Gwarosa: Working to Death in South Korea | Foreign Correspondent
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Length: 29min 43sec (1783 seconds)
Published: Thu Aug 26 2021
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Lived and worked in Korea for almost a decade. If you luck out and manage to get hired by a good employer, they'll likely respect your contract. If you get the short end of the stick, they'll respect the parts of your contract that benefit them. If you really got fucked, then you could potentially have older coworkers who pass some of their work onto you and you're just expected to do their work on top of yours. Otherwise, you're a disrespectful, ungrateful, lazy youngster. It's 6 pm, when your contract says you can go home. Time to go home right? Nope. If your boss is still working, so are you. Boss decides they want to go get dinner and drink 20 bottles of soju until 1 am? You are, too. It's getting better for sure and things are slooooowly changing in the bigger cities, but I really feel for the Koreans stuck in these shitty work cultures.
I was a foreign teacher, so I was lucky enough to have worked in schools that respected my contract. Probably helped that I actually worked hard and didn't come to work hungover every day, like a lot of the other foreigner teachers.
why in the hell is this not automated somehow, at least the sorting, plus if the contract is per number of packages delived run for the hills because they are screwing you over
and this guy is doing this in his 60s wtf seriously
The drivers get fined the value of the delivery for late deliveries? Not even for damaged goods. That's insane
When working in Korea my boss' boss, a VP, fainted into his own birthday cake. That was a pretty weird day. He worked a lot.
Wow, for some reason i thought Amazon was special in how horrendously it treats its employees. Makes sense that enterprising capitalists the world over would be working the masses to death to get Joe Blow his stupid electric flyswatter next day.
They're talking about how consumers need to be aware of the kind of treatment of the employees. They do, but it's not the consumer's fault for how the business treats the worker. The business knows the cost it takes to get next day shipping on everything. They just lie, cheat, and steal until the problem goes away for them, while their workers suffer the consequences.
You know, maybe having drones and self driving cars delivering everything wouldn't be so bad.