The supermarket giant has increased pressure on employees with a new framework that warehouse staff describe as ‘bullying’ and unsafe
  • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
    38·
    10 days ago

    “We are price gouging customers, we are ripping off suppliers and we are making our customers feel like criminals. What else can we do it pure evil?”

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    25·
    10 days ago

    I’d love to see that kind of bullshit being applied on the c-level, but no, it’s always the actual workers who aren’t being efficient

  • SpicyLizards@reddthat.comEnglish
    22·
    10 days ago

    Must be hard making record profits while hiking prices and having to deal with actual employees. Poor foolworths…

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    10 days ago

    As a long time worker of many different jobs, slacking off is the most important part of the job. Even if you like the job. All this will do is burn out all their employees faster than normal and make productivity suffer for the whole company. I’ve worked for a lot of small companies and penny pinching is the easiest way to lose a lot of money in the long run.

  • sola@aussie.zoneEnglish
    141·
    10 days ago

    Hence in the upcoming election preference LNP/ALP last. The C-class of these companies will coordinate with these political parties to reduce the influence of employees in the workplace, so they can exploit the excess productivity for there own personal gain.

    • vividspecter@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      11·
      10 days ago

      Just make sure you put Labor ahead of the LNP and cooker parties since they will be objectively worse. But otherwise, agreed.

      • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
        15·
        10 days ago

        Though put the Greens ahead of Labor. Labor losing seats to the Greens, and having to depend on the Greens to govern, is a realistic possibility, and Greens MPs holding their feet to the fire could provide a counterbalance to the revolving door to corporate Australia.

        • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          afaik, ‘cooker’ has risen as a slang term for the wackier conspiracy theorists:

          From Wiktionary:

          1. (slang, Australia) A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
          1. (slang, derogatory, Australia) A person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person.
          2. (slang, derogatory, Australia) A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.
          • guillem@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            10 days ago

            Oh okay, I think I have in mind some politicians that fit into the description. Thanks!

        • melbaboutown@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          Cooker parties means there can be independent parties with uh… fringe beliefs that you may not align with. So it’s good to do research on each party or candidate

        • vividspecter@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          eureka explained it well, but my slighter broader definition is:

          • Anti-vaxxer and other single-issue conspiracy parties
          • Religious right parties with sometimes innocuous names (like “Family first”)
          • Nazis
    • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      We have preferential voting for a reason (except for literal Nazis), the major parties should always be last on everyone’s ballot.

      It should be;

      1. Someone I agree with
      2. Someone I agree with on a lot of issues but not quite everything.
      3. ditto
      4. ditto
      5. Greens, unless the candidate is a complete hippy fucktard that doesn’t know how economics works.
      6. Shit Lite party
      7. Shit party.
      8. Yellow Shitstain
      9. Literal Nazis.
  • Hirom@beehaw.orgEnglish
    13·
    10 days ago

    Going to such extreme is probably costing the company on a medium/long term.

    It may improve productivity for the first few weeks, but this is bad for employees physical and mental well-being. This is obviously increasing injuries and burnout. Meaning more sick leave, worse employee turnover.

    • Fetus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      If you’re from the US, it isn’t. The Woolworth part of the company was closed and they focussed on sporting goods, whatever is left of the company is now called Foot Locker.

      “Woolworths supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand are operated by Australia’s largest retail company, Woolworths Group, a separate company with no historical links to the F. W. Woolworth Company or Foot Locker, Inc.”

      Copied from Wikipedia.