The wolves are complaining that the sheep aren’t breeding
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"Anything goes with Biden". Says a lot right there.
They want the magical perfect immigrant. White, middle classed or higher, well educated, culturally compatible, but willing to be paid very little for shitty jobs and live in awful housing and be too ignorant of their rights to ever complain.
I'm confused. Are they blaming Biden because Canadians aren't having enough babies?
If you want humans to breed, make groceries, houses, and healthcare affordable. Make salaries high enough to cover cost of living for a family. Its not fucking rocket science.
Or they can continue to price gouge you at every opportunity and either offshore the jobs or bring in immigrants to work those jobs for less than a domestic citizen would. Just to clarify I’m not against immigration I’m against people of all walks of life being continuously ...
Make life stable enough that you can plan anything. Kids are a long term commitment that lasts beyond this quarter's earnings cycle.
"But what about our shareholders? Our quarterly report doesn't matter to you?" /s
ULine is generally terrible. And calls for economic cattle to fill the capitalist needs is nothing new.
Hah we were leafing through the uline catalog at work the other day and I was pointing out how outrageously overpriced a lot of their products are. Like one thing was a plastic hand cart like you’d use at the grocery store but it had an extendable handle and wheels to pull aro...
Northern Illinois person here. Fuck uline.
And she forgot to mention the millions her and her husband have given conservatives over the years that have help to form the current policies.
Call a spade a spade; "We need humans to *buy* our stuff. The warehouses that use AI /robotics don't order consumables like gloves, PPE, restroom materials, hardhats and entrance mats like human-operated ones do. We need *employees* to pay minimum wage and work ragged to maint...
They already found a workaround. Uline got caught committing immigration/ VISA fraud by shipping Mexican employees to the US warehouses under ‘worker training VISAs’ only to have them work regular warehouse jobs for long hours. Womp womp. Seems like they want harsh immigrati...
Maybe if people could work a job for 15 years and retire with a pension, while being able to afford a house they may be more inclined to have kids. Elizabeth Uihlein is so out of touch. It reminds me earlier in my career when my boss told me I shouldn't be so stressed from h...
"We also pay very well." - Yeah, I'll bet. Note that this is an afterthought, mentioned only after how "beautiful" their warehouses are... inadvertently reveals where they place employee welfare.
Any bets that it’s $1.00 over minimum wage and she thinks that’s crazy high pay? …when that would be under $18k a year, which is hard to eat and keep a car running on, much less pay rent. Kids? Hahahaha ^hahaha *wheeze*
If they paid well, they wouldn't have a staffing problem
To be fair. They do pay decent. The flip side. You are being paid to deal with this crap. This letter isn’t even the full picture of the crap the employees have to deal with day to day. If you think your job is micro-managed, you’ve never worked at Uline (god forbid you use ...
This lady is always whining but never wanting to actually do anything to make her company more appealing to work for, and keeps throwing money at horrible candidates and policies. A perfect example of how you can be genuinely horrible at your role but the company has such stro...
Did you not read it? She has heated/air-conditioned warehouses! What more could you want??
"Dress code." Dude is wearing a tie for a call center job.
When I applied, they wouldn't let you have tattoos, facial hair, or piercings... in 2015.
I have heard women still have to wear nylons and heels every day. F that!
The Canadian immigration system is an absolute mess right now. It’s only a shining example in this corporate leech’s eyes because they often receive kickbacks from the Canadian government for hiring TFWs (Temporary foreign workers) and thus suppressing wages and restricting ac...
So, not that different than the USA. Basically an opportunity for a business to find an even more desperate soul and treat it more shittily than it would treat a locally-born worker. What's funny in light of this ad (from those batshit ULine people no less) is that the job m...
💯 not to mention our infrastructure spending is insufficient when comparing to this huge influx, so our institutions, roads, basically anything public is crumbling underneath our feet.
As a Canadian, this confirms a lot that I have already suspected. Mass immigration wasn't for the betterment of Canada; it was for the betterment of big business. Otherwise ULine would have had to increase their wages, and that would never do. As to her claim they pay well, I ...
When Carney first got into office and he met with business leaders he said “their first concern was tariffs, their second concern was access to foreign labour.” The government will ofc screw over everyone involved who isn’t lobbying for a massive company.
The Uihleins (Richard and Elizabeth) are billionaires and have been Republican donors for decades, particularly after Citizens United. Both are heavily right-wing, and Wikipedia puts him squarely in the far-right category. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_and_Elizabeth_...
Don't worry, they'll get their way and burn our planet before anyone is ever held accountable so I don't know anyone is making a fuss.
Fuck it, they can't put my tubes back in. There ain't no forcing me to have kids and I bet a lot of other people are starting to go the same route too.
They told us that we will own noting and be happy. Why most of us should bother making children when they are going to take them away anyway?
Here's a nice resource page where you can find alternative places to shop for the stuff Uline sells. https://refuseuline.com/Alternative-Resources
This is rambling nonsense. I feel like I shouldn’t be assembling a puzzle to figure out what these paragraphs mean…
Never ever ever buy anything from these Nazis.
You fix low birth rates by increasing immigration, oh wait...
There are way too many humans on this planet. We are destructive in a way that no other species alive today could ever dream of being. I understand the need economically for each generation to come along to keep everything moving, but a slow down sounds like a great idea to me.
It's Uline. The owners are right wing nutters. Their dresscode for offices is men in suits and women in skirts and tights year round (at least when i applied years back). The owner also showed up to the warehouse still under construction and threw a tantrum abput it being mess...
To be fair, Uline in Milwaukee, which is likely where this is from, does pay its warehouse employees ~$30/hour, which is actually quite high for the area. My understanding is that the culture is hot dog shit, though. ¯\_ʘ‿ʘ_/¯
Absolutely no mention about why people are choosing not to have children, only the consequences that have an impact on thier business.
"Surprisingly, some people know what 1.6 means. Equally surprising- some people do not know what it means" okay who wrote this? Dumbest writing I've seen.
Strict drug policy let me introduce you to not enough younger workers.
And it looks like many of those who do have kids in the US are heading for the exits, if they can. As a father, I scared to death for my kids' futures in this country.
OMG I used to work for this right wing MAGA craphole company. She has been doing this for years. The owners of this company are dangerous and delusional. Avoid ULINE at all costs.
Barely even had to read it before knowing it was Uline. What a garbage company.
my grandparents: when are you two going to have kids? me: when am i going to afford a 6 bedroom 3 bath house with 80 acres, two vehicles, a few pets, a vacation once a year, and atleast a family night every month on a single income? grandparents: ............ This but wides...
Boycott Uline, and then boycott all businesses that partner with Uline.
Uihlein Translation: Please increase the labor supply so I don’t have to pay more to attract workers to my business.
Pay enough and they will come. There’s enough workers - they just don’t pay enough. Also I thought AI is taking everyone’s jobs? Fewer jobs means fewer people are needed.
I run a small business with my partner and we had to spend considerable time finding packaging not from ULINE. This woman is a legit crazy person and we couldn't have lived with ourselves if we enriched her company while running ours. It's a point of pride for many local ...
I stopped buying from Uline years ago once I ran across this twatwaffle’s personal propaganda in each Uline catalog.
Ugh, Liz is The Worst.
Their phone CSRs have to wear ties? I've been in call center work for 20+ years in 3 different companies. We had/have dress codes, but at worst, I've had to wear a t-shirt and jeans. Even our leadership mostly wears polos and such. If I'm sitting tethered to a desk for 8-10 ho...
Give me 100k a year raise and we can talk kids
The elites spent decades saying were not entitled to food, housing, education, etc. So I guess they aren't entitled to us having children to continue this terrible system. It works both ways.
Liz Uihlein is a MAGA nut-job and just an all around terrible person. I know a bunch of people that have worked for Uline, and they have all said it is the worst job they have ever had.
Keep our country's name out of your filthy mouth - Sincerely a Canadian.
I stopped reading at "Uline"
Fuck the Uihleins.
They gave Trump $100 million and treat their employees like garbage and have a five day in office shirt and tie dress code. Fuck that family.
This is one of the top funders of MAGA dude. Look em up. They’re as bad as the DeVos family.
MAKE. US. MORE. SLAVES. And then we can blame you for having kids you couldn't afford.
Why does there need to be a dress code, strict drug policy, and inflexible working hours at a warehouse in ass end of nowhere? This isn't brain surgery. Look, I wouldn't want a forklift operator to come to work drunk (though, I suspect alcohol is actually allowed under their ...
If they want people to have kids they need to make sure people are financially stable and feel comfortable with the cost and responsibility. At the moment the average person is near or below the poverty line with how little jobs want to pay.
I couldn't get past the awful writing in this to make counterfactuals...
At least uline is always consistently tone deaf . I mean they are ghouls but they don't lie about it
Ah Liz, one of my favorite reads, from someone who likely has not had to toil a day in her life!
Let's have more babies until we're sure we won't need them thanks to AI*.
even during dual fuedal times, there were much more incentives to have kids than today
Fuck the Uihleins.
Uline is a POS company and my company tries their hardest to NEVER support them.
“Not enough younger employees” Have you tried offering better pay and benefits, Liz?
People get babies when they trust they will be able to provide for them. The US can easily improve birth statistics by lowering costs for raising children. But that would mean a loss of corporate profits short term so let’s import workers from elsewhere. The world migration is...
Who do they suppose cleans their warehouses? Mean maximum Summer temperatures in the ninties, but *some* warehouses are airconditioned. Mean minimum winter temperatures in the minus thirties, no mention of heating. Let me guess *which* warehouses are struggling to retain ...
As bad as it is, this represents progress from these folks. Criticizing both Biden and Trump is a big step. They run some of the biggest warehouses in the country and need immigrant labor badly. The business model is built on it.
When Canadian businesses can hire people under min wage, they will ONLY hire those people. Meaning Canadian kids and teens can’t get starter jobs. The unemployment rate for teens - 25 years in Canada is 14.2%
I d bet the rent, Uline entry level pay is poor.
I just read this today!
"In warm areas, like Ontario, Ca...." says some dumbass who has clearly never been to Canada
Your businesses will rot because we don't give a shit anymore about replacement rate. You can choke on all that AI you're investing in....
Canadian citizens (and citizens in every Western nation) aren't having kids because housing and life in general is unaffordable and their governments are importing hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year who make heavy use of public assistance and make things even MORE ...
I hate her so much.
It took me way too much reading to realize this was from U-Line and not a drunk rant from Bucky the Badger.
The Uihlien family donated money to build a soccer complex on the Northside of Milwaukee. I play indoor soccer at that complex. During COVID, they shut down mid session and all teams were asked if they wanted to donate a prorated portion of their session fee to the park or jus...
Ha ha ha. I just read this today. We get Uline catalogues all the time at my office and I ALWAYS turn to the back to see what insane boomer rant she’s written this time. The last few have been about issues Uline has with getting employees and keeping employees. A previous on...
The boomer gen is the biggest generation in human history, as they die off the number of people needed as a whole goes down because you have less people, it's not a hard concept to figure out.
in his opinion overturning RvW, Justice Thomas literally refers to the declining birth rate as a reason why we shouldn't be able to have rights.
Hasn't trump killed off a bunch of jobs, particularly in manufacturing? Feb jobs report wasn't great.
You can always count on Liz Uihlein for an absolutely dog shit opinion.
Isn't she the one who complained about people not staying loyal to their companies? Also, they have a reputation for a corporate culture of micromanagement
American democracy: a system where citizens elect who manages their contributions to the defense budget.
“We’re not having enough babies to replace people who are retiring!” Meanwhile myself and other every 20-something new grad takes months or years to get a single entry level job, ghosted or auto rejected without anyone even reading your resume.
Uline owners are right-wing assholes. Fuck them and all of their opinions.
Yes, young people love a dress code and a strict drug policy for the honor of working in a warehouse.
I knew it was the ULINE lady as soon as I saw the format. She's batshit
Ugh, the owners of Uline are gross
The words to describe this screed are as follows: Patronising, condescending, arrogant, delusional and oblivious. Not *once* did she ask *why* are less people having kids. Not once. But we've got all the lovely warehouses, they're sooooo lovely. Come work for whatever minimu...
Got the part about locations, saw Allentown, and wondered "What are you paying", because I'm familiar with pay rates in the area. Then I saw "Uline", and it all made sense. Their problem isn't lack of workers. It's being a shitty company nobody wants to work for, especially w...
This woman/company always has unhinged things to say. This is not the first post from something she said.
The owner is a big MAGA supporter
I can't believe they referenced Canada...
Anyone have an alternative to Uline? I hate that I buy so much from them at work
I do hate the always smuggled assumption that servitude to others is "inherently good". And more is better? The idea of people being free to look after themselves, not trapped into servitude because the tons of plentiful resources are fenced off by greedy tyrants. "We need ...
Your title is not the point of her essay. Did you actually read it? No snark intended.
Fuck uline. They're trumpster
Wake up, babe. ULINE’S new unhinged propaganda letter dropped.
Why this this office slop vendor engaged weird immigration propaganda using her company's name??
These jerks want you to keep having kids while allowing AI to take all the jobs. Who pays for them? Corps are wanting their profits to keep going up and the only way to increase them is by adding to the population.
"We've made the world so that you and your spouse have to work overtime just for basic necessities, we've made childcare and healthcare unattainable, polluted the land, air, and water, monitor your every move everywhere you go, and education is designed to permanently trap you...
Young Americans: We can't afford to have kids. CEOs: But *we* can't afford to have you not have kids!!
Par for the course for these Uline screeds. Surprisingly tame for Liz, actually, compared to some past ones I’ve seen.
ULINE (the company) is a massive Trump supporter. Fuck em.
Ah yes, we need more young people to feed the capitalist machine. Bezos needs a fourth luxury yacht and Elon can't seem to burn enough fuel in his private jet. What we NEED, is healthcare, living wages, education, welfare and TAXATION OF THE FUCKING RICH!!!
They think all the poor people are Sheep but not realizing that they forced Mountain Goats in the field as well, and goats ain't timid and WILL fight back, in a world that only wants sheep and Wolves, Be a Goat.
Right wing company. They don’t care about anyone but themselves. Avoid.
Brilliant. let's pay less or nothing to people and expect them to have children with purchasing power. fuck the upperclass
Enrollment dropped from 1,700 to 1,400 because 300 kids died in school shootings.
Maybe make the USA great again (living wages, time off, benefits, social safety nets, etc), or continue down the billionaire path and have a total collapse.
This bitch.
I'd have ten kids if I could afford them their housing, and necessities. I have as many kids as I can afford as a college graduate professional making "good money." Exactly zero kids.
Can we just say "I'm paying you half" to our bills, groceries and subscriptions and expect them to still give is the same level of service? No. Then companies can't complain about "nobody wants to work" when they pay terrible wages. You get what you pay for.
I don’t think this was written by a “wolf” lol just a garden variety moron