Earlier quoted context omitted.
FYI, Hacker News doesn’t have a DM feature.
Keybase (linked in their profile) is a messaging service too.
Good point
Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short After Her Baby Died
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm speaking anecdotally but would 100% posit that this is true. One of the biggest things I'm learning as an adult in a capitalistic society is that empathy is an anti-pattern to how most medium-to-larger sized corporations operate. Recently I've really come to fully accept that HR at most companies is not there for the employee (regardless of how they internally brand), vs. it being a compliance department and a ri…
No but in terms of risk management HR is taking a huge gamble that a bunch of people getting recruiter offers aren't going to go "you know what, screw this place" and leave.
Yeah here's the thing - if you get a better offer... Leave. If you operate otherwise you're a fool.
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#213The United States is infamous among world nations for lack of mandatory paid maternity leave. Even the unpaid leave is incredibly short: Only 12 weeks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_leave_in_the_United_... This, while the total _paid_ leave available to mothers among OECD nations is ~54 weeks, including 18 weeks average paid maternity leave plus another long period of paid parental leave following it: http:…
>world nations
curious, whats world nations ? never heard of that term before.
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#214> Some companies have policies that can discriminate against people who are on protected leaves by denying them commissions they have already earned Wtf? How can that possibly be a thing?
Do these people just sit around and spend time coming up with ways to screw others over? How the fuck is this thing even legal, let alone ethical? Makes me so mad
I think the article is referring to commissions that her position is earning. Hard to tell though.
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#215We're in an odd state of paralysis as a society. On the one hand, we acknowledge that there are birth rate / population-related issues coming rapidly down the pipeline at us, problems we acknowledge can only be solved by either supporting existing citizens/families in having more children or mass migration. Through exhaustion with unaccountable corruption and reckless, ineffective public spending by all parties on th…
> population-related issues
don't we also have far more pressing carbon emissions issues though ? Isn't population decline such a bad thing. Do we really need billions and billions of people because its 'good for the economy'
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#216Every manager fucked up in that company. The HR manager should have not brought it up. The manager and his boss of the employee should have been aghast at it and done everything possible to stop it from happening. That is not how you treat a fellow human being let alone an employee.
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#217Do American corporations love fanatical capitalism the same way jihadists love Islam?
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#218So people have been doing this thing called "management" for, what? centuries now? Why in 2017 (the date of this occurence) does management still suck at stuff like this?
Women were excluded from the workforce for most of that time.
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#219Women shouldn't work after they give birth, this outsourcing of raising babies is not helping anybody. They should go to work only after the kids are old enough to go to school. We are just ruining are society with this idea that women should work all the time like men. We don't need all this work from women, it is not valuable like them taking care of their kids and taking care of home.
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#220First world problems.