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submitted 1 year ago by DannyMac@lemmy.world to c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
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[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 year ago

Remember when Google's official motto was "don't do evil?"

Apparently, they don't.

[-] DannyMac@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Yup, they felt bad, reflected long and hard upon it, and decided to ditch that motto.

[-] CuckyMcCuckyFace@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Apple PR gonna be like you heard @RagingNerdoholic, WE DON’T do evil. Thank you!

[-] shadycomposer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

lol. only those who lack something need to keep emphasizing it. Google has always been evil.

[-] PenguinJuice@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

Something has to be done about this shit. We can't allowed society to continue to be degraded because a handful of people think they deserve the fruits of everybody else's labor.

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 11 points 1 year ago

I think noone is surprised that all these big tech companies don't care about people.

[-] aloeha@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[-] petriborg@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Because of their contractor status they may not have any grounds to do so. Looks real shitty though for sure.

[-] aloeha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's fucked up. Hopefully we can change that law some day.

[-] persolb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Contractors make all these issues muddy and provide easy loopholes.

Generally a company will sign on a contractor with specific requirements. If the contracting company can no longer financially meet them, such as due to unionization, the contract is cancelled.

The rub is probably that the contract terms are not achievable while being fair to the end-of-the-line workers. I’m not sure how to fix this.

I’ve accidentally caused this myself. I put out a publicly funded contract with stiff terms to ‘keep the contractors honest.’ What that ended up meaning is that the contractor became a horrible place to work since they cut corners, and the company still makes their money. That contract was eventually canceled due to documented violations, so then all their employees were just plain unemployed.

this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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