'time theft'
Right. Treating human beings like robots where any ineffeciancy or time taken to not focus on corporate overlords is bad.
Fuck 'em.
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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"Nearly half of US employees admit to time theft!"
Nah, it's the other way around. Company profits of any kind are wage theft.
I mean a company does need to make profit. Excessive profits is another thing.
Yeah the "great work guys, we doubled the EBITDA this year. Congratulations!...Here's your 3% raise" kind of sucks
Yup, I agree. But you know, if I don't have that trillion dollars in my bank account yet, I can't afford to give you more.
/s
Nope, any profits not reinvested in the company itself, or the employees is wage theft. Full stop. Capitalism is a scam we've been fed so rich assholes can get richer.
I think it's a bit unfair to blanket statement that capitalism is a scam. There need to be checks in place. Like, I agree it's not fair that me as a business owner can simply say "this year we are skipping raises, and I am paying myself 2 billion". There's no reason any one person needs a trillion dollars. That's an insane amount of money. Even 100 million is a shit ton of money. There definitely need to be checks in place, but I don't think communism is the answer either.
Nope, any profits not reinvested in the company itself
This isn't clear to me what you're saying "nope" to. How I said companies need to make profit? If so, they do. If they do not make profit they lose money, if they lose money they can't reinvest into themselves or pay wages. Or maybe I misunderstand what you meant by "nope".
No they do not. They need to break even only. Profit is the result of charging customers too much, paying employees too little, or enshitification.
Username checks out.
My workplace installed desk presence sensors and has a stupid little robot roomba thing that drives up and down the rows documenting who’s in their seats.
Edit: this is the damn robot that we have to be seen by: https://www.globaldws.com/virbrix
Man, what sort of ~~sweatshop~~ industry is this so I can avoid it?
IT
I don't know if this is a joke or not...
I am genuinely not joking. We on-boarded this bullshit:
fuck with the sensor
So obviously people at my work did this. They sent out an email warning us that abuse of organization property would be met with progressive discipline (like LWOP and dismissal)
having worked in a call center my response would be lol
these jobs can’t keep enough people as is, you ‘d have to kill someone or fuck the ceos wife to get fired
I don’t know about that. Where I’m at, the job market is not great so people stay where I work (me included) because the option is here or find another industry. The colleague of mine who taped a piece of paper over the robots sensors got suspended 2 weeks without pay for it.
Pretty sure IR lasers fry cameras - set one up in the robots path
I would kick that shit like a soccer ball idc if i get fired
This shit should count as abuse and be illegal
Right but at the end of the day: you kick it, you feel like you took a stand, your employer either outright fires you or gives you a week LWOP and then you have less money (either temporarily or permanently). Cost outweighs the benefit for most at my work.
I have the privlage of having a few months to look for a new job.
Evwry day we passively accept these changes we become indistinguishable from slaves.
Where I live there are no such protections. You find a job or way to make money or you fall behind on your bills which go into collections. The choice is between feeding your cat/dog/child, or standing up for what you know should be right.
No i mean my savings will last a few months
Lucky you
I like how there's a ball on top, so you know where to kick it
That was dystopian as hell to read.
It results in a lot of performance theater. If being at your desk, key presses, mouse clicks and eye movements are the most important then you can expect a lot of long winded lists, reports and mails. There'll be people doing thousands of things manually instead of thinking about it and automate things. So much productivity measured and nothing gets done.
People just need to befriend the IT dept. Who do you think is having to run this shit? Easy to bypass with a beer.
Short simple scripts can handle key presses, you can even add a little logic to ensure it doesn't follow the same pattern and give you a workday countdown to boot.
Just another reason to keep away from shitty offices then!
Late stage capitalism is now turning inward. What a time to be alive.
So, in other words... Big Brother is watching
Cancer tech.