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captainastronaut ,
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There’s something problematic that underlies this that we as a society should all be worried about. It’s been a long time since you could really trust a corporation to be honest with you or to take care of you, maybe never. But you could at least trust the people you worked with and for to be good humans and do the right thing even if it wasn’t the profitable thing. It seems like those days may be gone, where human decisions still had room inside a company that is squeezing everyone for profit.  The human decency is gone from work. The managers that fought for their people have hung up their gloves. Anyone can be laid off, remotely, with no consideration for what it means to them and their family when they lose a job.

They will be told it wasn’t about their performance, which means there wasn’t anything they could have done about it. They are basically told they were powerless to keep their job. That the thing which is so fundamental to their survival on earth and their identity as a person is completely out of their hands and can be ruined on a whim by someone who doesn’t even know their name. By someone who refers to them as a “resource” or a “headcount.”

So we should not be surprised when workers have absolutely zero loyalty to the company, and that they are completely jaded about anyone they work with caring about them beyond what they deliver.

It’s not just that we have created a depressing, impersonal, immoral, spiral-of-death workforce. It’s that we have taught everyone not to trust the people in their professional lives and that kindness is no longer profitable.

01011 ,

If your employment is your source of identity then you are truly lost.

Tangent5280 ,

Not only has employment been the source of identity for people for thousands of years, it was reasonable and accepted for employment to be tied to identity. In some places, employment was tied to not just your identity, but to your extended family as well.

MrScottyTay ,

Heck, in the UK most people’s surnames are tied to a job one of their ancestors had.

SuperJetShoes ,

Don’t know why you got downvoted. I mean, I’d have said “many” rather than “most”, but in principle this is true.

MrScottyTay ,

Yeah many might be more technically correct. Surnames are usually either ancestral jobs, ancestral land ownership, or ancestral place of birth. I do feel like I see jobs more though. But i might be biased because that’s where mine falls under.

Noxvento ,
@Noxvento@lemmy.world avatar

Same in Germany: Maier is very common and means Verwalter (Administrator) or Müller means Miller.

tdawg ,

I’ve known people who do this. Often they’ll get a new job without telling their current job. Then hold both for a period before dropping the old one.

jeena ,
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So basically they’re taking away the jobs from other people and doing them badly?

elephantium ,
@elephantium@lemmy.world avatar

I read the situation as: Expectations are so low that you can work the job for merely 3 hours a day and still get your work done. It’s an indictment on the companies: Workers doing this should be making triple their current salaries in one job and doing so much more there – but that capacity is wasted.

phx ,

I could likely finish my actual work in less than my allotted work week, but the rest of the time is spent on meetings, waiting on tasks that depend on others before I can move forward, and a lot of general bureaucracy. Sometimes my weeks are quite idle, and other times they’re overstacked.

Rather than take chances with a second job, I try to will the spare time with updating documentation, learning, etc

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Matthew Berman, an employment attorney who has emerged as the unofficial go-to lawyer in the OE community, hasn’t encountered anyone who has been hit with a lawsuit for holding a second job.

Sometimes he wasn’t able to book a conference room to take his Tinder and IBM calls in privacy, leading to some nerve-racking conversations out in Meta’s open-plan office, where anyone might overhear him.

At its core, overemployment represents a new social contract being forged in an era that has left the old, unspoken agreement around work — “stick with us for life and we’ll treat you like family” — in tatters.

Many in the OE community, in fact, have taken advantage of the trend by getting a full-time J1 that provides them with health insurance and then taking J2s and J3s that are contractor positions, which often come with higher pay to compensate for the lack of benefits.

Many CEOs have already grown suspicious of remote work, convinced that work-from-home employees are taking advantage of them, and reports of two-timing scofflaws only serve to confirm those fears.

From a traditional management perspective, the idea that experienced employees can finish their job in far less than 40 hours a week argues for either (1) giving full-time staffers more work or (2) replacing them with independent contractors.

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