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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Ugly truth is that new people don’t have the job security to just not come int the office despite being told to. I’m guilty of this.

    I’ve been at my job for over 4 years as a senior level engineer. They’ve tried to tell me to come into the office so many times but all of us collectively go “nah”. I go in for about 4 hours a week even tho they expect me to be in like 2 or 3 days a week.

    It’s kind of like drug tests. The company has policies cause they need to be compliant with federal laws but they know they’d lose people who can’t be readily replaced if they ever actually did tests. They can’t afford to shake that tree












  • They have a few options of what to do while treating workers fairly, even under the framework of capitalism

    • raise wages until workers are willing to work the nightshift permanently
    • raise prices till demand matches the output you are able to achieve while treating your workers fairly
    • increase production throughput by opening additional lines so supply you output matches demand
    • bring democracy into the workplace and let the workers decide if they want to work rotating shifts so the company can save money

    Fucking over your workers isn’t an acceptable option. As a society, we can’t accept people’s lives being made worse in the name of saving money.


  • The dude defending this practice seems like the kind of guy that argues that minimum wage is bad because some business would go out of business.

    Businesses that can’t function ethically shouldn’t stay in business. I don’t have much empathy for the business tyrants who punch with one hand while begging with the other