Fleamo

@Fleamo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck the balloon police⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m low on hot air I’ll just invite [local politician] on the balloon! Oh ho ho ho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not for doing nothing, it’s for doing things he already did. He got the stock as part of his compensation plan at Microsoft.

  And a dividend of $0.75 per share is 0.2% interest at the current share price, he could get more in a savings account and 20x that in a CD or something. The dividend isn’t crazy high. He just had a shitload of their stock.

  Executive compensation as a whole is a story, but Steve Ballmer is not doing anything particularly noteworthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this an error in the application form or is it a violation of EEO laws?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is extremely common, the purpose is to prevent or at least identify racist hiring practices. How else are they supposed to know? They get an idea of who is applying, and an idea of who gets hired, and they can look at population statistics, and thus tell whether a disproportionate amount of certain minority groups are being rejected by a certain manager or the company as a whole.

  Or alternatively you can tell if a job posting disproportionately has applicants of a certain demographic, so maybe white men tend to be hired in that job but it’s because the applicant pool is 95% white men. That would show that it’s not necessarily the hiring managers with the issue but either the HR outreach or the job itself has requirements disproportionately held by white men, and you can decide if that means you need to change something or that’s just something you need to live with for this role.

  It’s allowed as long as it is only used for these purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merry ChristmaX⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked for a switch and all I got was a vers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The minimum wage is going up in 22 states on Jan. 1⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a job for a really long time with no raise, finally quit a few months before my job became minimum wage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really do be like how it is⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just realized recently that I’m back up within 20lbs of where I was in the “oh my God things have to change” weight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Volkswagen becomes the latest automaker to hike wages for U.S. factory workers, raises pay 11%⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s crazy that these non union auto makers are giving their employees a raise of less than half of the union raise and we’re all sitting here not mentioning that the raises themselves are a great reason to unionize.

  Sure, “Hey you wouldn’t have gotten that raise without the union raise” might be true but “Hey you would be making more money if you were unionized” seems a heck if a lot more persuasive to me.