"I only hear about things from people who talk about things"
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
Hey look, it's one of those "This doesn't affect me, so why should I give a shit?" types! With enough training, they evolve into "Why didn't anyone warn me??!?" types.
Most of them are not. The reality is, workers in the US are more or less equally split between big businesses and small-to-medium businesses, and outside of the States it skews much more toward small-to-medium. These are companies that often have less than amicable relationships with their landlords, because landlords have this nasty tendency of acting like landlords.
On top of that, much commercial real estate is owned by REITs, which are managed from the biggest cities, and aren't really entities small and medium businesses get to have real relationships with, any more than an apartment renter gets to have a relationship with their residential REIT.
They're not buddies. They don't even have a direct line of contact.
From what I've seen, every push to have everyone return to the office has either been that they just want control over employees or they want butts in seats because the seats aren't free.
Yes, exactly.
Everyone keeps pointing to the real estate issue, but the simple fact of the matter is that most office-based employers don't own any commercial real estate. It's a great theory as to why the media has been promoting back-to-office stories, but it doesn't explain why employers are actually doing it.
Raw, unmitigated distrust of and disrespect for employees, though...
Bots picking the questions, bots answering them. They clearly understand whatever the fuck the captcha bot thinks a bus is better than I do.
Feminism left men behind
I'm sorry, but WTF? I don't know how you look at feminism with any kind of understanding and walk away with that impression.
The fact that, as men, we've collectively ignored feminism's every attempt to help us, while whining that women are helping themselves and each other, doesn't mean that feminism has left us behind. It means we've refused help and to help ourselves.
He wasn't happy to add quote toots, though. There's a whole Mastodon mythology built up around quotes.
Then the Elon account boom ended, and suddenly he was happy to do it.
Hes happy to do whatever gives him positive attention.
Did... Did I say it wasn't?
What I said -- implicitly -- was that media companies should participate in that effort by blacklisting companies like Meta.
This is really pretty sad coming from the CBC, and highlights how badly they've lost the plot on social media.
The CBC's always been a relatively early adopter of digital technologies, including social media, as they chase their mandate to offer as easy access as possible to Canadians. But somewhere in there, they went from being on social media to -- like seemingly all of mainstream journalism today -- becoming reliant on social media. They baked Facebook and Twitter into their actual operating strategies. Now, they've found themselves feeling mistreated by the tools they internalized, and seemingly unwilling to just let. The fuck. Go.
Facebook doesn't need news media, but the news media doesn't need Facebook, either. None of this would be happening right now if Facebook and Twitter were major generators of ad revenue for the media companies. Maybe they were, at one point in time, and they've since felt the pinch of enshitification, but that means the paradigm has shifted, and it's time for them to get up off of their fucking knees and do something else.
Mastodon/Firefish/Akkoma are right there. RSS still exists. Some of these outlets are owned by absolutely massive media conglomorates that are, among other things, ISPs serving millions. They have the resources to change the way Canadians actually use the internet. They don't need Facebook and Twitter.
They're just addicted to them.
We did!
https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2016/star-trek-enterprise---$20-for-$20-fine-silver-coin-2016
The Royal Canadian Mint even has a Memory Alpha entry: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mint
Reminder that Canadian media actually lobbied for this. They spent like two years calling Zuckerberg a thief for displaying news articles on Facebook.
This isn't the result of the government just doing a random thing. They did what they were asked to do by the media outlets.
The media outlets aren't going to get what they want, but this still seems like a potentially good thing for users. After all, it's not just Canadian media sites that are being black listed.
I spent the first year of covid working from the couch, and it was more than fine, at least from a work perspective. I was more productive there, I think, than I am in my home office! But it robbed me of my den. I was only able to be productive in that space by it no longer being a relaxation and entertainment space. So, I had to reclaim it.
But still, the idea of working from a comfortable space is something employers see as unprofessional, and a sign you're not actually working. They're wrong, but perception always wins out. And in their minds, that's what we're doing when working from home - being comfortable, relaxing, and not doing any work.
Employers have publicly accused employees of "time theft" over and over again since lockdowns started, and have brought it up in almost every discussion about RTO. They see people working from their living room as this "time theft", even as the amount of work that they get done has remained consistent with, or even higher than, what they got done at the office. Simply by being at home, were theives in their minds. Because they can't be creepy little shits and stand to greet us when we get back from lunch 2 minutes late, or time how long we're in the bathroom.