Maybe they BuzzFeed's remaining employees should unionize to keep this same shit from happening to them.
We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
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Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
#32The same people who wouldn't think twice about some PC expose that ruins a person's life forever, same people will fight for a couple days vacation time... Before you down-vote, what am I missing?
You missed that people are employed with rights to accrue leave, but only some have it bound in states rights laws and that BuzzFeed is trying to avoid honouring the spirit of employment conditions their staff worked under?
> BuzzFeed is trying to avoid honouring the spirit of employment conditions their staff worked under
Which on its own could support the idea that if a corporation can't self-govern to be fair to its current and former employees without asterisks and gotchas, some greater (e.g. government) or counter (e.g. union) authority should hold the company accountable.
I do believe that all BuzzFeed employees should be entitled to their PTO if they were misled to believe they would get it when they worked there. As for whether unionization or more regulation is necessary here, I do not know enough about the issue to form a strong opinion -- the above observation was just an observation.
Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
#33The same people who wouldn't think twice about some PC expose that ruins a person's life forever, same people will fight for a couple days vacation time... Before you down-vote, what am I missing?
Before you complain about down-votes, how about telling us what you're on about?
Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
#34Even though buzz feed is awful and just contributes to cultural obesity, they should pay people accrued pto. This is a lowlife move.
yep i fully agree with you
Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
#35Maybe they BuzzFeed's remaining employees should unionize to keep this same shit from happening to them.
If they go that route, I hope they have the sense to create their own union instead of going with one of the giant established organizations.
Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
#36The same people who wouldn't think twice about some PC expose that ruins a person's life forever, same people will fight for a couple days vacation time... Before you down-vote, what am I missing?
> what am I missing? That this is about Buzzfeed News, a serious news site which has won serveral awards and honors for its reporting [1], not Buzzfeed, the listicle, pop culture, click-bait, gossip site [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed
I've never found this argument convincing. "This is not the bad part of the organization. This is the part they spun up to help bolster their reputation so the bad part can continue to make money".
That said, it's a bit tangential to the core issue here. People should get payed out for their accrued PTO.
Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
#37Why, why do so many "trendy" companies shit on workers rights?
Could be because they're companies. And it's not like BuzzFeed has a reputation to lose.
Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
#38read your contract when you get hired, people. You shouldn't expect anything more than what's guaranteed right there in front of you.
Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
#39Why, why do so many "trendy" companies shit on workers rights?
Because just as individual contributors change employers a lot, managers also change employers often enough that the reputation of mistreating workers doesn't stick to anything. My own employer recently hired a handful of senior HR folks from Uber. They started after I joined. I hate it, but what can I do? I know they were present at Uber during Susan Fowler's very strange year; I don't know if they were actually the…
Talk to the person that hired them, and see what sort of references they came with.
Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
#40I've worked for many companies that don't pay out accrued PTO - PTO at those companies was use-it-or-lose-it. But I also understood that going in, and I understood that when I read the employee handbooks and explanation of benefits.
It seems folks might have overlooked that bit of their employment. California is obviously a large exception. However, if an employer doesn't state that you get a particular benefit, or fails to explain how a benefit is managed, the onus falls on the employee to understand what they're signing on for. To expect otherwise drips of entitlement.