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The VP of the company I was just fired from, who's the grandson of the founder of the company (can you guess who the Pres is?), apparently doesn't think it's a problem that, let's count them... 11 total full-time people have been fired and/or have resigned in the last month, 9 of which are BIPOC femmes, and 2 white queer/NB folks. That leaves... *maths sounds* Five BIPOC full-timers? Two of whom were recent-ish hires/promotions to "diversify" their all-white/white-presenting management and HR teams. I'd reckon there's about 50 full-time folks across the whole company. Yeah, definitely not a problem my guy.
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A Stupid Baby posted:They were constantly doing that "don't discuss this with coworkers" about raises promotions and other compensation at my last position. Yeah the contract at my job actually has it written that we are not to share our salary info with anybody, but at several company drinking events my colleagues have gotten together and compared salaries. However recently a number of us are being promoted and others not so its going to be a bit awkward if that happens again and suddenly some of us are making 20k more and are permanent while others are still on the old rate.
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Apr 6, 2022 02:36
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Ccs posted:Yeah the contract at my job actually has it written that we are not to share our salary info with anybody, but at several company drinking events my colleagues have gotten together and compared salaries. However recently a number of us are being promoted and others not so its going to be a bit awkward if that happens again and suddenly some of us are making 20k more and are permanent while others are still on the old rate. Ianal but there's a really good chance that the clause doesn't hold water and they jammed it in there hoping noone would challenge it.
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Apr 6, 2022 02:39
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One of the few nice things* about being a government employee is having every single person’s salary be publicly available. So much bullshit avoided that way. *doesn’t really make up for the endless wrangling with an overwhelmingly overgrown bureaucracy, but I’ll take a small victory.
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Apr 6, 2022 03:17
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Batterypowered7 posted:
Weird to come out and say "We put a lot of time and research into evaluating exactly how much we can get away with exploiting you"
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Apr 6, 2022 04:21
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Don't worry! Starbucks has a plan for dealing with those unions! They're getting into NFTs (this is not a joke. The same weird ghoul who tried to run for president in 2020 put this forward as a strategy to stop unionization).
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Apr 6, 2022 04:41
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how many bored apes do I have to buy for a free coffee?
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Apr 6, 2022 05:00
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Escape From Noise posted:Don't worry! Starbucks has a plan for dealing with those unions! They're getting into NFTs (this is not a joke. The same weird ghoul who tried to run for president in 2020 put this forward as a strategy to stop unionization). How does NFTs stop unionization? Do they force you to run the stores so bad they close, then no employees to unionize?
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Apr 6, 2022 06:57
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Orvin posted:How does NFTs stop unionization? Do they force you to run the stores so bad they close, then no employees to unionize? Schultz probably heard “smart contract” and went “gently caress yeah, we need these instead of all the stupid contracts the unions want.”
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Apr 6, 2022 07:04
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gschmidl posted:If getting health insurance, 38.5 hour work weeks, automatic unionisation, an automatic collective bargaining agreement, 6 weeks of vacation, infinite sick days, and several company-paid retirement/unemployment buffers means I can't talk about my income, I'll take that over pretty much literally everything else in this thread. I find it fascinating that this is the cade in Austria, north of the border talking about it is not culturally very established but we have the right to it. That said i feel like the younger generation of millennials and younger are changing this quickly, personally I know most salaries of my friends and contemporaries almost down to the euro, and we're often advising each other on salary negotiations and benefits and so on. Absolutely no idea about my colleagues though, as the average age is above 40.
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Apr 6, 2022 07:12
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Orvin posted:How does NFTs stop unionization? Do they force you to run the stores so bad they close, then no employees to unionize? I think it was more "Don't unionize! We're gonna do NFTs. Isn't that way cooler than unionization?" because somehow digital currency makes unions obsolete or something? https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ny7x/starbucks-ceo-announces-nfts-to-workers-amid-union-drive
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Goddamn that guy is a dumb idiot, how the gently caress does he survive putting pants on?
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DreadUnknown posted:Goddamn that guy is a dumb idiot, how the gently caress does he survive putting pants on? 
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gschmidl posted:If getting health insurance, 38.5 hour work weeks, automatic unionisation, an automatic collective bargaining agreement, 6 weeks of vacation, infinite sick days, and several company-paid retirement/unemployment buffers means I can't talk about my income, I'll take that over pretty much literally everything else in this thread. And even though I work for companies with government contracts so it's easy to tell what people's salaries are, it's not something that I've ever really discussed with people at work either. Maybe if I was at a company that was actively unionizing, it'd be different, but just in casual conversation, salaries just aren't something I've seen people bring up. DreadUnknown posted:Goddamn that guy is a dumb idiot, how the gently caress does he survive putting pants on? But the NFT thing comes from the fact he also believes his employees are dumb idiots, so he can dangle the shiny object of N-F-T to distract them from realizing that
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Apr 6, 2022 12:41
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evilpicard posted:It must own living in a country with so many anti-worker laws that people commonly mix them up It's less the number than the decades of Republicans passing laws with Orwellian names. We're so used to laws named The Protect Children Act that literally grind toddlers into fuel for yachts that people reflexively associate "right to work" with the law that makes it easy to fire you.
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DreadUnknown posted:Goddamn that guy is a dumb idiot, how the gently caress does he survive putting pants on? Like most major company executives that have hung around too long he's completely lost touch with reality. He sees the employees at a number of stores organizing and thinks the answer is buzzwords because the actual work of making Starbucks successful happened 20-30 years ago when the company innovated by offering expressos and aping the independent coffee store feel instead of being a white lights and linoleum tile Dunkin' clone. So now NFTs are popular and so that is the answer to his unionization problem. Paying people more, providing better benefits, worker protection policies? None of that poo poo, here's a Bored Barista NFT. It's value is nothing, but we spent like $300 to mint it.
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Escape From Noise posted:I think it was more "Don't unionize! We're gonna do NFTs. Isn't that way cooler than unionization?" because somehow digital currency makes unions obsolete or something? Good to know that guy is so brain damaged he is self sabotaging. Anyone with half a brain cell is going to see that and fight harder for union protections before the company starts slashing after it loses it shirt in the crypto grift space.
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Outrail posted:Ianal but there's a really good chance that the clause doesn't hold water and they jammed it in there hoping noone would challenge it. It probably won't. In fact, just that clause in the contract is, in the USA, worth reporting to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). It is explicitly illegal to ban workers comparing pay rates, one of the few solid workforce protections we have. Frankly, I think NLRB agents should be federal law enforcement with badges, guns, and ornery attitudes recruited from the IWW.
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MagusofStars posted:In my experience, the US also has a pretty strong cultural norm against discussing it. Outside of my spouse or my parents, I don't think I've ever had a conversation about my actual salary with anyone, nor has anyone brought up their salary to me. The closest is a vague "my new job pays me a lot more!" or something along those lines without actual numbers. Yeah, in the US it's long been seen as uncouth to discuss salary, although from what I've seen in this thread that appears like it might be getting a foothold in Europe, too. Personally I often don't have a good idea what my pay is, since I get paid hourly and my wage keeps gradually going up. I often only really have a concrete idea when I do my taxes and see my annual income, otherwise I operate in a more vague space where I know a ballpark amount of how much I get per check but it is always a little bit of a surprise what the exact amount is. Off the top of my head I couldn't say exactly what my hourly rate is, which might just be a quirk of how my brain works.
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Outrail posted:Ianal but there's a really good chance that the clause doesn't hold water and they jammed it in there hoping noone would challenge it. It's definitely this, I worked for an MSP that had some garbage about "not working for competitors" in the contract & it held as much water as a busted sieve. Plenty of people left to go to other competing companies, the only real "rule" they could enforce was former employees not poaching existing clients. Didn't matter to me anyways, after 5 years of below-average salaries & being tethered to a work phone that had to be on 24/7, no loving way was I ever going to another MSP 
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I interviewed for a job today where they asked me the same stupid brainteaser questions that Google said were utterly useless back in 2013.
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McGavin posted:I interviewed for a job today where they asked me the same stupid brainteaser questions that Google said were utterly useless back in 2013. HOW MANY WINDOWS ARE THERE IN NEW YORK CITY WHY IS A MANHOLE COVER ROUND I AM A BUSINESS GENIOUS WITH A MBA edit why does every mba put that poo poo in their email signature and on their card? i have a real ma in education and i dont brag about it
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Apr 6, 2022 21:19
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McGavin posted:I interviewed for a job today where they asked me the same stupid brainteaser questions that Google said were utterly useless back in 2013. Was it build me a house or make me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
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boar guy posted:HOW MANY WINDOWS ARE THERE IN NEW YORK CITY quote:WHY IS A MANHOLE COVER ROUND They're not actually round, you only perceive them so because those are the only dimensions that the manhole covers are able to exhibit in our reality. When do I start? 
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Zil posted:Was it build me a house or make me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? I actually had the peanut butter sandwich question, but it was for a tech support job, so they wanted to see how well people can walk someone through a task that you'd think everyone should already know (Much like how to change a password or knowing what application you're using instead of answering "What is the application you are having an issue with?" by giving the manufacturer of the monitor you're looking at)
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the pbj is a really excellent thought exercise for like...6th graders. probably why mbas love it
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I don't know what the PB&J question is, although I can infer. I just realized I haven't really had a job interview, or updated my resume, in the 11 years or so since I joined the Union. I've changed companies and gotten promotions, but it's always been someone I've worked with before calling.me and asking, Hey want to work over here now? I'm the idiot. I should write a resume.
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Ironhead posted:I don't know what the PB&J question is, although I can infer. "How do you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?" Also, in my case it was at the end of a pretty good interview and one of the interviewers was just like "Ya know, I've never asked this before, but it's on the list, so why not?"
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the pbj question is just 'explain how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich' and usually starts with the (kid) saying 'well you get some peanut butter and you put it on some bread' and then the teacher, having done their mise-en-place and using visual aids, grabs a whole unopened jar of peanut butter and places it on top of a whole unopened loaf of bread, everyone giggles, and the students get the point of breaking down the task in to steps and explaining each of them. it's a very very very basic thought exercise
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I recently went through a few interviews with larger tech companies and a large utility. There were some HR-type questions forced in about conflict situations with peers and management and how the interviewee would/should react. But the vast majority consisted of a bunch of technical questions about my own background and practical examples for me to work through. what really helped with those interviews were the ten years at my then-current job where I was frequently participating in interviews of candidates in very similar formats. I didn't like participating at the time as I usually had other things to do, but it really did wonders for my own interview confidence and performance
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Going to be exciting when we are still explaining the solution to the light bulb problem because we googled it before the interview and the light bulb problem solution has stopped making sense because every lightbulb is an LED.
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the manhole cover one is especially stupid, at least in the application i'm familiar with- this was a long time ago when you couldn't just google everything but the person interviewing me at the time said they asked it to see not only how someone would react to there being a definitive answer and them not knowing it but also the interviewer definitely knowing the answer, but not telling them didnt last long at that one, haha
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They are square in my country, so that's one stupid interview question less to deal with.
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boar guy posted:HOW MANY WINDOWS ARE THERE IN NEW YORK CITY I have an MFA and talk about it on the internet
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naem posted:I have an MFA and talk about it on the internet in Materials?
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boar guy posted:HOW MANY WINDOWS ARE THERE IN NEW YORK CITY in one of my first MBA classes, we were asked to estimate what coffee shop had the most locations worldwide and a second year said it was probably Peet's because our college town in NorCal had 3 locations. That was when my Imposter Syndrome disappeared.
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I'm not familiar with the manhole cover question, and haven't Googled it, but isn't it round because a manhole is round? Am I missing something?
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I think the "right" answer is so it won't fall in But the real answer is probably just because the hole is round / it's always been done that way and no one knows why I'm not googling to find out for real though becasuse these questions are bad and anyone using them in an interview is bad
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mllaneza posted:Frankly, I think NLRB agents should be federal law enforcement with badges, guns, and ornery attitudes recruited from the IWW. 'NLRB agents use of deadly force in no knock raid on Amazon board of directors meeting was justified, claims NLRB spokesman. In an NLRB statement released earlier this afternoon: "Agents stated they saw the vice chair reaching for a gun, and the situation quickly devolved resulting in deaths of eight board members. Maybe they should have stopped illegally abusing their workers and this wouldn't happen. We're doing Walmart next week, it's gonna be off the hook.".' Outrail fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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