I thought I read theyre cutting work hours from 48 to 40. Not good enough imo. Thats what were at and still burned out.
Can’t wait for American illegal immigrants to get deported from Mexico
That’s already a problem in Mexico. American immigrants have been moving to the nice parts of Mexico, and they have been inflating the ever living fuck out of the prices there. American money is unmatched, and no Mexican business is going to dumb enough to let it slip by. They’ve been increasing prices and catering to Americans to the point where Mexicans are being squeezed out entirely from the equation.
There are parts of Mexico city where Mexicans are completely priced out. People with houses in the nice parts try to sell them to Americans to get more money. Developers are building condo buildings that cater to American styles, and they’re entirely branded and marketed in English. Businesses in the area notice the increase in Americans walking around and jack up their prices to get a share of the pie themselves, which leads Americans to get another part of the city that’s still cheap to get the most out of their money repeating the cycle. Americans have already been doing this to countries like Spain, Portugal, and Italy, but now they’re doing it to Mexico too.
Damn, here I thought I was making a bad joke, but reality seems to be a bad joke these days.
That’s the beauty of the Mexican project. They’re going to accommodate the refugees in a way Americans refused to do. And they’re going to become a better country for it
Impressive.
Holy shit. Claudia my queen
Hopefully, Mexico will actually achieve the American Dream, rather than being dragged into a nightmare by their capitalists.
But wait…who is gonna pay for it…sorry American here its a habit.
Just look at the awful things a woman president will do.
Let’s pretend the Queen of England didn’t just finally fuck off or all the other female authoritarians/war criminals, let’s remove her agency and attribute any good she does to being a woman.
It’s more sexist than the implication itself.
Margaret Thatcher was UK’s Reagan. Everything she didn’t ruin herself; she readied to be ruined later.
It wasn’t because she was a woman. It was because she was a freaking neoliberal.
It’s also just really fucking annoying that this platitude comes up every time a headline is posted about a woman doing good, as if people are just incapable of thinking it through.
Neither Clinton nor Harris would have supported this, and in fact, they’d have told their rotating villains to oppose it and claimed powerlessness, as Dems always do. (Which is, in part, why they lost their elections.)
bUt SeXiSm
Okay, run an actual leftist woman and isolate the variables.
I personally think they care way more about losing money and influence than hating women.
The misogyny is just a side gig.
American Democracy incoming into Mexico, please stand by.
“The reform does not mandate two rest days per week. […] create the conditions under which a four-day working week becomes practically achievable for the first time for a significant portion of the Mexican workforce.”
Mexico is one of the few countries with only a 1-day weekend, along with:
- Colombia, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Hong Kong, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, and India (Sundays);
- Djibouti (only 40h/w tho), Palestine, Iran, and Somalia (Fridays); and
- Nepal (only 42h/w tho) (Saturdays).
This doesn’t mean anything because a lot of work in Mexico is informal and done in cash, and so these changes won’t have an effect on the people who need them the most.
Besides, the country is going through an existential crises right now with the cartels ripping the country apart. A lot of people are already criticizing her for not focusing on the most pressing problems, and they’re right. This is nice in theory, but things like crime and violence have gotten so out of hand that parts of the country are unlivable for the average folk. She’s being increasingly regarded by Mexicans as another cartel stooge in office.
You can’t have this all or nothing approach. You’ll never get anything done. This should be celebrated as a step in the right direction and further actions be encouraged.
This the problem with the more radical leftists on here. They want these massive sweeping changes to happen or nothing at all. And that’s just not going to happen. Change is incremental. So they never get what they want because they never show up to vote.
Big issue in the kinds of discussion here in lemmy
Someone always thinks something else is more important. Doing that and making (wishfully) perfect the enemy of good are solid recipes for no progress.
The only way to address systemic problems like crime and violence in any meaningful way is addressing the underline problem that pushed people to commit crimes. That underline problem is quality of life which is directly related to income.
Taking people out of the informal job market is another problem to tackle that can be helped with having better work laws. Having good working laws stimulate people to get jobs in the formal market and avoid offers for informal work even if with better pay. That is not a problem that would be solved in the short term but this laws will help with that. The same approach was used in other countries and together with more government enforcement and fiscalizaton of the companies you see great improvement over the years and decades migrating people to the formal job market and reduction in crimes and violence.
You would be right if we were talking about normal crime and violence, but we’re not. The cartels aren’t made up of poor people who are committing crimes out of desperation. The people who are in the cartels do the most horrific things just to join, and once they join, they’re in for life. They have very organized hierarchies that keep a strict order, that’s why they’re massive crime syndicates.
They abduct people from their houses, they assassinate politicians, they hold public executions, burn down businesses who don’t pay extortion fees, they torture people they kidnap, they rig elections, they put their corrupted judges and politicians in power, and the list goes on and on. They’re even starting to control the country’s biggest industries. For example, there’s a good chance that the avocadoes you buy from the store came from a cartel controlled farm. Things were bad before, but they’re especially bad now with the Sinaloa cartel being fractured. There’s a lot of cartels competing for the top spot and things are ugly, really ugly. Some of the cartels are especially brutal just for the sake of it like Jalisco New Generation.
Mexico is a very unequal country. The nice areas are very nice. They’re safe, peaceful, have tourists, and are relatively wealthy. But the bad areas? They’re not even controlled by the government, they’re ruled by the cartels. They have so much violence that Mexico as a whole is considered a major war zone by the ACLED. You would think that president would prioritize something this pressing, but she gets offended at the very thought of her doing something about the cartels. Her predecessor, AMLO, did the same thing and he is widely regarded as a cartel stooge. She’s now being increasingly viewed in the same light.
Soon Mexico will have to build a wall to keep Americans out.
A bit late that,
Nah americans are too poor and tired to move.
And make us pay for it!
I think we already built it and paid for it.
You lot got uno reversed hard on that one.
Mexico is amending it’s constitution and the US can’t even pass a budget to keep it’s fucking bridges from collapsing. Meanwhile USA calls Mexico a failed state lol.
its, not it’s.
Name checks out.
You mean pass a bill to borrow more money, to keep the bridges from collapsing.
The government used to tax rich people to fund infrastructure. Now it borrows from them like a crack head at a pay-day-loan shop.
You mean pass a bill to fund genocide with bridge money.
Those are usually earmarked on the back of “save the children” bills
Well, Americans are too cowardly to start breaking shit (and bones). What do you expect?
Anybody upset about this needs to be upset with their employer. If you need to work over 12 hours a day everyday you’re being severely underpaid. Saying this as a guy that used to do it to survive. My boss would praise me and tell people everyone needed to be more like me while knowing damn well why I was doing what I was doing. Tried to be the empathetic hand while completely exploiting me.
How did you manage to get out from under them?
Unionize to get a better job or get a better job.
I did it the hard way. Job hopping! I’m in IT without a degree (I have certs now but didn’t when I started). I have years of experience because I took entry level positions but had gaps in my knowledge due to not having a formal education. I started finding jobs that I had 80% of the know how from previous employers specifically. The pay would always be low for what I was doing, but it was a trade off since I had things to learn. I had to look for companies that weren’t willing to pay top dollar for IT so they’d be willing to ignore my lack of experience on some things.
After landing the job, I’d focus on that 20% specifically for resume bullet points. After 1 year (very important to stay for at least 1 year!), I’d evaluate. Sometimes I’d jump ship taking along with me any references, promotions (job titles are important folks), and certs I could along the way. Sometimes I’d stay longer than a year depending on what was happening. The pay was never right so I knew I wasn’t going to stay.
Most of these places were small to medium sized, toxic, unprofessional, and had high attrition rates.
After years of that, I started landing positions mostly based on the network I built of professional references. I have professional friends that help me out that are higher up on the latter and I have ones that I help / bring up with me that are below me on the latter.
Being honest, this was not the easy way by far and I don’t even know if you could still do what I did.
Today though, I have steady employment working for a large organization. My pay is good but not great. I’m not rich but I can make rent and have some left over for savings working only 40 hours a week. Really that’s all I ever wanted! I’m still working on my career but I’m happy I don’t have to do it while killing myself to not starve anymore!
Well congrats on the place you’ve managed to get to. Thanks for sharing
No wonder the CIA is fucking with them.
The billionaires are freaking out
Mi español es muy limitado, but I’m ready to go.
She needs to reform the US, next.
Honestly, companies have legitimately taken advantage of productivity gains from technology over the last 30+years. We get more done individually now than we ever have before, so companies save millions on effectively having less staff, that’re also paid less due to sharp rises of inflation & CoL.
We should be down to 24 hours a week IMO, because I myself piss away about half my week anyway trying to come up with shit to do! I know others are in similar boats.
I own a company, self employed and I set up my business to only need to do 20 billable hours a week. That covers my wage and insurance costs for myself. Obviously at that I’m not making profit as a business but as an employee I am making a good living
It really opened my eyes to how much businesses fuck their employees and how much value i created for the 13 years i worked for others.
I think we should have a law that employees at a company have a right to a share of % of the profits.
Would help incentives workers, too. You’re gonna work harder if you know your efforts actually pay off.
a share of % of the profits.
Hollywood already has the playbook for that. You can have as little “profit” as you need to avoid payouts to people with profit share arrangements. Funny how executive compensation cuts into profits…
even better: the workers should own the company. including its profits as well as its decisions.
Just like the first industrial revolution. We’re again in a post industrial gilded age.
Wow, what’s your role and how do I get it?
In IT, some weeks are super busy, but as I’ve improved things at work (upgrading equipment, fixed old issues, automated some repeat processes, etc), there are other weeks it’s “slow” and I feel like I’m just sitting there. It used to be nonstop all the time when I was new, but the were a lot of unresolved problems or things the last guy didn’t know how to do. I probably couldn’t get away with 3x 8 hour days as stuff will always happen unexpectedly, but still. It would be less of a problem if I could go back to working remote at least partially. Going onsite everyday is also annoying AF.
And then there is the rest of us fighting to add more hours to our day just to get through it to massively varied degrees as they are
Reducing your working hours would add so much valuable time to everyone’s lives. Of your workload is so great, time to hire additional help. Not your problem.
You recall when covid first happened and so many and remote? Productivity shot up 17%according to several articles. Less “wasted time” with ‘water cooler’ talk. People could get coffee at home faster, quieter environments to focus in, etc. Insurance rates went down bc far less on the road, oil went down since demand dropped. It was ironically positive. It was great!
But the commercial real estate problem began, and C suites started micro managing because they were told petiole will just slack off and all these made up problems were spread to get people back into the offices.
It’s bullshit to keep us working so long every day. If you’re still overwhelmed with your workload, your company clearly is understaffed. I’ve learned, “the only reward for working hard is more work” and if you’re currently just managing to get it done, it’s seen as no extra help needed. “You got this”… Start letting stuff fall behind or putting it off, because you’ve got other stuff you prioritize. Call off sick at an inconvenient time so upper management sees the loss when you’re out. It’ll start to send signals that they in fact need help!
I don’t work an office job. I work in operations. I can’t reduce my workload it is what it is by the nature of my job. I’ve had to cut staff continually since covid. I worked everyday during it and no one gives a shit unless you were a healthcare worker at that time.
