uriel238

@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump and Musk don’t want employees or workers, they want courtiers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨33,000 Boeing workers lose health care coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why the longshoremen have to strike when it hurts everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Not Us—They Are!' Union Leader Rejects Fox News Spin on Port Strikes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a general policy I reject FOX News spin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you gotta go down and join that union⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, skip asking for a raise and go straight to forming a union. It saves time. It implies they should have been taking care of the workforce in the first place. And your colleagues likely need raises too.

  Then over demand, because they’ll try to offer less. If they try any technical or procedual shenanigans, show they’ve been caught and double your demands.

  Remind them that unions and strikes are the peaceful alternative to violent retribution, and by trying to block unionization they are admitting they’d rather a class war.

  If law enforcement gets involved, tell the state that siding with the owners will only escalate thr conflict, and extend the precarity out to the rest of the economy. Stock values will totally tank, and legislators and gubernators will be held personally responsible by their shareholding plutocratic masters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you know, that’s life.

  These are the words of a man that totally deserves to be gunned down by a malfunctioning ED-209 prototype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wear a mask printed with your own face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 28% of Americans are now searching for a new job — the highest rate in a decade⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And a new job at a desired position will get you 3x the raise than promotion withi to that position.

  HMW did a video on this, which informs why everyone quiet quits that is, doesn’t work beyond their official duties in order to get management to take notice. So instead of putting your heart into your work, you half-ass your work and put your heart into seeking your next job (résumé, calling headhunters, etc.) and hope to to get upward mobility via job changes.

  The companies screwed themselves over, by being too stingy with benefits and promotions, and by seeking to hire experienced workers from without, rather than training them themselves (and saving on onboarding).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was apparently misinformed. I was bragged at the Polaris could hit a phone booth or deliver a pizza to a patio (provided there was a nearby field where the fuselage could safely crash). I was lied to.

  By comparison, Joseph Heller notes the B-25 Mitchell featured a sighting instrument that could drop its payload into a pickle barrel at 30,000 feet. Although in retrospect about 30% of bombs dropped by Allied bombers actually hit their targets (often hitting orphanages and hospitals nearby we were trying to miss).

  Contrast also USSR ICBM guidance systems which couldn’t reliably hit a military hardpoint, for which they compensated with massive redundancy.

  This is why I made arguments that we shouldn’t fear the DPRK efforts to go nuclear too much, since we haven’t seen them successfully hit the Americas. (And there are still massive deterrents to picking a hot fight).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors demand action over 'disgusting' explicit video game scenes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Post-Weinstein movie studios are more conscientious and are looking to have an intimacy coordinator on set. It would make sense that this kind of cautiob should extend to the game industry, incuding porn video production and adult game production.

  As per all other labor disputes, every labor victory has to be won in each separate industry since workers are not actually reapected in any of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to 'The Great Detachment': Workers are checked out—and so are their bosses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The economy is recovering according to common markers used to measure the trend of the economy. But that usually takes a few years before it is felt in working class homes. And yes this is a factor that serves to generate a vibe of disconnect between administations and the public.

  But the disconnect is real and complicated according to HMW. Workers have gotten used to gig economics, expecting their current position will not lead to promotions or even adequate raises. Furthermore, everyone wants to hire trained, experienced workers, but no one wants to do the work in leveling them up. So workers now fluff their résumés and fake it till they make it, all the while looking for their next job.

  When people switch jobs from current employment, their salary increase is three times as much on average as raises and promotions within.

  Also, workers are slacking off at their current job and focusing effort on finding and selling themselves to a competing business.

  Which is all to say, the companies fucked themselves over by not looking out for their own workers. No one expects to keep their current job anyway, so why not just look busy and do the bare minimum?

  You want hard workers? Treat them like human beings who have families and health concerns. Otherwise watch them slip though your fingers like crude oil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Californians will vote on a $18 minimum wage. Workers already want $25 and more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Minimum wage should be adjusted to inflation, and get a COLA increase every year. It should also be retroactively adjusted, which would put it around $26+

  There’s no way an adult should be forced to work more than 40 hours a week for not enough to live on. When that is a norm it’s an illustration the economic model is failing.

  And frankly, even 40 hours is too much, keeping people too exhausted for civic engagement and parenting, which figures largely into our intergenerational mental illness epidemic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI stole my job and my work, and my boss didn’t know or care⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rod Serling has entered the chat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is where using your chemistry schooling to make street drugs comes in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in the way Swedes are white. I was making a reference to the other white meat but it turns out pork is red meat, and so would human beings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d expect better from a Chief Muppet Officer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Democratic party is already in a situation where it can’t make mistakes and it can’t get unlucky or it loses the presidency, and if it loses the presidency then elections will be neutered and the US becomes a one-party autocracy.

  And if it becomes a one-party autocracy, then it’ll have to perpetuate the enemy within myth (and eventually go to war) to keep the people obedient. And that means burning (maybe literally) a portion of the population, starting with LGBT+ and enemies of the regime (that’s all the principal democrats) and going for non-whites, non-Christians, disabled folk, unemployed folk, people who have unnecessary jobs, uppity women, anyone overly ethnic, countercultures and eventually, anyone who isn’t sufficiently patriotic or is too slow in snapping their salute.

  At least this is the model that Reinhard Heydrich created in the development of the Sicherheitsdienst, and is replicated in the standard operations of ICE regarding immigrants and anyone else they’d rather see disappear.

  But the German occupation of Paris was brutal despite themselves, despite that they were ordered to govern the French gently, and the brutality was so extreme La Résistance manifested in days, starting small and becoming a formidable fighting and mischief force within two years. So if Trump wins the election (or secures power through a procedural coup d’etat or through a violent coup d’etat) the resistance will be organizing across states by the end of 2025, assuming open civil war doesn’t break out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have to think outside the box to get a job to survive, then the job market is critically bad.

  The ownership class should be trembling.

  Either the government rolls out new deal measures, yesterday…

  Or all the industrialists and officials burn in their compounds,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure feeling hungry for a bit of the aristocratic white meat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vance promised a new dawn for workers — one Trump didn’t bring to pass⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to say Vance is Trump’s Himmler, but he isn’t even that. He’s kind like Trump’s minime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Restaurant owners will increase prices with inflation because it means more profits. Restaurant owners are also notorious for stealing tips and wage theft.

  And restaurants that ended tipping (some have) have happier wait staff and management.

  Do you own a restaurant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universal basic income is 'straight out of the Karl Marx playbook,' financial guru Dave Ramsey says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So when I criticize Trump and MAGAs respond ORANGE MAN BAD they’re asserting I have a bias so its not enough to just dislike Trump. I have to point out his behaviors, his characteristics, his policy decisions that drive my revulsion and public revulsion.

  So when an alleged economics expert like Dave Ramsay says bearded man bad he needs to elaborate what specific notion of beard he doesn’t like, or why he’s wary of it. Otherwise we can just assume he’s being partisan like a belligerent Dodgers fan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reagan was super anti-worker, and that’s when the drift started. After the PATRIOT act, the entire justice system (including the court systems) started seeing the public as the enemy (after all, we were harboring terrorists) which corresponds to the shredding of the Bill of Rights (specifically the fourth and fifth amendments to the Constitution of the United States). Business interests (and their plutocratic masters) were the true citizens of the US, with us lowly proletariat becoming second class citizens. Citizens United took us by surprise but we haven’t really done anything and won’t until the police are busting our own heads (or we see enough officer-involved brutality – which is, incidentally, how La Résistance got started in Paris).

  Now recently

  • SCOTUS neutering regulatory agencies in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
  • SCOTUS deciding in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that civil and criminal penalties for camping on public land do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment of homeless people.

  If you’re too broke to have a place to live (easy to do right now), then you can have life, liberty and property stripped from you by the state. Essentially, being a human being is very much insufficient to have rights in the US. You must also be able to afford renting or owning a place to sleep. (As tempted as I am to rant about this, I’ll stop here.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking for new gigs is currently the new normal regarding promotions anyway, according to HMW. Since companies have long shown that have no loyalty to their workforce and will lay them off as soon as they need their numbers to go up for shareholders.

  And new hires to positions get paid better than promotions from within to the same positions. So it’s better just to routinely keep sending out résumés to openings.

  So the no promotions threat is mostly a paper tiger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'There Has to Be a Fight': How Workers Can Start Winning the Class War in 2024 and Beyond⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans are commonly surprised how eroded the bill of rights is, especially if you’re other than a white dude who affords his own lawyer. The fourth and fifth amendments are either nullified by legal precedent or are easily circumvented by law enforcement, which you quickly discover once officers think you might be a suspect, or have easily liquidatable assets.

  New economic bill of rights laws right now would turn into small corporate fines that will become a cost of doinf business, as per the anti-union action violations that are routine when companys are facing a discontent work force.

  If we want workers to be respected, the consequences for mistreating them has to hurt, both the company or institution that hires the worker and the chain of command that authorized, took action and condined the mistreatment. Until a single violation is assured to wreck the company’s fiscal year, they won’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US supreme court sides with Starbucks in union case over fired employees⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually my wife worked for a company that used iPhones and provided her a phone. I suppose, at the point she was worried about job precarity and got a separate non-work phone, she could have gone android (the principle offerings of which are also FOXCONN made) but she was quite busy with an agenda from her company (to which she was loyal).

  I, in the meantime, had no company phone, and was on a tight budget, so I went android and shopped around, not for a fair-trade phone but for one on opportunistic sale, as I can’t afford a conscience.

  Apple sucks. But really, so does Google. So does Sony. So does Samsung. So, evidently, does Asus, though I like their interface choices more.

  In the end, we consumers end-users don’t have the political power to influence the market when the government fails to be public serving. (Called government failure since that’s Its alleged job.) It’s why we erected a non-feudalist government in the first place.

  Blaming iPhone users is like blaming car owners in the States, when the automotive and fossil fuel industries systematically dismantled mass transit nationwide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wells Fargo has fired a bunch of employees after finding out they were pretending to work with "simulation of keyboard activity"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you let your workers take breaks, check their email, chat to loved ones and peek at social media, their productivity goes way up.

  Similarly, if you micromanage your staff, their productivity plummets.

  If capitalism worked, and companies were driven towars actually maximizing dividends, companies would actively invest in the infrastructure to keep employees happy and in working form. But instead, companies consistently splurge on letting upper management behave like children, including hiring a staff of handlers to keep the binky in their mouths. And that includes letting them bully the staff.

  Some day, we dream, the ownership class will tremble before revolution of the proletariat, and maybe well take some steps towards a public-serving economy.

  But not today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Quit Or Accept Minimum Wage': Chinese Company's Ultimatum To 1000 Autoworkers As EV Sales Drop⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like it’s time to unionize.

  If minimum wage is below sustenance, it’s also time to lynch and burn alive one of the executives to assert dominance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's richest have never been so wealthy: study⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first estate is looking a lot like the first estate again.

  Also, on a related note, the second estate is behaving a lot like the second estate again.

  It presents a chin-stroker regarding how the third estate might respond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While not focused on exactly the same topic, this HMW video has some intersection and gets into the nitty of what’s going on.

  It also means the employers hosed themselves, since skilled labor is not threatened by a potential firing (the way they once were) and are continuously looking for their next rung on the ladder elsewhere. Also, it means promotions are no longer an incentive for hard work, since the workers expect you to hire from elsewhere. So all those incentives to overperform are gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every damn day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like because there’s a shitload of distrust for workplace managers and HR departments, some workers are being very reserved about what they tell their bosses.

  If bosses are going to presume you’re lazy for taking breaks and using PTO, it might be better to offer a less triggering explanation.

  Very much like if a website refuses to serve Firefox or VPNs, it might be useful to hide your website and VPN use.