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We already had the whole "Everybody must be on-campus at least one day per week! No exceptions! Oh but some of you can stay home." song and dance and I look forward to the next time they start rumbling about it and I can respond "get hosed". I mean, I put in multiple work orders to get my desk height fixed, a taller chair, a keyboard tray, etc., and nothing ever came out of any of it. If I'm gonna be uncomfortable at my desk, I might as well be at home so I can gently caress off and do my dishes on the clock.
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CPColin posted:We already had the whole "Everybody must be on-campus at least one day per week! No exceptions! Oh but some of you can stay home." song and dance and I look forward to the next time they start rumbling about it and I can respond "get hosed". Hmm how about sky high interest rates on mortgages to curb inflation with a refundable tax credit for job stability to keep you working the land
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CPColin posted:I mean, I put in multiple work orders to get my desk height fixed, a taller chair, a keyboard tray, etc., and nothing ever came out of any of it. If I'm gonna be uncomfortable at my desk, I might as well be at home so I can gently caress off and do my dishes on the clock. those sound like a lack of reasonable accommodations to address chronic workplace health problems, you are at risk for repetitive strain injury and this inaction should mean your reasonable accommodation is to continue teleworking are y'all a unionized campus?
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:those sound like a lack of reasonable accommodations to address chronic workplace health problems, you are at risk for repetitive strain injury and this inaction should mean your reasonable accommodation is to continue teleworking Yes, but I work for an auxiliary that isn't covered by the union, but they did a reorg, so now I report to a manager whose other employees DO belong to the union. No, it doesn't make sense and, no, nobody's given me a satisfactory answer when I've asked if such an arrangement is even allowed. I didn't even think of the reasonable accommodation angle. That'll make it a lot easier to tell them to get hosed! Haha
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Sydin posted:That's exactly how my agency is handeling it, lol. They put out an emergency WFH order at the start of COVID that was basically "yeah it's by department, uh, have fun I guess" and that's still the order we're operating under. My department head is super lovely about WFH and trying to claw as many people back as possible, meanwhile entire other departments are still 100% wfh and nobody cares. It's really dumb. yeah, it's super blatant in my agency because the heads of the northern division are rolling with continuing significant telecommuting, and the heads of the southern division are trying to force people back into offices as quickly as possible. so up in sacramento someone with my same title is perfectly fine working from home most days a week, but down in la it's critical that i be sitting in the office at least my supervisor thinks it's bullshit and is doing her best to ignore it
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i'm about to kickoff the reasonable accommodation strategy here, which my union rep just told me today that they have my back for escalating this so that's good but i'm also straightup actively on chemo so if they try to force me back anyway they'll be eating a lawsuit p quickly, esp if i can directly serve my district chief and force discovery of his, most assuredly terrible, emails about it lol
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The Glumslinger posted:It's a blatant effort to prop up commercial real estate prices Eh, my agency is hinting at 2/week of some flavor (as the policy remains in eternal draft) but they're also super happy telework is in place because HQ had to keep shrinking cubes to stuff people in and at least one of our field offices hit legal capacity. If my office was fully staffed we were going to be full unless we built more cubes in our Junk Zone. Now, the problem is solved and no more space needs to be purchased, and this is coming from the top. The real problem with the lack of policy is the lack of structure. We have new staff that need training and due to the nature of our work remote training doesn't work great. I could probably get the office set up in a way with various people overlapping for more intense training but without a policy in place to at least point at a structure everything is "well, don't make any real plans because the telework policy may change everything". Like just give me the policy (and let me order a small desk for my home) so I can figure out what expectations are and what I can work with. The anti-WFH people are in for a real loving rude shock with hiring, though. Housing prices made hiring a challenge for my office pre-covid and at least some WFH has to be on the table to attract anyone decent. Zachack fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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My agency from the top on down has collectively said gently caress working in the office, and last year moved into a new building that only has space for half of us. Owns.
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Keeping in mind that I'm a pre-covid WFH employee for a company (Technically I work for a temp agency, but it's a weird arrangement to get around tax nexus issues of remotes being in a variety of states) that's both in California and another state, they reorganized us into another division, hired a new boss, and that boss works from home in Utah (not any of the states that said company is in). Company is starting to fully embrace WFH it seems.
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So why are gas prices particularly high in California compared to other states? This article from NY Times suggests the state gas tax, regulatory programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and a lack of infrastructure for carrying oil around the state. VVV Appreciate the detailed response. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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California mandates a particular low-emissions blend of gasoline that I don't think is used in any other state. As a result there's way less supply since everything used here either has to be refined in California or refined specifically for California and then shipped here. This is also why prices tend to spike at the starts of summer and winter: the blend is changed seasonally to reduce emissions in cold and warm weather, and prices go up a bit as all the refineries have to switch over.
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Rainbow Knight posted:the UFCW just authorized a strike so be ready for grocery store shenanigans. Does the strike affect Trader Joe's workers? I want to support the strikers but I also need my cats cookies. cats cookies are not for cat consumption, and are not made from real cats also, I don't need cats cookies but tj's is a reliable place for stilton cheese
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Trader Joe's is non-union & aggressively fights attempts to unionize, so not really, but UFCW would like you to not shop there even during non-strike times
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Foxfire_ posted:Trader Joe's is non-union & aggressively fights attempts to unionize, so not really, but UFCW would like you to not shop there even during non-strike times I guess I'm eating out this week
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just remember do not cross the picket line unless you are shoplifting or filling a cart full of frozen items, having the scab scan all of it, and then saying you forgot your wallet and walking out
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they haven't actually decided to strike yet, obv it's likely considering the strike auth vote passed but hey maybe the powers that be realize they're being dumbfucks and settle before they have to. It could happen, my union authorized a strike a few years ago that we ended up not needing to follow up on.
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Wicked Them Beats posted:just remember do not cross the picket line 
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Wicked Them Beats posted:just remember do not cross the picket line Or "misplacing" items throughout the store, putting the fish in the pasta aisle to thaw out, mixing up the beers in six packs, swapping out the prices of items
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Rainbow Knight posted:the UFCW just authorized a strike so be ready for grocery store shenanigans. This is just for Southern California workers btw. Albertsons, Pavilions, Ralphs, and Vons.
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Albertsons owns Pavilions, Vons, and Safeway by the way because we live in a late-stage capitalist hellscape. Only Ralphs is apart, by virtue of being owned by Kroger which is an even larger grocery conglomerate than Albertsons.
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I worked for Trader Joe's years ago and can confirm we were regularly shown anti-union propaganda at mandatory all-hands meetings. I still shop there because my lust for those little crispy chocolate chip cookies in the tub is greater than my love of communism.
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Gangringo posted:I worked for Trader Joe's years ago and can confirm we were regularly shown anti-union propaganda at mandatory all-hands meetings. Capitalism keeps on winning. 
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Rainbow Knight posted:the UFCW just authorized a strike so be ready for grocery store shenanigans. Looks like the strike is SoCal only
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BeAuMaN posted:Keeping in mind that I'm a pre-covid WFH employee for a company (Technically I work for a temp agency, but it's a weird arrangement to get around tax nexus issues of remotes being in a variety of states) that's both in California and another state, they reorganized us into another division, hired a new boss, and that boss works from home in Utah (not any of the states that said company is in). Company is starting to fully embrace WFH it seems. I've been a temp at my job for over 5 years, like nearly everyone I work with. Forever-temps seem to be the cool thing for tech companies to do these days. They canceled all WFH options for everyone here a few days ago because management just doesn't like it, despite hearing of no actual problems with the WFH situation. They also gave us about two week's warning before everyone has to be back onsite full-time, or else. Some of these people don't even have cars anymore, so that's going to be a problem.
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Robot Hobo posted:I've been a temp at my job for over 5 years, like nearly everyone I work with. Forever-temps seem to be the cool thing for tech companies to do these days. For us we're all in different states and in our case were "remotes" before "WFH" was such a common term, though it's nice to see The Office get on that bandwagon too. Before we were temps we were contractors... but naturally IRS started going harder on "When is someone an employee and when are they a contractor?" question, along with tax nexus issues, and naturally we fell into the employee box, so their solution was to put us under a temp agency since the temp agency has offices in every state, so they can handle the taxes, regulations, etc. I've been mostly okay with this arrangement, and they've been increasing our pay, time off, and benefits to start bringing us more on-par with office employees (who WFH a lot now), however the temp agency controls the health/dental/etc. During the COVID pandemic two of the temp agency's offices in southern California consolidated (which is the office that's handling the company's remote employees for the most part), and after that they tanked our benefits to some crappy plan, then after complaints brought back a new plan that's still not as good as the old one. I wasn't affected too hard, given I just go with a California marketplace medical plan, but some of my coworkers in other states don't have great marketplace options, so they were affected pretty hard. I mean... I'm still mad about the dental. We had uh... I think up to $2000/year in dental work I could get done (with the usual split payment percentages), and now we get up to $1250 (when they had the lovely plans it was up to $750). I put off getting work done during that time because "holy crap COVID" so I lost out on that. They're talking about moving us over to another agency or moving us in-house, but we'll see what happens. Mainly because we've made complaints since, apart from the benefits issue, the temp agency we're under is extremely incompetent. The company set it up so we have PTO, but the temp agency is supposed to manage it, and the temp agency miscalculates the PTO all the loving time. You have to call your contact at the agency (who's generally nice, but that's his job), and have him correct it if it doesn't show up right in your employment portal/paycheck, and the contact will manually audit it using a spreadsheet. The company handles all holidays, bereavement, etc. so at least the temp agency can't screw that up. The temp agency's software is so bad I'm not sure how they've been able to stay in business this long, but they find a way!
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https://mobile.twitter.com/CalMatters/status/1509191436146810889 I’m sure there is no possible way this could blow up in the Democrats faces if they try this. Nucleic Acids fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Mar 31, 2022 |
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I'm still in bed. Thank you, Cesar.
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Nucleic Acids posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/CalMatters/status/1509191436146810889 What qualifies as "proof"? Can I just show my 23andMe profile? Do I have to get an unbroken list of birth certificates for poor sharecroppers and slaves who usually did not have those things? Like building out ancestry and family trees is usually a non-trivial task. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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quarantinethepast posted:What qualifies as "proof"? Can I just show my 23andMe profile? Do I have to get an unbroken list of birth certificates for poor sharecroppers and slaves who usually did not have those things? Elizabeth Warren will be in touch. The CDC recommends fasting for 24 hours before your bloodwork is drawn, as certain foods and beverages may affect your eligibility to receive reparations.
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Centrist Committee posted:Elizabeth Warren will be in touch. The CDC recommends fasting for 24 hours before your bloodwork is drawn, as certain foods and beverages may affect your eligibility to receive reparations. It would definitely be missing the forest for the trees if a white-passing person can get reparations while a black person can't get anything because their ancestors immigrated here in 1900. The whole concept of proving ancestry is stupid and a misunderstanding of how race works. E: like scholarships don't work like this, I can't think of anything else that works like this to help black people. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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I’ve got bad news about the state of the forests and the trees in California…
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Congratulations to the descendants of Sally Hemings. Seriously CA Dems you dumb fucks. Just send out checks.
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Nucleic Acids posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/CalMatters/status/1509191436146810889 *excludes ancestors who were arrested for the crime of being black or were given a bad review during a fiscal year Rainbow Knight fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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quote not edit woes e: double post but realistically they're not going to do anything because their business model doesn't demand any kind of success or competence. when everything is on fire they'll be saying the same poo poo from their air conditioned fortresses Rainbow Knight fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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FilthyImp posted:Just send out checks.
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