A reasonable rule of thumb in UK #politcs is that if the Tax Payers Alliance doesn't like something, then it would likely benefit society;
to hear that they are against the four day #working week, leads me to think that the shadowy (corporate?) funders of the TPA are unhappy that #workers might be able to spend a little more time thinking about the inequities of the current system & a little less time being ground down by the world of #work.
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An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York #restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.
Welcome to the Protestant #Work#Ethic where if you are not #working for 16 hours a day you are a Sinner that will Burn In Hell. Unless of course you are rich in which case you are Blessed by God and can go to Heaven without lifting a finger.
heard a story on a podcast that some Christian missionaries showed these rural Cambodian farmers how to double their crop yields. the missionaries came back a year later and were surprised the Cambodians had grown basically the same amount of crops but the farmers were like “yeah this is great, we got everything we need for the year and only had to do half as much work”
and if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the current North American work #environment I don't know what will
I always wonder if the people who write job postings realize that "fast-paced, dynamic environment" sounds like code for "chaotic, messy workplace with loads of pressure". I feel like some of them think it sounds cool, and so they put it in, even when the workplace actually has things under control. But I see it and I think, "Do I even want to apply there?" — and I'm sure I'm not the only one. #jobhunt
"Fun work environment" <- Our CEO or loves talking at the staff during our monthly in-office afternoon tea. You better have a damned good excuse not to attend the "fun"!
"Tasks include report writing" <- The CEO is too dumb to find the sales figures in our CRM system. You'll need to regularly, manually copy and paste them into a pretty PowerPoint slide deck that he'll probably never look at.
"Multitasking" <- We'll make you do the work of three people.
"Fast-paced" "tight deadlines" <- We overload you with tasks with unreasonable deadlines. There's no way you can get this project completed and signed off by everyone before the end of the week. We'll expect you to have it done by the end of the hour.
"Managing offsite teams" <- We outsourced our business processes overseas. You'll have to clean up the mess.
"Staying on top of market trends" <- Our CEO looks at the ways other companies in our industry enshittify their products or gouge their customers and says "let's do that too"!
"Agile work environment" <- You'll be micromanaged using daily standup meetings, JIRA, and kanban boards.
"Engaging with consultants" <- The CEO is being paid a five-figure salary to play Solitaire on his PC. Actual management decisions have been outsourced to KPMG. You have to deal with them.
"Some manual data entry" <- All the data is already in our core business systems. Unfortunately, management decided it was too expensive to pay for a Zappier integration to move it into our e-commerce platform, or for enough IT staff to set it up. So you'll need to input it manually, or else everything breaks. We'll hold you personally accountable for any errors.
"Supporting legacy applications" <- Our critical core business systems were originally written for a VAX machine and a Z80 system running CP/M. The people who wrote them are long dead. There's 40 years of cruft code. None of it was documented. They somehow sort of interface with the obsolete SAP and Oracle systems we picked up through a long-forgotten merger.
Data integration? Well, Anne from admin uses a Visual Basic front end to manually download a spreadsheet, which she then uploads into a Salesforce system that some of our departments switched over to during a failed IT transformation project 10 years ago.
Oh, and some of our backups are on Bernoulli disks in the cupboard. If by chance you see a working OS/2 machine pop up on eBay, make sure you bid for it.
Oh, and if there's any downtime, your job's on the line.
Des milliers de personnes manifestent devant le Parlement à Athènes en Grèce contre un projet de loi augmentant la durée de travail maximum à 13h par jour et 78h par semaine en plus de restreindre le droit de grève avec des peines de 6 mois de prison et 5.000 € d'amende en cas de blocage sur les lieux de travail.
Thousands of #people demonstrate in front of Parliament in #Athens, #Greece against a bill increasing maximum #working hours to 13 hours per day and 78 hours per week in addition to restricting the right to #strike with penalties of 6 months in prison and €5,000 fine in the event of blockage at the #workplace.
🕸️ by undermining the #strike, you'll destroy your chances of being able to join a #union if you continue to work in the industry after the strike
🕸️ companies see you as replaceable and they will try to test out methods to undermine your work that the union is fighting against such as labor theft, automation, and artificial intelligence
Withhold your labor and don't cross the picket line
Does #tories latest bad idea include a #cure for #longcovid or any of a thousand other debilitating conditions?
Of course not.
Luckily I don't have to claim #benefits as I 'languish' at home with #trigeminalneuralgia after 7 yrs training to get my #job. But just like those who have to claim, I'd jump at the chance to have my #health & #working life back.
More than any other #Government, this one is so deluded they all think they're #medical experts.
How do people get all of these recommendations from bosses and coworkers, skate through every beating (literal beating) and live life like a normal person? I can't even imagine a job where there is no physical violence or some kind of psychological abuse and especially constant low grade disrespect like aggressively questioning my private life resulting in me reporting them and hence losing everything needed to move forward. #working#jobs#employment#violence
I'll try to be at work tomorrow for hiisikoloART and reply emails, work on commissions, and all that jazz.
However, if I am not replying or seem to be still off this week it's because I am going to start new medication for chronic pain tonight and don't know if it is going to give me side effects that halt my ability to work. If the issues dont pass in a week or so, I'll go off the meds and just deal with pain so I can work.