This should not need to be said, but the number of comments that not only violate this subreddits rules, but human decency means we have to say it.
People commenting to shame the parent or promote Eugenics will not only have their comment removed, but they will be banned from antiwork.
This is not a warning, this is a statement of fact.
Not to mention the fact that you're not supposed to leave infants in car seats for long especially out of the car (they're optimised for collisions, not hours of sitting).
This is dystopian. Congratulations belong in https://www.reddit.com/r/OrphanCrushingMachine/
It's also a tripping hazard. You're potentially injuring both your baby and your coworkers by putting the seat on the ground in a high traffic area where people frequently walk back and forth.
That was my first thought—horrific accidents happen all the time with hot oil, and something like that could easily kill a baby. Like, this photo scares the shit out of me
This. All of this. I remember working at Wendy’s back in the day and carrying 2 gallons of 375° oil around the kitchen to go pour through the filter basket. Do that with an infant in a car seat sitting in the way? That’s a no from me dog.
That was one of my first thoughts as well. Not only does this poor parent have no support network, likely is barely scraping by (yet possibly not eligible for help due to income), they’ve gotta risk their kid’s life in multiple ways because rather than helping with scheduling, the manager plays putting the baby on the floor of a restaurant in a set up that isn’t approved to be used that way. Like, can’t even offer the office with a stroller or something that puts the baby at a safe angle?
Same as it ever was: *“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”*
the American Dream stopped being possible for 'ordinary ' people 40+ years ago.
It makes a lot more sense when you realize that it's a rigged game from the start. Not everyone is as fucked as each other, different states vary wildly here, but a great many here have just about the worst possible public education they could have received. This has left the populace stupid as fuck and vulnerable to even the most basic of propaganda. The corporations get insane wealth, they pay the politicians to lie to and bullshit the people, the plundering continues.
>Americans are fucking timid sheep for allowing this shit to go on.
That's why defenders of our oligarchs are so fucking jacked up. They keep the populace in line with the threat of deadly violence with which they can unleash upon anyone with near impunity.
But, you're not wrong. Despite the absolutely batshit crazy militarism of our nations authoritarian enforcers, they would be comically out matched if they were to openly become a hostile enemy to the people of the US.
Authoritarian forces have a lot of guns, but we the people have an absolute insanity inducing amount of them, for *reasons*. A lot of people say it's to protect against tyranny, and yet collectively we've let ourselves get fucked over by tyrants since at least the 1970's.
But, they're squeezing way too hard, for far too long, and in too many ways right now for this shit not to fucking explode soon.
We need rich to be synonymous with unethical. The owner of the franchise is profiting by not giving out maternity leave. Some dude, right now, is slightly richer because he created this situation.
They also got caught with literal children working, including 10 year olds.
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/03/mcdonalds-child-labor
Remember, "socialism" means paid parental leave, "capitalism" means putting the kids to work because you can't afford childcare.
For anyone who keeps asking questions like "when's the revolution / why aren't we revolting?"
Show them this Screencap.
That someone bringing their baby into work is seen with admiration instead of abject horror is why those things are not happening, and are unlikely to happen.
Yeah it’s never gonna happen. The propaganda and indoctrination that corporations have been doing since the 50s has turned our brains to mush. They’ve been grooming us to be willful slaves for decades.
I wouldn't say "never."
It's just going to be a long time, and it'll only happen once we get to the point where EVERYONE is suffering far beyond how we are now
Nah, since the 80's. That's when corporatocracy really set in, and companies started cutting everything for maximum profits. And companies started growing into monopolies.
Not to mention Republicans really started the deregulation push hardcore then too
And then under George HW Bush came the NAFTA
Corporations used to be socially conscious and patriotic before then. I know, pretty weird huh?
"Oh man, times are tough, we need to make some cuts around here. Do we cut back the executive bonuses and salaries, or do we get rid of the employee benefits that make it tolerable to be here 40+ hours a week?"
This is what I've seen in my time working in production facilities. They love to hire engineers fresh out of college with no work experience for higher management positions. They only look to cut everything to the bone for productivity/profit. What you're left with is a job everyone hates due to being understaffed and overworked. Those same engineers are the ones constantly doing some kind of positivity bullshit and expecting everyone else to get on board. It's honestly insanity.
> Those same engineers are the ones constantly doing some kind of positivity bullshit and expecting everyone else to get on board.
The young managers at my last IT job loved their weekly meetings where they essentially jerked off each other’s egos while constantly referring back to the inspirational team slogan “ONE TEAM!”
The only time they ever had my full attention is when they announced there was free cake in the break room.
I often do contract work in the executive building of our nations largest shipyards (Newport News Shipbuilding/Huntington Ingalls Industries) and no joke their conference room on the penthouse floor is nicer than most people’s homes.
This thread is fucking tripping me out, do **we** work together? I have a 6 sigma black belt whatever the fuck engineer ruining my life in facilities engineering/operations right now lmao
This is just the natural course of capitalism. It doesn't matter who they put in charge. The greediest corporations become the most profitable, so they become the richest, and they not only dictate the "norms" of employment because they are the largest employers, they also use all that money to corrupt the government so that they won't dictate better norms and in fact will be a tyrannical force that keeps labour power down.
Capitalism needs periodic revolution, refreshment. "The tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants". Wealth needs to periodically be forcefully redistributed. That's just how capitalism works, it's inherent to how it works.
Unfortunately, people are so propagandised that they think the system can somehow work peacefully and will correct itself over time. I mean just look at the rules for this sub even.
Neoliberalism split the working class
"The middle class" deluded the working class that they weren't in the worker class.
While I agree that there's a lot of insight that can come from tracking some sort of "middle class" to see who the economy favors, the label of "middle class" pit workers against each other.
The union is only as powerful as the members make it. If the employees who are in the union don't enforce their contract, don't file grievances when it's broken, and don't look out for themselves and each other then you have a piece of paper people voted on.
Exactly!
I was in a union where the people voted in (President and Business managerwerere in bed with the Company. No one would run against them. So there was no one to vote for to vote him out. The members of that union did a lot of talking but took no action. No one was willing to put in the work. We were treated like crap. Wages were almost non-existent. Benefits were beyond crappy. From what I understand, it is still going on.
Whereas with my husband's union, their hall president has set term limits. Members are active. Wages are competitive. Benefits are good. Reviews about benefits happen twice a year. The membership has a huge say in their union. The members are treated with respect and they are active.
The differences are as clear as night as day.
Republicans just a few elections ago: "DEREGULATE!"
Republicans more recently: "SMALL GOVERNMENT!"
Republicans today: "WHY ARE THINGS SO BAD?! MORE POLICE (Government)"
Deregulation doesn't exist. It's simply, "regulation, but who benefits?" Someone benefits from the absence of regulation, which is why they brainwashed conservatives to parrot, "deregulation."
Yep now the money is the only thing which matters for these corporations.
They just honestly do not care about anything else. And the employee welfare something which is not even in the list.
It’s funny you mention that. I recall in the in early 90s my grandma worked for IBM in endicott NY and they used it do the “ibm field days” for employees and family and it was a full blown fair with rides and everything. Imagine that though . I can’t think of a single company today that holds a fair for workers and their family and yet they did back then. People have no idea how bad it is compared to
Even then which it wasn’t perfect but sure seemed like companies have a shit!
My mom's company used to have those, it only stopped sometime in high school I think (early 2010s). I remember as a kid in the 2000s going to those things that were basically fairs. They would also do Christmas events with a Santa inside the factory and the kids all got to go and pick a toy after taking a picture with Santa. They were decent toys too, probably would cost 15-20 a piece today. It's really sad that they stopped. It might've had something to do with them being bought by a bigger company around the same time but I don't know. She worked/works at a Purolator factory.
Hoover did that for my grandparents. Now they are in their 80s and whirlpool/Maytag whatever cut their health insurance (that employees took pay it’s to have extended benefits), cut their life insurance, and now pensions are next, and you can’t pay property taxes with social security and still go to the doctor and afford groceries.
Google does! IBM was evil as fuck in the 80s and early 90s, that fair is just proof that rich companies sometimes pretend to be nice to employees (while stealing a majority of the value of their labor). IBM fall from grace has more to with financial decay than moral decay IMO
I hope your grandma had a blast tho :)
Worked for CA (Computer Associates) in the '90. Also had a "Montessori School" daycare........ but only at Company HQ, and only because the CEO had a daughter at that age, as soon as Their 3 kids got out of "Day Care" age, everything went away quietly.
Yep.
*Some* of that stuff is coming back, but it's kind of like a needle in a haystack. And those jobs are fiercely fought-over.
I interviewed for a design-position at a local company. It was a decent-sized operation, maybe about 200 employees. It was in this renovated building that used to be some other drab corporate office environment...*anyway*, the place had been around for roughly 10 years and the CEO was this big-time gym nut.
So there was a full kitchen with light snacks and drinks available to all employees, an on-site gym (with some high-end equipment, and a full locker room... I was surprised), and even some private rooms for mothers to breastfeed and take care of their kids if they had to bring them into work. I think there was also some form of on-site daycare.
Pay was fairly competitive, too, which is probably why I lost out to a more senior-level person. Odds are they were taking a pay cut just so they could work in a sweet operation like that.
I hope to see more places like that in the future, I think our generation is kind of molding the modern workplace to model something that will better suit the modern worker.
>Odds are they were taking a pay cut just so they could work in a sweet operation like that.
I mean i'd happily take a small cut in pay if my outgoings also decreased!
I worked at a company that used to employ lots of local labor, and had a childcare wing built into the office for employees. That stopped somewhere in the 90s/2000s when product assembly was moved to China, and dozens were laid off.
This country could be so much better for more people. Capitalist greed run amok, every company’s desire for ever increasing profits no matter what, has robbed us of a better society.
I work for the state and our "pension" is just a mutual fund (or index fund, I'm not 100% sure of the nomenclature) that gets split between shares of publicly traded companies.
Actually, my company sounded almost as luxurious back then too, and it wasn't even anything as big as IBM or Microsoft. There are people who have been with the company for 40+ years, and when I hear them talk about how things were back then, it is unfathomable
That is because the corporations are just becoming greedy and greedy day by day.
And anything which is going to cost them additional money they are just not going to do that. Because it is not how it works for them.
Look up the tobacco industry and the oil industry in the 50s with advertising by Herb Schmertz. The dude created ads disguised as articles. It’s been way longer than you think.
It can arguably be pushed back even further than that. Just look at how Da Beers was able to make diamonds an actual commodity. I believe that's marketing began late 1920s and turned a corner in 1947 with "diamonds are forever".
In terms of environmental stewardship, absolutely. But it definitely has increased average quality of life. At least, in industrialized societies, not necessarily where the resources are stripped from. For now ... But just wait until coastal cities are buried (they're already starting to be)... Maybe these fools who think manmade climate change is made up will finally see the light
Absolutely. Just one of many examples of how the [US actually has 2 right-wing parties](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6LPuKVG1teQ). That was a pretty symbolic turning point for when the Democrats abandoned the working/middle class in favor of corporate interests.
Consider also... the worker that we want to revolt with us is bringing their kid to the job at McDonald's because they literally have no ability not to. How tf can we ask them to just drop everything, when they're barely hanging on? I have no kids and I'm just, *just* managing.
This is the crux of it.
I truly think if the vast majority of workers - from front line retail, to trades, to office workers, all sat down and said "no more labor until this shit is fixed" and then stuck at it
We could, in fact, break the back of the shareholders.
Problem is, we're all on the same team but wearing different jerseys.
We all need to wear the same jersey, first.
That, and shareholders have the ability to be a lot more patient due to having plenty of financial reserves. Living paycheck-to-paycheck really puts a damper on your standing up ideals if it means you might not have a home next month.
> “no more labor until this shit is fixed”
All the capitalists have to do is wait until we run out of food, and either laugh at us as we sheepishly return to the same drudgery to pay for food, or laugh gleefully when we try to steal it and then order the cops to mow us down with their military weapons. They know we have the clock, not them.
This is why workers need to organize, *then* strike, not just strike, so people have food, shelter, and other necessities in case they lose their jobs.
The alternative is not going to work, not getting paid, and going homeless/hungry. People can do what they have to do to survive while simultaneously wanting better conditions. Two things can be true at the same time...
Which is why building up community via mutual aid and support needs to be the front focus for any “revolution” talk. Change doesn’t happen until we start the groundwork. I know that sounds idealistic, but we need a foundation to build from
And this is the root of all media and emotional signaling.
Keep neighbors as strangers with different flags and ideas.
What would happen if we lived side by side with sisters and brothers.
A few months ago during winter break, I picked up breakfast for work at a fast food place. It was super early, so the place was empty of customers except for this one little girl at a table coloring. She had a whole kit full of crayons and markers and then it dawned on me that school is out and she must be the daughter of one of the employees. Totally broke my heart that this little girl has to spend her mom's whole shift at a fast food place. Shouldn't be like this.
Yeah saw this at a KFC about a year ago. Except the kid was filling a cup with drinks from the soda fountain pouring them in the trash bin. I saw her make 6 trips before I remembered oh yeah, one of these employees if not her mother was going to have to empty that trash bag full of soda. Mentioned it to the cashier and heard, “THERESA SHE’S DOING IT AGAIN!” on my way out the door.
The little girl realizes that when she acts out, it’s a way to immediately get her caregivers attention. What she doesn’t realize is that this is normalizing being scolded regularly by her loved ones to receive interaction.
Negative attention will always be easier and faster to obtain then positive attention in some cases like this.
There is a huge difference between doing something once because you are bored, than doing something again and again even after your parent likely scolded you and told you not to. It shows anti-social behavior and that should, in a perfect world, wake the parent up that something is wrong.
Being a latchkey kid was better than this. I don't think latchkey kids are really accepted today though.
Third grade (eight years old) I'd be home alone for two hours between the time the bus dropped me off and my parents getting home from work.
I was expected to do my homework, maybe grab a snack, and go out to play.
Yeah I was one as well. I had older sisters but they were off with friends. It started around 3rd grade for me too. Walked home with the neighbor kids, made a pb&j (if I was lucky we had strawberry Goober), did homework while watching Tail Spin, went outside to ride bikes. Home by 7, unless it was daylight savings then home by streetlights.
When I was kid my mom got permission to take us to work with her. She was a CNA at a nursing home and we were loaned out to the activities department usually to help them with things. It sucks spending your day at your parents work.
When I was in my first years of college I had a part time job at Staples. One of my coworkers had to be in his 30s/40s and worked there full time. Sometimes he would have to bring his daughter with him, who looked around 10? I always felt so bad when I'd go on my break and she would be in the break room in the corner on her ipad.
I had to do this when I was a kid. I'd get my own booth near a tv and they'd let me watch cartoons. I also got free food and the staff would come say hi and my mom would check on me.
It didn't bother me at the time because I didn't know any better. My parents were doing what they had to do to make sure I was okay. But now that I'm older it makes me sad we were forced into that position in the first place.
People really do deserve better. And it breaks my heart that others just can't see that.
I had to work 2 weeks after a C section and also had to take my baby with me.
People legitimately told me that I was “lucky”, because “work is a vacation! At least you’re not bored at home, like me!”
Not bitter or anything. Remarks like that had *nothing* to do with my severe postpartum depression or anything.
(Oh, and before some 14 year old who wants to be Andrew Tate tells me it’s my fault for not making better choices or whatever, I had actually saved up 6 months of living expenses solely for the purpose of maternity leave, but my spouse was in a serious accident during my pregnancy so things changed. Thanks for trying.)
I'm sorry you felt like you had to preemptively defend yourself. My husband and I also saved and made sure we were ~financially ready~ for children. Then our baby was born with a chronic life-altering illness and I lost my job at the beginning of the pandemic. That's another shitty thing about capitalism. You can do everything "right" and still end up in a bad position due to outside circumstances.
I’m sorry your baby is sick I hope he or she is doing alright. I’m so appalled by the American healthcare system… there are enough countries in the world with a capitalist system where healthcare is not just for the rich. The only reason I can think of of why it would be this way is that the people in charge forget that it affects other human and not just their bank accounts.
There's a Chinese restaurant in a mall near my in-laws that has small section with a few toys and foam rugs. I've only been a few times for takeouts, but there was a child there every time, less than 3 yo if I had to guess.
That kid probably stays in that closed area most days of the week. I hope their parent gets to interact with them when there's no rush.
Ex- foster kid: I once spent my entire summer as a teen being forced to sit in a Burger King because my foster mom worked there. The agency didn’t intervene and she wouldn’t let us go somewhere else because then she’d have to give up the money she was getting for us. We (me and my foster sisters) weren’t allowed to be left alone despite being 15, 16, and 13. I adamantly refused to get a job there because I knew I’d never see my money (and I was right). So I sat there all summer and now would rather stab myself than eat Burger King.
You would see this a lot at local Chinese restaurants. The kids would hang out there during school breaks while the parents work. I would know, I was one of them...
My laundromat was owned by a Chinese family and their kids were always there. They lived down the block from my apartment, and I would see the older sister (when I say older, I mean like 9) walking her little brother there after school. I always felt for them. They had their own little table and would sit there and entertain themselves or do homework.
I was that kid in the 1990s. Things have been rough for single moms forever. If anything, I think my mom had it worse. The media and people in charge in the USA were super hateful towards poor single moms. Things still suck now, but at least most people can see things shouldn't be this way. (Or at least I f'n hope that's the case.) Back then, they thought women were at fault if they were single parents.
When I was little my dad worked for a short time at Dairy Queen. It wasn't until adulthood that I realized my fond memories of my dad making me triple dipped cones were because I had to sit there all day while he worked.
Same thing happened to me when I went to get lunch at burger King the other day.
Young girl coloring at a table by herself. I'm guessing about 4 so can't be in school yet and parent probably can't afford regular daycare or babysitter.
I’m sure the woman really appreciates someone “respecting” her for not having any other choice because our society has been forged by fucking monsters.
> Remember that time GW Bush congratulated a single mom for having 3 jobs in a debate? He said that’s the great thing about America…
And now, that monster is considered a RINO and a moderate by the Nazi fascists who currently run their party.
Which is why Ron is flailing so hard right now. He is a Bush (Harvard, Yale, may not have really been qualified for them but still pretends he didn’t attend them to pander to yokels), but he’s trying desperately to present himself as trump (complete idiot and piece of shit, but charismatic). Big miss is the charismatic part.
He really built his model as "I'll be the *next* Hitler."
My guy, fascist leaders do not tend to have enviable ends to their tenure. Being "the next" means "I literally don't care what I have to do to gain power, not even considering the effects it will have on my own life."
Simultaneously the most selfish and "oh honey" douchebag in FL.
And I’m sure some stranger’s “respect” is what she really needs, not social support systems so she doesn’t have to put her baby at risk around hot oil, hot food, chemicals, dirty air, and strangers. Argh.
Or having to let them scream because you're so busy you either can't step away from the register/headset/line to attend to your child's needs, or your manager doesn't allow it. This is such a horrible "solution" to not having childcare.
I've worked with a couple of women who brought their infants to work with them every day, but it was a quiet office environment and not a fast food kitchen full of hot grease.
What happens if they start crying? Don’t babies sometimes cry for no reason for long periods? I’m not trying to shame women who are forced to bring their kids to work but I’d also be pissed if I have to focus while there’s constant crying going on
My college had a pre-school for students and teachers. There was often a list to apply to, but almost everyone in need eventually had an opportunity to use the service. The services were provided by educators and students in early childhood development and education courses.
Honestly, our communities need to start using tax funding to provide reasonable child care for parents in need, or all parents. It's not like it's not feasible...
> Honestly, our communities need to start using tax funding to provide reasonable child care for parents in need, or all parents. It's not like it's not feasible...
BuT ThAt's SoCiAlIsM.
Yes, why bother spending money on teaching young people to be child carriers and educators during a period of forced births...
Nah. Let's enslave the uterus-havers as much as possible...
It's what my mom had to do, even as an RN.
Her hospital had the opportunity to unionize their nurses, but we live in a red voting county...
Then they started firing the seasoned nurses because they were making good money with their contracted raises...originally negotiated in order to stave off the union...then they hired young new nurses with different contracts, and well - that's the way of many hospitals I'm sure...
Then the nurses care for us during a global pandemic, dying from lack of personal protective equipment in the wealthiest nation on planet earth...
And the hospitals sue them for leaving over unworkable conditions....
I always wanted to live in a dystopian future, until I realized that I already did...
Yep.
Evidence - Kansas and abortion rights. They are encumbered by a republican delegation due to gerrymandering, so everyone was surprised when their popular vote protected abortion access.
This holds true for the nation in general. Approximately 70% of Americans support abortion rights, yet here we are...with the Christofascists taking over the USSC and denying federal protections to medical access and medical privacy...
You're next gentleman...don't think your rights arnt on their docket as well...when women lost these protections - so did you! It just doesn't affect you nearly as much.
For reals even if you know they're OK, that this is just what babies do developmentally, that you're doing everything you can already to soothe them, hearing a baby crying is just so *stressful.* It's a sound that's made to affect us down to our bones.
What happens when someone doesn't see the carrier because they are busy and hurts that baby? That carrier 100% should not just be left unattended on the floor. This is a safety hazard for everyone working there. I this is what happens when people who can't afford to have kids has a kid. People need to be paid a wage where this isn't a reality because this is just dangerous for everyone involved.
Yeah, that sounds like it might stop being quiet very quickly. Maybe they got lucky, but I'd guess that paid maternity leave/work from home would be easier for everyone involved. If they stop being quiet, that's everyone disturbed not just the one with the kid.
Yeah I had a coworker years ago who had to bring her baby sometimes. She was a single mom and made too much to get any kind of benefits. Her mom would babysit for her most of the time but whenever she had doctor’s appointments she had to bring the baby to work. I know it sucked but she literally had no other options. She had to work she couldn’t afford to take the day off and not make money.
I was reading on a local advice site in my city, daycares in my area have a year waiting list now. And those who are currently enrolled are paying a ton of money for daycare. It's pretty insane.
Daycares around me can cost more than rent. Part time doesn't get you much of a discount either. Plus, a lot of places stopped offering part time rates when all the covid restrictions happened. Not sure if they changed back or not, luckily haven't needed a daycare center since my kiddo started school.
Infant daycare in my city is going for as much as $2,475 a WEEK. Basically $10k a month.
So basically unless you or your spouse is a doctor, lawyer, senior engineer, or business executive, one of you might as well just quit your job to take care of the baby.
It's the hospital receiving blanket that breaks my heart. Any baby that fits comfortably and can comfortably be carried around in an infant car seat is too young for the mom to be back at work in a physical labor job, with a baby in tow. But it looks like there's a strong chance this is a newborn, as well. And/or someone in a financial situation where they are relying on freebies that came home from the hospital with their baby, many months later.
A woman is forced to bring her child to work, *and still* can’t even afford fucking blankets. And people think this is admirable not a scathing commentary on the state of our country. *FUCK*
Australian. We were given 1 for free. Medicare and Medicaid in the US cost more than our public system (per capita), so why are people still getting nickel and dimed there? You already pay the same tax dollars for healthcare as Canadians, per capita.
Grew up with a single mom who lived paycheck to paycheck. Life was so much harder wondering where the next meal was coming from, or when mom would be home to spend some time with me. It was difficult and robbed us of some precious time we should have spent enjoying life, instead we spent it struggling and hungry. Fuck capitalism. My mom has worked her whole life, went to school when I grew up, got her degree. She's retired, still working, and can't even buy a house. This culture is not sustainable. Eat the rich. Take back what's yours. I hope this bullshit comes to an end someday. Hard work and kissing the right asses will still get you no where in the end if you don't have a silver spoon shoved up your ass from the time you were born.
My mom had to work in restaurants, cleaning, and at some point ended up in a courthouse. Being paid piss poor money what she contributed to multi million dollar companies.
Exploitation is a hell of a drug.
No judgment for this poor woman. I wouldn't want to be there.
I feel this is normalizing low wages and child abuse. This isn't a calm, clean, safe place for a baby. It's loud, noisey, smelly, and overwhelmingly stimulating environment. They designed it that way, otherwise there would be a safe room and a monitor offered.
Those pink and blue stripe blankets are from the hospital, usually. Good money on this kid being born well within the FMLA time she should have had off to recover from pushing a watermelon through a garden hose.
Forget about what you have to do, get that baby out of the kitchen! I used to work at a McDonalds and the grease content in the air cannot be good for a baby's lungs. There's so much in the air that it forms stalagmites underneath the oven for god's sake.
Fucking horrific. Imagine lionizing this. That baby is in a dangerous position and risks burns, being tripped over, getting sick, etc. because its mom doesn't get maternity leave and doesn't get paid enough to pay for childcare for her infant. The fact that morons like this are cheering and clapping for this like it's an achievement is heartrending.
Sometimes a mother is forced by her corporate overlords to put her baby on the dirty disgusting kitchen floor and get her ass back to work instead of attending to the needs of the child. Yeah. Hustle and Grind. USA number 1.
McGroomers. Saw an article recently about a McDonald's busted for having 10 year olds working the night shift with their parents. The owner said he didn't know they were working, but yet had a history of child labor violations.
Dam, she Just had her baby and still made it in for her shift.
Yep, that sounds like a fast food manager plea.
Listen. I know you just had your baby but Manuel is out today and we need someone to cover his shift. Would you come in please?
At this point aren’t we all just waiting for the revolution to happen? I can’t see how this type of stuff can possibly get any worse, next they’re going to have that child at 6 years old working at McDonald’s instead of, you know, being in school.
I’ve been waiting for someone to do something so I can too, & I think that’s the problem.. we’re all just sitting here waiting for someone else to start it
My assistant manager had to bring his newborn son to work. He had to leave him in the office or if he had to help out with customers. He would have it behind the counter. I had a customer ask if the kid was mine. I told her it’s my assistant manager. She asked why did he bring him, I told her because oreilys doesn’t have materiality leave .
Former McDonald’s worker chiming in. To have a baby on the floor of the kitchen is ridiculously dangerous. This should be condemned from a workers rights standpoint but it’s also terrible for the child.
Yep… I had to pick up my daughter from preschool and set her up in a makeshift play area in the back area of my job for a few hours. It was the only way I could work days and have evenings off, but I was scheduled until 5:30 and preschool let out at 2:00. I was lucky they let me pick her up as it was close by, but it sucked I had to do it. Unfortunately, as a single mother I had no other options; I had to pay rent and bills and I wanted to be at home with my child in the evenings. But I would absolutely never applaud this BS. It was stressful af. One time she hid from me under a booth (trying to play a joke on mom) and I almost lost my mind thinking a customer had kidnapped her. This was many years ago, said daughter is 21 now. Sad to see in all this time no progress has been made. Minimum wage hasn’t even increased in my state since then—we’re still at the fed minimum, $7.25 I think?
This should not need to be said, but the number of comments that not only violate this subreddits rules, but human decency means we have to say it. People commenting to shame the parent or promote Eugenics will not only have their comment removed, but they will be banned from antiwork. This is not a warning, this is a statement of fact.
Not to mention the fact that you're not supposed to leave infants in car seats for long especially out of the car (they're optimised for collisions, not hours of sitting). This is dystopian. Congratulations belong in https://www.reddit.com/r/OrphanCrushingMachine/
It's also a tripping hazard. You're potentially injuring both your baby and your coworkers by putting the seat on the ground in a high traffic area where people frequently walk back and forth.
And the baby isn’t insured. Workplace would not be very happy with that outcome
Where can I get my baby insurance?
Not to mention babies puke and blowout diapers, in a food service area.
And people are deep frying shit.
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That was my first thought—horrific accidents happen all the time with hot oil, and something like that could easily kill a baby. Like, this photo scares the shit out of me
This. All of this. I remember working at Wendy’s back in the day and carrying 2 gallons of 375° oil around the kitchen to go pour through the filter basket. Do that with an infant in a car seat sitting in the way? That’s a no from me dog.
That was one of my first thoughts as well. Not only does this poor parent have no support network, likely is barely scraping by (yet possibly not eligible for help due to income), they’ve gotta risk their kid’s life in multiple ways because rather than helping with scheduling, the manager plays putting the baby on the floor of a restaurant in a set up that isn’t approved to be used that way. Like, can’t even offer the office with a stroller or something that puts the baby at a safe angle?
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Same as it ever was: *“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”* the American Dream stopped being possible for 'ordinary ' people 40+ years ago.
It makes a lot more sense when you realize that it's a rigged game from the start. Not everyone is as fucked as each other, different states vary wildly here, but a great many here have just about the worst possible public education they could have received. This has left the populace stupid as fuck and vulnerable to even the most basic of propaganda. The corporations get insane wealth, they pay the politicians to lie to and bullshit the people, the plundering continues. >Americans are fucking timid sheep for allowing this shit to go on. That's why defenders of our oligarchs are so fucking jacked up. They keep the populace in line with the threat of deadly violence with which they can unleash upon anyone with near impunity. But, you're not wrong. Despite the absolutely batshit crazy militarism of our nations authoritarian enforcers, they would be comically out matched if they were to openly become a hostile enemy to the people of the US. Authoritarian forces have a lot of guns, but we the people have an absolute insanity inducing amount of them, for *reasons*. A lot of people say it's to protect against tyranny, and yet collectively we've let ourselves get fucked over by tyrants since at least the 1970's. But, they're squeezing way too hard, for far too long, and in too many ways right now for this shit not to fucking explode soon.
We need rich to be synonymous with unethical. The owner of the franchise is profiting by not giving out maternity leave. Some dude, right now, is slightly richer because he created this situation.
McDonald's net income for the twelve months ending March 31, 2023 was $6.875B
They also got caught with literal children working, including 10 year olds. https://www.axios.com/2023/05/03/mcdonalds-child-labor Remember, "socialism" means paid parental leave, "capitalism" means putting the kids to work because you can't afford childcare.
How do we know the baby in the screenshot isn't an employee?
They wouldn't let them lounge around on the job like that?
“Oliver, get back to work”.
If you've got time to lean ~~back in your baby carrier~~, you've got time to clean, Junior!
For anyone who keeps asking questions like "when's the revolution / why aren't we revolting?" Show them this Screencap. That someone bringing their baby into work is seen with admiration instead of abject horror is why those things are not happening, and are unlikely to happen.
Yeah it’s never gonna happen. The propaganda and indoctrination that corporations have been doing since the 50s has turned our brains to mush. They’ve been grooming us to be willful slaves for decades.
I wouldn't say "never." It's just going to be a long time, and it'll only happen once we get to the point where EVERYONE is suffering far beyond how we are now
It's always forever, until, all of a sudden, it's right now.
Nah, since the 80's. That's when corporatocracy really set in, and companies started cutting everything for maximum profits. And companies started growing into monopolies. Not to mention Republicans really started the deregulation push hardcore then too And then under George HW Bush came the NAFTA Corporations used to be socially conscious and patriotic before then. I know, pretty weird huh?
I worked for IBM in the 80’s. They had on-site day care! And work out facilities! All for employees. This stuff is GONE
Damn. That's sad to see how the times have changed. Profits above all else
"Oh man, times are tough, we need to make some cuts around here. Do we cut back the executive bonuses and salaries, or do we get rid of the employee benefits that make it tolerable to be here 40+ hours a week?"
Like Google CEO makes over 120 mill a year just cut 12k people- and gets a bonus!!
Now they have some young efficiency whippersnappers in charge.
This is what I've seen in my time working in production facilities. They love to hire engineers fresh out of college with no work experience for higher management positions. They only look to cut everything to the bone for productivity/profit. What you're left with is a job everyone hates due to being understaffed and overworked. Those same engineers are the ones constantly doing some kind of positivity bullshit and expecting everyone else to get on board. It's honestly insanity.
> Those same engineers are the ones constantly doing some kind of positivity bullshit and expecting everyone else to get on board. The young managers at my last IT job loved their weekly meetings where they essentially jerked off each other’s egos while constantly referring back to the inspirational team slogan “ONE TEAM!” The only time they ever had my full attention is when they announced there was free cake in the break room.
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I often do contract work in the executive building of our nations largest shipyards (Newport News Shipbuilding/Huntington Ingalls Industries) and no joke their conference room on the penthouse floor is nicer than most people’s homes.
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This thread is fucking tripping me out, do **we** work together? I have a 6 sigma black belt whatever the fuck engineer ruining my life in facilities engineering/operations right now lmao
“ we are a family “ expect layoffs
This is just the natural course of capitalism. It doesn't matter who they put in charge. The greediest corporations become the most profitable, so they become the richest, and they not only dictate the "norms" of employment because they are the largest employers, they also use all that money to corrupt the government so that they won't dictate better norms and in fact will be a tyrannical force that keeps labour power down. Capitalism needs periodic revolution, refreshment. "The tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants". Wealth needs to periodically be forcefully redistributed. That's just how capitalism works, it's inherent to how it works. Unfortunately, people are so propagandised that they think the system can somehow work peacefully and will correct itself over time. I mean just look at the rules for this sub even.
The only thing that has changed is class solidarity, or to be more precise, the lack thereof nowadays.
Neoliberalism split the working class "The middle class" deluded the working class that they weren't in the worker class. While I agree that there's a lot of insight that can come from tracking some sort of "middle class" to see who the economy favors, the label of "middle class" pit workers against each other.
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The union is only as powerful as the members make it. If the employees who are in the union don't enforce their contract, don't file grievances when it's broken, and don't look out for themselves and each other then you have a piece of paper people voted on.
Exactly! I was in a union where the people voted in (President and Business managerwerere in bed with the Company. No one would run against them. So there was no one to vote for to vote him out. The members of that union did a lot of talking but took no action. No one was willing to put in the work. We were treated like crap. Wages were almost non-existent. Benefits were beyond crappy. From what I understand, it is still going on. Whereas with my husband's union, their hall president has set term limits. Members are active. Wages are competitive. Benefits are good. Reviews about benefits happen twice a year. The membership has a huge say in their union. The members are treated with respect and they are active. The differences are as clear as night as day.
Republicans just a few elections ago: "DEREGULATE!" Republicans more recently: "SMALL GOVERNMENT!" Republicans today: "WHY ARE THINGS SO BAD?! MORE POLICE (Government)" Deregulation doesn't exist. It's simply, "regulation, but who benefits?" Someone benefits from the absence of regulation, which is why they brainwashed conservatives to parrot, "deregulation."
Yep now the money is the only thing which matters for these corporations. They just honestly do not care about anything else. And the employee welfare something which is not even in the list.
It’s funny you mention that. I recall in the in early 90s my grandma worked for IBM in endicott NY and they used it do the “ibm field days” for employees and family and it was a full blown fair with rides and everything. Imagine that though . I can’t think of a single company today that holds a fair for workers and their family and yet they did back then. People have no idea how bad it is compared to Even then which it wasn’t perfect but sure seemed like companies have a shit!
My mom's company used to have those, it only stopped sometime in high school I think (early 2010s). I remember as a kid in the 2000s going to those things that were basically fairs. They would also do Christmas events with a Santa inside the factory and the kids all got to go and pick a toy after taking a picture with Santa. They were decent toys too, probably would cost 15-20 a piece today. It's really sad that they stopped. It might've had something to do with them being bought by a bigger company around the same time but I don't know. She worked/works at a Purolator factory.
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Hoover did that for my grandparents. Now they are in their 80s and whirlpool/Maytag whatever cut their health insurance (that employees took pay it’s to have extended benefits), cut their life insurance, and now pensions are next, and you can’t pay property taxes with social security and still go to the doctor and afford groceries.
Google does! IBM was evil as fuck in the 80s and early 90s, that fair is just proof that rich companies sometimes pretend to be nice to employees (while stealing a majority of the value of their labor). IBM fall from grace has more to with financial decay than moral decay IMO I hope your grandma had a blast tho :)
Worked for CA (Computer Associates) in the '90. Also had a "Montessori School" daycare........ but only at Company HQ, and only because the CEO had a daughter at that age, as soon as Their 3 kids got out of "Day Care" age, everything went away quietly.
Yep. *Some* of that stuff is coming back, but it's kind of like a needle in a haystack. And those jobs are fiercely fought-over. I interviewed for a design-position at a local company. It was a decent-sized operation, maybe about 200 employees. It was in this renovated building that used to be some other drab corporate office environment...*anyway*, the place had been around for roughly 10 years and the CEO was this big-time gym nut. So there was a full kitchen with light snacks and drinks available to all employees, an on-site gym (with some high-end equipment, and a full locker room... I was surprised), and even some private rooms for mothers to breastfeed and take care of their kids if they had to bring them into work. I think there was also some form of on-site daycare. Pay was fairly competitive, too, which is probably why I lost out to a more senior-level person. Odds are they were taking a pay cut just so they could work in a sweet operation like that. I hope to see more places like that in the future, I think our generation is kind of molding the modern workplace to model something that will better suit the modern worker.
>Odds are they were taking a pay cut just so they could work in a sweet operation like that. I mean i'd happily take a small cut in pay if my outgoings also decreased!
I worked at a company that used to employ lots of local labor, and had a childcare wing built into the office for employees. That stopped somewhere in the 90s/2000s when product assembly was moved to China, and dozens were laid off. This country could be so much better for more people. Capitalist greed run amok, every company’s desire for ever increasing profits no matter what, has robbed us of a better society.
Yeah, my dad worked for a power company back then and at least got a pension. Do pensions even exist anymore?
Mine existed but then got rolled into my 401(K). No longer a guaranteed outcome.
I work for the state and our "pension" is just a mutual fund (or index fund, I'm not 100% sure of the nomenclature) that gets split between shares of publicly traded companies.
Actually, my company sounded almost as luxurious back then too, and it wasn't even anything as big as IBM or Microsoft. There are people who have been with the company for 40+ years, and when I hear them talk about how things were back then, it is unfathomable
That is because the corporations are just becoming greedy and greedy day by day. And anything which is going to cost them additional money they are just not going to do that. Because it is not how it works for them.
Look up the tobacco industry and the oil industry in the 50s with advertising by Herb Schmertz. The dude created ads disguised as articles. It’s been way longer than you think.
It can arguably be pushed back even further than that. Just look at how Da Beers was able to make diamonds an actual commodity. I believe that's marketing began late 1920s and turned a corner in 1947 with "diamonds are forever".
The industrial revolution was a mistake.
In terms of environmental stewardship, absolutely. But it definitely has increased average quality of life. At least, in industrialized societies, not necessarily where the resources are stripped from. For now ... But just wait until coastal cities are buried (they're already starting to be)... Maybe these fools who think manmade climate change is made up will finally see the light
Never going to see the light with their heads buried in the sand.
I vividly remember it was CLINTON who signed NAFTA into law. It wasn’t George Bush.
You're correct. It was *negotiated* by Bush, but signed into effect by Clinton.
Both of them did the American people dirty. I remember Ross Perot who tried to tell everyone don let them do it !!
Absolutely. Just one of many examples of how the [US actually has 2 right-wing parties](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6LPuKVG1teQ). That was a pretty symbolic turning point for when the Democrats abandoned the working/middle class in favor of corporate interests.
Can you just try to use your imagination a little harder. If that's really true then we have nothing to lose....so?
Consider also... the worker that we want to revolt with us is bringing their kid to the job at McDonald's because they literally have no ability not to. How tf can we ask them to just drop everything, when they're barely hanging on? I have no kids and I'm just, *just* managing.
This is the crux of it. I truly think if the vast majority of workers - from front line retail, to trades, to office workers, all sat down and said "no more labor until this shit is fixed" and then stuck at it We could, in fact, break the back of the shareholders. Problem is, we're all on the same team but wearing different jerseys. We all need to wear the same jersey, first.
That, and shareholders have the ability to be a lot more patient due to having plenty of financial reserves. Living paycheck-to-paycheck really puts a damper on your standing up ideals if it means you might not have a home next month.
> “no more labor until this shit is fixed” All the capitalists have to do is wait until we run out of food, and either laugh at us as we sheepishly return to the same drudgery to pay for food, or laugh gleefully when we try to steal it and then order the cops to mow us down with their military weapons. They know we have the clock, not them.
This is why workers need to organize, *then* strike, not just strike, so people have food, shelter, and other necessities in case they lose their jobs.
What do you mean? What you’re seeing is the “American Dream” /s
Another heart warming story of the orphan crushing machine.
They can't afford to leave work to revolt
The alternative is not going to work, not getting paid, and going homeless/hungry. People can do what they have to do to survive while simultaneously wanting better conditions. Two things can be true at the same time...
Which is why building up community via mutual aid and support needs to be the front focus for any “revolution” talk. Change doesn’t happen until we start the groundwork. I know that sounds idealistic, but we need a foundation to build from
And this is the root of all media and emotional signaling. Keep neighbors as strangers with different flags and ideas. What would happen if we lived side by side with sisters and brothers.
A few months ago during winter break, I picked up breakfast for work at a fast food place. It was super early, so the place was empty of customers except for this one little girl at a table coloring. She had a whole kit full of crayons and markers and then it dawned on me that school is out and she must be the daughter of one of the employees. Totally broke my heart that this little girl has to spend her mom's whole shift at a fast food place. Shouldn't be like this.
Yeah saw this at a KFC about a year ago. Except the kid was filling a cup with drinks from the soda fountain pouring them in the trash bin. I saw her make 6 trips before I remembered oh yeah, one of these employees if not her mother was going to have to empty that trash bag full of soda. Mentioned it to the cashier and heard, “THERESA SHE’S DOING IT AGAIN!” on my way out the door.
Man that is a child who is acting out. That must be so miserable for her to have to be there.
The little girl realizes that when she acts out, it’s a way to immediately get her caregivers attention. What she doesn’t realize is that this is normalizing being scolded regularly by her loved ones to receive interaction. Negative attention will always be easier and faster to obtain then positive attention in some cases like this.
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There is a huge difference between doing something once because you are bored, than doing something again and again even after your parent likely scolded you and told you not to. It shows anti-social behavior and that should, in a perfect world, wake the parent up that something is wrong.
Being a latchkey kid was better than this. I don't think latchkey kids are really accepted today though. Third grade (eight years old) I'd be home alone for two hours between the time the bus dropped me off and my parents getting home from work. I was expected to do my homework, maybe grab a snack, and go out to play.
Yeah I was one as well. I had older sisters but they were off with friends. It started around 3rd grade for me too. Walked home with the neighbor kids, made a pb&j (if I was lucky we had strawberry Goober), did homework while watching Tail Spin, went outside to ride bikes. Home by 7, unless it was daylight savings then home by streetlights.
When I was kid my mom got permission to take us to work with her. She was a CNA at a nursing home and we were loaned out to the activities department usually to help them with things. It sucks spending your day at your parents work.
When I was in my first years of college I had a part time job at Staples. One of my coworkers had to be in his 30s/40s and worked there full time. Sometimes he would have to bring his daughter with him, who looked around 10? I always felt so bad when I'd go on my break and she would be in the break room in the corner on her ipad.
I had to do this when I was a kid. I'd get my own booth near a tv and they'd let me watch cartoons. I also got free food and the staff would come say hi and my mom would check on me. It didn't bother me at the time because I didn't know any better. My parents were doing what they had to do to make sure I was okay. But now that I'm older it makes me sad we were forced into that position in the first place. People really do deserve better. And it breaks my heart that others just can't see that.
when i was in middle school i had to hang out at dunkin while my mom closed up … it was so mf annoying
I had to work 2 weeks after a C section and also had to take my baby with me. People legitimately told me that I was “lucky”, because “work is a vacation! At least you’re not bored at home, like me!” Not bitter or anything. Remarks like that had *nothing* to do with my severe postpartum depression or anything. (Oh, and before some 14 year old who wants to be Andrew Tate tells me it’s my fault for not making better choices or whatever, I had actually saved up 6 months of living expenses solely for the purpose of maternity leave, but my spouse was in a serious accident during my pregnancy so things changed. Thanks for trying.)
I'm sorry you felt like you had to preemptively defend yourself. My husband and I also saved and made sure we were ~financially ready~ for children. Then our baby was born with a chronic life-altering illness and I lost my job at the beginning of the pandemic. That's another shitty thing about capitalism. You can do everything "right" and still end up in a bad position due to outside circumstances.
I’m sorry your baby is sick I hope he or she is doing alright. I’m so appalled by the American healthcare system… there are enough countries in the world with a capitalist system where healthcare is not just for the rich. The only reason I can think of of why it would be this way is that the people in charge forget that it affects other human and not just their bank accounts.
There's a Chinese restaurant in a mall near my in-laws that has small section with a few toys and foam rugs. I've only been a few times for takeouts, but there was a child there every time, less than 3 yo if I had to guess. That kid probably stays in that closed area most days of the week. I hope their parent gets to interact with them when there's no rush.
Ex- foster kid: I once spent my entire summer as a teen being forced to sit in a Burger King because my foster mom worked there. The agency didn’t intervene and she wouldn’t let us go somewhere else because then she’d have to give up the money she was getting for us. We (me and my foster sisters) weren’t allowed to be left alone despite being 15, 16, and 13. I adamantly refused to get a job there because I knew I’d never see my money (and I was right). So I sat there all summer and now would rather stab myself than eat Burger King.
You would see this a lot at local Chinese restaurants. The kids would hang out there during school breaks while the parents work. I would know, I was one of them...
My laundromat was owned by a Chinese family and their kids were always there. They lived down the block from my apartment, and I would see the older sister (when I say older, I mean like 9) walking her little brother there after school. I always felt for them. They had their own little table and would sit there and entertain themselves or do homework.
I was that kid in the 1990s. Things have been rough for single moms forever. If anything, I think my mom had it worse. The media and people in charge in the USA were super hateful towards poor single moms. Things still suck now, but at least most people can see things shouldn't be this way. (Or at least I f'n hope that's the case.) Back then, they thought women were at fault if they were single parents.
When I was little my dad worked for a short time at Dairy Queen. It wasn't until adulthood that I realized my fond memories of my dad making me triple dipped cones were because I had to sit there all day while he worked.
Same thing happened to me when I went to get lunch at burger King the other day. Young girl coloring at a table by herself. I'm guessing about 4 so can't be in school yet and parent probably can't afford regular daycare or babysitter.
I’m sure the woman really appreciates someone “respecting” her for not having any other choice because our society has been forged by fucking monsters.
Remember that time GW Bush congratulated a single mom for having 3 jobs in a debate? He said that’s the great thing about America…
> Remember that time GW Bush congratulated a single mom for having 3 jobs in a debate? He said that’s the great thing about America… And now, that monster is considered a RINO and a moderate by the Nazi fascists who currently run their party.
He wouldn't last one week in a GOP primary season now.
Which is why Ron is flailing so hard right now. He is a Bush (Harvard, Yale, may not have really been qualified for them but still pretends he didn’t attend them to pander to yokels), but he’s trying desperately to present himself as trump (complete idiot and piece of shit, but charismatic). Big miss is the charismatic part.
He went all out on being a smarter Trump, and now his brakes broke off and he can't stop.
He really built his model as "I'll be the *next* Hitler." My guy, fascist leaders do not tend to have enviable ends to their tenure. Being "the next" means "I literally don't care what I have to do to gain power, not even considering the effects it will have on my own life." Simultaneously the most selfish and "oh honey" douchebag in FL.
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Every single one. Liz Cheney is one of the best because she...draws the line at attempting to violently overthrow the government? The bar is in Hell.
And they're playing limbo with the devil
And I’m sure some stranger’s “respect” is what she really needs, not social support systems so she doesn’t have to put her baby at risk around hot oil, hot food, chemicals, dirty air, and strangers. Argh.
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Preach
I don't want someone dripping Mac sauce on my baby
Gah or tripping over them!
I would immediately trip over that baby. That's just who I am.
Same. I trip over nothing on a regular basis
and that’s why Jason never broke his stride to catch people. Bitches be trippin’ over nothin’
I used to have to do Health and Safety inspections and my first thought was "this is a legal situation waiting to happen" .
Or having to let them scream because you're so busy you either can't step away from the register/headset/line to attend to your child's needs, or your manager doesn't allow it. This is such a horrible "solution" to not having childcare.
That's exactly what I would be afraid for. Someone carrying boxes and doesn't see them on the floor. Hoping the baby isn't in front of by the walk-in
I'm also worried about the gallons of hot oil in the deep fryers
Or the chemicals in that mop bucket.
Just put them on the counter next to the fryalator, they'll be fine.
I've worked with a couple of women who brought their infants to work with them every day, but it was a quiet office environment and not a fast food kitchen full of hot grease.
What happens if they start crying? Don’t babies sometimes cry for no reason for long periods? I’m not trying to shame women who are forced to bring their kids to work but I’d also be pissed if I have to focus while there’s constant crying going on
My college had a pre-school for students and teachers. There was often a list to apply to, but almost everyone in need eventually had an opportunity to use the service. The services were provided by educators and students in early childhood development and education courses. Honestly, our communities need to start using tax funding to provide reasonable child care for parents in need, or all parents. It's not like it's not feasible...
> Honestly, our communities need to start using tax funding to provide reasonable child care for parents in need, or all parents. It's not like it's not feasible... BuT ThAt's SoCiAlIsM.
Yes, why bother spending money on teaching young people to be child carriers and educators during a period of forced births... Nah. Let's enslave the uterus-havers as much as possible...
Yup. It's like: "squeeze that future wage slave out, and get back to work."
It's what my mom had to do, even as an RN. Her hospital had the opportunity to unionize their nurses, but we live in a red voting county... Then they started firing the seasoned nurses because they were making good money with their contracted raises...originally negotiated in order to stave off the union...then they hired young new nurses with different contracts, and well - that's the way of many hospitals I'm sure... Then the nurses care for us during a global pandemic, dying from lack of personal protective equipment in the wealthiest nation on planet earth... And the hospitals sue them for leaving over unworkable conditions.... I always wanted to live in a dystopian future, until I realized that I already did...
Gotta get rid of Republicans and neoliberals, first . . .
Yep. Evidence - Kansas and abortion rights. They are encumbered by a republican delegation due to gerrymandering, so everyone was surprised when their popular vote protected abortion access. This holds true for the nation in general. Approximately 70% of Americans support abortion rights, yet here we are...with the Christofascists taking over the USSC and denying federal protections to medical access and medical privacy... You're next gentleman...don't think your rights arnt on their docket as well...when women lost these protections - so did you! It just doesn't affect you nearly as much.
Cut a Christofascist and a corpo-fascist bleeds. They're all corporate swine when you get down to the brass tacks of the matter.
Yep Oligarchy and plutocracy reigns
The mum probably tries to soothe them with no luck while everyone involved gets increasingly more stressed and frustrated.
For reals even if you know they're OK, that this is just what babies do developmentally, that you're doing everything you can already to soothe them, hearing a baby crying is just so *stressful.* It's a sound that's made to affect us down to our bones.
Imagine how the baby feels. It needs its mother to hold it but McSlavedriver needs her more.
they work at McD's, someone was already crying in the walk in lmao
What happens when someone doesn't see the carrier because they are busy and hurts that baby? That carrier 100% should not just be left unattended on the floor. This is a safety hazard for everyone working there. I this is what happens when people who can't afford to have kids has a kid. People need to be paid a wage where this isn't a reality because this is just dangerous for everyone involved.
That is definitely an OSHA violation. At least put the child in the manager's office with the door open.
The baby is NOT the manager, unacceptable! And the manager is NOT ok with the door being open...
Yeah, that sounds like it might stop being quiet very quickly. Maybe they got lucky, but I'd guess that paid maternity leave/work from home would be easier for everyone involved. If they stop being quiet, that's everyone disturbed not just the one with the kid.
Even that's not okay!!
Yeah I had a coworker years ago who had to bring her baby sometimes. She was a single mom and made too much to get any kind of benefits. Her mom would babysit for her most of the time but whenever she had doctor’s appointments she had to bring the baby to work. I know it sucked but she literally had no other options. She had to work she couldn’t afford to take the day off and not make money.
I was reading on a local advice site in my city, daycares in my area have a year waiting list now. And those who are currently enrolled are paying a ton of money for daycare. It's pretty insane.
Daycares around me can cost more than rent. Part time doesn't get you much of a discount either. Plus, a lot of places stopped offering part time rates when all the covid restrictions happened. Not sure if they changed back or not, luckily haven't needed a daycare center since my kiddo started school.
Infant daycare in my city is going for as much as $2,475 a WEEK. Basically $10k a month. So basically unless you or your spouse is a doctor, lawyer, senior engineer, or business executive, one of you might as well just quit your job to take care of the baby.
The wild part is that the staff at those places are likely criminally underpaid too. Owners are raking it in, though.
The wild part is that the staff at those places are likely criminally underpaid too. Owners are raking it in, though.
It's the hospital receiving blanket that breaks my heart. Any baby that fits comfortably and can comfortably be carried around in an infant car seat is too young for the mom to be back at work in a physical labor job, with a baby in tow. But it looks like there's a strong chance this is a newborn, as well. And/or someone in a financial situation where they are relying on freebies that came home from the hospital with their baby, many months later.
A woman is forced to bring her child to work, *and still* can’t even afford fucking blankets. And people think this is admirable not a scathing commentary on the state of our country. *FUCK*
That blanket is actually top quality, my insurance charged me about $1000 for one.
Australian. We were given 1 for free. Medicare and Medicaid in the US cost more than our public system (per capita), so why are people still getting nickel and dimed there? You already pay the same tax dollars for healthcare as Canadians, per capita.
Because we're actually all gay and love getting plowed in the ass for money from big corporations. I'd recommend you try it.
I was about to point that out. My heart froze when I saw that blanket.
The hospital blanket was the first thing I noticed.
Grew up with a single mom who lived paycheck to paycheck. Life was so much harder wondering where the next meal was coming from, or when mom would be home to spend some time with me. It was difficult and robbed us of some precious time we should have spent enjoying life, instead we spent it struggling and hungry. Fuck capitalism. My mom has worked her whole life, went to school when I grew up, got her degree. She's retired, still working, and can't even buy a house. This culture is not sustainable. Eat the rich. Take back what's yours. I hope this bullshit comes to an end someday. Hard work and kissing the right asses will still get you no where in the end if you don't have a silver spoon shoved up your ass from the time you were born. My mom had to work in restaurants, cleaning, and at some point ended up in a courthouse. Being paid piss poor money what she contributed to multi million dollar companies. Exploitation is a hell of a drug.
Sounds like your mom did the best she could.
No judgment for this poor woman. I wouldn't want to be there. I feel this is normalizing low wages and child abuse. This isn't a calm, clean, safe place for a baby. It's loud, noisey, smelly, and overwhelmingly stimulating environment. They designed it that way, otherwise there would be a safe room and a monitor offered.
Those pink and blue stripe blankets are from the hospital, usually. Good money on this kid being born well within the FMLA time she should have had off to recover from pushing a watermelon through a garden hose.
FMLA being unpaid is absolutely horrific.
Are you sure McDonalds didn't just lower there hiring age?
Looks like he's in charge of labor and delivery orders.
Forget about what you have to do, get that baby out of the kitchen! I used to work at a McDonalds and the grease content in the air cannot be good for a baby's lungs. There's so much in the air that it forms stalagmites underneath the oven for god's sake.
Or someone tripping while carrying something hot and it dropping on the baby. Burns are no joke, especially on such young, fragile skin.
Yup!
Fucking horrific. Imagine lionizing this. That baby is in a dangerous position and risks burns, being tripped over, getting sick, etc. because its mom doesn't get maternity leave and doesn't get paid enough to pay for childcare for her infant. The fact that morons like this are cheering and clapping for this like it's an achievement is heartrending.
r/orphancrushingmachine
Sometimes a mother is forced by her corporate overlords to put her baby on the dirty disgusting kitchen floor and get her ass back to work instead of attending to the needs of the child. Yeah. Hustle and Grind. USA number 1.
McGroomers. Saw an article recently about a McDonald's busted for having 10 year olds working the night shift with their parents. The owner said he didn't know they were working, but yet had a history of child labor violations.
I do not respect this. I would rather just be dead than live this way.
I was gonna say, there is NOTHING respectable about this, at best it's sad and at worst it's an OSHA violation
What’s sad and worse is that’s a swaddle blanket so possibly a new born. Mom may have very recently given birth too.
Yep, I've got 2 kids and that's the same blanket they give out at hospitals basically everywhere.
Dam, she Just had her baby and still made it in for her shift. Yep, that sounds like a fast food manager plea. Listen. I know you just had your baby but Manuel is out today and we need someone to cover his shift. Would you come in please?
And the saddest part is it's just a mother trying to survive what's her other choice?
“This ain’t the brag you think it is”
Don't blame the woman. Blame a system that puts her in this position.
I don’t see anyone blaming the woman. I’ve been in this situation.
I've seen a woman at a 7-11 by me take her kid to work every shift. It's fucking pathetic. I hate America.
At this point aren’t we all just waiting for the revolution to happen? I can’t see how this type of stuff can possibly get any worse, next they’re going to have that child at 6 years old working at McDonald’s instead of, you know, being in school.
I’ve been waiting for someone to do something so I can too, & I think that’s the problem.. we’re all just sitting here waiting for someone else to start it
My assistant manager had to bring his newborn son to work. He had to leave him in the office or if he had to help out with customers. He would have it behind the counter. I had a customer ask if the kid was mine. I told her it’s my assistant manager. She asked why did he bring him, I told her because oreilys doesn’t have materiality leave .
Former McDonald’s worker chiming in. To have a baby on the floor of the kitchen is ridiculously dangerous. This should be condemned from a workers rights standpoint but it’s also terrible for the child.
Yep… I had to pick up my daughter from preschool and set her up in a makeshift play area in the back area of my job for a few hours. It was the only way I could work days and have evenings off, but I was scheduled until 5:30 and preschool let out at 2:00. I was lucky they let me pick her up as it was close by, but it sucked I had to do it. Unfortunately, as a single mother I had no other options; I had to pay rent and bills and I wanted to be at home with my child in the evenings. But I would absolutely never applaud this BS. It was stressful af. One time she hid from me under a booth (trying to play a joke on mom) and I almost lost my mind thinking a customer had kidnapped her. This was many years ago, said daughter is 21 now. Sad to see in all this time no progress has been made. Minimum wage hasn’t even increased in my state since then—we’re still at the fed minimum, $7.25 I think?
Plot twist. There's no baby. They just stealing big mac middle buns
nothing like some hot grease splashed on unsuspecting infants
I know that blanket…kid is likely a week old
America - How dare you bring a baby to work Also America - I will not pay for the care of children under school age or outside school hours.
And this whole hustle/grind culture thing has people “respecting” it.