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Reminder to not work yourself to death for the sake of your employer.
THEY ARE NOT LOYAL TO YOU.
“Tesla Rewards Dedicated Worker Who Showered at Factory and Slept In His Car By Firing Him”
#ev #cars #tesla …

Tesla Rewards Dedicated Worker Who Showered at Factory and Slept in His Car by Firing Him
A Tesla employee who slept inside his car and made microwave meals instead of going home got laid off last month from the car company.

It’s been 3 years that I’ve been with my current employer as of tomorrow.
Time flies. I know this position will help when I move to the U.K. because I’ve learned a lot in a very high-stress and physically demanding role.
Thank you to @… for being my listening ear this last few years. You have helped me to not quit.

is evaluating a prospective employer based upon if they offer car charging at the office.

Japan’s answer to seasonal allergies: A subsidized tropical escape
Spring is a miserable time for millions of Japanese.
One of them is Naoki Shigihara, whose hay fever symptoms make it difficult to focus at work.
Luckily for him, his employer, an IT company called Aisaac, offers a “tropical escape” program, allowing employees to work remotely from other parts of the country with low pollen counts.
It even offers to subsidize the temporary relocation to the tune of…

Japan’s answer to seasonal allergies: A subsidized tropical escape
So many people call in sick with hay fever during the peak pollen season that Japanese companies are taking novel steps to allow them to continue to work.

Amazing job, voters of #DurhamCounty, Ontario. No notes whatsoever. 😳 https://pressprogress.ca/pierre-poilie

X says it is funding a lawsuit filed by Chloe Happe against her ex-employer Block, after being allegedly sacked for her X posts about refugees and trans people (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/x-is-funding-a-la<…

X is funding a lawsuit against Jack Dorsey's Block to support the 'right to freedom of speech'
X is funding a lawsuit filed by Chloe Happe against her former employer Block, which was founded by Jack Dorsey, the same person who founded the website...

An employee's employer asked them to conduct a physical pentest despite having no experience and the company lacking a formal process or documentation. They are seeking advice on what a pentest project's scope should include, documentation for protection, and tips for a smooth procedure. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bv6rg9/

One of the advantages of having stock in your employer is you get to see annual reports, which has little gems like the CEO to median employee payment ratio.
To be clear, I *like* our CEO and think he's doing a good job. Our ratio is also not unusual for businesses of our size and age, AFAIK.
But if you want to know why the country is going to hell, that little ratio tells you everything you need to know.

Four female BBC News presenters start legal action against BBC, saying they were forced off air for a year and were victims of a "sham" hiring process in 2023 (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/05/bbc-ne…

BBC News Presenters Claim They Were Forced Off Air & Harassed After “Sham” Hiring Process
BBC News presenters Martine Croxall, Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera, and Annita McVeigh are taking legal action against their employer.

If you could ask Carli Lloyd a question while also not embarrassing your employer what would it be?
#uswnt #GothamFC

Let’s remember that Ilya Shapiro is paid by the same rightwing billionaires who pay Thomas and Alito and the Fed Soc.
Paul Singer bribed Alito, and runs Shapiro’s employer Manhattan.
Shapiro is just as corrupt as the Supreme Court. The money even comes from the same place.

Good Morning #Canada
Today, February 29th, gives you 1,440 extra minutes this year. Gaining a full day every 4 years should help you finish some odd jobs around the house. I know that I'll be working on some things that, back in 2020, I put off until the next leap year. Wife is not impressed.
But do you get paid for this extra day by your employer? Maybe but doubtful. February 29…

Leap year 2024: Extra day doesn’t necessarily mean more pay. Why?
Millions of employed Canadians will be at work this Feb. 29 — a date that occurs once every four years — but will they walk home with more money for the extra day this leap year?

Employer: Everyone must come into the office!
Office wifi: *doesn't work, but in very weird ways*
🫠

The #NYTimesStrike asks:
Can a Tech Giant Be Woke?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/busines…

Can a Tech Giant Be Woke?
Microsoft, once again a juggernaut thanks to artificial intelligence, wants to be seen as an ethical employer. Is there a catch?

Seen in tukaani's IRC channel:
"this incident response is costing my employer 300€/h, where can I direct our DFIR and SOC bills?"
Uhmm... the billing department? haha, wtf

Do I need an $800 Portable Medical Kit? I don't know... maybe?
Do I need an $800 Portable Medical Kit if my employer is paying for it? Well if you put it that way...

👍 Temporary farmworkers get more protections against retaliation and other abuses under new rule | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/temporary-farmworkers-get-more-pro…

Mildly amused at how I took the job at my current employer, in part, to avoid the red tape of working for a megacorp.
Instead, I get to go through new-contractor onboarding for megacorp *clients* every time I do a project for such a customer that I haven't worked for before / recently enough.
Why go through security awareness or anti-harassment training when you start a new job, or once a year, when you could do it every few months instead?

🙃 I think my employer may dabble a bit here and there with AWS usage

PRO TIP: If you are sending cold marketing emails to people who are almost as excited about deleting them as they are about not getting them in the first place, make sure you remember to actually state •what the hell you’re asking for•.
Yes, I can infer what they mean — DO NOT explain in my replies — but the vagueness of this email still cracks me up. Their head is so far up the butt of their employer they’ve forgotten that “having a story live” is in-job jargon, meaningless to their r…

'In the US they think we’re communists!’
The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living
The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative,
with workers paying for the right to share in its profits
– and its losses.
In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back

#KannsteDirNichtAusdenken: #HentschkeBau aus #Bautzen darf sich ab sofort mit dem Titel “World’s Best Employer 2024” schmücken. 🤦
Andererseits: In

Deutschlands bester Arbeitgeber kommt aus unserer Region
Einer der besten Arbeitgeber Deutschlands kommt hier bei uns aus der Region: Die Firma “Hentschke Bau” darf sich ab sofort mit dem Titel “World’s Best Employer 2024” schmücken. Bei der Studie eines Berliner Marktforschungsunternehmens (SQC-QualityCert GmbH) wurde der sächsische Bauunternehmer zum Sieger aus mehr als 100.000 Arbeitgebern ermittelt.

How Richmond Standard, a newspaper funded by the California town's biggest employer Chevron, puts its own spin on events as the town's primary news source (NPR)
https://npr.org/2024/03/28/1239650727/chevron-fossil-fuel-richmond-s…

In a first, the UK ICO orders the leisure center operator Serco to stop using facial recognition and fingerprint scanning to monitor attendance and pay workers (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times)
https://t.co/C8FjMNjrlC

"It took me a while to recognize that I am now a disabled academic,” says Kerstin Sailer, a sociology researcher at University College London. (...)
But Sailer and others are a testament to the fact that long COVID need not signal a career dead end. With the right support, affected academics can still thrive.
This is from an article in Nature Careers on the impact of #longCovid…

Four years on: the career costs for scientists battling long COVID
Many with the condition have found ways around their health problems, but they say more employer support is needed.

“‘Being told that it can do all of these things is one thing, but actually seeing the capabilities, it was mind-blowing,’ he said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, noting that his productions might not have to travel to locations or build sets with the assistance of the technology.
“As a business owner, Perry sees the opportunity in these developments, but as an employer, fellow actor and filmmaker, he also wants to raise in the alarm.”

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”
The actor, filmmaker and studio owner is raising the alarm about the impact of the tech, saying, "I feel like everybody in the industry is running a hundred miles an hour to try and catch up, to try and put in guardrails."

Another larger studio in Ireland has announced #gamedev layoffs.
Our members in Game Workers Unite Ireland at Keywords are organising and requesting the employer engage with the Union.
article: https://www.

Fears for jobs as Irish video game giant Keyword Studios informs staff and government of potential redundancies 

I know it's bad form to shit-talk a previous employer, but daaaamn I want to shit-talk one or two companies that I worked for semi-recently...

Hah, catch this small world moment where my uncle @… cites my brother in (correctly) calling out my employer as "ahead of their skis"
Thanks for the pointer, Uncle Dan !
https://

Glassdoor seems to attach your full name and location to previously anonymously posted reviews, if it can. If you posted to Glassdoor before, maybe worth to check -- especially if you have posted about your current employer.
https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2024/03/

We now have an internal LLM helper tool at my employer, and I've started turning to it instead of Google for simple queries.
Also, I've stopped cross-checking it. Never on anything that makes it into publication, but when I reach for a fact to help form a thesis or opinion.

I'm not surprised that Linux Foundation so quickly has a Redis clone as a member project.
Redis code contributors by employer:
Tencent 240 24.8%
Huawei 50 5.2%
Amazon.com 50 5.2%
Bytedance 19 2.0%
All are LF members.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/member…

In-Person, Hybrid or Remote? Employers' Perspectives on the Future of Work Post-Pandemic
Divyakant Tahlyan, Hani Mahmassani, Amanda Stathopoulos, Maher Said, Susan Shaheen, Joan Walker, Breton Johnson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18459

In-Person, Hybrid or Remote? Employers' Perspectives on the Future of Work Post-Pandemic
We present an employer-side perspective on remote work through the pandemic using data from top executives of 129 employers in North America. Our analysis suggests that at least some of the pandemic-accelerated changes to the work location landscape will likely stick; with some form of hybrid work being the norm. However, the patterns will vary by department (HR/legal/sales/IT, etc.) and by sector of operations. Top three concerns among employers include: supervision and mentoring, reduction in…

I only check #LinkedIN maybe once or twice a year, and then its merely to look up someone's work history or see if we have a contact in common. Or because someone sent me some bullshit like "Congrats at being stuck at deadend <employer> for yet another year." Fuck off.
But I never actually read anything. Until now. LI may be ok for networking but the posts that people make...…

'I Refuse to Accept This': Virginia Cops Arrest Employee for Stealing a Package That Resurfaced While He Was In Custody. The Charges Were Dropped -- But He Still Got Fired
https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/02/21…

'I Refuse to Accept This': Virginia Cops Arrest Employee for Stealing a Package That Resurfaced While He Was In Custody. The Charges Were Dropped -- But He Still Got Fired
A Black man from Virginia says he was falsely accused of stealing from his former employer, who fired him even after the allegations were found to be

Call me a cynic, and I'm not passing judgement on either individually, but when the typical amount of internet monitoring and filtering from one's employer is tighter, or indeed more likely to exist, than that of parents on their tweens, there's a problem maybe?
#DigitalHygiene #Safeguarding

Report links Bears' Justin Fields with AFC West team https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_links_bears_justin_fields_with_afc_west_team/s1_13132_39998040

Report links Bears' Justin Fields with AFC West team
Regardless of his actual desires this offseason, every indication is that Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields will have a new NFL home either before or shortly after his current employer uses the first overall pick of this year's draft to land his replacement.  Fields has been linked in stories with clubs such as the Pittsburgh Steelers and Atlanta Falcons, but Sportskeeda consulting editor and NFL analyst Tony Pauline reported on Wednesday afternoon that the Las Vegas Raiders have "genuin…

does your employer send you low quality phishing attempts every month and expect you to report them or are they normal?

The original poster is considering job hopping to earn a higher salary in cyber roles such as Security Analyst, Engineer, or compliance based roles. Feedback suggests the remote job market is terrible, with traditional office work more common. The poster plans to stay with their current employer while exploring new opportunities. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1blx9iw/

My employer had been notifying all staff when any employee reports a positive covid test, but that's ending because of the new CDC guidance. So do I now have less cause to worry about potential exposure, or less grounds to trust anyone I work with?

Another larger studio in Ireland has announced #gamedev layoffs.
Our members in Game Workers Unite Ireland at Keywords are organising and requesting the employer engage with the Union.
article: #JoinAUnion #IrishGameDev #Ireland