• @LovableSidekick
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    253 minutes ago

    You can’t work from home cuz we have to justify the expense of our office, and if we can’t provide the office your home is our office.

  • @Gammelfisch
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    11 hour ago

    Fuck the CCP and PLA owned companies. Free West Taiwan!!!

  • anytimesoon
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    175 hours ago

    I think this is pretty standard for Chinese companies. My friend works for one, and she doesn’t get sick days. They must come out of her holiday allowance.

    She gets treated better than her Chinese counterparts, though. For Chinese public holidays, they get the day off, but are then expected to give it back to the company at the weekend

    • @butwhyishischinabook
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      31 hour ago

      I work for an American company and we have to use PTO for sick days. Unfortunately.

    • @lambipapp
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      174 hours ago

      Haha, no. This is US branch 100% I can promise you TikTok eu branch would not have had these rules even though they are both ByteDance

      • anytimesoon
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        04 hours ago

        I’m afraid I and my friend are both in the EU. Chinese companies will and do find ways…

  • IndiBrony
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    608 hours ago

    Tik Tok staff working from home on their break:

  • @[email protected]
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    6810 hours ago

    Bunch of assholes. Hope it hits the responsible managers house and the office building.

  • @sir_pronoun
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    So this is the easiest opportunity for the most upvoted comment ever, thanks to Mr.As-Long-As-It’s-Not-Illegal-It’s-Fine down there!

    I would still like to add my opinion: TikTok is an instrument of non-conventional warfare and espionage, why is it still running like it is

    • @blazeknave
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      15 hours ago

      I have agreed for the longest time. But a couple of friends in intelligence are really trying to convince me this is a distraction lately. I haven’t gotten a good answer to why status quo should be allowed but those guys don’t ever consider “how end users are” when we get into it.

  • @Hellsfire29
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    And people mocked Trump for wanting to “rake” the forest floor.

    Who’s laughing now?

    Cue all of the excuses and blame Trump anyway

    • @DrPop
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      Isn’t “raking” the forest part of the reason we have bad first fires?

  • @[email protected]
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    They have WFH and make 6 figures per year. Explain to me why it’s surprising the company converted it to WFH. You take the perks with the disadvantages they entail, unless, we’re supposed to be angry with tiktok and don’t really care for the workers 🤔

    If it sounds bad and it’s not illegal, the problem isn’t tik tok!

    • @[email protected]
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      Who cares about the legality?

      If somebody’s house burnt down, you give them whatever they need. Any company not giving somebody in that situation paid time off is a shitty company. I know for sure my boss would give me whatever I needed and ask if he personally could help in any way.

      Employees are humans first and foremost and need to be treated with respect and compassion, not slaves to be exploited and punished.

      • @[email protected]
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        A public company will 99,9% of the time be shit, that’s why you need strong worker protection enshrined in legislation. The fact that all the downvoters didn’t get the subtext is one of the reasons you got to this situation in the first place. The average literacy in the US is godawful and the political process only works in easily digestible soundbites, so complex themes like worker protection get relegated to the back seat in favour of who uses which bathroom.

        • @[email protected]
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          4911 hours ago

          Holy shit take the L.

          No one here disagrees with that, or is unaware of the “sUbTeXt”.

          That’s just not how subtext works. You don’t get to say one thing, then claim you meant something entirely different (the reasonable take) and call it subtext.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 hours ago

            We can’t take the L they have to be right because… Reasons

            God the trolls are out in force today. What did a new round of funding come in from Russia?

            • @BassTurd
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              118 hours ago

              You’re not doing your home country any favors. Your inability to understand the situation is astounding really. Where are you from that made you so damn smart?

                • @spongebue
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                  If that was a typo for America, and you are trying to say you’re American, you’ve got at least one thing in a prior comment that’s a dead giveaway that you are not.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Quit this bullshit. A lot of tech workers working remotely are contractors, precarious workers. Content moderators, data labelers, and the likes are not paid 6 figures and they are not privileged. Most of the workforce of these companies are not white, rich dudebros. Stuff like this adds insult to injury.

      • @[email protected]
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        Is it illegal though? Perhaps start there, with worker protection law. Everyone is happy to help the dudebros exploit the working class as long as line goes up.

        Edit: Lol, 1s, immediate downvote. If only you were as assiduously fighting the exploitation…

        • @[email protected]OP
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          4812 hours ago

          I’m a union organizer in tech. My downvote was the 8th, not the 1st. I was busy doing a call with striking riders in Greece. Keep up the good work, scab.

          • Uranium 🟩
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            I’m genuinely unsure they’re a scab, I think they’re saying that we cannot expect these parasitic companies to have the workers best interests at heart, and as such strong workers rights should be enshrined in law and enforced.

            I could be misunderstanding them though of course.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              Pitting different types of workers against each other automatically promotes you to a scab. Purism and sectarianism are much more harmful to labor organizing than union busting.

              • @[email protected]
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                Good on you, give them hell and good luck with the cheeto in chief. If you need to run, you’ll always have a home this side of the ocean.

                Regarding the “different types of workers”, a CEO is still a worker. Smart people know the difference between those that take advantage of legislation vs those who suffer from it. This type of absolute dogmatic purism is what got your laws to be shit in the first place.

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                  Regarding the “different types of workers”, a CEO is still a worker.

                  Shit like this is why they called you a scab. Ceos aren’t workers, they’re part of the capital class. Thinking of ceos as workers shows me you haven’t thought through your positions past a surface level.

                  Smart people know the difference between those that take advantage of legislation vs those who suffer from it.

                  You mean like ceos and the rest of the capital class? And I’m guessing you consider yourself one of the “smart ones” LOL

                  This type of absolute dogmatic purism is what got your laws to be shit in the first place.

                  No, capital owning politicians is what made our laws to be this shit.

                • @[email protected]
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                  CEOs are not workers, they are part-owners in typical compensation schemes. Give me large unearned blocks of stock or a percentage of the net revenue, that would make me not a worker.

            • @BassTurd
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              48 hours ago

              I think that exactly what they are saying, but it misses the whole point. Yes, either protections would be great to prevent against this and no it’s not illegal, but it’s heinous and TikTok should be lambasted. The poster is essentially victim blaming because of their assumed jobs, pay, and because their misfortune is not illegal. It’s just a really bad take, even if it’s not technically wrong.