Endlessbeard

joined 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems like it would be so easy to game, the way it's written the "owner" of the business gets the right to vote, and the business has to have a physical presence in the town.

It would be trivial to buy a small building in town and have it jointly owned by multiple LLCs, or lease portions of the building to multiple LLCs to manufacture votes.

The intent of the law isn't even necessarily bad. If you have a small business in the town but you live just outside it, it does seem like you should still have some say in town politics. But there's little chance that this won't be systematically abused.

 
 
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It absolutely boggles my mind why subreddits like antiwork didn't enthusiastically jump at the chance to migrate to a non-corporate controlled platform. Leaving the antiwork platform under the control of a multinational corporation that has already demonstrated that it will censor any speech that doesn't generate profit for its masters seems like it should be a pretty damn good reason to find a different platform.

Maybe this is just my skeptical side, but I think the moderators of those subreddits may be plants, letting the community exist in a neutered fashion and removing anything that could prove dangerous.

 

"Employees who are loud quitting are taking actions that "directly harm the organization, undercutting its goals and opposing its leaders,"Gallup says."

In this spirit, what have you do to sabotage or undermine your employer, and what radicalized you to take those steps?

I'll start, I work in construction engineering and I was radicalized when the company owner made a last minute change to some of our materials to save a couple pennies on each unit, then asked me for an updated analysis right before we signed the contract.

When I gave him the analysis, surprise surprise, the change to cheaper materials had some negative downstream impacts. He called me up to yell at me, berating me and accused me of trying to intentionally sabotage his company. It didn't matter that I had literally just run the numbers that came from his own choice and handed him the output, in his mind this was all my fault.

From that point on I figured if I'm going to be accused of sabotaging the company then I may as well do it for real.