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[–] [email protected] 126 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I hate to say it but god damn if this is what you have to get a union to fight for in tech jobs, tech jobs need unions more than manual labor jobs, actually.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

Yeah, it’s rough. Highly recommend you read “You Deserve a Tech Union” by Ethan Marcotte if you work in tech. It is needed now more than ever.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I didn’t even know that was a thing :(

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

How this should be negotiated in any company. No employee can be held liable for any security breaches that ever take place, and we cannot be insured as NO ONE can/should ever know another user's credentials. If you are keeping track of keystrokes, you are recording every username and password...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

"As we’ve said before, we don't employ these Accenture workers, so it's a matter between them and Accenture," Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini said in an emailed statement.

“It’s cheaper for us to outsource this labor and as long as Accenture doesn’t try to renegotiate our contract we give fuck-all what happens.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is there a community for got-a-stroke titles?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You might have low blood sugar. That title reads perfectly fine to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Capitalization Of Each Word Is Annoying But Yes, It’s Grammatically Fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Except the missing words and punctuation. Like

Google Contract Staff has Reached an Union Deal**,** Banning Keystroke Monitoring

Edit: markup not working on ,?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Using the imperative form of the verb is totally fine, and it makes the headline feel more active.

The missing article is also a fairly common omission in headlines. That said, if they included it, they would use the US form, so "a union" instead of the British form, "an union."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

This headline doesn’t use the imperative voice. It uses the present tense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Where is there a missing vowel?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My bad, not vowels, english is not my first language. What was the name of at, an, to, etc.?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

an is an article and at and to are prepositions