• Neato@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    I think we need more worker protections. Mandatory severance, can’t fire without cause.

    A lot of people don’t get much choice who they work for. Basic devs and QA and now out of as job and need to scramble to find another job. It’s nice some of these are getting severance but it’s not mandatory nor the norm in America.

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      9 months ago

      You always have a choice in who you work for. I’m not saying sometimes this choice doesn’t get frustratingly complicated, it does. But you always ultimately have that choice. More worker protections aren’t going to do shit either, too many peeons are brainwashed to ever successfully see it through, and with more regulations come more loopholes.

      Nope, the only thing that’s going to work, is if people finally wake the hell up, and grow a pair to collectively do something about it. Might never be possible, but if it isn’t, well stuff like this isn’t ever going to change. What if the entire staff of Epic, in response, just decided to not show up tomorrow onwards? Stood the line through all the threats…Epic would quickly be in very big trouble. The buck would end there, and change would get forced.