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There are many ways to make an employee's life worse without doing anything illegal. You tend to see them in dysfunctional companies.

jacquesm 9y ago
Yes, but usually not in the middle of lawsuits that spell 'doom' in large letters for the eventual loser(s). Uber has one and one chance only to get this behind them: to play by the book and to ask 'how high' when the judge tells them to jump. If they try anything funny they can expect the ROI of that to be substantial and negative.
- sillysaurus3 9y ago
  I agree, but the topic had diverged somewhat. OT, have you noticed an increase in superfluous downvoting? I'm not really complaining, just trying to figure out if I'm imagining it or if it's randomness doing its thing. Since HN has become so much bigger, I wonder if the mods could scale down the effect of downvoting. E.g. make it take two downvotes to make a comment appear at 0.
  - jacquesm 9y ago
    Happens all the time, I wouldn't worry about it, just ignore it.
    - sillysaurus3 9y ago
      Ok, I wrote a tampermonkey extension to hide the effects of being downvoted: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9d681310f4714277a37832643c2d3b93 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9d681310f4714277a37832643c... It removes scores from your comments and replaces your karma counter with "(9999)". HN is much more pleasant now.
      - jacquesm 9y ago
        Hah, that's a cool solution.
        sillysaurus3 9y ago
        I submitted a better version at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456200
tjalfi 9y ago
Here is an example from a previous job. The location was a factory for a company you have heard of. Temporary employees were 99 and 44/100% of the workforce. One staffing agency, call it Agency A, had the main contract for the site and they were required to give some of the work to their competitors. It was policy to assign temps from other agencies impossible schedules so that they would quit and be replaced by temps from Agency A.

jacquesm 9y ago

Yes, but usually not in the middle of lawsuits that spell 'doom' in large letters for the eventual loser(s). Uber has one and one chance only to get this behind them: to play by the book and to ask 'how high' when the judge tells them to jump. If they try anything funny they can expect the ROI of that to be substantial and negative.

sillysaurus3 9y ago
I agree, but the topic had diverged somewhat. OT, have you noticed an increase in superfluous downvoting? I'm not really complaining, just trying to figure out if I'm imagining it or if it's randomness doing its thing. Since HN has become so much bigger, I wonder if the mods could scale down the effect of downvoting. E.g. make it take two downvotes to make a comment appear at 0.
- jacquesm 9y ago
  Happens all the time, I wouldn't worry about it, just ignore it.
  - sillysaurus3 9y ago
    Ok, I wrote a tampermonkey extension to hide the effects of being downvoted: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9d681310f4714277a37832643c2d3b93 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9d681310f4714277a37832643c... It removes scores from your comments and replaces your karma counter with "(9999)". HN is much more pleasant now.
    - jacquesm 9y ago
      Hah, that's a cool solution.
      - sillysaurus3 9y ago
        I submitted a better version at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456200

tjalfi 9y ago

Here is an example from a previous job. The location was a factory for a company you have heard of. Temporary employees were 99 and 44/100% of the workforce. One staffing agency, call it Agency A, had the main contract for the site and they were required to give some of the work to their competitors. It was policy to assign temps from other agencies impossible schedules so that they would quit and be replaced by temps from Agency A.