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Uni staff told to 'wash delicates' for stress management as 146 courses suspended (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 7 hours ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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In short:

The University of Technology Sydney says it needs to cut 400 jobs, roughly 10 per cent of the workforce, as part of a cost-cutting initiative to save $100 million.

After ABC News revealed high levels of psychological distress among staff facing the axe, UTS rolled out advice to support their wellbeing.

Staff say the health advice, which includes making time to wash delicates and brush their teeth, "de-legitimised" their concerns.

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[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 36 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Wash delicates sounds like a precursor to go guck yourself?

(keeping the swypo hehe.)

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 30 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

They probably outsourced the mental health suggestions to AI. Corporate parasites. When will the average talking chimp realise this race to the bottom pyramid scheme of a system is a dead end?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 points 6 hours ago

Long after everyone else has, and long after they’ve done incredible damage.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 5 hours ago

Corporate-provided AI “counselling” for stressed employees is the soothing pastoral scenes painted on the walls of the abattoir.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 4 points 5 hours ago

That sounds scary and like it would require work, so as long as i can possibly put it off. I will remain aggressively part of the problem until that exact moment, then be annoyed you don't do whatever delusional half asses probably racist bullshit I want as soon as i decide I personally have had enough but still don't want to jeopardize my class position(s). Thank you in advance for your compliance.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago

I recently had an interaction with my healthcare provider on their chat platform, and the most recent response they provided was very obviously LLM generated. I called them out on it; they haven’t responded yet.

[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I think you are probably right

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Perhaps it makes more sense in the part of the world where a toilet flush backwards

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Spicy bidet

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 3 points 4 hours ago

Don’t knock it till you tried it

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 0 points 6 hours ago

Perhaps it makes more sense in the part of the world where a toilet flush backwards