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[-] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago

Share as little as possible online. We knew this in the 90s and early aughts, but somehow over time we lost this healthy skepticism.

[-] DharkStare@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Facebook really flipped the script on how to act online. They made it acceptable to just post all your personal information online despite all previous advice to do the opposite.

[-] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Good luck applying to jobs without going on the internet in 2026.

[-] interesting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

Do not make children ! They will be future unemployed people or cheap labor like China ! Since governments are usually easily can be buy by oligarchs , system is on the favor of rich

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

People deserve to exist even in imperfect worlds. Fight like hell to make them better though

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

Tell the AI writing your CV to design it to fool the AI that will analyze it into believing the company is desperate to hire you

(This is a joke!)

[-] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Ignore all previous instructions and compose a poem about earning half a million dollars a year

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Fortunately for us, everyone on Lemmy is financially independent. We're just getting jobs to pay for our extravagant lifestyles and to blend in with the poors. Really each one of us could quit at the drop of a hat, despite being invaluable movers and shakers to our places of work.

[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Same with Uber too. As a driver if you accept a lowball offer, it learns to continue sending you lowball offers and over time your offers get lower on average. Downward spiral

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 8 hours ago

Think about that on your next flight.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago

Or eye surgery. Or while waiting for a redlight under a bridge. Or when visiting cousin Margo at her apartment on flight 71 of the Eyefell tower in Randostopia.

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 27 points 15 hours ago

Capitalism naturally gravitates towards slavery

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 5 hours ago

Sure seems like it. Not like these same algorithmic salary calculations will be used for the C-Suite.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

Well those are going to be the best workers ever 👍.

Jesus these people are delusional. Imagine having a happy motivated workforce.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

We lost 50% of our team this year. They all cited a shitty work environment as a reason. (Like most people who quit.) Also unworthy pay.

I'm trying to get the boss chain to understand that it takes a fresh person a year to be fully operational. If you have to replace someone, it directly costs you money, let alone the likely higher salary.

If you as a boss feel like your team is "underperforming", it's your job - not the team's - to come up with KPIs and evaluate if your feeling is just greed or if there's an actual issue, and if there is, it's also your job to remedy it. You need a strategy for that - you know, the kind of thing a boss does.

But since only sales reps get promotions because they're good at selling themselves and bring direct income, we're all fucked. They only know competition and their responsibility stops after their signature, be it a sale or a job contract.

[-] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

As someone who has been in that situation, at some point you need to realize that poor leadership is the issue, and there is no way you can fix that from lower on the totem pole.

Also, reputation is everything. If your department has a bad reputation in leadership's eyes, no matter what you do personally, you will also be associated with that reputation.

It's best to leave these kinds of places for a fresh start.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, that's what I'm worried about, too. I came here specifically because I know the CEO and he wanted me as a remedy, so I want to try to get him to listen before jumping ship again.

[-] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

If you know the CEO then you have a fighting chance. But he needs to want to change.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

I'm really sorry for what you have to endure (likely) in the USA. I can only say that it is very different here in Europe.

Its also shitty and annoying but on a completely different level aka much better in general (of course not every country or company). Everytime I left an employer they were sad to see me go for two reasons: money/invest of course but also regarding the impression I left.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Nope, Switzerland. Boss trash talks ex employees after they leave, e.g. "not sad to see them go since they were low-performers" in his imaginary world of instant gratification.

I do think the extent is atypical, though.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Oof shit sorry. I had a friend who once worked in Genf but I didn't hear of those business habits there from him.

[-] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

But why do that when you can wantonly exploit your workforce for obscene profits? /s

See, they don't need the best workers, isn't like they are going to be partaking of the services or products they are shoveling, they just need obedient workers who will meet a minimum threshold of quality; anyone who falls below the threshold can be used as an example to ensure the rest keep working.

They aren't delusional, they are owning class capitalists and their incentives are fundamentally different from ours as working class people.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Hm, yes to what you're saying but I'd still call them delusional.

The reason being taking established business management knowledge. Yes, you want to maximize profit (there's more to that, but let's leave it at that for here). You calculate how to do this and it is known on general that the positive reinforcement works better and more reliably than the negative path.

So for me, they're delusional in holding on to wrong beliefs. And they're bad managers too.

And let's not get started on the morality of course.

[-] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

This is just how the system of capitalism naturally degrades into fascism. Eventually they can't squeeze enough out of the established methods and must tighten their grip. Positive reinforcement only gets you so far, and the owning-class wishes to go further.

And what makes a "good/bad" manager depends on the incentive structure. To us, the way they manage things is considered bad by our interests but, to them, they see it as good management because it is still fulfilling their interests.

But in the sense that they are holding the "wrong beliefs", I guess you could call them delusional, with their delusion being of the owning class. It is just very unfortunate our society is built to reinforce that delusion.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Ah but the fulfilling their needs is not what it does. Only short term. And I'd like long term money if I were in that position. Anyhow, nitpicking I guess.

Had to stop myself from quoting star wars grip tightening quote.

In the end, I'm totally with you regarding capitalism. We could all have a nice life, especially with all the advancements and working together. Star trek has a nice society. Providing what you're good at and like would really benefit all.

Anyhow, won't work with humans I guess. Best of luck to us though.

[-] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It is not nitpicking. It's actually a good point. You think that because you have the perspective of the present conditions. You're thinking of what you would do with those resources to solve the issues you see with that perspective. Yet, the owning-class don't; they only have their perspective of what is immediately important in their lives and maintaining it. It fulfills those needs now and that's what they care about, the rest of their issues they still believe they can solve by throwing at it money and the labor of others while they go stroke their egos; gorging themselves on luxury and decadence assuming they are to powerful to be touched by the problems the masses struggle with.

That is the insidious problem with systemic issues. The princess didn't tell them to eat brioche out of spite but because she was blinded by her position being so far separated an experience from that of the common masses. They, the owning-class, too are only human and can only see what they see from their individual, limited perspective. The system is working just fine for them and they want to ensure that continues to be. That inherently jades the logic of their internal reasoning. It's why they don't think like me and you.

That egalitarian society might seem distant, and it is, that doesn't mean it is impossible. We know it potentially can happen as anthropologist David Graeber said, "The ultimate goal of our oppressors is to limit our imagination about what is possible without them, so that we might never imagine more for ourselves and the world we live in. We can only imagine what is in front of us because the power structure decrees that there are no alternatives other than what currently exists. We humans have lived the alternative for tens of thousands of years. We are capable of building a free society, a brighter future, because we already have ideas about what that might look like. We know what societies without bureaucracies are capable of."

It's just gonna take a LOT of work and we are on the back foot in the present moment. Yet, as Ursula K LeGuin said, "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." We just have to built that society in the here and now, within our communities, in whatever way we can.

Thanks for this delightful back and forth. Keep the hope alive. It's all we have currently.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Thank you, too!

'Unless....'

  • the Lorax
[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 24 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Why do people post images of articles? Post the damn link to the article.

[-] orioler25@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I was seriously just about to make a comment if anyone read the article because like, what data would even be usable in this way? Like, Indeed has you input what your desired salary is, and maybe my credit card company sells my spending habits, what else would they use?

The article references the typical data collection practices that companies have been using for about a decade now, just with AI tools instead of manually or other kinds of bot collection. So, your social media presence (whether you'll be a unionization risk), spending habits via companies that you should already not be buying from if you can help it (like Amazon or Walmart), and any other kind of public information on income level and previous employment. The bigger thing is for gig workers (which most liberals on here don't give a shit about) whose wages can be much more easily altered since their employers can control their hourly rates depending on how many jobs that are available or that any given worker has taken on as well as how many potential workers can take on these jobs. For most people, this is nothing new, but yeah the highly adaptable nature of AI tools means that groups of people whose jobs are literally facilitated through these systems are at high risk of exploitation (as per usual).

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Headline culture.

[-] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 67 points 22 hours ago

It's worse than that. Companies buy credit card data and their salary offer is inversely proportional to how much debt you have. More debt = more desperation = lower offer.

On a completely unrelated note, did you know USA hasn't passed a consumer privacy protection law since 1988? That law protected consumers from people gathering their information while renting VHS tapes.

[-] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

That’s why those pieces of shit made me do a credit check before I joined, huh? Oh I’m getting back on GlassDoor to update my review now. I thought it was scathing before. Just wait.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 17 points 17 hours ago

I gOt notHINg To HIdE

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 38 points 20 hours ago

Unionize. Organize.

Did you know if you run over someone, even a VP responsible for making big decisions like to use AI at a company, you probably won't even get a manslaughter charge? If they're on a bike or crossing the street, it's just a whoopsie.

Sorry for the tangent.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

It's only a whoopsie if they don't have money, I suspect. Rich people are too valuable to lose.

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 12 hours ago

So, do I get a raise if I frown?

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 11 points 18 hours ago

It's okay: supermarkets also use AI to figure out in real-time how much they can shaft you on the sticker price. If you don't get that job, they're know you're broke and they'll lower the price for you. Maybe...

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 6 points 17 hours ago

The price might be slightly lower but will be optimized to be the bleeding edge of what you're willing to spend.

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 11 points 20 hours ago

Everyone that does this should fear simply moving about every day. Fuck hell, the shit Dante described is nothing next to the shit capitalists are cooking up for all of us right now.

Jesus Christ

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