@simon_brooke Capital is, ultimately, a book about #unemployment. If there is a teleology in Marx, it is a teleology of #layoffs, that what employment produces is ultimately, and necessarily unemployment.
Marx hypothesized bouts of mass unemployment as the moment when labor may unite against the division of labor and overthrow the state, but he didn't think it would be a necessary occurrence. The deterministic stageist Marxism of the 2nd international should be considered vulgar Marxism today.
🚧 Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in
「 The message asks: whether executives have taken a pay cut; what steps the company took to fix its finances "before deciding to leave 4 percent of us jobless;" and to explain "why a company as profitable as Red Hat is followin other tech companies in meritless layoffs." 」
I have sufficient reason and evidence to believe that I was terminated from Rune Labs in retaliation for protected anti-discrimination whistleblowing activity.
Normally, NDA would prohibit me from disclosing this. However, thanks to Washington’s Silenced No More Act, my ability to speak about discrimination, harassment, or retaliation that I have witnessed in the workplace is legally protected.
Red Hat's decision to lay off 800 employees, despite being a profitable company, is disheartening. With executives not taking pay cuts, the burden of this decision is not shared equally. I stand in solidarity with the affected workers and encourage us to challenge the capitalist logic that prioritizes profits over people. Let's support each other and build a more equitable future. #RedHat#Layoffs#Solidarity#WorkersRights
My friend is a lead mobile developer (primarily Ionic) and his company just got bought. Fun times right? Well no, it's payday tomorrow and the new owners have said nobody is getting paid, but please still come in to work... Think it's time to move on!
He's UK based, super dedicated and looking for fully remote positions. Who can help me get him #fedihired?!
It is estimated that a staggering 63% of transgender people experience homelessness. Unfortunately, tomorrow I’ll be joining them; I wasn’t able to find work in time.
I’m moving the last of my stuff into storage today.
Wave good to our home, Gideon! :(
The senior management at #FiveThirtyEight is out as part of Disney's latest cuts. This includes #NateSilver, whose contract expires soon, along with the underlying models and data that power the website.
Screenshot of tweet from Clare Malone (@ClareMalone): More on the @FiveThirtyEight news: Nate Silver is out when his contact expires (soon), & the models (election/sports) that are licensed to Disney will see the expiration of their license term when Nate's contract expires. So...that's basically the data that drives the site.👀
Just a shout out to everyone still running the tech rat race. Belts are tightening everywhere, which means stricter performance reviews and more people being chewed up and spat out of companies everywhere.
Capitalism has no humanity by design, and that can make things fkn ROUGH for the people who have to live through it.
Take good care of yourselves, and recognize that there is no shame in looking to make a change for a happier and less stressful life if you can find it.
Elon Musk is threatening to end his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts.
#Twitter Inc has been hit with another lawsuit stemming from the recent purging of half its workforce, this one accusing the social media company of disproportionately targeting #female employees for #layoffs.
The proposed class action filed late on Wednesday in San Francisco federal court said that after Twitter was taken over by Elon Musk, the world's richest person, it laid off 57% of its female workers compared to 47% of men.