#Amazon#AntiWork#Bots: "Amazon warehouse workers are using bots to automatically and instantly claim precious time off slots before their coworkers, according to multiple Reddit posts by Amazon workers and Github pages for two of these bots viewed by 404 Media.
The Amazon workers are trying to claim voluntary time off, or VTO. VTO is separate from Amazon’s other version of time off of work, known as unpaid time or UPT, which is what makes it so valuable. Workers have a set amount of UPT, which they can use at their own discretion—but once it runs out, they can be disciplined or even lose their jobs. UPT is precious to workers, and VTO does not deduct from UPT reserves.
“VTO is valuable because unlike UPT, we actually accumulate towards getting more UPT as opposed to using UPT and wasting it,” said one worker at a sortation warehouse in California, who asked to remain anonymous to prevent potential corporate backlash."
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.
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?
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.
“The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to #survive is #tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this.”
When I was in my early 20’s, I hustled my ass off. I worked 2 jobs and a side hustle. I drank 8 cups of coffee a day and popped No Doz pills to work at night.
And then I burned the fuck out. And crashed hard.
And it wasn’t worth it.
There’s a lot of folks who will tell you: “grind to the point of exhaustion. Chase wealth and rest later. Make work your only religion.”
That advice is poison. It will leave you broken and hurt and tired and alone.