djackson 22568 (7/30/2012)
In the US? Because trial lawyers own democrats, unions own democrats, and both groups enjoy the power they have as a result of pretending to protect workers. Someone fired you, let's sue them. Is your job too difficult because you have to work for 5 minutes out of every hour, let's threaten the company you work for, and every other company, until they cave. Don't like that you have to work for a living? Vote for me and I will tax those evil rich people, the ones that pay 80% of taxes anyhow, because it isn't fair that you aren't given everything for free so you can lay around the house watching daytime television and smoking crack, drinking your favorite drink, or whatever it is you do with meth.Why don't companies want to fire people? Because doing so invites the wrath of so many stupid groups of people that it is actually cheaper to just ignore the poor workers and hope they leave on their own.
Except that I do see people fired, rarely, for the same reasons and situations that others are not fired for. And the same threats, which quite often are not followed through upon. So I think you have some valid points, but they're overblown, and the more people just accept them, the more they become urban legend, not reality.