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Only been a “business owner” for a minute and shucks I’m just about done with the “business community”. Sick to death of being talked to as if I wanna pay my employees fuck all, have them on unethical contracts and milk everyone for all they’ve got so I can make a profit 1/6
I’ve been going to this business class and today’s session was on “employment”. Ive just expanded my business and will be employing people in the next month or two so I was looking forward to it and super keen to learn more. The EMA guy taking the class started off by saying 2/6
“my first role was as a union organiser, but I soon realised I didn’t wanna be working for the slackers who need to be sacked so I started working for the employers instead” 3/6
It only got worse from there, proceeded 2 say that 90day trials are our friends & we should employ sooner rather than later cause labour & the greens are going to scrap them when they get back in. Listed off all the ways it’s legal to discriminate against potential employees 4/6
On it went. Then these 2 slides which as the only pierced & tattooed person under 40 in the room were particularly troubling. They drew laughs from everyone else. How are we still pushing this gross, false & absolutely archaic narrative that ur look/age define ur competence 5/6
I honestly haven’t felt this heated since being in the deans office at highschool. My short time in these spaces has been a stark and important reminder of how far we have to go. Ain’t disparaged tho, just gonna have to show them how it’s done. 6/6
Oh forgot to add that my generation was also “born in to a previously unheard of affluence and opportunity”
