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by claudeganon 6y ago
You’re incorrectly conflating the two cases described in the article. Berland was fired for viewing other’s calendars, Spiers for the notifications. The NLRB ruled both firings were illegitimate and their actions protected under labor law.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
But the NLRB ruled that what Spiers did was perfectly within their rights, so you’re completely wrong in this specific case. However correct you may believe yourself in the abstract, entirely relies on the lawfulness of the specifics.
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The have redress through the U.S. Court of Appeals for noncompliance with their decisions, so this really isn’t true at all.
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This is also such an insane take because organized labor at Google stopped a project (Dragonfly) that would’ve been used against “troublesome” workers in China, as well as a military project that also undoubtedly would’ve been used to kill
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by claudeganon 6y ago
The ability to maintain that negotiation power and pressure on a reliable basis, as opposed to ad-hoc and reactively as problems arise. One could also ask why people form companies to solve problems when they can just work as individual con
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by claudeganon 6y ago
For macOS, you can just use Automator to record clicking into the Teams app, then something else, and put it on a loop. No external apps required.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I had a job once where the person tasked with training me would only do so over Slack, even though they sat 3 feet in front of me. If I spoke up to ask a question, they would angrily turn around and tell me to message them instead. Needless
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Faulty analogy because it references a specific set of religions (those with churches) in the context of a workplace. If in some insane reality, Google was trying to prevent their employees from joining religions (as they were, in this case
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Experienced Rails developers at 42-60K?
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Not snark at all. I don’t know the connotations because I’m not a Native Californian, but people would comment about how my speaking nasally and apologizing too much (both of which you can find in just about any parody of Midwestern culture
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Yes, of course. Native Californians often asked me where I was originally from based solely on my noticeable Midwestern accent.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Are you in SF? When I lived in LA, this seemed like far less of an issue than in Northern California, where people seemed incredibly stuck up and generally awful. Something like 40% of LA doesn’t speak English at home and I would imagine a
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I can only speak one other (Japanese) and have found the exact opposite. Growing up in the north, I had a strong bias against southern accents, which were almost exclusively treated with disdain by everyone around me. This disappeared after
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by claudeganon 6y ago
It’s not impossible to end. Just have people learn other languages. Once you yourself have struggled with a bad accent and different pronunciation from most people, I think your view tends to change. Monolingualism is the bane of just about
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Mishima isn’t really that divergent from the prewar fascist aesthetic. More context on that in this book: https://www.ubcpress.ca/glorify-the-empire The only thing different about him was that he came to his fascism in a ki
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Both Korea and Japan are client states in the U.S. empire, with large US military presences and drastic interventions in their domestic politics. They absolutely collaborate with the US on everything.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I upgraded to a high spec MacBook Pro 16 after the M1 model was announced. I need solid virtualization support for Windows and Linux now, plus Big Sur seems kind of a mess from the design and privacy side of things. I'll probably wait
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Not take money from companies that were in violation of California law from their outset (running illegal taxi services), not take jobs with the companies when they left office (several former, high-level Obama people work at Uber, Kamala H
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Both you and the parent are correct however. The LDP was a wholesale construction by the US, including being proved massive financing and intelligence operations conducted against their opponents. But it was also comprised of former war cri
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Uber and several other gig companies have been operating in violation of California law for about a decade. The state could have shut them down at any time for any myriad number of reasons, but instead got friendly with them and took piles
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Look at what the cops did to protestors throughout the past year. What makes you think they wouldn’t do the same in the context of labor unrest?
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And did nothing meaningful to oppose it being modified, beside saying they opposed it. This has been Democrats tactics with this stuff for decades, “we tried to do something good, but then something happened that we couldn’t do anything abo
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by claudeganon 6y ago
> Interestingly enough, shop-level organization at amazon scale gets somewhat similar to sector-wide unions. Not really. If every Amazon warehouse organized, you would still need Walmart, Target, etc warehouse workers to organize to achi
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by claudeganon 6y ago
The Democratic Party in California is quite cozy and takes a lot of money from the people who wrote it, so I find this claim of opposition unconvincing.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
>What does an amazon union even look like? There are already Amazon unions across Europe, so I don’t understand the speculative framing here. They fight for better wages, working conditions, etc for their members. All of these are better
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by claudeganon 6y ago
> It’s easily verifiable that Democratic states have better laws for wage earners, and have pushed for policies that benefit wage earners. The most solidly blue state, California, just enshrined a law to screw over gig workers and has am
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by claudeganon 6y ago
> Just to be clear, I'm not against imperialism As an aside - why? Imperialism seems like something one should obviously oppose. Who wants their lives governed by these forces?
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Trump already did the bailouts with the PPP loans, which largely went to big businesses and fraudsters and by muscling the Fed into intervening in corporate markets. There is very little difference on economic policy when it comes to screwi
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by claudeganon 6y ago
>But if all businesses are run at a loss, the entire system will collapse, so the system requires some companies to be run profitably. Not if all the businesses are monopolies. The concentration of wealth allow for an ever greater captur
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by claudeganon 6y ago
However it works is how it works. Capitalism absolutely devolves into the corrupt oligopolies we have today, where businesses capture government and entrench their position and power over everyone else. Strong organized labor and various fo

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