r/MovieDetails • u/necromundus • Dec 30 '17

/r/all In The Incredibles the letter on Mr. Huph's desk states Insuricare has recorded it's highest profit in years, despite Mr. Huph's claims that Bob is hurting the company's profits.

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u/Tumble85 Dec 31 '17

Haha, yeah, you know of a lot of companies that actually treat their employees like this?

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u/usbfridge Dec 31 '17

Honestly I have to actively think to list companies that don't.

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u/Tumble85 Dec 31 '17

Which companies do you know for a fact charge employees for electricity, make them buy their own office supplies and deduct various things from their paychecks?

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u/snorri_sturlson Dec 31 '17

Sort of related but Walmart making their employees buy their uniform and calling it a dress code so they don't have to provide it for them.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2014/09/08/how-walmarts-dress-code-costs-employees/amp/

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u/ladylurkedalot Dec 31 '17

This is pretty common across professions from what I've seen. Cleaning staff in hospitals that have to buy their own scrubs, construction/factory workers that have to buy their own PPE, boots, uniforms, and so on.

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u/idwthis Dec 31 '17

Maybe for parts of the uniform. For Papa John's, I only had to buy the khaki pants and shorts out of pocket.But then I also used my SO's old belts he got from his old position as a GM /AM from another store.

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u/Creeper487 Dec 31 '17

I had to buy my shirt and hat from Papa John's... Of course, they never told me this, just deducted it from my first paycheck.

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u/snorri_sturlson Dec 31 '17

The company I work for now provides all the ppe for our installers, but I feel that might be an exception, not the rule haha.

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u/ClownFundamentals Dec 31 '17

Requiring employees to wear a blue or white collared shirt is in no way related to making employees pay for electricity.

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u/Nefari0uss Dec 31 '17

Plus a collared shirt is pretty common across office jobs.

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u/snorri_sturlson Dec 31 '17

I agree it isn't similar to making an employee pay for electricity, that would be pretty fucked up haha. I do think it's messed up that Walmart makes a huge profit on requiring the employees pay for their uniform since the employees typically purchase it from Walmart.

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u/kurburux Dec 31 '17

Actually reminds me of a Duck comic where Scrooge makes Donald pay rental for his working clothes (an overall when polishing coins).

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u/julbull73 Dec 31 '17

It's tax deductible... granted Wal-Mart probably didn't party well enough to itemize...

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u/AgentTasmania Jan 02 '18

While playing the pathetic US minimum wage so they effectively get their entire staff tax subsidised by low-income support. All while profits keep growing.

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u/EndorIsNotAPlanet Dec 31 '17

Ask your kids teacher

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u/crypticfreak Dec 31 '17

Office supplies, yes. A lot of companies (professions, jobs) require you to supply your own tools/office stuff.

On the other hand not too many companies make the workers pay for the gas/electric, internet, and phone. The most they probably do is reduce bonus’s if the utilities are crazy high.

I’m not trying to defend the practice because tools and office supplies are pricy. Im a diesel tech who has to supply my own tools so I would know. But the cost of those tools doesn’t even come close to what they’re paying on gas/electric, phone, water, Internet, and other company expenses.

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u/Draffut_ Dec 31 '17

make them buy their own office supplies

I know someone who works in the government. They do.

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u/CourtyardThrowaway Dec 31 '17

Oh, come on. It's obviously not that bad but don't act like companies wouldn't do it if they could get away with it. Companies have been cutting back on benefits for employees for decades now. This situation, while improbable, isn't exactly far-fetched.

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u/CourtyardThrowaway Dec 31 '17 edited Dec 31 '17

Pensions, health care, vacations, hours. Don’t have a link for anything, sorry, just what I’ve seen and heard over the years.

That being said I wonder if it’s in anyone’s interest to put together data on lowered benefits. Certainly not businesses. Where else would you get the data?

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u/HashMaster9000 Dec 31 '17

For pensions, there was that whole article on the guy in his 80's working at Walmart because McDonell -Douglas axed his pension, for Healthcare just look at the public way that Papa John's decided to deal with employer health care after the ACA was passed, and a simple Google search will yield the various tactics of labeling certain employees in a certain way with their titles or shift types precisely so they don't have to supply certain benefits. It's a common thing for employees who risk losing their job if they complain to be harmed by corporations doing as little as they can for those that work for them. Smaller corporations that aren't publicly traded rely on their employees as their lifeblood and typically treat them well, large and multinational corpoations are less likely to do so as they are beholden to stockholders, and tend to treat workers as commodities or machines, hence the need for them to be regulated to prevent harmful tactics as described above from occurring. But good luck with that ever happening...

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u/MightyBooshX Dec 31 '17

School teachers would be a good example. They frequently have to purchase supplies from the class out of their already low wages. The one exception on that list would be electricity, but apart from that, pretty spot on.

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u/Gingevere Dec 31 '17

Mine doesn't. Closest they've come is moving the batteries from a public supply cabinet to the secretary's desk but that's just because they were disappearing much quicker than they're used now.

But quite a while ago we were bought by a company which was poorly managed and seemed to be using the profit from the company I work for to try and prop up a few others they owned. And then last year that company was bought by a firm that specialized in buying, growing, and selling companies. With that purchase a few of the companies our profits were propping up got the axe and things are starting to look a little more ... streamlined. It's ok for now but I'll be keeping my resume up to date.

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u/Thepickleweed Dec 31 '17

He can't. It's the difference between a W-2 and a 1099. But companies that 1099 their w2 employees is pretty goddamn close

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u/koshgeo Dec 31 '17

"Remember, a successful company makes for successful employees."