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Except in America they'd just fire you for no reason if they didn't want as many workers.
Getting fired for fucking the hologram may make the employee ineligible for unemployment benefits, which the employer would otherwise have to reimburse the state for.
This is why there's often point systems and other arbitrary shit that can be used against low level employees to fire them "with cause" very easily should it be time to downsize. Many people in that situation have found that, all the sudden, their managers are starting to care a lot about things they usually let slide (because they're ultimately meaningless). You're getting warnings, write ups, points, etc, when you're doing nothing different than you have been since you were hired.
Amazon basically works this way by default. They think their employees as so disposable, their discipline and point system effectively creates a countdown to firing for virtually every low level employee, and it's all but guaranteed they will never be able to get any sort of unemployment. Even the ones that can manage to meet the outrageous expectations will not be able to maintain it forever.
I live in a "right to work" state, there are no required unemployment benefits. I got one paycheck as severance and everyone I told within the state said, " well at least it's not nothing"
Unemployment. It's what keeps most companies from actually firing people indiscriminately. I've had employees that needed to be fired, but since "Don't be a toxic asshole that drives good people to quit" isn't in the employee handbook and they showed up on time in compliance with dress code I couldn't fire them.