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- Comment on this is so dark, Black Mirror couldn’t have imagined it 5 days ago:
I hope the hiring manager responds with leetcode questions on a whiteboard.
- Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch. 5 days ago:
Even without, employers if unregulated may see any longterm treatment that takes you out of work as a liability purely for the costs to keep them on payroll.
Unionization or worker-owned corporations could overcome this. Ideally both, as the same time.
- Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch. 6 days ago:
Don’t stop there.
My grandfather was at one point a regional manager for a coffee distributor. He got cancer. The company was self insured in such a way that they had to foot his medical bills. They did.
Post recovery, my grandfather describes his remaining time with the company as miserable. For example, they reassigned him to a notoriously bad region while not providing any relocation assistance. Expectation likely being that he would underperform as a remote manager for their worst region. He didn’t.
Following about six months of a toxic work experience, they took him out to dinner to let him know in public that his role was being discontinued. He wasn’t being fired, but he’d be required to accept a demotion into a sales position if he wanted to stay. He did not stay.
Decades later, one of the C-suite members retire. My gramps was close with this guy, who could not speak “off the record.” The guy said that C-suite had it out for gramps, viciously so. They wanted him to quit, because they knew that cancer often comes back. They did not want to pay another set of medical bills, so they made gramps life miserable to try avoiding the potential expense.
So, how do you protect people like my gramps in this situation?
Your solution is still better than nothing, but it should go further.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 1 week ago:
Exchange still occurs globally and amongst the upper class.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
Damn. I just get unlimited burnout time on.
- Comment on Somethings wrong about a system where nearly half of its workers need two jobs to survive. 1 week ago:
Same here. It’s depressing, too… I was really hoping to make good money, but a good home with a nice yard, have pets and the whole thing…
I also make over 100k and I can’t afford shit. It seems like every raise is met with an increase in cost of living. I’m just lucky to have kept my head above rising water.
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 2 weeks ago:
That’s why those pieces of shit made me do a credit check before I joined, huh? Oh I’m getting back on GlassDoor to update my review now. I thought it was scathing before.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
Sure, I’m not saying that it meets every need prescribed to kids in our modern enlightened era. $25 extra a day (or rather, $500 extra a month) doesn’t sound like much for the professionalism, the standardized and trusted procedures, and the army of workers available to meet your kids needs.
Most daycare centers in my area don’t have a curriculum, they’re for profit, and the online reviews are utter trash. My sister worked for one and has plenty of stories about staff members cursing around children, being rude to them, … the whole “I just work here” treatment.
My sister isn’t a licensed educator, so I won’t be saying she educates the kids. She does play with them, though. They are learning more than they otherwise would; probably would be cooped up in a grandparents house with their tablet or something. Who knows? But she wouldn’t have customers if there wasn’t a problem.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t really disagree.
We could have nice things, but logistically it’s not feasible at an affordable cost. So a gig economy steps up to fill those gaps. Yes, that comes with risks. You will find horror stories, they’re valid. Nonetheless, this is closer to how childcare had been done for centuries. It’s a regression from the modern liberal way, but it certainly isn’t unfamiliar.
What would be more ideal is if the state could partner with gig workers to ensure adequate resources. Perhaps there’s a way to redraw the lines here, so that we don’t find ourselves in a situation where you work to afford childcare and are otherwise broke. That’s also not a way to live.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
There’s absolutely tradeoffs. Yet, the parents that take their kids to my sister have a different kind of tradeoff: don’t go to work, or find affordable childcare. My sister winds up in this halfway point, servicing those people.
It’s true she doesn’t stock a defib. She watches those kids well enough, though, and has a cell phone to call 911 in case of emergency.
It’s not the picture perfect setup. It is making sure plenty of families can continue putting food on their table, though. Sometimes that’s what’s important (imo).
It doesn’t scale. But, you could have a lot of nonscalable businesses — a “gig economy” as they call it. A gig economy can scale even if the independent pieces don’t.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
Yet somehow a struggling mom can take on babysitting as a gig and watch four kids a day by herself, for like $50 each. That includes cooking, cleaning, changing, and a smile on your kiddos face when they come home.
My sister does this. Shes the cook, cleaner, janitor, and administration.
I think part of the problem is also the fact that entrepreneurial types have convinced us that the necessary architecture for a successful business also happens to be the architecture which makes us give up most of our proceeds.
You are capable and can make a difference by yourself. You don’t need them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Registry keys to change this shit is fucking bonkers, too. Is that considered stable between updates?
- Comment on Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough. You guys can basically collude to control the labor supply, if your niche is small enough. All the most power to you; I wish more of the labor force had guns like that.
- Comment on Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company 3 weeks ago:
It would be awesome if you could localize the results. Knowing that Microsoft is one of the worst offenders helps me very little, because I live in bumfuck nowhere. However, I bet I’d find some useful stuff at
- Comment on Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company 3 weeks ago:
This is awesome but it can never have an impact on hiring practices. Making this information public can change behaviors, given the data can’t be cooked.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 3 weeks ago:
Why can they spend money now, but make it so on paper it’s as if they spent it next quarter?
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
Damn, I never thought about how AI is making it so that even the professionals are unprofessional now… because AI enables the posers to get the job, and then they keep using AI to keep the job.
- Comment on Samsung's SSD warranty policy scammed me so I'm taking them to court. 2 months ago:
I have a 980 pro. It’s been sitting in my PC since I built it for college back in 2021 or so.
- Comment on He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut 2 months ago:
If you park on the street, and it’s level, might not notice until you’re up the street a bit.
- Comment on Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't 2 months ago:
I don’t understand. You can just google “porn” and go down the results until a site doesn’t immediately bombard you with an ID verification system. How hard is it? There’s an entire fucking world of servers under varying legislation to check. Meanwhile Utah makes up 0.000000000001% of that structure. Utah is in lala land.
- Comment on MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back 3 months ago:
It’s bad, but also… it’s extremely complicated. China has a surveillance state. The EU, UK, and US are all flirting with surveillance state technology. You have companies like Palantir, Pegasus, Flock, … promoting their products to governments like magic hat solutions to issues such as terrorism. You have data aggregation companies selling private data to the 3 letter agencies. You have cops willingly using these networks because it makes their job slightly more effortless. You have Trump And Co with their own motives, who would love to find any possible leverage over their perceived enemies. You have AI companies riding the bull of the US economy, all desperately looking for catchy use cases. You have this idea of an AI arms race.
Whatever world we walk into, it’s not looking pretty. It’s looking like we might actually develop something which is going to be damn near impossible to turn off.
- Comment on Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs 4 months ago:
I’m down for democratic socialism. Where’s your petition? I’ll sign.
- Comment on Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs 4 months ago:
Let the businesses fail. We have a new generation of people who’d be happy to have their chance in a truly free market.
- Comment on California Just Killed Open Source - YouTube 5 months ago:
When you’re buying by drugs from schotty research chemical production facilities in foreign countries, those are called “love letters.”
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 6 months ago:
Then they ask the next guy.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
but we don’t think over too much longer
Are… are you a seagull?
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 8 months ago:
Bamboo as well.
- Comment on And I don't care 9 months ago:
Sir, that is obviously pomegranate stuffed fried eggs.