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Master/slave in the context of IT has absolutely nothing to do with slavery, black people, etc. So yes, it is political.
Actually there are legitimate arguments that master/slave in this context (IT) are precisely tied to slavery.
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We’ve crossed majority support: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/544500-poll-majority-of-re... . I’m from a Muslim country, and among Muslim Americans same sex relationships are taboo. While Muslim support for same sex marriage crossed the 50% mark a couple of years ago, it’s completely rejected within the community itself. (Almost no Muslim Americans identity as LGBT, and virtually no mosques will perform same sex…
> While Muslim support for same sex marriage crossed the 50% mark a couple of years ago, it’s completely rejected within the community itself. Honestly, this is one of the reasons I don't like to reach for statistics in this kind of debate - because of what you've highlighted here. The numbers on the survey say one thing, but they paint a rosier picture than reality. > My aunts don’t want to grant government sanction…
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I am totally on board with this. I get extra subsidy for health insurance at work if I walk 7000 steps a day - $750 per year. I was already walking over 10k steps daily for years. But what if you have bad knees or live in a dangerous neighborhood or simply don't like walking? That to me is paternalistic behavior. If you want subsidize my health insurance, just do it. But I don't need my employer to be my mommy, no ma…
> I get extra subsidy for health insurance at work if I walk 7000 steps a day - $750 per year. Really? How does this work? Your company tracks how many steps you take?
There is also a portion that tracks your sleep habits, but it requires you to enable the Bedtime feature on the iPhone, which I don't want to do.
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Master/slave in the context of IT has absolutely nothing to do with slavery, black people, etc. So yes, it is political.
Actually there are legitimate arguments that master/slave in this context (IT) are precisely tied to slavery.
> No more paternalistic benefits. For years we've offered a fitness benefit, a wellness allowance, a farmer's market share, and continuing education allowances I have had a gripe with this sort of 'benefits' in previous companies. For example, paying for membership at the local gym. Reply to criticism tended to be " Oh well, use it or lose it ". Glad Basecamp saw the light on this. Just pay employees well or set up a…
There are some benefits where getting something as part of the organization benefits individual employees in a way that individual employee couldn't access on their own. For example health insurance rates and coverage are exponentially better as part of a group/corporate plan.
Giving someone a farmer's market allowance is not that. That's just prescriptive + locked money.
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Since you wrote the "pink" analogy and this post too, I can respond here: The issue of anti-asian quotas at major american universities is absolutely a legitimate one that needs addressing. Here's why it's a little bit more complicated than just: "Let's just remove all criteria for university admission besides high scores. That won't discriminate against asians and be a true meritocracy". Because then, the amount of…
> There is no quota. There are goals to improve these numbers. But there is no quota in the professional world. You're simply misinformed on this. I have direct primary source information from recruiting personnel in "Google and Facebook and Amazon and Microsoft" that there are significant specific quota'd positions. These programs leaking to non-woke press is going to be an outrage.
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> I get extra subsidy for health insurance at work if I walk 7000 steps a day - $750 per year. Really? How does this work? Your company tracks how many steps you take?
Yes, through an app called Virgin Pulse. It hooks into Apple Health and syncs steps with it when you start it up. There is also a portion that tracks your sleep habits, but it requires you to enable the Bedtime feature on the iPhone, which I don't want to do.
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Yet politics is one of the few places you can impact your workplace. Most companies in the US are authoritarian and it's in politics you can have some say. Democracy at Work is the next stage of work. The "shut up and work" kind of work is a dead end.
1. You start a 'democratic' company 2. You make a controversial decision or series of decisions 3. You lose 'voted out' 4. Turns out your controversial decision would've been [firing a few employees/getting acquired/insert unpopular thing here] to keep the company afloat, and everything goes belly up It's the same reason unions only work in the biggest, most established companies. Everything slows to a crawl otherwis…
> cooperatives tend to last longer and are less susceptible to perverse incentives and other problems of organizational governance than more traditionally managed organizations.
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> conservative politics in the UD make some people’s entire existence political, full stop Funny, as a conservative minority in a straight white liberal company, my entire existence isn’t just political, it’s apparently a moral imperative that I be reminded on a daily basis that people like myself not only shouldn’t have a voice, we shouldn’t be allowed to exist in society at all. Full stop. It’s made quite clear tha…
> Funny, as a conservative minority in a straight white liberal company, my entire existence isn’t just political, it’s apparently a moral imperative that I be reminded on a daily basis that people like myself not only shouldn’t have a voice, we shouldn’t be allowed to exist in society at all. Full stop. As someone on the opposite side of the political spectrum from you, I want to say - I respect your opinions, I can…
While I wish my work environment allowed me to express my views as everyone else does, I do genuinely appreciate hearing other side, and I’ve certainly gained valuable perspective on some issues this way.
As the other reply from atonse mentioned, I would love an environment where ideas can be discussed (and even disagreed with) but with mutual respect for each other as people with differing life experiences.
I think we mostly have more in common than most of us think, and I think we would all have a lot less hate, a lot more shared understanding, and ultimately better outcomes at work and at home.