For example, compare what was described in the linked article to how brutally companies like Facebook and Google resist treating their campus staff like "real employees": https://gizmodo.com/google-and-facebooks-security-guards-are...
At least they pay their workers as opposed to the entertainment and fashion industries which are notorious for abusing unpaid "interns".
“You can offer to work for 16 hours a day,” said Annabelle, a security officer who asked to be identified only by her middle name because she feared retaliation from her employer. “And they always have places where they need officers, so if you can stay awake and you can work the hours, you can earn some overtime, and that will help pay for a desperately needed car repair, or it will put food on the table—whatever the latest catastrophe is.”
And makes me wonder if there is any correlation between the need to work more hours at unsteady jobs and the rise in methamphetamine use in the last decade:
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/meth...
"NIDA’s National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS), which tracks drug trends in sentinel sites across the country, found that treatment admissions for methamphetamine as the primary substance of use were less than one percent in sites east of the Mississippi River, but ranged from 12-29 percent in the sites west of the Mississippi. Nationwide, overdose deaths from the category of drugs that includes methamphetamine increased by 7.5 times between 2007 and 2017."
https://d14rmgtrwzf5a.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/met...
