asked for a raise (im the only employee at a small cosmetics company. i handle the manufacturing, labeling, packing, and shipping, as well as keeping up inventory and keeping the place in order. basically everything) and my boss responds by trying to gaslight me, pulling this “we’re a small business 🥺” bullshit
he just bought a 60,000 dollar car and is taking his second vacation of the year next week
he keeps trying to hold “a week of personal time” i had to go on strike by myself to earn, “paid winter break” etc over my head. all shit that the government forces you to give your employees in every other country on the planet. america is a shit hole with no workers rights and it allows the parasitic small business tyrant class feel like they’re doing something good by offering the bare minimum. literally “i treat my slaves nicely” shit
sorry yall just wanted to rant. fuck america and work under capitalism
Sounds like he ended up in a situation where 100% of his employees are irreplacable, aware of it and radicalized against him. Pretty sure that's one of the pages in the Big Book of Business where you're supposed to draw a frowny face and (if you can) write "No".
Not really.
It sounds like the boss is saying he can find someone else to do this for $17 an hour.
Yeah, but if you read the Big Book of Business you will find that telling your employees that they are irreplacable and hold all the cards in a negotiation also gets a frowny face. If it was easy to replace them why did the boss cave to a one person strike the first time?