facebook workplace requirment... *rant*

[Andi]

Inspiration: r/antiwork

I read that subreddit, there are some very serious people that need help there lol.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I'm supposed to use my actual face for our own corporate social media site but I filtered it through one of those AI artistic style programs.

 

[Andi]

and an update. it's going to be for salary employee's only at this time, hourly are to continue using the old portal until we get word. I went and had a cow with them this morning.

 

[bubblesort]

Now that I think about it... if you wear Dazzle camouflage in all of pictures on facebook, then every camera that uses facebook photos to identify you will be off, unless you wear the exact same Dazzle camo while the facial recognition camera is shooting you. So instead of having to wear dazzle or hats with LEDs or IR makeup all the time, you only have to wear the dazzle once, for your facebook profile picture. I wonder how far you can take this? Like, if you wanted to poison all facial recognition databases, beyond rebuilding your social media footprint with dazzle face shots... are there any laws against certain kinds of makeup in drivers license or passport photos?

Side note: Dazzle makeup is relatively new, but dazzle camouflage dates back to at least world war 1.

 

[Noodles]

I read that subreddit, there are some very serious people that need help there lol.

Yeah, I am about as "justice for the regular people" as you can get but there are some seriously skewed viewpoints there.

It very often feels like, "I am fresh out of college and I deserve a 200k/year job starting out in a C tier management position" entitlement.

 

[Andi]

Yeah, I am about as "justice for the regular people" as you can get but there are some seriously skewed viewpoints there.

It very often feels like, "I am fresh out of college and I deserve a 200k/year job starting out in a C tier management position" entitlement.

sitting there reading, it's very concerning why they think they get everything on a silver platter.

 

[Ashiri]

sitting there reading, it's very concerning why they think they get everything on a silver platter.

I think a lot depends on what they studied at college.

 

[bubblesort]

Yeah, I am about as "justice for the regular people" as you can get but there are some seriously skewed viewpoints there.

It very often feels like, "I am fresh out of college and I deserve a 200k/year job starting out in a C tier management position" entitlement.

There is a bit of that happening, but I see a lot of deeper issues being discussed in that subreddit. I've been lurking there for a few years. I almost never post or comment on reddit, I just lurk a lot. Antiwork has just exploded since the pandemic hit. There's a lot of moving parts with the American labor right now, and /r/antiwork is part of that. Understanding it all is kinda like trying to fix a car while it's still running, though. You the massive union actions over the past year, the labor shortage, the management incompetence that feeds it (which comes from technological illiteracy, IMHO), the rise of glass door, the work from home situation, the inflation, the housing bubble, mass evictions, the gig economy, neoliberalism in decline, and this all on top of this broader internet culture, where everybody seems overtly pro-consumption in ways that were unimaginable in the 90s. If Jello Biafra was coming up today, he'd be running product placements on twitch, probably for Raytheon or something crazy like that.

So in all of this you have antiwork, which seems like the most misunderstood thing on reddit. Some people call the antiwork sub marxist, and some call them alt-right. I've seen some news outlets say they literally don't like work, categorically, because some journalists take the name 'antiwork' too literally. Some people even lump them in with post-scarcity transhumanists, which is just bizarre. I'm sure you can find examples of all those ideas here and there, but generally, I think these are all way off.

The basic function of the subreddit is to discuss individual labor issues, and then to discuss possible responses to it. These are things unions might have helped with in the past, but nowadays, we're all on our own. Sometimes, the best response to a situation is to alert OSHA or the department of labor. It's important to know what it means to change the conditions of employment, and antiwork does help spread knowledge about that. A lot of the time, though, finding a new job is the right response to a bad work situation. If your current boss wants to retain you when you quit, you can play hard ball with them. Groups like /r/antiwork have a lot of discussions about how to play hardball. One part of it is that we shouldn't usually give the two weeks notice, because why would we? Your employer isn't entitled to notice. If you really caught them with their pants down, you can offer your services for a couple weeks as a contractor, for an exorbitant rate. Why? Burning bridges doesn't seem to matter very much any more. In fact, with things like glass door, it's your manager who needs to worry about burning bridges, because the company will have to pay a premium for human capital if they get a reputation for being a bad place to work. Playing hardball like this isn't a good idea for a lot of situations, but if we're going to be living in a capitalist world, then people should at least know about options like this, so they can make better decisions, and profit from the capitalist system, just like corporations do, by making managers compete for their human capital. Some people say this is socialism. I say it's capitalism, because socialists would organize. Capitalists play hardball. In the end, it doesn't matter what paradigm you slot it into. This is just how labor works now. Employees gotta be ruthless if they want to make rent and avoid the mass evictions.