funkless_eck

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funkless_eck , to Work Reform in How in the hell

typo, I meant 2.

funkless_eck , (edited ) to Work Reform in How in the hell

yes but a factotum is a person who does general, menial jobs, and Bukowski was writing about his (assumed true) experience finding work after being rejected for thrww1 the WW2 draft. (EDIT: typo)

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in Pharmacy staff from Walgreens, CVS say they’re at a breaking point — here’s what their days look like

i don’t work in HR lol but you can say that about any job except doctors nurses and fire fighters

That’s what being an employee is: receiving money to be of some use to the employer.

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in Pharmacy staff from Walgreens, CVS say they’re at a breaking point — here’s what their days look like

I get some of the issues (not talking about pharmacies here) because if you hire remotely you get swamped with resumes, if you don’t you only get the nearest people, not the best people.

Everyone loves to shit on HR in comment threads but if they have a series of processes that are well thought out they can be a benefit to employer and employee.

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in 'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do

life is just a series of little things. the little things matter.

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in 'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do

just make sure it doesn’t smell, stain, is difficult to eat, is easy to prepare, easy to clean and you’ve measured out the right amount to prevent wastage.

or just let me work from home?! which is better in every way?! for everyone involved?!

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in 'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do

I am happy to make this concession provided I can either start making my lunch on company time, and then commute after I have finished making my lunch, or be allowed to fully go home, make and prepare lunch, dine, and commute back to work.

Oh, is that unproductive, a waste of time, money and energy, and massively impairs my ability to get work done?

Someone should draw some kind of conclusion from that, it seems.

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in Flashback - Mark Zuckerberg on billionaires: 'No one deserves to have that much money'

I have done things that are hard work for less compensation than it deserves and been happy to give it freely (ie charity, volunteering), but that doesn’t mean we can’t examine the power structure, even if the plurality of people are happy inside it.

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in Flashback - Mark Zuckerberg on billionaires: 'No one deserves to have that much money'

of course you can slice it any way you like. I’m not saying no one should be an author, but I am saying billionaires aren’t made without exploitation somewhere

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in Flashback - Mark Zuckerberg on billionaires: 'No one deserves to have that much money'

You’re forgetting that it’s not like we go to Rowling’s house to get her books, or even download the manuscript P2P from her personal server.

Someone’s exploited labor printed the folio, bound it, packed it, shipped it, stocked it, advertised it, sold it to you and put it into a bag…

And more, cut down the trees to make the paper, mixed the ink, delivered the reams and the vats to the factory…

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem

using a bike or a train in America is the exact opposite of optimizing one’s commute.

now I WFH - thankfully - but looking up my old commute (10 miles)

27 mins by car

110 mins by public transit

105 mins by bike

215 mins walking

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in there is Indeed a problem

you were trying to be sarcastic, but instead you have revealed a major issue with the recidivism of homelessness and crime that affects every modern society.

if one of us is in chains, none of us are free.

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in 207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death

oh absolutely it was illegal, and I did it with full knowledge of it, and voluntarily, for a stipend instead of pay.

just no point in being litigious when I’m just as happy to have a good story out of it.

funkless_eck , to Work Reform in 207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death

I did 135 hour week once as a journalism intern. got fired because I didn’t do 140 (would walk to hotel, sleep 4 hours, wake up, walk back to field office - “wow,” you think, “what war was he covering?” and the answer is the war of an arts festival in northern england).

didn’t go back to journalism after that.

funkless_eck , to Politics in [News] Ramaswamy suggests he would run government like Musk does X

would Åaland come first?

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