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I explained to my employer that in capitalist society my only value is my quantity/quality of work. Since I can't downgrade quality, and they don't pay me well enough they don't get more than 60% of what i can do. He asked how to get more, I told him more money or more holiday... I am still at 60% maximum... It degrade with inflation too, last year during the yearly bilan, I insisted that they have to justify why they are cutting my salary since they didn't match inflation. HR and syndic got involved and I got 2% pay increase... We are slave in this system and capitalists are trying to gazelight us to give more than they pay.
For many years I struggled to get my coworkers to understand that a raise smaller than inflation was not a raise. Every person I worked with would defend the company when they underpaid or overworked us. The argument would usually be along the lines of “You can’t blame them, it makes financial sense for a business to do that.” Of course I can blame them for exploiting me!
I finally found people who understood what I believed to be common sense, but I can’t organize any rage because the company I work for now actually treats its employees well.
Yes, each time the manager tell me we are making you a exception don't tell your colleagues, so I told them at next coffee. Buy I never heard of one trying it too.