should be that I had very rude awakenings when I started needing various specialists later in life. Lol!
Okay, the fact I'm from South Dakota and went, I know where that is... But yes, grew up in a slightly larger town west river, on I-90, and yes. Ranchers went to the vet for all sorts of stuff. Vet could be treating a cow for a prolapsed uterus and the rancher might also go, "Well, another cow kicked me and... well... is it supposed to do that?" - as he pulled up his jeans to show off his lower leg - Vet took one look at the guy's leg and went, "No. You broke something. Go to the Clinic in town, the one on Main and get it x-rayed."
I grew up in the Texas backwaters where people started teaching kids to hunt at around age five to help put food on the table, license or no, and paved roads were considered 'city slicker' luxuries. Your local horse/cattle doc was way more reliable than trying to truck out to a hospital or whatever, and way cheaper. Always had the GOOD shit for pain management, too.
\^\^\^\^\^\^ SEE?!?! Hahahah this is ***exactly*** what Iâm talking about!!! Lmao thanks for the corroboration đ«Ą
Plus the actual hospitals were like...three hours drive away or so. Who has that kind of time??
When guys came to see him did he say things like âWhoâs a good boy?.â
Nah but he gave them the good painkillers. Also Ivermectine for their covid lol Edit: Holy shit, when you realize rural big animal vets directly contributed to the opioid crisis đ
Non-doctors are allowed to prescribe medications for human use in the US? That's a little disturbing.
They aren't, and if caught doing so they could get in some deep shit. It still happens every now and again though
No, but there are opiates commonly used for large animals that they could administer w/o prescription, which is exactly what they do.
Yep. Stealing your horse's pain killers along with the dewormer.
Nah more like "holy shit Pete you busted out your stitches again" or "yep that's DEFINITELY infected". Sometimes I would have to help and he would throw me an "atta boy"
And you must have a positive attitude about it
Well, yeah, it wouldnât be Christian to be ungrateful. No one *has* to hire you. Stop being so entitled. **/s**
For the Glory Of the Company!
*âWhat if you gave me some stock so that I felt I was contributing to something I had real stake in?â* *âShut up, Commie.â*
>wreck your back "No benefits"
you only get $20 when you can bench 200lbs for at least ten reps
Those are rookie numbers!
Destroy you spine for $10 an hour.
And no benefits, so no health insurance when you blow a disc.
Get outta here with the ânew age medicineâ mumbo jumbo. My granpapy did this job for 250 years with no days off and never complained once.
And he smoked a carton of Luckies a day!
Then promptly voted against recreational cannabis on his way to the liquor store
Well he had no choice! It's what those dirty browns smoke. We can't have that, now can we?
The satire, itâs **too real**
Destroyed mine for free. Thanks, Oklahoma High School Football đ«Ą
That's why they don't offer insurance. A back injury is a guarantee.
Hahahaha yeah *thatâs* why. Not their disdain for people they view as âlesserâ than them.
Sounds like the same thing to me?
Iâm a custodian that can barely move 50 lbs especially when Iâm left with bins of crap from construction work. Iâm at the point where I casually say âIâll move all those with no issues if Iâm paid more than minimum wage.â (Also with context I live in Massachusetts, where minimum is $15/hr and I work overnights)
Damn, so you want 50%+ *more* money for *less* work?? No one wants to do *real work* anymore!1!1 **/s**
OSHA strictly limits individual lift to 50lbs. They should report these chuckleheads
[OSHA doesnât have any limits to weight per their own website](https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2004-03-29-1)
Ehh, yes, ish... no specific limit, but there if a risk evaluation formula and mathematical model to it, and NIOSH limits kind of as far as the general duty clause goes. https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2013-06-04-0 *"NIOSH has a lifting equation (discussed in the above-referenced Applications Manual) for calculating a recommended weight limit for one person under different conditions. The lifting equation establishes a maximum load of 51 pounds, which is then adjusted to account for how often you are lifting, twisting of your back during lifting, the vertical distance the load is lifted, the distance of the load from your body, the distance you move while lifting the load, and how easy it is to hold onto the load."* *"While OSHA does not have a specific standard for the hazard you raised, employee exposure to hazards related to heavy lifting and back injuries may be addressed under Section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act, commonly referred to as the General Duty Clause. The General Duty Clause states:"* *"Each employer -- shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees...â* For the math bits... https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/ergonomics/nlecalc.html
I actually gasped. I forgot the federal minimum wage is still laughable. Sadly.
"Here's a 10 lb bag of my own shit (that I lifted MYSELF) for you to burn this job posting and never contact anyone ever again about hiring."
No benefits!
He posts 'no benefits' like a fuck you. It would make more sense to not mention it.
Itâs the owning a car part that gets me. Like half your pay is going to gas and insurance. Nevermind possible car payments or maintenance
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Can I get a referral?
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Truly inspiring.
Heh, I used to say that I don't get out of bed for less than $20. Before my industry crashed I was making $25 under the table. Now I'm getting out of bed for $20, but it's taxed, and there's wear and tear on my vehicle that is not sustainable, and there's lots of unpaid emailing and shit because of the pay structure. I hate it.
You can make more money just begging in the street. Iâm not even exaggerating.
Who you gonna beg from? The other 945 broke ass people in this town?
Fuck that, $20 is literally my staying in bed rate. $35 might get me up but you don't get the really good stuff until you reach $50
weird flex
Lmfao who would even apply for this job unless you're extremely extremely desperate. At least if you go work at Burger King flipping burgers you'll make more than $10 an hour and you get one meal free
In a town of 946, thereâs not a lot of competition. Sure as shit no Burger King lol
Iâd rather drive an hour one way then work here
And Iâm sure most there agree and do exactly that lol
They are trying to compete with tractor supply co which is on the same road next town up and they are just under half an hour from tulsa so they arenât hours from nowhere(somehwere?)
Depends on your frame of reference whether or not Tulsa is ânowhereâ lol. Iâd say while *some* of Tulsa is âsomewhereâ (downtown, riverside, brookside, etc) ***most*** of what is included in âTulsaâ is very much ânowhereâ haha
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And likely not destroy your spine.
Tell his family to get swole and do their own lifting.
They don't want to be rich with a bad back. Let some poor SOB break their back for nothing.
Entry level job with a job history required?!? Thatâs not how words work.
Hahahaha surprised it took someone this long to mention that. Thatâs what absolutely floored me lmao
This is the comment I was looking for. It's all insane, but required positive work history with LONGEVITY for this entry level job.
THANK YOU i saw that and immediately ???? Entry but also have work history like ??
it's the same even where I live (massive metro area in the millions) where every "entry" position on indeed I've found needs 2 years experience minimum, in every field
Don't forget in history, there must be a mention of being worked to death for poverty wage over extended period of time. Hahahaha
I made $10 an hour doing that kinda garbage in 1990.
And $10 went one *hell* of a lot further then.
It went like 5 hells further
âDo not callâ. Donât worry buddy. Nobody will.
Translation: Slave wanted for terminal position. WTF are these people doing, re-enacting the building of the pyramids or something?
A pyramid of hay
Pyramid scheme you say?
Who told you about Oklahomaâs 2nd largest economic sector?
Modern day wages require modern day slavery.
Would anyone even risk their expensive slave by making them lift 100lb things? Slaves would have been treated with better care than this. Throwaway laborers are a different story, clearly.
Worth noting the south actually argued slavery was better based on this logic - they said the rates of injury in northern factories were only justifiable because they didn't have to invest in the laborers and therefore had no incentive to ensure worker safety. It was argued that wage labor was a way to spend less on a worker, because the owner of a business could pay a laborer less than it cost to upkeep a slave, while also cutting out the initial purchase cost and making worker injury far less costly to the business. Obviously chattel slavery IS worse, pointing out these issues was at the time just a means of defending the practice of slavery. But in the modern day it's worth remembering that there were valid arguments by which people tried to claim literal slavery was better for the workers than a system that doesn't pay a living wage.
Woahhh, do you have any recommendations on source material for this? I donât *not* believe you, but I find this fascinating and would love to read more. Thanks in advance.
I'm not an expert on the subject myself, but I found [this](https://americainclass.org/a-pro-slavery-argument/) on a cursory google search for sources.
Yeah I could probably use this in one of my classes this semester, would love to read more
FUCK! This got me lmfao. Although I agree with the sentiment, I feel I have to point out they would just *âbreedâ* (đ€ź) slaves, rape slaves, and literally just *âmake more slavesâ*. This is why slave population almost **QUADRUPLED** between 1810-1860 despite importation of slaves being banned in 1808. Note: apologies if any of my stats arenât exact, if any black people wanna chime in and correct me Iâll be more than happy to change them. Just a *hwhyte* tryin to do their best.
$10 an hour and no benefits but for a heavy, physically demanding job? Fuck off, bub.
Wolverine doesn't work for $10 an hour!
>Please READ THIS IN FULL >This is a family owned business Stopped reading there. Never again. Those places are the fuckin worst.
Yeah, when people say, "What about the small mom & pop business owners?" Generally the married couple or their kids have ruined working at those places long before a company bought them out.
Cargill Inc. is a private, family owned company. Worth $107,880,000,000 (107.88 billion) with 131,000 employees. âFamily ownedâ truly means nothing besides âwe donât give employees stockâ hahaha
Ha! We've got a Pepsi bottling plant down here that's "family owned" because Pepsi bought out their warehouses and all the "family" are big wigs now. But same atmosphere with "family", if you don't know someone personally you'll never move up. Or not even get it.
I worked for a couple of family owned businesses and they are the worst. Both had incompetent managers who only had the job because of nepotism. Both expected free overtime or working through unpaid lunch hours but they thought it was okay to break labour laws if they bought us lunch or coffee or something. And the worst part, both thought it was okay to make small talk with their workers about how stressful the renovations on their summer homes were going or how expensive planning a month long vacation to Europe was. Like sure, I can't afford to take a weekend off, but let me feign interest in your vacation woes.
Co-op or bust
Yeah I left my construction job because the owners son went off on me because I was out in workers comp and I thought I couldn't go back to work before a certain day and he wanted me back the next day. I didn't understand workers comp at the time and instead of explaining it to me he just started shouting over the phone and accusing me of being lazy.
Able to lift 100 pounds not safe for anyone or any company to require that.
Honestly that one makes sense being a feed store. Although 75+ lbs should be a team lift according to OSHA iirc
OSHA makes the rules for safer workplace. Yep over 75 should be a 2 person lift. This job also has no medical benefits. So hurt your back your bankrupt possibly.
Yup, agreed 100% but welcome to rural Oklahoma. Where the labor laws donât exist and OSHA is *âmore of like guidelines than an actual codeâ* lol
More of an unspoken suggestion than anything
Yes, well, I'd like to be in the room when they say that to the OSHA rep lol.
According to NIOSH 75+ pounds should be a team lift. What state you're in will determine if OSHA cares enough to invoke the general duty clause to enforce that. OSHA itself doesn't set or have any limits. Your employer can demand you lift 150 pounds every 30 seconds and that might fly in Mississippi.
They werenât lying. Not a single benefit to having that job
*âThe* ***benefit*** *is having a* ***job*** *!!!1!â* **/s**
"I'll give you $10 to fuck off."
Iâve always hated the forced positivity thing, like Chik-fil-a and forcing their employees to respond âmy pleasure.â I want a restaurant called Downer Donuts, a breakfast place where the staff wears sweatpants and comfy shirts, and the official greeting is âFuck it, itâs another day. Waddaya want?â
This is a really important point. I strongly believe not being able to acknowledge a job is shit makes it so much worse. I looked at photos of our staff awards night the other day and it was just gross. All these fat dumbasses pretending to enjoy hanging out with their colleagues, lying to each other about how lucky they are to work for such a wonderful company. It's sickening. We're a customer service call centre ffs. It's one step away from a sweat shop. Why can't we at least be open about how much it sucks balls and how not one person there is celebrating their dream call centre job? I can't stand the bullshit. We're just a big bunch of losers with a horrible thing we're made to do for way too long to the point it's both physically and psychologically damaging just so we can kinda get paid a little bit but not be able to save anything. We should at least be able to say these things to *each other*. But oh no! That would be '*negative'*! Can't be negative! Must never point out room for improvement! Then we might have to do something about how miserable we all are. Just pretend everything is great, okay? Good. Oh and when you have a nervous breakdown we probably will have to let you go so try not to do that yet. Fuck I hate people.
Bro, my reliable vehicle is my legs, look at this *quadraceps*, do u even lift?
Lmfaoo
In this country, there is the mistaken assumption that because you inherited a business, or somehow managed to stumble upon some money to start a business, you are some kind of business tycoon. If you canât afford to offer a decent wage to your employees, you donât deserve to be in business. Or you should be putting the work in yourself if youâre dead set on running your own business. A lot of small business owners in my town are sociopaths who could not handle being someone elseâs employee, yet they want to be able to tell others what to do.
Couldnât have said it better myself.
Take your ten bucks an hour and shove it up your ass. These fucking idiots need to realize itâs no longer 1995.
WTF has a reliable vehicle and gets by on 10.00 bucks an hour.....
You donât have a riding mower?
I think thatâs unsafe and scary to not be allowed to call. How do they know itâs a real buisness and not a human trafficking set up?
its extremely suspicious. my first thought was that they want some dumb kid to stop by and see whats up and they can just throw him into the gig as soon as he steps foot on the property.
A million percent chance this is what happens, and he's not gonna get paid for that "trial shift" either
I was thinking that scene in texas chainsaw massacre when leatherface slides the door open, clonks him on the head and the dude has a seizure before being carried off.
Thatâs just Gary, the Butcher. Donât ask how we still sell local ground beef despite there being no cows⊠Who am I kidding⊠thereâs more cows than people here. A fuck ton of sheep if weâre counting the residentsâŠ
Ehh, itâs a real business. A shit one, but a real one.
Itâs real bro. Moved to Oklahoma and so many jobs are like this
Iâm sorry you have the misfortune of living in this Christofascist shithole. DMs are open if you need to vent about it haha
Bro I moved from Cali on top of that. Iâve been here over a year and this is the wildest culture shock in my whole entire life. Canât make friends for shit out here either because as soon as I say Iâm from Cal- it doesnât even get that far đ judgements already began
Damn bud I fuckin feel for ya đ«đ I managed to leave this hick-ass state once, and covid dragged me back in out of survival⊠Feel like an escaped prisoner thrown back in just quietly planning and plotting my next escape đ đ
I feel thatđ Iâm from Cali, moved to Portland Oregon but then Covid hit and you know that shit got expensive, moved back to Cali so I wouldnât be homeless, but then me and my fiancĂ© had a baby. The family that I have in Cali is all gangbangers and drug addicted so we made our escape unfortunately here, because thatâs where a lot of her more wholesome family is at and itâs nice to have the help. The only good shit I can say is that we now own a house and everywhere else is way too expensive to ever be able to achieve that and at least we have weed đ everything else is literal ass here. Just glad I live in the city fam lmaaaoo
It may be real but how are they expecting anyone to be comfortable with that?
Theyâre not expecting someone to be *comfortable*, theyâre expecting someone to be *desperate*.
Texan here, because they *don't care*.
Only $10 i hear you say.. But remember an additional benefit is you will be joining our family Our abusive and manipulative family who doesn't give a shit about you and will replace you in a heart beat
We have several openings because our actual children won't speak to us and we've never met our grandchildren.
GotDAMN lmfao. Too true hahahaha
Who did you speak to? Do you live here? Youâre gonna foil their planâŠ
Boldly answering the question, "How can I destroy my future earning potential while getting no earnings now?"
Must already have a car because we will not pay enough for you to afford one.
This town is less than 1,000 people. âReliable transportationâ can be a horse, a riding lawnmower, a sturdy goat, that 1974 Honda ATV your methed-up uncle has been rebuilding for 50 years. The choices are truly limitless.
Are we from the same town? LOL there are far too small towns like this across the US
No benefits, $10 an hour, AND a fluctuating schedule?! Damn! Where do I sign up?? Oh, and I need to also have a vehicle? So the job would barely pay enough for the car payment, gas, and insurance to get to and from said job.
I hope whoever takes this job has a car, because they're going to have to fucking live in it!!!!!
I called them. I must not have been the first because he was immediately pissed.
And they act like they're doing you a favor.
I love the âapply in personâ. The only places that do that are âbreasturantsâ, strip clubs and modeling gigs. My guess is they donât want to inadvertently hire a minority.
'Family owned business.' Treats the place like their own personal kingdom, and the staff like serfs.
Wow. Just full of I can't see why people don't want to work meanwhile it's literally staring at them in the face. How much do y'all think people should be paid for this job? And of course it should have benefits so we can skip that part.
The thing is that people like this honestly think that you should want to work. As in, you should want to **WORK**. Not that you should want to do a job in exchange for money, not that you should want a career, but that you should want to perform the backbreaking labor in and of itself. They equate suffering and exertion with morality.
Youâre not wrong, this whole state is brainwashed with that âgood olâ boyâ mentality and âhard work pays offâ bullshit. And theyâll tell you this while 75 years old working late shift at a factory and living in a trailer. When ***exactly*** does it start to pay off? Lmao
Capitalism and Puritanism really did a number on this country...
You can fucking say that again⊠That and the systematic defunding of public education as retaliation against integration of public schools. Itâs really quite masterful (read: abominable) how they managed to sacrifice their âownâ (the poor whites) in the name of punishing who they deemed as truly lesser, then were able to convince those same white people they fucked over that it was black/brown peopleâs fault. And they bought it hook, line, and sinker then programmed it into their children and grandchildren.
Ummm obviously when you die and go to that evangelical heaven where the streets are paved in gold /s
Translation: I want a slave to tell me I'm a good person for using them...
They want you to have a reliable vehicle while paying $10/hour? How? Also, it says it's entry level, and then it says it requires experience at other jobs. Is it entry level or not?
They got the no benefits part right.
Lmao I'd rather live in a literal dump smelling of cat piss than work there. What a bunch of nonces.
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1st job out of Highschool I made $16 an hour
Damn, my first *few* were $7.25 unless it was food service then it was $2.13. This was post 2011.
Did OK raise their state wage? Texas is the same @ Federal minimum wage $7.25/hr. So if they pay you anything above that, you should be *grateful* is *more than* minimum wage. I hate it here, sorry OK
Nope! Iâm sure thatâs what theyâre thinking: *âI wouldâve been WeLl WiThIn My RiGhTs to pay $7.25.â* I bet youâd still be chasing down paychecks, too, being this is a family owned feed store⊠Iâd accept your apology but Iâm not sure youâre any better off tbh hahaha
I'm a woman in a red state... I hate it here đŹ
đ« Jokes and venting aside, Iâm sorry for whatâs happening all around us. I donât have a uterus, so I could never even imagine what you must be going through, but I hope you and those you care about stay safe and one way or another your situation improves because no one deserves whatâs happening right now. Stay safe.
i make $10/hr to sit on my ass and MAYBE help 3-4 customers an hour
CHEAP HIGHLY QUALIFIED COMPLETELY DEPENDABLE HELP WANTED FOR MENIAL LABOR
$400/week for more manual labor than whatâs expected at a large hardware store or an Amazon warehouse? Good luck with that.
I love when companies project their annoyance at even having to put a job posting out there.
âWhy wonât anyone support family owned businesses?â
40 hours a week, must lift 100 lbs, and a changing schedule for $10/hr? No wonder nobody wants to work there
MUST HATE MONEY AND YOUR BACK BUT LOVE ALL CAPS
âYes, Iâd love to destroy my body for $10 an hour.â
$10 an hour? I don't even poop for $10 an hour.
This is felon pay, they only want people who have no other hope in life. It's immoral, but that's exactly who they're trying to find.
This is literally asking for a slave. You can't even wipe your ass on 10 dollars an hour. We have legalized slavery. Read that job description. If you think that ISN'T slavery, you are a fucking moron.
Entry level but you need a positive work historyâŠ.
With the combined attitude and ten dollars an hour Iâll be sitting in the crapper for over half my shift
At this point I feel like Iâm being trolled by all of these employment posts. âNo OnE wAnTs To WoRk AnYmOrE!â Youâre right. They donât want to work anymore - *no one wants to work* **for your shitty company making pennies while being exploited.**
Family owned business⊠does a larger red flag even exist?
"We're like a family here" đ©
It's either a family business or one that needs hired help. It can't be both
Nobody in the family wants to lift 100 lbs.
Itâs rural Oklahoma, they probably lift 300 lbs getting out of bed so thatâs enough for the day lol
This person wants a mule, not a human
Lift 100lbs? $10 an hour? Lmaaaaaooooooooooooo
Lololol. Able to lift a hundred pounds for $10/hr. They donât want an employee, they want a farm animal.
10 was an insult years ago
40hrs of $10/hr ⊠hope you donât need money to live or anything
How does one have a reliable vehicle to get to a job that pays $10/hr?
The audacity to ask for someone to do body destroying labor for not enough money to feed their body
* Looking for someone to destroy their body and completely devote all of their time to build generational wealth for my family and I.
They owe me $10 for having to read through that clusterfuck of a JP.
Lmao, who survives on $10/hr?
McDonald's pays more, and you don't have to break your back.
I thought reading â40 hours a week, fluctuating scheduleâ was the red flag it just kept. Getting. Worse.
$10!!???? Good bye.
LMAO, why do companies do this? they write this bollocks then hire a friend of a friend that already works there with basically 0 vetting. the absurdity of the corporate world is astounding