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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I would not shop here. If I saw this, I would turn around and walk out. Go somewhere that they value work.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Okay but like... how are they gonna count out my change?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 150 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (23 children)

I would just unplug the camera and computer. Every day. Even if I wasn't buying anything.

Fuck this business.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm almost certain this has been tried before multiple times and always ended badly. I see no reason to think it would be different now.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This is a particularly suited post for this magazine and the image just completes it

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Ah yes, it's the minorities who are stealing jobs. Not the lack of regulations blocking corpos from outsourcing work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

And black jobs, too!

/s

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Not knowing the law in the US I guess it is fully legal. Given that there is no union or chain responsibility in the supply chain or similar to GDPR in EU you guys are fucked until someone abuse the system one way or another.

On the other hand it shows work from home is feasible even with these kind of things.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I just wouldn't go to that restaurant. Plenty of other places to go.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Critical thinking spotted!

Whoever clicked the link drop the name of that shithole so NYC shitposters know to avoid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thankfully even without the name it’ll be pretty obvious if you stumble across it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So … they do ask for tips, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Always dear... otherwise owner's children will starve ;)

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This feels cyberpunk. Some netrunner will hack the system and give free meals away because fuck the corpos, right?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I don't think you need a netrunner to plug a mouse into the pc behind the monitor and hit "Leave" on the (I assume) Zoom call.

Even easier, unplug the ethernet cable.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Whoa, slow down there, Einstein, I don't understand your hacker jargon!

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[–] [email protected] 282 points 5 months ago (6 children)

shouldn't the federal minimum wage apply to everyone who is doing work in the US? This seems like fraud

[–] [email protected] 124 points 5 months ago (3 children)

how would you distinguish this from regular outsourcing

[–] [email protected] 204 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Outsourcing is the problem.

The owners take advantage of our commons, tear up our roads, and succeeded because of domestic infrastructure, only to refuse to pay full price for labor and allowing even those wages, in lieu of the taxes they bribe our government to enact loopholes to dodge, to "trickle down" domestically as their always bullshit yay market capitalism talking points lied?

It's absolutely clownshoes that outsourcing labor/manufacturing is allowed, not because of domestic shortages for a skill, but to explicitly pay pennies on the dollar for the employees you need and screw the country you don't want to pay taxes to despite record profits even harder.

It's insane. But we let the owner class dictate whatever they want here, and our well bribed government will even sell it for them by calling it "something something freedom" while never mentioning social consequences, accountability, or responsibility. We aren't so much a country as a piggy bank and cudgel for the global owner class.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Something something candlemaker’s petition

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Should apply to that as well if they're interacting with the US market.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What happens when you join the zoom id listed?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

The host denies you access. I just tried, waited for 5 minutes before being denied access.

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