• toynbee@piefed.social
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        22 days ago

        When I accepted my current job, I did so on the conditions that I’d work 4x10 and fully from home (after training). When I started, they said there had been a misunderstanding about full WFH and that I was allowed to WFH one day a week. (That eventually changed during COVID but no one ever apologized to me for lying to me.)

        Seven years later - last year - they told me that it was “unfair” that I’m the only person who had a special schedule (apparently I was the last person to have it, but I certainly was not the only) and took that away, too.

        I live in a rural area and will not be able to find a comparable job nearby. I’ve been contemplating what to do.

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            Beware the word moot has opposite meanings to people from the US and UK.

            US takes it as something that can be ignored like it’s from practice in a moot court (or mock trial)

            UK takes it from the meeting type (a moot) and the word means something that should be discussed

            Australia mostly follows US usage in this

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      23 days ago

      On my first job the boss was telling a story about one of his previous jobs, where at one point they had to redo a whole week’s worth of work in one night. They tried hard and managed to do it. So I just added: “it’s in those times one see how slow they usually work”

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          22 days ago

          Marathons don’t move at the speed of business though. Progress moves business faster. Commerce IS business. Fast businesses use speed to move faster than their clients speed.

          Business, business business. Speed. Solutions.

          Edit: how am I being downvoted lol - obviously what I wrote is nonsense straight from every Amazon, UPS, IBM commercial every made. Maybe I’m just moving at the speed of business. Keep up!

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        22 days ago

        redo

        Or rather we see just how much labor original work is compared to replication.