Ohio asked employers to report workers who stay home during the novel coronavirus pandemic, but at least one person is trying to clog the system in protest. As the state begins lifting its shelter-in-place orders, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) posted a form for reporting coronavirus-related “employee fraud” — in other words, people who quit their jobs or refuse to work because they’re concerned about contracting COVID-19. In response, someone released a script that submits junk data through the form, aiming to drown out the real reports from employers.
I think its the dehumanization of work forces - where workers are part of something bigger more relevant than them as people - that it simply doesn't make sense to see them as understandable and...
I think its the dehumanization of work forces - where workers are part of something bigger more relevant than them as people - that it simply doesn't make sense to see them as understandable and relatable.
Also there was (pinch of salt here I don't recall it completely) a story that may show a trend of that behaviour where in England (North West England somewhere) an industry town was designed by the company (again, so much salt here with all the vaguery) with extra slim sidewalks since you didn't want the workers walking next to each other, because that would lead to "talking". Which could lead to anything between improprieties to revolutions.
There is still an ideal of companies to "educate" their workers and a mistrust in their own faculties. Before it was trying to ensure that they didn't drink and have sex (or revolutions) because with out the paternalistic hand of the company they would all collapse into a fucking, drinking mob of revolutionaries. Now that can be ensuring that your workers eat healthy or train properly - but based on the same sensibilities that they are too dumb to understand this themselves and that their existence is defined by their position at your company (and healthy workers are cheaper workers)
Ahhh, a nice old fashioned return to company towns. Can't wait to see how this turns out.... My money (at least in the USA) is on 'brutal oppression of people standing up for better work conditions.'
an industry town was designed by the company
Ahhh, a nice old fashioned return to company towns. Can't wait to see how this turns out....
My money (at least in the USA) is on 'brutal oppression of people standing up for better work conditions.'
Mildly offtopic but the things that are happening in the US don't seem very exceptional from over here in Brazil or practically anywhere outside western Europe. We have religious lunatics,...
(at least in the USA)
Mildly offtopic but the things that are happening in the US don't seem very exceptional from over here in Brazil or practically anywhere outside western Europe. We have religious lunatics, terrible work conditions and nonexistent unionization (the first action the Bolsonaro presidency took was abolishing the ministry of labor), sky-high inequality, even worse than in the US, we have right-wing populism (and over here he won the popular vote by a 10 point margin), maybe there are less racial issues given black and white people are far more mixed (40% of Brazilians are mixed race) and blacks aren't confined to a weird region in the south and a few refuge cities like in the US midwest but otherwise I have a hard time differentiating the US from a country like Brazil, India other than that the news media seems to be far less developed and the progressive movement that's going on in the US nonexistent and stuff is unusable due to high price rather tban unusable due to poor quality.
I have some other places that would be nice to be wiped off the face of the earth, or at least provided a similar treatment: The Work Number Seriously, get your employment data report and see what...
I have some other places that would be nice to be wiped off the face of the earth, or at least provided a similar treatment:
The Work Number Seriously, get your employment data report and see what potential employers see. If your employer participates, like mine does, it's kind of terrifying.
This bit on the Work Number site is more than a bit rich coming from Equifax of all companies: I already don't trust any of the credit reporting companies, but especially not Equifax.
This bit on the Work Number site is more than a bit rich coming from Equifax of all companies:
Your personal information is protected. With your consent your personal data can be retrieved only by credentialed verifiers.
I already don't trust any of the credit reporting companies, but especially not Equifax.
I tend to avoid my real name in social media personally and simply because I want to divorce my own personality from what employers or others can easily see. Now I live in in Sweden, not the US...
I tend to avoid my real name in social media personally and simply because I want to divorce my own personality from what employers or others can easily see.
Now I live in in Sweden, not the US but as of yet its only come up once in an interview along the lines of "we didn't find you on social media" and I went "No I don't use my real name because I think people should get to know me instead, what do you want to know?" - which panned out well (Got the job).
But yeah - both those should be set on fire and destroyed. It is also one reason why any form of possible supervision and spying should be avoided if possible.
Is anyone else concerned about how early we're "getting back to work" in the US? My employer has stated that we're definitely not going back to the office before July, and probably not for a while...
Is anyone else concerned about how early we're "getting back to work" in the US? My employer has stated that we're definitely not going back to the office before July, and probably not for a while after that. And we're going to do it in phases.
Here in California and in LA in particular our leaders seem to be very sensible. But some state and local leaders elsewhere in the US seem to be just letting people out like nothing ever happened. My fear is that this is going to cause a major reoccurrence of the virus and a lot of people are going to get sick and possibly die from it. Am I overreacting?
I've read that only about 10% of the US population think that we need to "reopen" things, so I don't understand why there appears to be a push to do that when it's pretty obviously too early to do it.
I used to write scripts to do this to those paypal phishing sites. It was a fun and morally justifiable way to mess jerks that were trying to steal peoples money.
I used to write scripts to do this to those paypal phishing sites. It was a fun and morally justifiable way to mess jerks that were trying to steal peoples money.
Does anyone else have trouble with the font that The Verge uses on its website? On my monitor, a 26-inch VIZIO M261VP 1080p LED LCD HDTV, at 100% zoom, the lines comprising the characters are so...
Does anyone else have trouble with the font that The Verge uses on its website?
On my monitor, a 26-inch VIZIO M261VP 1080p LED LCD HDTV, at 100% zoom, the lines comprising the characters are so skinny that they don't display correctly. The white of the background bleeds into the characters (particularly in the middle, almost like there's a white strikethrough) which makes them difficult to read.
I don't but reading your post gave me the most wholesome smile today <3 Take this the right way btw: The level of focus in your text concerning fonts, your specificity about your monitor - the...
I don't but reading your post gave me the most wholesome smile today <3
Take this the right way btw:
The level of focus in your text concerning fonts, your specificity about your monitor - the awesome wonderful nerdiness made me happy and hopeful (in these pandemic-times). You rock.
Haha, that was not my intent, but I'm glad it made you happy! I like Verge's reporting but for some reason their web site just doesn't play nice with my monitor. I included all that detail (and...
Haha, that was not my intent, but I'm glad it made you happy!
I like Verge's reporting but for some reason their web site just doesn't play nice with my monitor. I included all that detail (and even got up to check the model number) just on the off-chance it was relevant!
Disable webfonts. Aside from the fact that you really really don't want thirty-year-old font parsing code only meant to see fonts installed locally by the OS vendor to be running on random junk...
In Firefox, you can do this from about:preferences → General → Fonts and Colors → Advanced → uncheck Allow pages to choose their own fonts. With Chrome, it can be done by passing the --disable-remote-fonts commandline option; otherwise you'll need an extension.
This is why I like the reader view (Ctrl+Alt+R in Firefox), makes reading articles much nicer! For chrome, it might need some fiddling[1] or an extension.
This is why I like the reader view (Ctrl+Alt+R in Firefox), makes reading articles much nicer!
For chrome, it might need some fiddling[1] or an extension.
"Employee fraud" is a gross mischaracterization of people who refuse to work under unsafe conditions. How are people so devoid of empathy?
I think its the dehumanization of work forces - where workers are part of something bigger more relevant than them as people - that it simply doesn't make sense to see them as understandable and relatable.
Also there was (pinch of salt here I don't recall it completely) a story that may show a trend of that behaviour where in England (North West England somewhere) an industry town was designed by the company (again, so much salt here with all the vaguery) with extra slim sidewalks since you didn't want the workers walking next to each other, because that would lead to "talking". Which could lead to anything between improprieties to revolutions.
There is still an ideal of companies to "educate" their workers and a mistrust in their own faculties. Before it was trying to ensure that they didn't drink and have sex (or revolutions) because with out the paternalistic hand of the company they would all collapse into a fucking, drinking mob of revolutionaries. Now that can be ensuring that your workers eat healthy or train properly - but based on the same sensibilities that they are too dumb to understand this themselves and that their existence is defined by their position at your company (and healthy workers are cheaper workers)
Ahhh, a nice old fashioned return to company towns. Can't wait to see how this turns out....
My money (at least in the USA) is on 'brutal oppression of people standing up for better work conditions.'
Mildly offtopic but the things that are happening in the US don't seem very exceptional from over here in Brazil or practically anywhere outside western Europe. We have religious lunatics, terrible work conditions and nonexistent unionization (the first action the Bolsonaro presidency took was abolishing the ministry of labor), sky-high inequality, even worse than in the US, we have right-wing populism (and over here he won the popular vote by a 10 point margin), maybe there are less racial issues given black and white people are far more mixed (40% of Brazilians are mixed race) and blacks aren't confined to a weird region in the south and a few refuge cities like in the US midwest but otherwise I have a hard time differentiating the US from a country like Brazil, India other than that the news media seems to be far less developed and the progressive movement that's going on in the US nonexistent and stuff is unusable due to high price rather tban unusable due to poor quality.
I have some other places that would be nice to be wiped off the face of the earth, or at least provided a similar treatment:
I'm sure I could list off a lot more, but these were the first that popped into my head.
This bit on the Work Number site is more than a bit rich coming from Equifax of all companies:
I already don't trust any of the credit reporting companies, but especially not Equifax.
I tend to avoid my real name in social media personally and simply because I want to divorce my own personality from what employers or others can easily see.
Now I live in in Sweden, not the US but as of yet its only come up once in an interview along the lines of "we didn't find you on social media" and I went "No I don't use my real name because I think people should get to know me instead, what do you want to know?" - which panned out well (Got the job).
But yeah - both those should be set on fire and destroyed. It is also one reason why any form of possible supervision and spying should be avoided if possible.
Is anyone else concerned about how early we're "getting back to work" in the US? My employer has stated that we're definitely not going back to the office before July, and probably not for a while after that. And we're going to do it in phases.
Here in California and in LA in particular our leaders seem to be very sensible. But some state and local leaders elsewhere in the US seem to be just letting people out like nothing ever happened. My fear is that this is going to cause a major reoccurrence of the virus and a lot of people are going to get sick and possibly die from it. Am I overreacting?
I've read that only about 10% of the US population think that we need to "reopen" things, so I don't understand why there appears to be a push to do that when it's pretty obviously too early to do it.
I used to write scripts to do this to those paypal phishing sites. It was a fun and morally justifiable way to mess jerks that were trying to steal peoples money.
Does anyone else have trouble with the font that The Verge uses on its website?
On my monitor, a 26-inch VIZIO M261VP 1080p LED LCD HDTV, at 100% zoom, the lines comprising the characters are so skinny that they don't display correctly. The white of the background bleeds into the characters (particularly in the middle, almost like there's a white strikethrough) which makes them difficult to read.
Anyway, this hacker is a hero.
I don't but reading your post gave me the most wholesome smile today <3
Take this the right way btw:
The level of focus in your text concerning fonts, your specificity about your monitor - the awesome wonderful nerdiness made me happy and hopeful (in these pandemic-times). You rock.
Also, yes that hacker is a hero.
Haha, that was not my intent, but I'm glad it made you happy!
I like Verge's reporting but for some reason their web site just doesn't play nice with my monitor. I included all that detail (and even got up to check the model number) just on the off-chance it was relevant!
Disable webfonts.
Aside from the fact that you really really don't want thirty-year-old font parsing code only meant to see fonts installed locally by the OS vendor to be running on random junk downloaded from the Internet, webfonts essentially never improve anything about a page other than how closely it matches the designer's mockup (and even then, as you've noticed, it can go badly wrong for anyone running a font rendering engine other than exactly the same one as the dev).
In Firefox, you can do this from about:preferences → General → Fonts and Colors → Advanced → uncheck Allow pages to choose their own fonts. With Chrome, it can be done by passing the
--disable-remote-fontscommandline option; otherwise you'll need an extension.Acer K272HUL, 1440p 27in here, website looks fine.
This is why I like the reader view (Ctrl+Alt+R in Firefox), makes reading articles much nicer!
For chrome, it might need some fiddling[1] or an extension.