Work:
Me: we won't be able to get this completed today. We'll finish off when you get back from hols.
Colleague: No, it's fine. I'll can pop into the office tomorrow and we can do [task that needs the two of us] it then. I'm on leave, but I'm staying local so I'll come in and we can do it.
Me: I'm not going to interrupt your down time. That's not right.
THE ORGANISATION DOES NOT OWN YOU. YOU OWE THEM NOTHING.
I mean its horrible to have a miscarriage and all. But are you expecting her to get 6 months off when her child dies at 3 weeks in? A death in the family can usually get you a week or two at best, beyond that its not really the companies burden to pay for you forever over a tragic death.
Vice laid off hundreds of workers, and the threat of deletion has journalists rushing to back up their work as system privileges are being revoked.
The CYBER podcast team still had upload access, so they used that opportunity to upload a rogue episode. It's a very interesting and frank discussion about the company that does not paint the company (specifically, the C-suite) in a good light.
Vice took down the episode, so you can no longer find it on official feeds.
_Every day, employees at Aurora Pro Services, a North Carolina home-repair company, would gather for a mandatory prayer meeting, according to a federal complaint. They stood in a circle while leaders, including the company owner, allegedly read Bible scriptures and prayed. In the circle, the owner required Aurora's employees to recite the Lord’s Prayer in unison and requested prayers for poorly performing employees, the complaint alleged.
... "If you do not participate, that is okay, you don’t have to work here,” Aurora’s owner allegedly told McGaha in front of other employees. “You are getting paid to be here.”
McGaha was fired in September 2020, six days after his second request to skip the meetings, according to the complaint_
Story time: Be me. A while back apply to a job I'm well qualified for. They follow up and ask me what salary I'm looking for. I name a salary in the top half of the range they published for the job. "That's too high."
anyone around here have a list of recommended servers for people interested in #generalStrike / #laborOrganization / #antiwork ? i'm putting together a "let's get organized" type landing page. i have some in mind, but i wanna see what y'all have to say.
Hasse diese "Ich hab den Job" Werbung so sehr, so lange die Frau nicht die Kontrolle über die Produktionsmittel erlangt hat hat wird auch nicht gefeiert Genossen 🔥 🔥 🔥 #antiwork#anticapitalism
My direct superior at work just said the wisest thing I've heard this week.
"They only pay us enough so we don't quit, might as well work enough not to get fired"
Rosauers is one of the larger regional supermarket chains in E. WA, N. ID, and MT.
_The U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday it had recovered more than $350,000 in back pay and damages for 602 employees of Spokane-based Rosauers Supermarkets.
Federal labor investigators said the company willfully violated labor laws at 23 of its locations. The grocer also must pay $72,000 in penalties for repeated child labor violations, according to a news release.
Rosauers also violated federal child labor regulations by employing minors, ages 16 and 17, to operate a hydraulic paper and box compactor at its Ridgefield, Washington, store.
What the hell? Employees need to be paid, and you can't have kids operating heavy machinery on the job?? Must be the influx of Seattle people and Californians making it impossible to run a business here any more! <smirk>
It's a bit odd, Rosauers markets are usually on the nicer side, and there's a small one in the wealthy part of Spokane that's almost like a co-op/'natural' market ... Of all the regional chains I'd have thought they'd be among the last to get caught up in this particular kind of bad management, but I'd have thought wrongly.
Today, my district manager told us, "Congratulations! You all are managing to do three times the orders from a year ago and are at the top of the market."
My question was, "If we're managing and succeeding to do three times the orders from a year ago, why am I making the same thing I did two years ago?"
The exquisite skewering of the intersection between #webdevelopment , #antiwork , #corporate bullshit and parody is at the level of The Office (UK) and the IT shop (UK).
Does the US #television industry somehow discourage innovation in this area?
