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16-10-2006, 18:19
Employees for Super Hyper Mega Store, @@NAME@@'s largest employer, have staged a massive protest over SHMS's apparent refusal to issue paychecks to anyone for the past 45 days. Some employees have initiated suits for back pay and clearing of their names.
The Debate
1. "We work too long and too hard for these people!" cries out @@RANDOMNAME@@, an assistant manager in some obscure department. "I might only make sixty @@CURRENCY@@s a day, but I need that money! I have a home I have to pay for, and the electric company's been trying to collect from me! We need to enforce the laws that say they have to pay us, and while we're at it, I worked way over my allottment of hours last week. I should get a bonus for that as well, and they should have to pay it!"
[effect]large corporations are strapped for cash after shelling out truckloads of back pay
2. "It's all not good enough!" charges an even angrier @@RANDOMNAME@@, who appears to have charge out of an SHMS stockroom. "We've been wronged here! They owe us DOUBLE our lost wages, AND they should have to compensate us for all the late fees we incur! Plus they should be audited repeatedly to make sure they actually pay us! These big corporations deserve to be micromanaged into the ground because we can't trust them!"
[effect]the government's new Department of Corporate Regulation is now its largest
3. "Look, we're a big company here; look at it from our end!" Such are the words of @@RANDOMNAME@@, executive vice president of Super Hyper Mega Store. "As low as our prices are, we can't afford to shell out billions of @@CURRENCY@@s at once for all this back pay. Sure, we'll pay their late charges, but we need to issue them their back pay in installments. Give us a year to get it all back to them in their next checks. But not all at once. After all, if you still want a gravy boat for five @@CURRENCY@@s, we have to be able to afford it too."
[effect]workers who miss paychecks wait forever to get their back pay bit by bit
4. After the area disperses, a man in a black suit and hat stands at your office door. Before you can ask, "Can I help you?", he begins to speak. "Paying those people will solve nothing. The bottom line is that big corporations should be allowed to set their own rules, and if that means they don't pay their employees, then so be it. If the employees don't like it...well, they can find other jobs. The free market is a wonderful thing...well, if you have money it is..." He starts laughing maniacally before security comes and escorts him away.
[effect]employers "forget" to pay their workers as a cost-cutting measure
The Debate
1. "We work too long and too hard for these people!" cries out @@RANDOMNAME@@, an assistant manager in some obscure department. "I might only make sixty @@CURRENCY@@s a day, but I need that money! I have a home I have to pay for, and the electric company's been trying to collect from me! We need to enforce the laws that say they have to pay us, and while we're at it, I worked way over my allottment of hours last week. I should get a bonus for that as well, and they should have to pay it!"
[effect]large corporations are strapped for cash after shelling out truckloads of back pay
2. "It's all not good enough!" charges an even angrier @@RANDOMNAME@@, who appears to have charge out of an SHMS stockroom. "We've been wronged here! They owe us DOUBLE our lost wages, AND they should have to compensate us for all the late fees we incur! Plus they should be audited repeatedly to make sure they actually pay us! These big corporations deserve to be micromanaged into the ground because we can't trust them!"
[effect]the government's new Department of Corporate Regulation is now its largest
3. "Look, we're a big company here; look at it from our end!" Such are the words of @@RANDOMNAME@@, executive vice president of Super Hyper Mega Store. "As low as our prices are, we can't afford to shell out billions of @@CURRENCY@@s at once for all this back pay. Sure, we'll pay their late charges, but we need to issue them their back pay in installments. Give us a year to get it all back to them in their next checks. But not all at once. After all, if you still want a gravy boat for five @@CURRENCY@@s, we have to be able to afford it too."
[effect]workers who miss paychecks wait forever to get their back pay bit by bit
4. After the area disperses, a man in a black suit and hat stands at your office door. Before you can ask, "Can I help you?", he begins to speak. "Paying those people will solve nothing. The bottom line is that big corporations should be allowed to set their own rules, and if that means they don't pay their employees, then so be it. If the employees don't like it...well, they can find other jobs. The free market is a wonderful thing...well, if you have money it is..." He starts laughing maniacally before security comes and escorts him away.
[effect]employers "forget" to pay their workers as a cost-cutting measure