I became aware of this Reddit post from over a year ago and I can’t decide if this is a joke (to get some viral lulz) or actually real because some bosses can be unbelievably toxic.
hey, if you're late to work because you woke up & sobbed for 15 minutes over a genocide that's happening halfway across the world from you, i don't think that's any of your fascist overlord's goddamned business. #antiwork#priorities#freePalestine#ceasefireNow
#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."
@davidaugust Also known in the long form as (not that this is my situation) "we have a competent project manager, but product management is a sock puppet with sale's hand up its ass and they keep changing priorities and over committing to customers that I literally can't update the schedules and dashboards fast enough, let lone reorganize our too-few resources let alone give them runway to ramp to velocity before they change their minds again. Yet somehow its our fault we can't deliver."
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?
I mean its horrible to have a miscarriage and all. But are you expecting her to get 6 months off when her child dies at 3 weeks in? A death in the family can usually get you a week or two at best, beyond that its not really the companies burden to pay for you forever over a tragic death.