Employers demonstrated their infidelity to their staff by paying loyal workers, on average, 7% less than new hires — 20 years ago, salaries were largely the same between new and longtime employees.
People always said COBRA is too expensive but I had no clue how bad it could possibly be. Turns out, $1200 a month for the cheapest option for a married couple in my case. And I didn’t get that information in spite of repeated asking for months before I left, until I was nearly out the door.
This compared to the marketplace plans starting around $600, similarly decent plans to my work one in the realm of $800 and the APTC covering almost all of that cost if I’m not making too much money self-employed. COBRA is a joke.
They effectively have, via tipping. And the employer pays less so ultimately the employee gets screwed no matter what.
The fact they look to us as the problem and not their employers just tells me the scheme is working. Count the money, twirl the moustache and pet the evil lap cat, villains of the world. You’ve won as always, and the downtrodden are still too busy infighting over scraps to realize whose boot they’re under.
If your place of work has chosen to pay you so poorly that it’s now my fault that I’ve failed to supply you an adequate wage for your work in an industry where service is not a big component (the bakery employee bagging up some cookies for me is not getting a tip no matter how awkward their PoS system tries to make it - delivery drivers and waiters obviously are a different story) then I’m simply not supporting your employer and I genuinely hope others follow they go out of business, well aware that that fact is the reason they stopped getting customers.
You’re screwed one way or the other unfortunately, but I’d rather we send a clear message to the people actually responsible for this awful situation you’re stuck in where you have to rely on the generosity of customers to make a decent living, than continuing to subsidize their terrible business practices and allow this cycle of abuse to continue not only unabated, but actively financially supported. This can’t be the norm everywhere. Arguably it shouldn’t be the norm even in aforementioned businesses where it’s long been accepted as the norm already. You and I both know your idea of this being “selling labor directly without the ownership class taking a cut” is a falsehood, because their cut is coming from your base wages, while enabling customers to effectively ‘not pay’ for your labor, with nothing you can do to prevent that because you’re not in control of what you earn.
I would be 1000% in favor of people having that power to sell their labor directly and name their prices. But it’s this duplicitous system that doesn’t allow the laborer any control, while stealing from them, raising prices without the ability to be up-front and honest about what something is going to cost. The only reason you’re mad at customers and not your employer, is you feel you have the power to change one, and not the other.
Currently our rules do not specify for or against AI postings, simply if something “makes you go awww!” then it is welcome. Given that more than a few users have expressed that AI pictures should be limited to AI communities, do we as a community want to restrict AI posts?
I don’t want to gatekeep what is and isn’t aww, but I definitely don’t appreciate the realization that something fake was slipped in right under my nose without warning. AI may be harder to get good results from than I imagine, but if it’s not being presented as exactly what it is upfront, it’s naturally going to fool a lot of people into thinking they’re seeing an extraordinary image.
Come to think of it, this doesn’t just extend to AI. If someone was trying to pass a photo realistic render or heavily Photoshopped pic off as real (and I mean on the level of replacing, grafting and moving parts of multiple images to make something that gets attention for how surprising or special it seems) then I would feel the same way about that. It’s about honesty. I want to see all kinds of mediums on here allowed to shine, but not if it’s done through obfuscation of the medium used.
And also, AI stuff just skeeves me out. I want to be able to filter it out, or just know that there’s a rule against it and another community for that content. There’s something deeply human and heartwarming about an “aww” to me, and if it’s not real, or at least presents itself honestly in a way I can appreciate the love that went into the craft, it’s no longer aww.
We do not currently have a banner for our community and are in need of one that we can all agree on. Does anyone have something they would like to suggest?...
I’m on my way out of this sub right now due to AI posts, so feel free to disregard my salty butt, but I feel the need to say that I’m really not okay with AI generated content in this community, especially it being allowed to go up un-tagged and un-filterable (if there’s a way to filter out posts on this site I wouldn’t be totally against it as long as there’s a rule to tag images appropriately).
I find the idea of putting an AI generated image up as the community’s banner is asking for exactly the wrong kind of content. Look - real life can’t compete with this stuff. Any random dude with a graphics card can Stable Diffusion the cutest and most exotic pic you’ve ever seen, (an approximation of) the kind of thing a photographer might capture after years of seeking out that perfect one in a million shot. The guy who made this can casually pump out several dozen like it’s nothing. You want a baby red panda and a squirrel instead? They’ll have it generated and posted in the time it took me to write this rant.
There’s a specific community on this site for AI generated aww, and I recommend people who like these go make it active. I don’t think I’m alone in saying people don’t expect that content here. Most don’t know what to look for and aren’t zooming in to spot it, and while this form of misinformation (presenting pictures that are not real as if they were, as another AI generated post here has done by being posted without context or tagging as AI generated) is far from innately harmful, I don’t think it should be allowed in this sub’s rules. If that other post’s comments are anything to go by, people feel cheated realizing it wasn’t real.
Again, I don’t entirely mind if the sub isn’t strictly limited to real pictures only. Aww comes in many forms, from real life to movies to games to art. IMO, AI is far too much of an ‘easy button’ to get a free pass, though.
Gen Z is unhappier at work than any other generation. Here are the two things they want. ( www.businessinsider.com )
Employers demonstrated their infidelity to their staff by paying loyal workers, on average, 7% less than new hires — 20 years ago, salaries were largely the same between new and longtime employees.
He's more beak than bird ( startrek.website )
Got tipping rage? This barista reveals what it's like to be behind the tip screen ( www.npr.org )
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This is Rook ( pixelfed.social )
Discussion: AI Posts
Currently our rules do not specify for or against AI postings, simply if something “makes you go awww!” then it is welcome. Given that more than a few users have expressed that AI pictures should be limited to AI communities, do we as a community want to restrict AI posts?
Nom nom ( i.imgur.com )
In Need of a Community Banner
We do not currently have a banner for our community and are in need of one that we can all agree on. Does anyone have something they would like to suggest?...