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Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Because you don't want to leave fingerprints behind when you unplug something on camera.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    It's not illegal to unplug something

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Actually, it could be. That could be considered vandalism (you're intentionally making unauthorized modifications to equipment to prevent it from working as expected) which is illegal.

    But this is New York, so who knows if they would even enforce that.

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  • [+] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So people can just unplug cables at data centers because it's "$0 property damage criminal mischief"?

    Come on, their lawyers would (successfully) argue that they experienced loss of revenue for any amount of time their remote cashier system was not connected and operational...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    They can just plug it back in. It'll be ok.

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