• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    i think this is a good idea in 95% of cases. Some jobs obviously require being on call. In some cases, it’s necessary to have meetings with people in +/- 8h timezones. there should be appropriate compensation naturally.

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      Some jobs obviously require being on call.

      If you need 24/7 coverage, you also need to pay those people to wait around on call. But just buzzing people at odd hours and demanding Just-in-Time employment puts a disproportionate tax on their unpaid time.

      Medical staff will often have these extremely long - 20 to 30 hour - shifts because they want to maintain continuous care on a patient. But they also get paid for being active for that time frame. They don’t just teleport to the hospital when an ambulance arrives and teleport away again as soon as the patient is stable. Professional Fire Departments keep people on call in rotation so there’s always someone available in the event of an emergency. The volunteer system yields much worse results, as people holding down households and second jobs can’t drop everything on short notice to rush halfway across town with ease.

      there should be appropriate compensation naturally.

      But that will cost money. And paying more money means keeping fewer profits.

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    4 months ago

    he said in a clip he shared of a recent interview with Fox News

    ahh yes, as broadcasted to the group who are consistently brainwashed to vote against their own best interests. mission accomplished

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    4 months ago

    If employees start ignoring their boss’s calls, texts, and emails outside of work hours, an after-hours emergency might have to wait until the next business day, which O’Leary finds unacceptable.

    Did this fucking fascist consider hiring more staff and going 24/7? How is it the problem of salaried workers that their boss is too fucking cheap to hire enough people to get the level of support that he wants?

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      If your service needs to operate 24/7, then it needs to be staffed 24/7. If it doesn’t need to operate 24/7, then staff will resolve the issue during normal work hours. Most businesses have IT teams stagger their start time so that someone comes in early and can deal with issues that may have risen the night before and prior to other employees arriving.

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      I made this a few years ago, about 6 months before walking out on a job I’d had for 11 years.

      Fuck all these sociopaths. Right in the ear. With a rusty spoon.

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      4 months ago

      And all these laws have carveouts for emergencies. Although I have a feeling Mr O’Leary would probably count having to do a presentation on Monday morning for some guy he met golfing over the weekend an emergency.

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    4 months ago

    A couple hundred years ago, Kevin O’Leary would be whipping his slaves to death for objecting to being raped.

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        That vote’s coming in western Canada. So many short-sighted hillbillies rage-voting in some fatcat climate-change denying moron hell-bent on killing healthcare and personal autonomy under the banner of “woke==bad”. All the Dodge RAM pilots are eating it up – and not just to soak up the rye before heading out.

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    There’s a lot of talk these days about people being cancelled. This guy seems like the sort of person that would be an excellent candidate for it. I believe we, as a society, ought to collectively express our disgust at this kind of behavior.

    So how is it done? How do we figuratively light the signal fires of Gondor and call forth the hosts to confront this evil?

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      We could less-figuratively use O’Leary as the signal fires of Gondor.

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      Rich asshole with a reality TV show? Probably just as likely that we elect him president, wait for him to commit treason and more felonies than anyone can reasonably keep track of, and then fail to hold him meaningfully accountable for any of it.

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          He tried putting his hat in the ring for Canada’s PM. Didn’t get much momentum. His wife killing a guy with their boat came back up in the news. There’s speculation she took the fall for him because he was drunk and killing people while drunk driving your boat is generally frowned upon in Canada.

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      Everyone should send these shitty people drawings of poop. Good ones, bad ones. Whatever your drawing level… draw a poop, lable it with “poop” if youre not sure theyll get it and send it. That should get across that we collectively think they are shit.

      These types of assholes usually have po box for their businesses at the very least. On their website they typically have some sort of mailing address under “contact us.”

      If we can get inundated with junk mail everyday from shitty businesses advertising I think we can return the favor on this one.

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        Even better if you send it in their own, pre-paid postage envelopes they sent to you for whatever bullshit reason.

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          Maybe #shitpostal could work? dunno how any potential sensors would handle that one though. Don’t want it getting filtered out or anything

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              I like that one a lot more! No censoring to worry about.
              I’d really love for this to take off. It’s a way to protest that people can participate in without having to disrupt their lives or take time off from work.

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                So how do we do this? Post the campaign on anti work, work reform, etc? Do we want to post elsewhere, or see how far this goes on Lemmy?

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                  Honestly I have no idea and just kinda posted that without thinking too far ahead, not even sure if it was a good idea or if it would get any traction. I’m excited that there’s at least some interest!

                  Post it whereever you think people would be interested in participating! Maybe start on lemmy first then branch out once people here seem to be aware of it? Then just see what happens! Hopefully some folks will participate.

                  I plan on sending some poop drawings this weekend to get the ball rolling. Maybe I’ll post a pic of it on lemmy too to spread the word!

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        If Kev and his cronies keep pushing their neofeudalist garbage, that might just be the solution we’ll see.

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    4 months ago

    says the guy who definitely blows up his employee’s phones after hours

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        Oh, you just know that dickbag has an answering service, still. My asshole of a father did until he retired earlier this year.

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    JFC, as a business owner I 100% not expect my employees to be reachable after hours. Why do these idiots don’t understand the basic principle: happy employee is productive employee. Understanding life happens and work is ‘just’ work. Give and take equally, be reasonable about stuff - basic human empathy… I hold my own personal time in high regard, it would be insane not to hold other people’s personal time in high regard too.