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18 votes
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Meet Freshii’s new ‘virtual cashier’ — who works from Nicaragua for $3.75 an hour
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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.
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New York Times tech workers vote to certify union
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The New York Times Tech Union vote count starts this morning, and we made a live vote tracker!
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Shades of DevOps: Related job titles
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/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
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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.
41 votes -
US National Labor Relations Board sets NYT Tech Guild election, rejects attempts to exclude workers
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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills
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Facebook's reputation is so bad, the company must pay even more now to hire and retain talent
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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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Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
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Rise of the (fast food) robots: How labor shortages are accelerating automation
10 votes -
Grazily - highly targeted jobs in your inbox
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"The Hiring Post" - How to hire exceptional engineers
11 votes -
Backpage founders' trial begins
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OnlyFans drops planned porn ban, will continue to allow sexually explicit content
35 votes -
Some background regarding the recent OnlyFans changes
26 votes -
Technical leadership and glue work
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OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
50 votes -
Inside Facebook’s metaverse for work
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You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality
6 votes -
Cows using virtual reality and the future of work
5 votes -
The nonmachinables
3 votes -
Apple employees are going public about workplace issues
6 votes -
Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
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A third of Basecamp’s workers resign after a ban on talking politics
18 votes -
Finnish telecoms giant Nokia is to axe between 5,000 and 10,000 jobs worldwide in the next two years as it cuts costs
7 votes -
Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
7 votes -
What I learned in two years of moving government forms online
9 votes -
Google employees form union
42 votes -
iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
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The presence prison
7 votes -
Tomorrow’s World: Office of the Future (1969)
7 votes -
Small tech
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Parler’s got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Donald Trump social network
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Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
18 votes -
Markets are not incompatible with discrimination (2014)
2 votes -
The old way of handing out corporate hardware doesn’t work anymore
9 votes -
Translation from Dropbox to English of ‘Focus will shape the future of distributed work’
3 votes -
Evolving Reddit's workforce - Going forward, Reddit employees will mostly be able to work remotely from wherever they want, and all US employees will be paid the same, regardless of location
18 votes -
The forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
6 votes -
What working at Stripe has been like
4 votes -
Meet the customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to talk to you
29 votes -
Please don't say just hello in chat
28 votes -
Inside Amazon’s secret program to spy on workers’ private Facebook groups
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Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
6 votes -
Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions as 25% staff cut hits Servo, MDN, security teams
16 votes -
How to be successful in the digital era by adopting the builder ethos
4 votes