WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

Post by user5994461 » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 10:37 AM UTC

curo wrote: post #145

temp54679680544 wrote: post #127

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Yes, they should be forced to pay for the things normally required of an employer. Including reasonable meals during business travel. The individual employee can choose on their own to be vegan or vegetarian, or to eat meat. Why should the individual rights of the employee be surpassed by the rights of the powerful employer?

If you mean "rights" in a legal context, nowhere does an employee have a right to be reimbursed . The closest governing law here is fair employment, and this isn't anywhere close to that. edit: so long as work-related expenses doesn't sum out to a minimum wage violation

Post by busterarm » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 10:58 AM UTC

downandout wrote: post #73

kyledrake wrote: post #42

I can't eat a lot of types of food due to allergies. Meat is one of the few things I still can eat without issue. Yes, there are actually people out there (hi, me!) that actually cannot eliminate certain foods from our diets without getting sick. This policy would prevent me from being able to work at that company, for recognized medical health reasons, because I would not be able to do legitimate expenses of food re…

Not only is it terrible from a dietary standpoint, it reveals an intolerant workplace culture that I certainly wouldn't want any part of. Most of the world, and likely most of their employees, eat meat. It shows a serious lack of connection with the real world, and a willingness on the part of management to forcefully impose extreme views on a whim. Sounds like an unhealthy place to work, even if they all become vege…

Post by curo » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 5:26 PM UTC

jhayward wrote: post #166

curo wrote: post #151

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Blood thirst. Of all the causes you could take up, you take arms against a group of people who (albeit, according to their own values) want to restrict budgets from going to killing animals.

You should withdraw this personal attack as it is not in keeping with the ethos of HN with which you agreed to abide. You will note that my statement was carefully neutral and did not endorse either side of the issue. WeWork also carefully did not use "blood" as a reason for their policy, instead describing it as a global warming/emissions related measure. In any case, I am more in favor of people not doing numerical…

Post by fulafel » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 9:01 PM UTC

cjbprime wrote: post #192

> In an email to employees this week outlining the new policy, co-founder Miguel McKelvey said the firm’s upcoming internal "Summer Camp" retreat would offer no meat options for attendees. Unlike some commenters, I'm okay with this! But the carbon cost of flying thousands of their employees on transatlantic return flights to the UK for this Summer Camp will be orders of magnitude greater than the carbon cost of any f…

Post by detaro » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 9:46 PM UTC

downandout wrote: post #288

teaneedz wrote: post #276

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Actually you should expect the trend to continue. More consumers are demanding vegetarian and vegan options. Restaurants are selling out of new plant-based burgers and are being encouraged by industry magazines to offer vegan options. Demand is speaking pretty clearly in fact. What was once fringe is rapidly scaling. Nice to actually see the world moving forward in a good direction on this.

I wasn’t just talking about the whole vegetarian thing. I was talking about the idea that the HN community would be in support of any extreme idea like this. If you look at Twitter, for example, almost everyone that commented on this issue thought it was absolutely absurd. Yet here is HN, mostly supporting it, simply because it’s left-leaning. It shows how out-of-touch HN is with the rest of the world. No wonder peop…