kieselguhr_kid

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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
IANAL but I know enough about the labor process to know the expert is probably correct.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
This is the cornerstone of union protections under the NLRA. The act defines a union as two or more workers who undertake action together in order to improve their working conditions. In theory, this protects them from retaliation. In pra
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Anti-harrassment campaigns have historically been qualified statements. You're correct that they have to be nonsupervisory workers.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
It's usually back wages, but that's up to the fired party.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Why would they have a favorable opinion of him? They mostly live for sensation and Musk as villain gets a lot of clicks. Defending his labor practices on the notion that he's a climate savior when even cursory research disproves that s
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Free speech unless you criticize SpaceX?
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
This sounds like firing people for concerted action, which is one of two illegal reasons for termination in the US (the other being discrimination). I suspect the NLRB will reward them with an offer to get their jobs back or back wages.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
The impact Tesla has on climate change is so small as to be complete negligible. Electric cars are entirely insufficient, and we need to move past this rhetoric to actually get anything done.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I suspect you're conflating your state pension everyone gets with a job-based pension that pays a percentage of your salary. And even if not, I know plenty of people, even teachers and other low-paid workers, whose pensions are much be
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
"Power flows from the barrel of a gun": broke "Power flows from not being chatty with your coworkers": woke
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
This is 75% housing prices, 24% people leaving who never wanted to be there in the first place but moved for tech jobs, and 1% human excrement. You can't fool me about Boise. I've been there.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
The flip side is that a union shop, especially a recently unionized one, is much more tight-knit. I still have close friends from a union struggle years ago. And you have job security, collective bargaining power, and Weingarten rights for
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Only 15% being activist is usually the case. Most people just participate in conversations and voting. Internal polling is always skewed, which is why you have the NLRB process. Negative articles in the press about working conditions and de
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
My comment holds regardless. Whether they merely wanted to solicit their boss's favor or had some ideological objection, they still opposed it.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Who wouldn't want to move from a vibrant coastal city to a suburb in Arkansas?
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
It already is hostile to pro-union workers, usually. This is part of the resentment that sets in. After months of surveillance and harassment, your pro-union coworkers will be pissed that you chose to side with the people who surveilled and
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
A recently unionized workplace can get hostile to workers who opposed it. This is fine by me: if you opposed the majority of your coworkers in their struggle for better material working conditions, then you should feel their resentment.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Good for them! It'd be nice to see a software engineering guild emerge in the coming years. Think about the benefits we could accrue; I for one would strongly prefer a real pension to a 401K.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
> Whether you peg it at 1995 or 2008, you’re talking about a phenomenon that’s just a couple of decades old. That dramatically limits what the explanation could be. School shootings started in earnest in the 70s and really got going the
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
And you would be wrong. This massacre was seminal in the US consciousness, but the majority of school shootings, before and since, remain targeted attacks.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I don't understand microdosing at all. The interesting and enjoyable effects of the drug are only pronounced at a macro level: significant disruption to normal thinking patterns, visual hallucinations, the suppression of the ego, etc.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
It absolutely did not start in the 90s, and only ratcheted up significantly after 2008. People often underestimate the damage that the economic crisis did to American social cohesion. There are other variables that are obviously at play her
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
"Just look around" is exactly what I thought you'd say.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
This is the kind of assertion people love to make but hate to back up, or think deeply about. It makes more sense to address core issues like poverty and abuse than it does to drone strike these kids'
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Most of my behavioral issues were outside of class and focused on the administrators and cops. I wasn't really a class disruptor. The kids that were, though, shouldn't have been tased for it. There are better approaches, obviousl
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Before I became the "respectable pillar of professional society" I am today, I was a smart-mouthed kid with a major anti-authority streak (that I retain to a lesser extent to this day). I think it was an essential part of my perso
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
It's not the worst idea
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I've lived in Silicon Valley and I've lived outside of it. I'm sure it's a myth. The higher rate of pay is not an indication of higher skill.
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
Yeah, but there's in-group jargon and technical approaches that FAANG and FAANG-adjacent engineers will pick up on. Just because you're anonymous doesn't mean you aren't unconsciously signaling your background to your in
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
Fragile FAANG-ers

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