I've always wanted to bike, and the city finally said yes, let's make the city bike-friendly.
And then they go ahead and just paint a white bike lane right next to the car lane. Yea, even when politicians listen to their constituents, they just half ass the effort.
I'm not risking my life to ride in that bike lane, so I still use a car.
I don't think people are dumb though. Most working class people see through the BS because they live it everyday. I'm not talking about just us, I'm talking retail, waiters, miners, etc. They've seen way more shit with their bosses and life experiences to know what's what.
I don't think it's infantilizing. I think since these major news sites are owned and backed by the rich, they have certain messages they want to push. And one idea they don't want people to know about is worker organization. The rich all have a vested interest to not mention it at all and instead want us to use their rigged process to resolve issues.
Of course, it depends on the person. If the person doesn't want lunch, and the boss keeps singling you out to go, that kinda disrespects you. And vice versa.
People are not all the same. Some people are shy, some people are gregarious. Respect their nature, that's it. When someone who has power over you just disregards you as a person, that's both not professional AND abusive if it happens over and over again. It's not a hard concept to get.
That could be considered harassment, yea. There was a dude who told his boss he didn't want a birthday party due to anxiety and his boss ignored him and just went ahead and did it anyway.
All these big publishers always parrot the same, 'just go to HR' as though that'll solve your problem. HR has always been the legal shield of the company; they exist to shield the company.
> one option is to take the issue to HR, especially if the perpetrator is a boss. Although speaking up takes courage, Sharma advises people do it sooner rather than later “so that matters can be treated with a sense of urgency, and they don't impact your mental wellbeing in the long term”.
Yea, that's just gonna get you fired depending on how severe the accusations are, and whether the person being accused has clout within upper management. If your boss is friends with the big boss, guess whose ass HR is gonna can?
Sadly, every time these articles come out from these big publishers, none of them suggest worker organization. That's the best way to fight back against these toxic practices, look how much worker benefits we've gotten over the back of dead workers just by banding together and pushing back: fire exits, reduced work hours, no child labor, etc.
That's absolutely false. Bullying doesn't have to be just physical abuse, everything you listed definitely counts. While you don't have to be 'friends' with people at work, that's kind of irrelevant. Why not ask why this behavior is even acceptable in the first place, especially when work is supposed to be a professional environment?
My confusion is that if I have 10 GB of photos in my Google Photos, that counts towards the Google cloud storage. Gmail contents also contribute to the total cloud storage. So if Google Takeout is taking my 10 GB photos and creating 10 GB zip files for download, where is it gonna store those zip files? If I sent it to my gmail, doesn't that mean I'll get 10 GB of new zip files that takes up my gmail storage space?
If I send it to my Google Drive, then those 10 GB zip files take up my drive storage space... So Google Photos + zip files... that's 20 GB. Double the storage right? And if I don't have enough space to store those zip files, then I'll have to upgrade my storage space and pay more money...?
Where is Google Takeout storing those zip files if not on my storage space?
Yea I mean it's good advice to get a lawyer, but imagine you had to do that for every job offer. You'd be spending so much upfront just to get a job. And they don't even reimburse you for the cost of the modified contract from the hired lawyer if you accept.
> Now you get to choose from a variety of different options: Whether you want your data to be emailed to you as an attachment or sent to Drive, OneNote, Dropbox, or Box;
So does this mean I'll need DOUBLE the storage space in my google cloud just to download my photos in original quality?
What kind of horrible dark pattern is this... We need to raise hell on this issue, it's so ridiculous.
What about your college degree on your resume? Don't you have to list the year you graduated? Even job portals that make everyone fill the damn web forms manually, it generally always asks when one graduated.
I should clarify this behavior is mostly at larger companies... and although it's my anecdotal piece, it is what I've consistently seen at different companies and what my friends tell me they've experienced at other large companies. I've also worked at smaller places and this behavior was not as prevalent since everyone knows everyone on the dev team.
Also, at larger companies your manager tends to reorg. I've gone through 5 managers in a single year before. And with them goes all the goodwill you built up during that time. New manager comes in, and it basically resets your 'perception' factor. The old manager might tell the new manager that some people are good, but you have to get lucky to get the new manager to care, because they haven't seen the results with their own eyes yet. That small time window is when it's ripe for someone to swoop in and claim ownerships of projects, while smooching up to the new manager. That's what happened with the senior dev I saw, but he had aces up his sleeves. What an epic showdown.
Yea, I should leave probably, but it's just one burning ship to another. That's our fundamental reality.
To be honest, I don't think this is any of the engineer's fault. I think we're an open creature by nature; we like to share and explore ideas with others.
In the corporate field, what I've observed is that deliveries are most important. Not just any deliveries, but the project has to be big and "impactful" (as in, other teams use it too), and you personally have to own it. Like your name has to be attached to it. No one is going to remember your tiny fixes here and there, or tiny feature implementations in the larger system, even if it's tracked in sprint. All that stuff gets looked down upon as just 'doing your job'.
To get any kind of recognition and ultimately, a promotion (or better raise, better rating, better bonus, etc), we absolutely have to clam up and take entire ownership of the work. If that's not done, other people can swoop in and steal the work. Things become need-to-know basis for your other fellow devs, design meetings is just you leading them and asking if this is fine, etc. Everyone has to know you're leading the project, and you have to constantly enforce that knowledge to put down any attempt at a takeover.
I've personally witnessed this happening to an older and more senior dev when a college graduate tried to assert himself on the team until the senior dev fought back with office politics.
In the end, office politics is what matters, along with your work to back up your office political agenda. Another senior dev could come in and take your project, claim your code is terrible and needs a rewrite, etc. You can only win if the boss is on your side, and that requires you to take on more than you can chew (and of course, deliver it all) to get on the boss's good side.
Imagine if we didn't have that kind of pressure of delivery in the workplace just to get recognition. The first example that comes to mind is Open source work. People just contribute, we share and deliver openly, and as a result community projects grew so big our entire corporate infrastructure became dependent on it.
For sure, but companies didn't win by building a better product. They won because of copyright laws that helped them to enforce their goal of profits.
If we want computing freedom, or in other words: consumer rights, then we need to enact laws that are pro-consumer to ensure an open future. Things like being able to repair our devices were taken away (Apple) and brought semi-back with right-to-repair laws (albeit only proposed atm), ownership of software and your data taken away by online services (Adobe, etc), and lots others.
Having open source hardware won't stop companies trying to take control away. We already see Microsoft and their SecureBoot problems with Linux. Or maybe they just won't support those open source machines by refusing to deploy their OS or whatever. Then what audience are you gonna have to make that product successful to become the new standard?
Laws are the only way to force everyone to play nice. We can have the nicest open source stack, but that's nothing if companies can just seize them with their own laws.
So for regular users, does this mean my google docs, sheets, photos will be gone? What is G Suite vs Workspace? Or will all my docs be ported over and I'll still have access?
We can infer from labor history itself. All of our benefits today came from workers who lost their lives in fighting for better working conditions.
But even if we don't look at history, the fact that all companies worldwide consistently unite together against this one issue (unions), as well as spending millions to counter it, should make any employee suspect. In contrast to millions of dollars lost due to bad CEO leadership or fraud, employee attrition/retraining, managers favoring nepotism, etc. Curious how they don't unite to fix that stuff when it plagues all companies just as hard.
Unlimited Vacation is great if there is a base guarantee of vacation given to the employees. That is, give them their usual 2 weeks (or more) of PTO in their contract. Then anything on top of that is unlimited.
But companies know full well what they're doing. They know that if they replace guaranteed PTO with unlimited, not only does the employee take less vacation (more bang for the company's buck), but they also get to skirt around state laws on paying for unused PTO when the employee quits.
Plus, without any guaranteed PTO, companies can just decline your request for vacation any time. They can say they're in busy season, or they need office coverage, whatever. Whereas with guaranteed vacation, the manager would have a harder time declining those hours you earned due to bad optics.
Unlimited vacation without a guaranteed PTO base is a scam.
And then they go ahead and just paint a white bike lane right next to the car lane. Yea, even when politicians listen to their constituents, they just half ass the effort.
I'm not risking my life to ride in that bike lane, so I still use a car.