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[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 99 points 1 day ago

Around 2015, My niece told me she worked at a bank teller and the first thing they did was require her to install the bank's app and rate it five stars. She said her phone is too old and they got angry. And she'd tell me they'd do "phone sweeps" to see if the app was on people's phones.

Do min-wage companies still do this or do they know better?

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah our work we have to get Duo 2FA and I don't like that, so every time I use it, I explicitly allow network permissions and then turn it off again

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 104 points 1 day ago

Lmao wtf? Sounds illegal as hell.

I’m not installing anything work requires on my personal devices, f ‘em.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Welcome to employee abuse. When your job is tied to whether you can pay rent, health insurance and credit, they've got you by the balls.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 54 points 1 day ago

I have told managers, to their faces, I do not have a smart phone... While holding my smart phone.

So far, while most have quite noticeably glanced at my phone, none have actually called me out on it.

If any of them ever do, I will just get a prepaid flip phone and use that for work.

[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

I've just straight up told an employer before that if a smart phone was required to do my job then they needed to provide me a company phone.

they found other options for me, but it really pissed off my supervisor. eventually i left because he was an asshole. gave them a -1 day notice and just stopped showing up. i do freelance work now. they deserved that hit.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

"What's that in your hand, then?"

"That's not my hand."

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago
[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 day ago

Personal devices are personal.

Nowhere in the civilized world are they allowed to do this.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 19 points 1 day ago

America is a pro-business country.

They can fire you for any reason, like if they hate you're gay. They don't SAY that. They wishy washy it with "not a cultural fit". Or throw you into difficult situations so they can fire you with "unable to complete tasks".

I have Europeans who joined my company surprised at how little protection they get.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

right to work state here. they can fire me because they don't like my haircut.

[-] tmyakal@infosec.pub 3 points 10 hours ago

When I worked at UPS, we weren't allowed to have beards and our hair couldn't be long enough to touch our ears. Literally fireable offenses.

[-] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago

Union worker here. They can't fire me for shit unless I really fuck up

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 9 points 1 day ago

They don't even have to give a reason. The only reason they'll try to justify it is to prevent the employee from getting unemployment benefits.

[-] ctry21@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago

There is a bank in the UK that used employee bank balances to prove they didn't need a pay rise last year, which they were able to do because banking with them was a condition of employment

When I was in school they once checked everyone's phones to make sure we had installed Twitter and followed the school's accounts for each department. That was about a decade ago so it's probably TikTok or something by now.

[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

If nobody causes noise, everything goes.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago

Back in the mid 2000s, the TV station Inworked at wanted everyone to haveout homepage as the default to increase hits.

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 day ago

Also, the app is probably poorly designed, doesn’t support dark mode, and is probably very slow even on the latest iPhone.

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago

The website for my place of work is pretty terrible. I have customers tell me all the time "well it doesnt say that on your website!" Now, half the time they are referring to googles AI answer.

The other half of the time I click and poke thro our website on their phone, until I find it. Ok it wasnt obvious and Im sorry our site sucks. But your reason for insulting me and my coworker when we are calmy and clearly explaining what is wrong or what needs to be done?

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 23 points 1 day ago

"The website said it as in stock"

"Sometimes it's wrong. The website also shows pictures of employees smiling. You see that here?"

Source

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

Interesting how the masks date these comics now.

[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

It’s 2026 and I still wear a mask when I’m out. I don’t know why people act like COVID is gone and somehow long COVID isn’t a thing anymore. It’s still mutating, and endemic now, and there are a ton of health consequences to catching it that may not be immediately obvious, including organ damage.

[-] Azrael@reddthat.com 2 points 7 hours ago

I still wear a mask too. But mainly for privacy reasons.

[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago

I just wear a mask by default. It saves social energy for me, offers modest protection from whatever is out there, and keeps my face warm during chilly weather. Aside from fogging, there are no real downsides for me.

[-] starchylemming@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

most people already had it and assess the risk accordingly

the great danger of covid came from the fact that we had neither herd immunity or vaccines in the past. shielding the vulnerable was never a real priority but a convenient side quest

now it's comparable to the "regular" flu

the brain damage is already done too

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

That's true, but for good or ill, it's uncommon to see both a customer and an employee wearing masks nowadays.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

This comic was honestly mental healthcare during quarantine when I was working retail. This brings me back.

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Not even to use your employee discount?

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 8 hours ago

Where I used to work employees could access the discount just by ticking a box in the cash-register system. None of my co-workers had a fidelity card, although one of our tasks was to push it aggressively to customers.

[-] ascend@lemmy.radio 26 points 1 day ago

At a place I worked I wasn't allowed to use coupons but usually employee discount was more. But we also made sneak accounts for our moms so when customers didn't use their phone number to get points we'd use our sneak account to accumulate a ton of points

[-] jodanlime@midwest.social 13 points 1 day ago

I know a couple of people who got into some trouble for getting free points like that. Not saying every company is looking for it, but I know some are and not all the companies they worked at where huge mega corps. Just be careful out there people.

[-] Trex202@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's be pretty easy to see the patterns if they're looking

Reward Points are there to keep you Loyal, not to give you free things

[-] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

This one has pre-2000 comic feels. I'm gonna delve into StBeals. Is it like "Saint Beals" or "Street Beals"? I never worked retail and my old webcomic tanked from lacking that bit. This looks like fun.
Off the the google machine!

[-] Dazharion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

They're all pretty great and mostly focused on telling Karens to go fuck themselves.

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