i live down south and keep seeing local business owners posting in local groups pleading people to come buy shit at their stores prior to this winter storm because if they have to close for a few days it’s apparently detrimental for them. like they’re entitled to exist. in any other context this behavior would be considered desperate and begging. but we’re conditioned to think small business tyrants are some class above us all who are entitled to not have to work a job like the rest of us. worst case scenario they lose their business and that’s what happens, and working people are conditioned to feel sorry for them. “please don’t let me become underpaid by some asshole exactly like myself!!!”
They usually bend the law in very specifically planned ways to try and steal small amounts of lots and lots of people’s money. Less so the petty shit.
Walmart isn’t just going in and changing people’s submitted hours, Dino Ravioli who owns a shithole restaurant in small town central Florida is.
Except Walmart and similar big corpos are very frequently fucking over workers and not paying their worked hours. To take Walmart as an example, they only recently settled a 2.5 million dollar lawsuit for doing exactly that.
Claiming that big companies aren’t regularly and openly doing wage theft is quite a wild claim to see here.
Amazon makes warehouse workers do up to 30 minutes of unpaid checkout procedure to make sure they aren’t shoplifting. Wells Fargo gave unachiviable account opening goals on its bankers pressuring them into making fake accounts. Various banks applied over draft charges largest to smallest to optimize the amount of overdraft fees. Johnson and Johnson lied about OxyContin being a safe non addictive pain killer and basically started the opioid crisis in America. This is just a small sampling of big business crimes. The evil might not have the personal touch but it is greater.