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That should be illegal, too. Or the permissible scope of such an agreement heavily limited.
by ceejayoz 7mo ago
That should be illegal, too. Or the permissible scope of such an agreement heavily limited.
- thejazzman 7mo ago“Sign this or starve” isn’t much of a stretch when you think about it
- 0x3f 7mo agoAs if Meta employees live on the cusp of starving.
- ceejayoz 7mo agohttps://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/854998616/in-settlement-facebook-to-pay-52-million-to-content-moderators-with-ptsd https://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/854998616/in-settlement-faceb... > Some of the content moderators were earning $28,800 a year, the technology news site The Verge found last year. In this particular case, the legal costs are probably pretty ruinous.
- 0x3f 7mo agoI think you'll find the person in question's title is quite far from content moderator.
- ceejayoz 7mo agoI think you'll find that's why the "in this particular case" line is there.
- 0x3f 7mo agoNobody forced her to break her contract and thus come up against that. She would have been perfectly fine on the leftovers from ~$500k/y while searching for her next job. The parent makes out like she simply had to get the extra money, lest she starve to death. Which is patently ridiculous.
- thejazzman 7mo agoI agree with you there, but I think that may be the only reason this app isn’t cast in a darker light. I can also imagine that with SF living expenses that there are a lot of people without a big safety net I don’t really mean for this to be related to any one person. The general population doesn’t have a choice but to sign terms and get the severance , in general, in America
- burnt-resistor 7mo agoIt's called a Hobson's choice.
- 0x3f 7mo ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 7mo ago"Yes, sometimes." — the law (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unconscionability https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unconscionability)
- 0x3f 7mo ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 7mo agoIt's Hacker News, not I'm Thirteen And Just Discovered Anarchism And It Sounds Cool Because Now My Parents Can't Tell Me To Brush My Teeth Before Bed News.