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What about people with families and other responsibilities? Were they exempt from the “lockdown”? If they were, did they create a division between those who sta
by randomsearch 8y ago
What about people with families and other responsibilities? Were they exempt from the “lockdown”? If they were, did they create a division between those who stayed and perhaps would have been labelled as dedicated or part of the core workers, and those who could not? I’d be concerned that any such policy would discriminate against people with responsibilities outside of software development.
- spiderfarmer 8y agoIt's an American company so they probably said screw you and your life outside work.
- sAbakumoff 8y agoThe excerpt from Chaos Monkeys book about lockdown that happened in Facebook when MZ decided to take down G+: In what was perceived as a kindly concession to the few employees with families, it was also announced that families were welcome to visit on weekends and eat in the cafés, allowing the children to at least see daddy (and yes, it was mostly daddy) on weekend afternoons.
- barrow-rider 8y agoWhat did the call the money they used to pay when people lived in company towns in the 1800s? Scrip? You lived in company housing and got paid company scrip and could only spend it at the company store, at outrages rates. This sounds like step 1 of returning to that sort of system. Hyperbole to some degree, but it already happened once...