A group of financial firms and investors is planning to launch a Texas-based private market stock exchange and offer traders an alternative to the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq....
It was majority employee-owned before the acquisition but is now majority owned by private equity firm. The main change I'm noticing is that everyone is being pressured to work uncompensated overtime (we're all on salary here) and requests for training/professional development have been all but eliminated. They also initially...
Malingering millennials are “quiet shirking”, discharging their duties at or beyond the level expected of them, but singing the company song with tones of sarcasm in their voices and sometimes even rolling their eyes
Does the US still have a Fortune 500-wide hiring blacklist for those who publicly criticise Israeli military operations? If so, they may have a hard time finding other employment.
It won’t pass now (most Dems would vote it down, to say nothing of the Republicans), but it’ll gradually shift the Overton window. As the idea of shorter working hours appears in more places, people will be more inclined to entertain it rather than immediately rejecting it.
How will the logistics of this work? Are there fast-food restaurants that would accept a privileged Karen with anger management issues as a member of their team? After all, they have a business with tight margins to run, and this sounds like a huge liability.
They’re literally the people who care about Bandcamp as a social/cultural institution and feel a sense of ownership. Epic/Songtradr obviously regard that as a liability, and would rather just have drones who will follow orders to enshittify the site to maximise short-term returns without any pushback. As such, Bandcamp is a dead site walking.
In the UK and EU, windows in similar positions are mandated on construction trucks to give the driver a view of other road users when manoeuvring in urban environments. They were brought in after pedestrians and cyclists were killed by having been in trucks’ blind spots.
The only difference him and any central bank governor is not having enough tact to use the usual polite euphemisms. The policy itself is so old that Marx came up with a term for it (“the reserve army of labour”)
This rabbit. ( lemmy.world )
Kinky Friedman, provocative Texas satirist and one-time gubernatorial candidate, dies at 79 ( www.wfaa.com )
The police need this for...? ( lemmy.world )
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Financiers plan to launch a Texas-based stock exchange ( www.texastribune.org )
A group of financial firms and investors is planning to launch a Texas-based private market stock exchange and offer traders an alternative to the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq....
Private Equity Firm Bought My Employer
It was majority employee-owned before the acquisition but is now majority owned by private equity firm. The main change I'm noticing is that everyone is being pressured to work uncompensated overtime (we're all on salary here) and requests for training/professional development have been all but eliminated. They also initially...
Every damn day ( programming.dev )
Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract ( nypost.com )
Bernie Sanders unveils 32-hour workweek bill with no loss in pay for workers ( thehill.com )
Still a good dog that needs pets ( startrek.website )
Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job ( www.cnn.com )
Every member of Bandcamp union bargaining team was laid off in huge cuts at Oakland firm ( www.sfgate.com )
The massive layoff that gutted Oakland-based music service Bandcamp hit one group at the company particularly hard: leaders of its nascent union.
Sean Hannity Reveals His Father Beat Him ( www.newsweek.com )
Co-pilot Max ( lemmy.world )
Tim Gurner apologises over call for more unemployment to fix worker attitudes ( www.bbc.com )
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