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  1. We're trying to improving working conditions and pay.

  2. We're trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

  3. We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

“I completely understand why someone doesn’t want to commute an hour and a half every day, totally got it. Doesn’t mean they have to have a job here either,” he said.

Takes a special kind of assholes to think that people have no right to their own lifetime.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Notice how this doesn't even have anything to do with productivity. These people were fired purely for having the gall to not respect office hours regardless of the completion of tasks.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Solution: work

Very

Slowly

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, I would like to actually have time in my life not send it being a sloth slave.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

you can have time in between being a sloth slave throughout your work day, if thats how these fucks will force us to be.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

They don't force shit we accept it by not forcing back.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Well Fargo fired people for working a second job ON COMPANY TIME, USING COMPANY RESOURCES AND COMPUTERS.

THIS IS FRAUD.

They abso-fucking-lutely deserved this. Don't get behind this story and act like it's employers being shitty when it was employees faking working their main job using mouse/keyboard idlers to work a second job during time they were being paid by the first job for, using resources provided by the first job.

Work 2 jobs separately? Big whoop. Being paid for your time to do a job and you do a completely different job in that time using your employers resources? Hell, be glad they didn't sue you.

Get behind real issues, not this. This just makes you look like the reddit anti work mod who got interviewed and complained that they couldn't support themselves as a dog walker for 2 hours a week. It makes YOU look unreasonable.

[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] fishos@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Read the actual articles detailing what they did. It was fraud. If you legit think this is ok, then you are advocating for lying and cheating to get what you want, which, I dunno, I thought that was EXACTLY what you despised about the capitalists.

So funny how the oppressed always wants to become the oppressor. You're not arguing for a better world, just one where you "get yours".

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are correct that in our current capitalist system, the employees were in the wrong.

The problem is the capitalist system itself is wrong.

The Antiwork community is here to as a counter culture to the capitalist/corporate culture that has become so ingrained in our society at large. The idea that a person is forced to stay at work for their entire shift, even during times where there is no work to be done, is a problem. That is essentially where the term "wage slave" comes from, because while we are on the clock we lose our freedom to do what we want with our time.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Then get behind the people doing 4 WFH jobs. Use GOOD examples to further this idea. Not people blatantly perpetrating fraud and acting like they're heros. We need strong cases, not ones easily broken down and dismissed. This case is too easily in favor of the employers. Is capitalism shit? Sure. But you're literal job is to be available during those hours. Hiding the fact that you're doing another job using company time and resources, is fraud, plain and simple. If you didn't think it was fraud, would you have hidden it?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it literally says they were fired for using a mouse jiggler.

However, I live in a so-called right-to-work state, which means my employer can do whatever the fuck they like - but the flip side is - so can I.

The contract I signed doesn't mention which or how many hours I work, just that I don't disclose privileged information to competitors.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Lmao that's not how "right to work" works. That's how having a contract works lmao

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not even mad at the employers to be fair. The problem is that so many jobs are just busy-work that exists because as a society we can't imagine decoupling labour from subjugation.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Cool, that wasn't this.

They used company computers to do another companies work. That's theft. Just like you want to comment on wage theft and the like, this is employee theft. Now, if you want to argue that it's justified, that's one thing. But don't reframe this as "well they were just doing nothing anyways". No, they used computers and resources that explicitly weren't theirs for their own benefit. Sounds A LOT like the wage theft you want to complain about when it's an employer doing it, but suddenly it's ok when the tables are turned. Nah, it's still an immoral act.

[–] SuperSpaceFan@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I reread the article again. I did see anything mentioned about employees working 2nd jobs on company time, nor was it among the reasons they were fired.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

This is like the 3rd version of the article at this point. It's mentioned in other articles. What is mentioned in this one is they used devices to pretend to be active during times they were expected to be. You know, fraud.