just_change_it @ just_change_it @lemmy.world

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Did you not get paid hourly or salary for the work?

Writing as a profession gets this too in many scenarios.

Your compensation package was different.

Almost everyone's is. It's all based on what you can convince people to pay you and the real winners are the ones who are friends and family of the ownership and/or executives, always.

Did you not have a steady job?

Can good writers not land steady jobs? Of course they can! Have I always had a steady job? Of course not!

Did you not know you were going in there next week?

I have had many roles in IT that you never know when something can or would happen to terminate employment. I've had an entire department let go so they could shift the work to another group. I've had acquisitions happen where getting a pitiful severance is commonplace (and severance only ever comes when you give up all rights to sue anyone at all ever who worked for said entity giving you said pittance. You're paid for your SILENCE.) I've seen MANY contract roles where a hiring manager on a whim can choose to terminate employment and you're left holding the bag. As an employee you NEVER know if you're going in there next week, you just hope that you are. After all, you are an employee at-will. This is most roles as very few have duration contracts overall.

I wish IT workers would unionize and demand better pay - but then outsourcing would be even more prevalent than it is. Show business isn't known for meritocracy in high paying roles anyway.

Paying people in perpetuity for doing one role for a small period of time is aligned with permanent ownership and dividends of something. Why writers wouldn't just ask for stock or buy stock with earnings like everybody else is puzzling. There are so many stories about abuse with contract negotiation by people at all levels of showbusiness that i'd argue the whole thing should be overhauled but any disruption causes some to win and some to lose... and we couldn't have anyone brought down to the same level of anyone else, could we? Let's just keep those executive pay and bonus structures the same as they've always been too while we're at it, wouldn't want to stop their meteoric rise in wage y/y while the rest of us get boned.

Verizon has 117,100 employees. They spent $3415 per person. This doesn't include all the contractors and consultants they have manning their phone lines overseas for a few bucks a day.

Their market cap is 140.25 billion dollars. 0.4 billion is a trivial amount of money compared to all the money already invested in them. Purchasing a company for less than 1% of your valuation to try and make more money seems like an incredibly safe experiment.

One person thinks about big numbers as "why can't they just give it away so I can have things better." There's four billion people out there who have trouble putting food on the table and could never even think about seeing a quality of life that even the homeless have in the US. Dividing that 400 million up wouldn't do much of anything for them.

Even if you take 40% of americans (132,760,000) and hand out 400 million dollars that's only $3 per person.

I don't get any money from the systems I setup at work as an IT worker years ago, even if they are used every day in perpetuity and make the company billions.

Where's my income in perpetuity for creative problem solving?

In the US there is no reasonable expectation of privacy on company computers and company networks and to reinforce this usually on day 1 of a job you sign documents explicitly stating they can and will monitor traffic on company systems.

Without monitoring traffic on all company systems there would be no way to know if your company was subjected to a breach. There is mandatory reporting for public companies and part of the reporting includes the capability to monitor for said breaches.

To that end I have to wonder where you are that information security is basically prohibited by law.

Overwhelming majority of workplaces won't give a shit. There's so many real issues to deal with and what games you have running on your phone is not one of them, that's a management problem - not an IT one.

Some incredibly high security environments might think otherwise but they'd never let you use your phone for business, you'd certainly be given one from the company.

That's like saying someone wants to publish an app on the iOS app store but the 30% cut and forced DRM prevents them. It's just a choice.

Given that Amazon does digital distribution of some items you could probably list it on the site and just have them give "digital access" to the ebook files. I've never gone through the process but i'd be quite surprised if this wasn't possible, though it may not show up in the books section of amazon this way.

I don't think you can call people renters if they haven't been paying their rent since the start of the pandemic. At some point they're just squatters.

~40 months without paying rent has to be baller though, i'd have enough for a down payment of a home no problem.

So traffic violations are something we no longer want to enforce then? Nearly 43000 deaths in 2021 from automobiles.. https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traffic-crash-death-estimates-2022

When 3/4 of traffic stops are warnings you know most of them are just the typical person making dumb mistakes since warnings are typically only given to people with no recent record.

No idea why "resonable suspicion" crimes are such a big focus.

I'd like to see representation in government that fits the demographics that are being represented, more or less. There's no room for change in government though, too few seats and too much money involved. "We've always done it this way" is in charge.

What did you pay the author of the books and papers published that you used as sources in your own work? Do you pay those authors each time someone buys or reads your work? At most you pay $0-$15 for a book anyway.

In regards to free advertising when your source material is used... if your material is a good source and someone asks say ChatGPT, shouldn't your work be mentioned if someone asks for a book or paper and you have written something useful for it? Assuming it doesn't hallucinate.

You underestimate the laziness of the typical office worker.

Time lapse this year is going to be hilarious.

Way younger than I expected. 59 is young.

His wife looks like she's 18 based on social media photos.

My biggest takeaway is that regardless of if they are abusing their positions with stock purchases and sales they really only have to report the transaction.

So lawmakers who sit on committees and have insider info can freely buy and sell things they have power of control over, so long as they report it.

It would be like robbing a bank but it's A-OK so long as you announce it within 45 days of pulling it off. That's not regulation, that's a farce.

Guy in the comments calls out that almost all the recalls are simply software updates that happen without anyone even knowing about them.

I have no doubts that recalls can and will happen with any new automaker but if it's mostly software updates and they're on top of them... better than not fixing them at all.

A counterpoint to the idea that the clunkiness that keeps away the masses should be Threads. A couple of days in and they are full with hate and bullshit because they had millions right away. I know the format is different from here, but I think the concept still applies.

Slow steady growth of people who have to think critically to really use the platform is better than explosive growth from every ignoramus signing up to spew drivel. At least that's my perception of it all.

I can see that not driving people away but confusing people that aren’t massively tech savvy.

This is a disadvantage early, but it also weeds out a lot of the critical mass ignorance and a lot of the people who are unwilling to make any effort to think critically. I'm really looking forward to how it grows. The more popular it gets the more the pressure will be to have it be user friendly. Right now it feels like reddit from about a decade ago.

Pans have the upside of being disinfected with gratuitous heat

Pizza store experience person here... definitely didn't cover tables with plastic wrap.

Personal experience says this stuff is widespread in manufacturing. What i've seen is full of the typical antivaxers, conspiracy theorist and "this is the way we've always done it" beliefs and attitudes. Lots of anger management issue types and the overnight workers have more than a few ankle bracelets they can't take off for years..

Go with the flow and the workload is nothing, try to change anything and it's an uphill battle that no one wants to engage with you.