[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Want some help organizing a union? Paid holidays are something you can bargain for in a union contract, and I'm an experienced organizer

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 35 points 12 hours ago

Retail work is a lot of emotional labor. At the end of the day, wearing the mask can be too much. I consider myself a very happy and welcoming person, and even I would do this after retail shifts

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

The "more thought" is a barrel of mead of course!

And an ounce of weed, but that was already there

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 36 points 13 hours ago

Yea for sure! We were organizing around performance metrics, quotas, discipline, etc for quite a while. My work is in QA, where quotas are actually really bad for software development. We had been trying to get management to research and implement modern QA practices that would reduce/eliminate quotas, without much success. We also wanted progressive discipline with real guidance, because if you don't meet metrics then the performance improvement plan (pip) was really just a do-or-die meet the metrics for 10 days or get fired.

In the previous meeting, it wasn't a take over but coworkers and I relentlessly asked about pips, metrics, etc. We were very clearly getting under their skin, to the point where he asked me how I felt pips should work. He was probably thinking I never planned that far ahead and would discredit myself, but I had done significant research on modern QA management techniques and gave an overview of my minimum for a 3 step pip. Right before he ended the meeting, he essentially "confirmed" that we do it exactly like that, no sword of Damocles or anything.

Of course having done the legwork to actually talk to employees that had gone through the process, we knew that it was total horseshit. Just to be sure, we talked to a few more people to confirm that pips were still being used to cut people for cause instead of improving their metrics before planning the takeover. To open the meeting, I asked this to the COO:

I'd like to preface my question by saying thank you for hosting these sessions again, and preemptively note that a lot of us are here to discuss PIPs. In the last Q&A session I attended, I was told by you that PIPs follow a progressive discipline model. However, we're aware that most if not all employees that fail a PIP are terminated immediately, and multiple employees have been fired shortly after passing a PIP for failing to meet productivity expectations. Why did you lie to me?

His face went beet red and you could see the anger build in his eyes. After about a minute, he responds with "I don't appreciate being called a liar. You're hostility isn't welcome and I reject the question". After that, you could cut the tension with a knife. I reiterated my question that pips don't work the way he said they do, but he continued to refuse it until I moved on to the many other "hostile" questions I had.

For the aftermath, he lied to us again in that meeting when someone uninvolved with the take over asked about remote work, and said there's no plans to change anything for the foreseeable future, before RTO was announced a week later. There was another meeting about RTO with him that I attended, and he made a vague threat about "respectability" and ending the meeting if he felt disrespected after looking at the attendees. I wanted to ask a legit question over mic, and he ignored me until it was becoming obvious to others in the meeting. He stopped doing all q&a stuff after this for some reason.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 132 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm a union organizer, so I got to see some truly golden moments. My favorite was during a campaign, we took over a Q&A session with a member of the C-suite present. In a previous meeting he tried to convince me of some bs, so I asked him directly "why did you lie to me?" during this take over. The look on his face was priceless, and it took him over a minute to respond pathetically with "I don't appreciate being called a liar"

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

What a coincidence, I'm a QA tester that was illegally fired and therefore no longer bound by my moonlighting clause. I'll have to give it a try!

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Where did you get that number? John Hopkins is reporting 48,204 gun deaths for people aged 0-17 in 2022.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Play games and pretend to make mental notes for that game you want to make

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago

It's only a second job if you ever want to add a new app

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

It's a competitive market, once a week doesn't pay the bills anymore

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

How did the conversation actually go? Because my immediate question would have been "why was that your deciding factor?"

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago

If you're talking about have I been pwned, that site is actually legit. They have an API that compares hashes and stuff. I hope this app is legit too, it could save millions of people.

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We all know that the Communists Have the Music, but there's a problem that I don't believe is talked about enough. It's an unfortunate reality that music meant to carry leftist messages are not mainstream and therefore hard to find if you don't know where to look. I also have a vast collection of music I think should be shared far and wide. This has led me to create !leftymusic@lemmy.world so these songs can be more readily found and shared. Come by and share some songs you know!

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Ok so I got this idea not while showering, but because I'm very high. The story does come from my bathroom though! I have a night light in my bathroom, and I was looking at the night light as I turned off the bathroom light. I'm a big nerd so I remembered that the things that detect light levels are actually diodes wired in reverse. I thought it would be funny to make it flicker by reflecting the light back on the diode, but it didn't work. That's when I had this realization

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I like to think that I'm a very knowledgeable organizer, so if folks want some advice ask me in the comments!

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I'm a mod of !leftism@lemmy.world, and the last resort preemptive defederation from hexbear has me concerned. As a mod, what are the specific rules that I need to know about to make sure our community fits the guidelines of LemmyWorld? We aren't a huge community and there aren't a huge number of posts every day, but I want to see this community grow and thrive. I can't do that without knowing the guidelines hexbear violated to warrant defederation. We're focused on left unity, so I need to know what we can't allow.

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I'm working on family planning with my partner, and we want to have children within the next couple years. While I'm definitely an anarchist, I'm not a 'studied' anarchist and don't know as much as I'd like about the political theory. I watched a video from Andrewism on the topic, which made me think about this topic. I largely agree with his assessment, and want to raise my children without a hierarchy because I believe that it's the best method of raising children. The problem is that I don't really know how to go about it or how to bring it up to my partner. Obviously there isn't a 'right' way to do it because each child is their own person and I'd need to balance that with the responsibility of being the parent, but I'd love to know some guidance from other anarchist parents.

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I'm firmly on the side of "water is not wet" in this debate, but it's a question that I was asked while I was high and have no answer to it. Water cannot itself be wet because you can't get water on water. However, what is a fish in a lake? It can't be wet until it's taken out of the water, but it's not dry either. Is it something else?

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