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And when a company makes surplus profit from its employees' labour and doesn't compensate them for it accordingly, is that also considered theft?
No. That is in fact not how the law works at all.
Some of these firms literally give their associate attorneys $400K bonuses (on top of a 200-300K salary). I wouldn't feel bad about it.
You’ve inflated biglaw bonuses for >= 8th year associates by 10x. They’re high, but they’re not that high.
> And even junior associates are taking home more money than the Biglaw standard. But the eye-popping top bonus is an impressive $400,000.
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Maybe he got suspicious because "assessment" was misspelled the exact same way every time it occurred?
People can consistently misspell words?
I worked at a Big Important Place, and two or three times a day I'd shut down an online transaction system, back up a file, move a new file into place, then bring the online transaction system back up. Took maybe two minutes. On any given day, I'd do literally five minutes of work, maybe eight. I didn't need to check any logs at the end of the day. That wasn't my job.
And then put into cron.
I once almost completely automated my job, and didn't hide it. The job was to load data files into the backend system. The problem was there there were almost as many formats (~80) as there were partners sending data (~120), not just in structure but in content (deltas, full replace, etc.). This job was burning people out every 6 months, and I was the hapless next victim who was just looking to break into a tech posi…
Economists of the 20th century thought that productivity increases will reduce our working hours so much that we will barely spend any time working... What your boss should have done is lower your working hours but keep the pay the same.
Many subreddits are simply themed containers of creative writing. With all the media attention the AntiWork subreddit has gotten lately that brings more karma farmers and therefore more fiction. It's an entertaining read, but not likely true.
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What point? They didn't make a point, just JAQing off.
Maybe you don't see the irony in anti-work kid using the youtube platform to spread cynicism about Corporate America while getting paid. His stuff is somewhat interesting, for about 10 seconds before you realize it contributes nothing to your life. Also, memes and urban dictionary slang? Are you serious? Don't be like this, indeed.
But if your points are so weak that even urban dictionary and knowyourmeme calls you out, perhaps you should reconsider your position? ;)
This story is a pretty accurate fable for the pointlessness of the modern economy and its inability to provide real value to anyone. Man spends all day playing video games, because he automated his largely superfluous job at a law firm which itself likely only exists to deal with bureaucratic or unnecessary cases (assuming this is true, as they have a single absent IT person who handles their entire infrastructure.)…
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You’ve inflated biglaw bonuses for >= 8th year associates by 10x. They’re high, but they’re not that high.
https://abovethelaw.com/2021/12/litigation-wows-with-bonuses... > And even junior associates are taking home more money than the Biglaw standard. But the eye-popping top bonus is an impressive $400,000.
We just got memos about $10-20k raises, too, and it looks like Milbank kicked that off yesterday.
Still no $400k bonuses unless you're at Wachtell or Kellogg.
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> Programming is the new literacy. People who can do it are on a different plane to people who can't. This is what I believe sometimes. Then I look at all the pitfalls of shell scripts and how the time investments on automation tasks just balloon… then not so much. :) But if people have a different experience with that then I don’t doubt it.
I worked as an analyst and was able to automate a job people in my shoes spent ~100 hours a year in doing. It was a huge success. Until we needed a machine to run it, with good security controls, high availability... blah blah blah. We're at the point where most people can find low hanging fruit by reading a Python blog in a weekend, but in my experience the IT infrastructure isn't setup to easily do everything else.