“Ironically, the Times reports that Crossover’s own employees so resented the
company’s intrusive monitoring of them (as they created and sold intrusive
monitoring tools) that Crossover hemorrhaged employees and struggled to hire
replacements. Eventually, Crossover had to turn off its most intrusive features
so that it could keep the employees needed to make and sell its bossware
product.”
posted 12/17/2022 3:19pm ∞
“For all the grandiose talk about The Light Of Consciousness and The Future Of
Humanity that has come out of Silicon Valley during its ascent, what it has
delivered has mostly been spectacularly useless, lifeless, and anti-human. In
this sense, it reflects its owners perfectly.”
David Roth ,
Everything Is Silicon Valley Now
(Defector ,
November 14, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/21/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[T]hese hacks ultimately become a labor issue. It would not be so taxing to
make a TikTok drink … if stores were well-staffed, if workers were paid a
living wage, if corporations weren’t intent on busting unions, and if customers
were patient and understanding when their desires just aren’t possible.”
Jaya Saxena ,
Hacked to Bits
(Eater ,
October 12, 2022 ,
via Garbage Day )
posted 10/31/2022 8:00pm ∞
“The panic over Quiet Quitting is that bosses realize that they have used almost
every mechanism to control and incentivize workers other than actually
incentivizing them .”
posted 10/10/2022 8:00pm ∞
“We should ask ourselves, our communities, and our government: if a business
can’t pay a living wage, should it be a business? If it’s too expensive for
businesses to provide healthcare for their workers, maybe we need to decouple it
from employment?”
Anne Helen Petersen ,
The “Capitalism is Broken” Economy
(April 21, 2021 )
posted 4/26/2021 10:52pm ∞