A long time ago, my then-scrum master pitched an idea to us: ID badges with little microphones. The microphones wouldn't record anything, but they'd constantly monitor the ambient noise to see if we were having the kind of excited, buzzy conversations that signaled innovation. Once we had them, we could tune our days to maximize innovation.
I was brand new at the company but I told him that everyone was trying to catch lightning in a bottle, but nobody was willing to build a fucking battery. Then I told him the day we adopted that policy, I'd hand in my resignation. It never came up again.
Motherfuckers will try anything and they always have.
Here's an idea, and I'm just spitballing here... What if for every 1 Million dollars of net worth you have, you have to rub down your genitals with fresh stinging nettles for 1 minute?
Yeah, it's not a really practical idea anyway. There are diminishing returns, after the 20th minute it wouldn't be any worse and your body might actually start to get accustomed to the sensation.
I would suggest they have to do it once a day for five minutes contact per million dollars and they have to cycle between stinging nettles, poison ivy and wild parsnip.
No but i honestly don't feel like to become the AI gen police and go under every post and comment to mention every detail that give away that's AI gen, so i just scrolled past this slop after i wrote my comment
If it's up my ass, is it facing inward looking at my colon or facing outward looking at my underwear?
In the 90s, there was a funny website that had an article on the "world's first rectal camera." It was an article so I think it covered the "why" and "who" and "how" and everything. When they got to the photos, they were just normal photos with a round black border around them.
The answer is to simply not work for them. The problem is that there is always someone willing to put up with poor working conditions and poor pay. Don't be that someone.
It isn't enough to not work for them. You must stop buying from them but no one wants the inconvenience of going without and so they keep sending trillions of dollars to the very despots that are ruining their lives.
There is no peace without consequences. People like him, Elon, Errol, Trump fucking up the world will continue indefinitely unless they are punished harshly for everything they do/suggest that violates basic human rights on a mass scale.
It's because it's braindead "free market" cargo-cultism.
Merely not participating isn't good enough. There are way too many shortsighted people in the world, making that sort of strategy a perpetual loser. This sort of shit can only be stopped by government regulation.
Gov regulations? You mean the gov (whichever country) that works for the capital and not the worker-ants? You mean this one?
While you're not technically wrong, the shortsightedness is also on your side my friend.
So, in the meantime, it's up to everyone.
Working there and waiting for the gov to same me....not happening.
Because most of the time, workers don’t get to choose.
Suggesting that people can quit a job at any time for moral reasons is the same shit capitalists fling around when they say that “nobody is forcing you to work”. Not wanting to go hungry and homeless are powerful motivators.
In what third-world do you reside in that quitting an evil job will get you hungry and homeless? And even if you'd be living like a slave there, there would still be another job that is NOT evil or less.
Why? You don't have a job, you get social security. Search for a new job all in peace and quiet. If not this month, then next. Or next year. It's most likely not awesome nor drowning you in great riches, but you won't starve and have a home. That's what a society is, or at least should aspire to be. Help others.
Unless, as said, some third-world without any social net, then I'm sorry man, it probably sucks and your hate is maybe best directed at those who put you in such a miserable position.
As said, exclude third-world, they have it all bad, not just the social net.
Every so called first-world has at least some kind of social net. Unless you count the USA in, that's a country of slaves and billionaires.
I find it a bit weird that you find it detestable if I had moral reservations about working at e.g. google or some other devil. That's what morals are, you usually don't sell them out for 1000 moneyz a month. Or else they were just nice-to-have-if-everything-else-is-sated. So basically a luxury and ultimately useless.
Not everyone has the luxury to be choosy about their employer. Did you forget we are living in late stage capitalism with an ever growing impoverishment rate?
But where do you draw the line? If it's a literal orphan-crushing-company?
It's in your power to not procreate and not to work at evil companies. The consequences are sadly also yours alone, that's right.
No? Microsoft, x, meta, apple, every "ai"-company, every "modern" car-company, big oil, Samsung and the others, ....
Wouldn't work there, even if I had to.
Anectodally, once, when I still worked sometimes, I had the main-admin job at a very major nonprofit that aims to cure (some disease).
Quit after a month of seeing how this monster worked. It was made to amass billions, the cellar was full of old people's precious inheritance that was talked outta them by a whole floor of lawyers.
And 0.2% actually went into curing the thing. While the ceos went home with 6figures starting with a 3, Audi r8s and unlimited budget for "business meetings".
Noone cared. Noone. I was shocked by the ignorance.
The company doesn't pull you off the street and enslave you. You chose them. You fill out the application, you take the interview, you accept the offer. You're not stuck, you can do it again. I've done it several times. I recognize it's not easy but it is doable.
Right, folks, just put on your job hats and go get a job working for a nice company!
Thats not reality. Most americans are already suffering, by design, and finding a job is hard. Your options are limited and even the better employers are shit. There is no good option. I agree that theres a difference between working as like a chief engineer for raytheon vs a stocker at aldis, but just saying "dont work for them" is meaningless and doesnt help. Literally execute them until they stop causing mass harm and THEN work on correcting the mass harm and stoppibg it in the future.
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groucho@retrolemmy.com · 62 pts · 1d
A long time ago, my then-scrum master pitched an idea to us: ID badges with little microphones. The microphones wouldn't record anything, but they'd constantly monitor the ambient noise to see if we were having the kind of excited, buzzy conversations that signaled innovation. Once we had them, we could tune our days to maximize innovation.
I was brand new at the company but I told him that everyone was trying to catch lightning in a bottle, but nobody was willing to build a fucking battery. Then I told him the day we adopted that policy, I'd hand in my resignation. It never came up again.
Motherfuckers will try anything and they always have.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 60 pts · 1d
Oh no! Someone forgot all the fancy dances we do today is so the common populace doesn't eat the ruling classes! Looks like we should remind him.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
Demonstration time?
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 1d
Thats called a colonoscopy
Big_Boss_77@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1d
Gonna say... don't try to sweet talk us with Healthcare now motherfucker... it's time for you to go.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
I was thinking, this is corporate medical screening.
AviAdi@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1d
Billionaire lawyer of Morgan and Morgan sponsor of tampa bay buccaneers 🤮 https://share.google/tZyx9RlE84v6nd2as what an ad🤮
ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 1d
Sometimes I feel like a simple....70% power jab to the head when billionaires say stupid shit would stop them saying a lot of dumb shit.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
I feel like we could easily go up to 700,000,000% with much better results
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 1d
Here's an idea, and I'm just spitballing here... What if for every 1 Million dollars of net worth you have, you have to rub down your genitals with fresh stinging nettles for 1 minute?
BitUnWise@programming.dev · 10 pts · 1d
Elon would have to do it for about 2 years
GiveOver@feddit.uk · 21 pts · 1d
This highlights a major flaw with the idea, because that's not nearly long enough
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
Yeah, it's not a really practical idea anyway. There are diminishing returns, after the 20th minute it wouldn't be any worse and your body might actually start to get accustomed to the sensation.
I would suggest they have to do it once a day for five minutes contact per million dollars and they have to cycle between stinging nettles, poison ivy and wild parsnip.
mimavox@piefed.social · 1 pts · 10h
And everything should be broadcasted live.
shartgargle@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Elons the type that would probably enjoy that.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1d
He ain't got no gemmatuls.
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Dude, I can only get so hard...
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d
Found the article:
https://people.com/morgan-and-morgan-billionaire-attorney-says-he-told-remote-employees-we-re-going-to-put-a-camera-up-your-ass-12074943
TefikiMupu@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 23h
His billboards always set off my "giant-douchebag" reflex, glad to know it's still working.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 23h
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 3 pts · 20h
How would this work
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 19h
Just that part is all you take issue with? It's a (probably AI generated) cartoon character, not a real tool of revolution.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 2 pts · 11h
No but i honestly don't feel like to become the AI gen police and go under every post and comment to mention every detail that give away that's AI gen, so i just scrolled past this slop after i wrote my comment
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1d
Apparently we live in an age of business owners who want to drive people away from their businesses.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1d
If it's up my ass, is it facing inward looking at my colon or facing outward looking at my underwear?
In the 90s, there was a funny website that had an article on the "world's first rectal camera." It was an article so I think it covered the "why" and "who" and "how" and everything. When they got to the photos, they were just normal photos with a round black border around them.
It was funny. I wish I could find it again.
bstix@feddit.dk · 14 pts · 1d
Yes ok, if you really want to see it, but I gotta know: how many raccoons is one camera?
shartgargle@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d
Gotta be less than 2 according to the meme.
Steve@communick.news · 10 pts · 1d
Where's the link?
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
Genuinely how hard is it to at least pretend you're not a nazi pedophile while being a nazi pedophile?
Not that I'm complaining necessarily. At least they're making it easy to know which companies to avoid.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23h
They were very good at it for a long time. Now, they don't think they need to be, because they believe they have a lock on the power.
redbrick@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
This dude spending too much time on Youporn....or something like that.
myyass@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
I didn't know there was a fetish of learning what Taylor Farms really provides.
jdf038@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 7h
Jokes on you I do every 5 years.
(Schedule your colonoscopy folks)
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 7h
I had one, too.
Amberskin@europe.pub · 5 pts · 1d
And we’ll put a falling blade in your neck.
mcv@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1d
More specifically, he's threatening colonoscopy. Endless surveillance of your intestines.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
*Smart Pipe Inc is a registered Sex Offender.
BilSabab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
but will it feature a flashlight? or night vision? or heat vision? or infrared? so many questions...
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23h
Surround sound.
BilSabab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9h
Surround sound.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
It has Electrodes for delivering motivational shocks.
BilSabab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
oh well... thats a whole new can of worms...
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7h
Last time someone threatened to put a camera up my ass, it was a doctor
EDIT: We're married now
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 7h
Nsfw: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/33587
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 7h
Fuck! 2001! Blast from the past!
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7h
Man, NewGrounds really does have EVERYTHING
ulterno@programming.dev · 0 pts · 6h
So, he wants to give a free medical checkup to every worker, or is he going to make them pay for the cameras?
DredPyr8Roberts@lemmy.world · -19 pts · 1d
The answer is to simply not work for them. The problem is that there is always someone willing to put up with poor working conditions and poor pay. Don't be that someone.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 1d
It isn't enough to not work for them. You must stop buying from them but no one wants the inconvenience of going without and so they keep sending trillions of dollars to the very despots that are ruining their lives.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23h
Where the hell am I supposed to buy an airfryer, if not Amazon?
/s
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1d
I expected more from the DredPyr8Roberts. You're going to have nothing but work, work, work all the time now.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1d
nah... that was 20 years ago mentality... these people need to suffer and feel real pain and loss.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1d
There is no peace without consequences. People like him, Elon, Errol, Trump fucking up the world will continue indefinitely unless they are punished harshly for everything they do/suggest that violates basic human rights on a mass scale.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 20h
The besg punishment is the one that they can feel only once :D
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1d
I don't get your downvotes...if you know something is bad and you participate in it, you're part of the problem
grue@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
It's because it's braindead "free market" cargo-cultism.
Merely not participating isn't good enough. There are way too many shortsighted people in the world, making that sort of strategy a perpetual loser. This sort of shit can only be stopped by government regulation.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 1d
Gov regulations? You mean the gov (whichever country) that works for the capital and not the worker-ants? You mean this one? While you're not technically wrong, the shortsightedness is also on your side my friend.
So, in the meantime, it's up to everyone. Working there and waiting for the gov to same me....not happening.
mabeledo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23h
Because most of the time, workers don’t get to choose.
Suggesting that people can quit a job at any time for moral reasons is the same shit capitalists fling around when they say that “nobody is forcing you to work”. Not wanting to go hungry and homeless are powerful motivators.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 23h
In what third-world do you reside in that quitting an evil job will get you hungry and homeless? And even if you'd be living like a slave there, there would still be another job that is NOT evil or less.
mabeledo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
Spoken like someone who hasn’t struggled for a minute in their entire life. Well done.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 20h
Why? You don't have a job, you get social security. Search for a new job all in peace and quiet. If not this month, then next. Or next year. It's most likely not awesome nor drowning you in great riches, but you won't starve and have a home. That's what a society is, or at least should aspire to be. Help others.
Unless, as said, some third-world without any social net, then I'm sorry man, it probably sucks and your hate is maybe best directed at those who put you in such a miserable position.
mabeledo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18h
What are you even talking about? In most countries, pretty much nobody can afford to go a full year without a job.
Good for you if you could do so, but shitting on people because they refuse to end up homeless to abide to your moral standards is detestable.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 11h
As said, exclude third-world, they have it all bad, not just the social net.
Every so called first-world has at least some kind of social net. Unless you count the USA in, that's a country of slaves and billionaires.
I find it a bit weird that you find it detestable if I had moral reservations about working at e.g. google or some other devil. That's what morals are, you usually don't sell them out for 1000 moneyz a month. Or else they were just nice-to-have-if-everything-else-is-sated. So basically a luxury and ultimately useless.
DredPyr8Roberts@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 1d
They like working for shit companies and will make any excuse not to leave. Money comes first, long live capitalism!
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 1d
Not everyone has the luxury to be choosy about their employer. Did you forget we are living in late stage capitalism with an ever growing impoverishment rate?
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Solidarity is the answer
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 1d
But where do you draw the line? If it's a literal orphan-crushing-company? It's in your power to not procreate and not to work at evil companies. The consequences are sadly also yours alone, that's right.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1d
Most companies don't make their harms so obvious.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 1d
No? Microsoft, x, meta, apple, every "ai"-company, every "modern" car-company, big oil, Samsung and the others, ....
Wouldn't work there, even if I had to.
Anectodally, once, when I still worked sometimes, I had the main-admin job at a very major nonprofit that aims to cure (some disease). Quit after a month of seeing how this monster worked. It was made to amass billions, the cellar was full of old people's precious inheritance that was talked outta them by a whole floor of lawyers. And 0.2% actually went into curing the thing. While the ceos went home with 6figures starting with a 3, Audi r8s and unlimited budget for "business meetings".
Noone cared. Noone. I was shocked by the ignorance.
DredPyr8Roberts@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1d
The company doesn't pull you off the street and enslave you. You chose them. You fill out the application, you take the interview, you accept the offer. You're not stuck, you can do it again. I've done it several times. I recognize it's not easy but it is doable.
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1d
Right, folks, just put on your job hats and go get a job working for a nice company!
Thats not reality. Most americans are already suffering, by design, and finding a job is hard. Your options are limited and even the better employers are shit. There is no good option. I agree that theres a difference between working as like a chief engineer for raytheon vs a stocker at aldis, but just saying "dont work for them" is meaningless and doesnt help. Literally execute them until they stop causing mass harm and THEN work on correcting the mass harm and stoppibg it in the future.
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
60% of the country is living below the effective poverty line. desperation is a feature not a bug.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d
The labor market has many elements of monopsony.