cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9823286

‘Tis the season to celebrate our loved ones, and also for employers to show how much they care.

Whether by throwing a Christmas bash or handing out extra cash, businesses around the world are broadly expected to offer their dedicated staff a festive token of their appreciation.

And who deserves more recognition than the workers who keep our healthcare systems afloat?

Yet, the senior management team at one hospital apparently decided that rather than boost their staff’s pay or treat them to a slap-up meal, they would provide them with…

Potatoes.

The questionable move was broadcast to social media by an X/Twitter user who calls herself Amanda B.

She explained dejectedly: “My work is doing a potato bar as our Christmas bonus. I’m literally getting a hospital potato as a bonus.”

She then added: “They also said it has a $15 (£11.85) value so it will be taxed on our next check. Does anyone need an assistant so I can just quit right now?”

  • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Capitalism is starting to feel like a massive piss-take. You’ve got corps laughing all the way to the bank with billions in profits feeding their employees with fucking potatoes.

    Surely something has to give?

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      11 months ago

      Tbh I am kind of surprised no one has literally eaten some of the rich by now for nourishment.

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        11 months ago

        I expect nothing will happen right through the crops failing, famines, mass migrations, wet bulb heat waves, ecological collapse… Nothing good anyway… Most likely fascist police state; probably sooner than later.

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      11 months ago

      The divide will keep growing until people start to get hungry.
      We’ve already proven time and time again that the worst they’re going to get out of us for anything they do is harsh words and disapproval. And since they know the worst we can do is complain they’re going to keep doing it.
      There won’t be any legislation or policy charges to help us.
      When we can’t eat and can’t feed our children we’ll finally have to motivation to make the changes ourselves.

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        11 months ago

        Yup, they know the population is placated by social media, but their mistake is thinking that makes them immune from the guillotine.

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          11 months ago

          It does though, as long as we have our bread and circuses they’re safe, and nothing will change until one or both dry up.

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            10 months ago

            the bread is already drying up in america, people have died because they couldn’t get heating in texas winter

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      11 months ago

      It has multiple times, housing bubble, dot com bubble, soon the used car bubble, then it’ll be another housing bubble with apartments etc… Capitalism has such a stranglehold on the world that it’s going to take a very long time for it to change enough to be called something else that actually works

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        used car bubble

        I’m unfamiliar with this and at first glance it sounds kind of silly, but again I haven’t heard about it so now I’m super curious lol - what’s going on? I know prices are inflated but how does that create a bubble exactly in the same way we saw with houses and such? Cars aren’t exactly investments beyond their immediate utility and the dollars put in are way lower than houses and such.

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          without knowing anything about the market I’d hazard a guess that old cars are appreciating more because car companies don’t sell cars anymore they sell locked down tablets in a car like case and used car sales are about as trustworthy as they have always been, that is to say they are gouging harder than any other company in the current economy.

          No low ballers, I know what I got.

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            11 months ago

            I just don’t think the average consumer really cares about privacy with their cars, especially because it’s only very recently that reports like the one Mozilla created have been coming out. They’ve never really had to consider it before.

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              I’ve never met anyone that’s OK with the removal of physical controls.

              The average person already has a healthy distrust of software and it has nothing to do with privacy.

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      11 months ago

      We could always embrace capitalism by getting rid of corporations, like as a concept. They’re a fundamentally anti-capitalist idea.

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      11 months ago

      More than likely the hospital is a non profit, so the profits at all costs doesn’t really work.

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        11 months ago

        “Non-profit” doesn’t mean it doesn’t make money and doesn’t prevent hospital administration from taking massive pay bumps.