I am so mad at my boss right now. I'm practically a wage slave...I've been working at least 10 years in my industry, and someone less experienced than me got a promotion.
Wage slavery is used to criticize labor explotation
Yeah, and I'm definitely being exploited at my current job. I work 60-hour weeks, and I haven't had a decent raise in 4 years.
low wages, e.g. in sweatshops) and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy. The criticism of social stratification covers a wider range of employment choices bound by the pressures of a hierarchical society to perform otherwise unfulfilling work that deprives humans of their "species character" not only under threat of starvation or poverty, but also of social stigma and status diminution. Historically, some labor organizations and social activists have espoused workers' self-management or worker cooperatives as
a pool. "I've been here since 9 this morning and we're behind schedule, so I haven't even put on my costume. I didn't do anything during the actors' strike and now I'm back at work and I'm still not doing anything. It's a great way to make a living." 
Fabian enjoyed working with John Wayne. "What you saw is what you got," recalled the singer. "He was incredible. He was very nice to me."