Peter De Socio

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Recovering Twitterian. Academic. News Junkie. Lover of Food (and air and water). Lapsed Catholic. Mildly OCD-ridden. L' AVI c'est moi.
LocationChicago & Los Angeles
Party AffiliationDemocrat
OccupationCollege Professor
Favorite CuisineKorean

The counter girl hopped right up when I walked in and was clocking in to help me.

Me: were you on break? I can wait until it's over I'm not in a hurry.

Her: no, we're supposed to clock out when there aren't customers

Me: oh no, honey, no. That's illegal.

Her: 😳

Me: not for you, for your manager or whoever told you to do that.

Her: it is?

Me: it's called wage theft when your boss doesn't pay you what you earned. when your boss requires you to stay here, he needs you pay you for your time.

Her: oh.

Me: here, this is the office number to an employment lawyer, call her and tell her you need to come in to talk about this

Her: I don't have any money

Me: we're gonna get your money, you already earned it sweetie.

Edit message to include a link to info about worker's rights:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/workers

Worker Rights

The Wage and Hour Division mission is to promote and achieve compliance with labor standards to protect and enhance the welfare of the nation's workforce. We are committed to ensuring that workers in this country are paid properly and for all the hours they work. , Quick Links Essential Workers â€“ Essential Protections Resources for essential workers who are keeping our country moving forward during the COVID-19 pandemic. Essential Workers, Essential Protections - Restaurant Industry (YouTube) An overview of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Garment Workers' Rights How to File a Complaint We have offices throughout the country with trained professionals to help you. Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors Workers Owed Wages If you think you may be owed back wages collected by WHD, you can search our database of workers for whom we have money waiting to be claimed. Worker Resources A library of resources WHD offers to ensure that workers understand their rights under these laws and that they receive the wages and the protections to which they are entitled. Resources in Other Languages Find help in 20 languages. Timesheet Mobile App This app helps track regular work hours, break time, and overtime hours. , The right to fair pay The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting most full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments. The right to take unpaid leave Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) eligible employees of covered employers have the right to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons. Young Workers' rights Federal child labor laws ensure that when young people work, the work is safe and does not jeopardize their health, well-being or educational opportunities. Farm Workers' rights The Wage and Hour Division helps all workers in the United States. We enforce the law without regard to a worker’s immigration status. H-2B Workers' rights The H-2B provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provide for the admission of nonimmigrants to the U.S. to perform temporary non-agricultural labor or services. Restaurant Workers' rights The restaurant/fast food industry includes establishments which are primarily engaged in selling and serving to purchasers prepared food and beverages for consumption on or off the premises. */ × DOL-Timesheet App Track your regular work hours, break time, and overtime hours. Learn More

DOL
This is taped to my break room wall (my kitchen because I am work from home)
Beautiful and moving image in honour and remembrance of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Still Dancing by Jonathan Labillois
I’ve noticed many people lately who have died surrounded by their family. That’s why I avoid mine.
I give it 24 hours before those burning man folks go full lord of the flies.
Trying to figure out how the other 9 people on Prigozhin's plane decided that flying with someone on Putin's "To Be Killed Painfully" list was a good idea

Today is the very last of my weekly “Wealth and Poverty” classes — not just the last class of this course, but my last class teaching any course now that I'm retired.

Even if you haven’t had a chance to keep up with all the others, please join this one. https://bit.ly/3D4HMWY

My last “Wealth and Poverty” class! Forever! :(

Today is the very last of my weekly “Wealth and Poverty” classes — not just the last class of this course, but my last class teaching any course. I’m going to be retiring from teaching now. So this last class is quite special to me, and I hope it will be special to you. Even if you haven’t had a chance to keep up with all the others, please join this one.

Robert Reich

I was using Threads years ago. Back then it was called Facebook.

#twittermigration #twitterexodus #threads #meta #downwithbigsocial

Okay. So we all understand that the Supreme Court has become a right-wing ideological political institution under Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, Kavanaugh, & Roberts. They're for sale & illegitimate. Now, we have to beat them in the executive branch & the legislature.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-2023-term_n_649f25b7e4b030efa12065d4

The Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority Continues Its Work Rolling Back The 20th Century

The psychodrama over whether John Roberts is in control of the court is irrelevant when the justices just keep enacting the conservative policy agenda.

HuffPost

the way we live now:

Bluesky informs me Twitter is down, and also that Bluesky can’t handle the resulting surge in use, so I come to Mastodon to post about it