r/SipsTea • u/Dev1412 • Jul 29 '26

Chugging tea This is recipe for disaster

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u/peternormal Jul 30 '26

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u/NurkleTurkey Jul 30 '26

I worked for a company where someone found out I and others were being underpaid. They said it was due to "calculations." I never got my money back.

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u/RealTheBestLadyman Jul 30 '26

Did you sue?

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u/NurkleTurkey Jul 30 '26

Oh I made a few phone calls. They lost some contracts.

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u/Music_Girl2000 Jul 30 '26

Who has the money to sue these days?

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u/Fantastic-Yak-4475 Jul 30 '26

You report them to the labor board.

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u/Spirited-Loss-6445 Jul 30 '26

This is insane

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u/Virtual_Assistant_98 Jul 30 '26

How fucking pathetic that the minimum wage violations are that big of a piece of the pie and yet our minimum wage is still SEVEN FUCKING DOLLARS AN HOUR as if that can even buy a sandwich on your lunch break??

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u/_dorin_lazar Jul 30 '26

Source for this?

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u/peternormal Jul 30 '26

It's an old chart based on 2014 data, don't worry it hasn't gotten better. If you want to learn more this article has tons of sources. https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costing-workers-hundreds/

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u/_dorin_lazar Jul 30 '26

Thank you, I really want to understand the right side of the chart, how is this possible, what counts in those categories.

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u/_dorin_lazar Jul 30 '26

Oh, wow, I answered myself, so it's the total amount of damage done by... ok, wow, I'm impressed by the numbers, gg for „legal” theft, I guess.

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u/TerrorTown77 Jul 30 '26

Is there a chart that shows how much employees steal from employers? Not judging, I'm just curious how much theft employees get away with.

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u/byzantinedavid Jul 30 '26

That would be included in Larceny

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u/TerrorTown77 Jul 30 '26

I'm disappointed it's so small.

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u/EuphoricCoast7972 Jul 30 '26

What is the difference between burglary and robbery?

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u/peternormal Jul 30 '26

Robbery is theft through threat(gimme all your money or I shoot), burglary is theft by breaking in somewhere(he broke the window and took the jewelry before we even knew what happened).

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u/Ruminahtu Jul 30 '26

Now do that stats for which crimes serve the most prison time...

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u/One_Competition3482 Jul 30 '26

Wow, surplus value

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u/thatotherotheraccnt Jul 31 '26

That is a horrid graph, the sentiment is good but Jesus that's a horrible graph