# Occupy Wallstreet **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 29, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647 "2011-09-29T12:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 186
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647/186 "2011-10-25T11:03:01Z")
> [@FS: Ichibahn Steering Wheel](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-ichibahn-steering-wheel/45771/26): > > I understand that its bad when a union has too much power, but on the other end of the spectrum its really hard when you don't have any pull at all. Where I work, I do several different jobs. Some of those jobs have a lot of prevailing wage work and others don't. At the end of my season I had two different people trying to get me on a "money" crew, if you will, and my bosses didn't want to send me. Keep in mind, the people vouching for me were running the crew. I would have made more money in those six weeks with that crew than I would have all season. > > On top of that, I come back for my fourth year and get a dollar raise, brings me up to 11 dollars an hour. Then I have to work with some fat tub of lard who is brand new and makes the same amount of money as me but mommy owns a company and knows the owner of my company. Kid couldn't find his way out of a paper bag. > > Meanwhile, the business is having a banner year. The managers, vp, and president will all pull in over 100k… much more for the vp and president actually. I will be lucky to pull in 30k this year including unemployment and I was working my dick off. I've been sent out of town on a thursday with little to no notice to work through the weekend. I've worked with second degree burns on my arm and a chemical pneumonia. I recently just pulled a 21 and a half hour day of physical labor, which is illegal. The whole summer I didn't work less than 60 hours and less than 6 days a week. > > Everyone will keep telling me to get a better job and I am sincerely working on that, but what about the guys behind me at my old job? Its going to be the same shit for them. **How do you break that cycle?** Stop working for companies that have political initiatives over fair compensation for their employees; bottom to top. When you go on interviews you should be asking as many questions about the company as they are towards you. As not get get a job and feel like it owns you and you cant get out. I can tell you one company I know of in the capital region, which makes MILLIONS a year. They are a solid foundation, and not going anywhere. They produce something that is NEEDED, not wanted. Their bottom of the barrel guy, “working his balls off” make twice what you are apparently making, with no college degree. This is a job that requires a skill. If you got it, they will see it and give you a chance. If you suck, good by. If you are good, her is your paycheck until you want to leave. And its not a who you know place, you can get hired by them out of Capital Area Help Wanted! Those companies are hard to find, I understand that. BUT, they are one example of a dying trend in the big business society. Sad to say it. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647)._