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10 votes
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Meet Freshii’s new ‘virtual cashier’ — who works from Nicaragua for $3.75 an hour
10 votes -
Robinhood set to lay off 9% of their full time employees
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Amazon workers on Staten Island vote for a union
21 votes -
Allegations of sexism, bullying, and burnout: Inside the Microsoft studio behind State Of Decay 3
4 votes -
In mainland Iceland's northernmost town, the women who powered the herring industry – and fought for gender equality – are driving a new tourism boom
6 votes -
How truckers are paid
6 votes -
What are your thoughts on using a website/blog as a resume?
Like the title says, I'm curious if anyone has experience encountering digital resumes. Whether you're an employer or you've used a digital resume yourself how well did it work? Were you more...
Like the title says, I'm curious if anyone has experience encountering digital resumes. Whether you're an employer or you've used a digital resume yourself how well did it work? Were you more likely to hire a candidate because they had a well-rounded website that showed off their skills or was it an immediate discard because it didn't conform to normal practices.
I'm graduating with my MS in organic chemistry this May, and I'm trying to work my way in the job market. A website/blog sounds appealing to me because I can show off data annotations and analyses from failed reactions that normally aren't discussed in papers, so I think it would be a good fit.
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Self-promotion skills for women in business: These six tips might help you get noticed at work – in the best possible way
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Job search and placement services
I've decided I'm going to start looking for a new job. I'm a software product manager in the US and will be looking for senior positions, hopefully remote. Has anyone used a service to help find...
I've decided I'm going to start looking for a new job. I'm a software product manager in the US and will be looking for senior positions, hopefully remote. Has anyone used a service to help find jobs before? This is the first one I've come across and I'm considering it.
https://www.findmyprofession.com/career-finder/Any thoughts or feedback welcome. Thanks.
3 votes -
New York Times tech workers vote to certify union
19 votes -
It’s not easy running a geeky business
4 votes -
The New York Times Tech Union vote count starts this morning, and we made a live vote tracker!
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Sex work
8 votes -
The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
11 votes -
Shades of DevOps: Related job titles
4 votes -
/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
19 votes -
The data are clear: The boys are not all right
13 votes -
America is facing a great talent recession
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Notes on work
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Popular subreddit r/antiwork goes private after Fox interview
Many of you might be familiar with the popular and massively growing antiwork/work reform movement that found a home in the r/antiwork subreddit. Well, recently, the founder of the subreddit was...
Many of you might be familiar with the popular and massively growing antiwork/work reform movement that found a home in the r/antiwork subreddit. Well, recently, the founder of the subreddit was invited on Fox news for an interview and
it went about as well as you could expect(We shouldn't support r/Cringetopia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUMIFYBMncSub is now private, an offshoot called /r/WorkReform has been launched and everyone hates the old mods now.
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Why miners risk their lives to get sulfur from an active volcano | Risky Business
4 votes -
The American circus is in decline, but performers thrive on TikTok. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey may be no more, but aerialists and fire-eaters are just a click away.
6 votes -
The unvaccinated NHS workers facing the sack in the UK
11 votes -
Texas judge says BNSF unions can’t strike over new attendance rule
6 votes -
IKEA has cut sick pay for unvaccinated workers, without mitigating circumstances, required to self isolate – retail giant acknowledged it was an emotive topic
23 votes -
US National Labor Relations Board sets NYT Tech Guild election, rejects attempts to exclude workers
7 votes -
Sikh drivers are transforming US trucking. Take a ride along the Punjabi American highway.
15 votes -
Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills
8 votes -
Frugal living 101: Huge list of ways to curb your home expenses during COVID times
8 votes -
Solving the operator ‘shortage’ by not running transit like a business
8 votes -
Amazon says it will stop interfering with workers organizing on-site
14 votes -
Facebook's reputation is so bad, the company must pay even more now to hire and retain talent
12 votes -
Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules
17 votes -
The battle for Bungie's soul: Inside the studio's struggle for a better work culture
11 votes -
'How to Make It on OnlyFans' review
5 votes -
Remote work should be (mostly) asynchronous
9 votes -
Omicron: Here we go again
5 votes -
What will work look like in 2022? (Hint: Not the metaverse)
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Pseudowork and real work
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Webcams
There was a very brief period of time in the late 90s early 00s when the word “webcam” had just started existing and entering the popular discourse; and where that word was practically synonymous...
There was a very brief period of time in the late 90s early 00s when the word “webcam” had just started existing and entering the popular discourse; and where that word was practically synonymous with “sex show”.
I think around the time I first heard that word, having a webcam usually meant you would use it to do nude shows with.
They weren’t integrated with computers back then (laptops were super expensive and not popular yet, and they weren’t a mainstream laptop accessory until way later). So if you had a webcam, you had to really seek it out and pay quite a bit of money for it. It made little sense for people to buy them just to use them for personal reasons and most jobs didn’t have a utility for them.
… except sex work. Live, paid access cam shows immediately caught on. And people would see those in ads (ads tended to be trashy with zero quality control back then, even automated. Worse than now, I swear), and associate “webcam” with “webcam show”.
There was no reason to otherwise hook up a camera to a computer if not to stream its contents to the web, anyway. The first webcam, that famous coffee pot, was just that: a web-connected camera. Web cam. Wikipedia talks about “Jenni cam” — I wasn’t on the anglosphere’s internet at the time so this escaped me, but it does seem to agree that the concept entered the mainstream not via videoconferencing, but via cam girls.
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BuzzFeed News writers are walking out in protest against the company
@Joe Bernstein: In my seven years at BuzzFeed News, I've never faced an "or-else" traffic quota. We're walking off today, in part, to make sure our journalists never do. pic.twitter.com/BWavn6fndG
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Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
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Great, affordable downtowns that don't require a car?
Hi all, Yesterday I got the good news from my work that my remote work assignment is now permanent and I am free to live and work anywhere in the US. I get to keep my salary so really any place is...
Hi all,
Yesterday I got the good news from my work that my remote work assignment is now permanent and I am free to live and work anywhere in the US. I get to keep my salary so really any place is on the table for me and I wanted to get some feedback and advice from those who live or have lived across the US.
While I would personally be content moving to the middle of nowhere, my partner has been aching to get out of the suburbs of the Bay area and be around more people and things to do that wouldn't require her to drive places. Personally, I'm looking to take my rent price down to a maximum of ~$2100 per month for a 2 bedroom that will give us enough space to each do our remote work. Some places that I have been looking at are:
- San Diego, CA - not so affordable but has great dog beaches and vibrant downtown
- Chattanooga, TN - affordable but small for my partner and lacks the restaurant variety we have grown accustomed to in CA. Knoxville, TN may be a runner up.
- Kansas City, MO - I have nephews that I have neglected being a part of their life and this would put me within 30 minutes of being close to them. Apartments are dirt cheap in downtown.
- Richmond, VA - closer to my parents but haven't looked too into this. I grew up on the complete other side of VA but am willing to come back to the state .
- Chicago, IL - this place is massive and I have no idea what are the best places in the city to live vs. what to avoid. I have always heard Chicago is underrated and I'm not opposed to the cold. I like that they have tons to do but it isn't really close to family as I would like to be.
Anyways, I'm open to hearing about some underrated places and putting some time into researching them. Walkability and things to do are critical in selling the city to my partner who really doesn't want to drive to do anything.
27 votes -
Rise of the (fast food) robots: How labor shortages are accelerating automation
10 votes -
Amazon workers in Alabama to get another union election
8 votes -
Inside the US funeral industry’s 2021 national convention
10 votes -
‘I am not gonna die on the internet for you!’: How game streaming went from dream job to a burnout nightmare
16 votes -
California lawsuit against PlayStation alleges gender discrimination
5 votes -
Europe's newest industrial megaprojects are relocating to the far north of Sweden – but are curling, wild reindeer and the northern lights enough to convince workers to follow?
12 votes