Work Reform

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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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In 2021, my company laid off 100 people. Later that same year, they hire me and others to replenish this loss (lemmy.world)

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And now, fast forward to 2023, they are laying me off, along with another 99 people.

In a way I'm relieved because I was planning to change jobs due to burnout (burnout that my manager referred to during my layoff meeting as being "a little bit stressed").

However, due to the same said burnout, I couldn't do much job searching and needed a long vacation.

I got laid off while on vacation, a vacation I took late because of the deadlines set by the company, also a vacation which I spent recovering from burnout (and doing other fun things, don't get me wrong.)

Mainly I blame their obsession with "growth hacking". Now this company is a TV company and have canceled a large list of programs viewers like because they aren't making enough revenue.

And everyone does it with a smile on their face, under the guise of 'efficiency'.

How does one increase efficiency by reducing the number of workers and not really coming up with any tools so that less workers could do the same job?

The negotiations with the union ended in disagreement about my team's layoffs but I got the boot anyway.

So what did I get myself burnt out for? Absolutely nothing worth it. I should have just quit-quitted. This didn't come easy to me because I place a lot of importance on product ownership. I'm early in my career and wanted to build cool stuff that people use and enjoy.

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[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Jack Welch playbook!

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1101505691/short-term-profits-and-long-term-consequences-did-jack-welch-break-capitalism

[–] Cruxifux@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

No, it was doomed from the get go. Jack Welch is a symptom of a broken system, not the cause of it.

That being said, fuck that guy.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know people get all sorts of existential dread thinking about an AI maximizing for paperclip production, but what scares me the most is jerks maximing for money and how they will not stop at anything. And they're not even AIs yet. Mr. Burns embodied.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

Who do you think had a hand training the computer models on expected performance levels