myspider | 5 years ago | on: The case for national paid maternity leave
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myspider | 5 years ago | on: The case for national paid maternity leave
> I can't help but feel that "working" and "raising children" is having your cake and eating it too.
Just like the 'eternal September' there's the 'eternal desire to return to 1955'. I suppose I should be surprised.
myspider | 5 years ago | on: The case for national paid maternity leave
> I have seen some time up precisely their pregnancies to maximize time off work,
How on earth can you know that?
'I have seen' - excuse me, but what? Are you going to tell us that you work at a company where people's reproductive plans are common water cooler discussion? Do you work a tech company? I'd find that mind-boggling.
'timing a pregnancy'? Only someone who's never tried to get pregnant could take that seriously.
myspider | 5 years ago | on: Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
- Not a google employee
- Am an employee of a large company whose practices would probably also not stand up to public scrutiny
First question is has this been verified beyond "someone said so"? Perhaps it has - but any search I do ultimately leads back to the same comment.
Second, google is hardly the only company to occasionally kowtow the the PRC. I don't think any large company wants to a face-off with them. Are there more ethical employers? Probably, but they're probably small and not everyone wants to work at a small company pace. Also, if the company got larger and push came to shove, I suspect they'd do what they needed to do to stay on China's good side. It's a better option than going under.
Really a lot of employers are ethically shaky.
- Is it better to work for the DoD? Some people say no.
- Is it better to work for a Big Bank? Some people say no.
- Is it better to work for Big Pharm? Some people say no.
- Is it better to work for a place that frankly abuses their warehouse workers? I think we've had that discussion.
I'm not sure where that leaves anyone who likes gainful employment, particularly outside the Silicon Valley startup culture.
That doesn't necessarily translate to 'throw up our hands' but it does meant a more nuanced approach to where we work, how we feel about our employer, and how we measure that against all the other places we do business with that also have their dark sides.
myspider | 5 years ago | on: Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways
That is hard to imagine. If the site I've linked below is accurate, the average salary of a SW engineer in Bangalore is $20k. Glassdoor says the average salary in Silicon Valley is $112. ( which seems low to me ) Even with COL adjustments I'm not sure how you'd get both sides to agree on a 'fair' amount.
myspider | 5 years ago | on: Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways
An obvious problem was offshoring and arguably the unions contributed to that by making US manufacturing more expensive.
Every so often someone suggests that software engineers should unionize. Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I think that it would be the best thing that ever happened to Bangalore. I worry about all our jobs ending up in Bangalore eventually, I'm just hoping I can make it to retirement before that happens.
myspider | 5 years ago | on: San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate
Not to be cynical, but this strikes me as more of a ad - or click bait. Search numbers on a website that I, at least, have never heard of is pretty poor evidence for a trend.
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I'll take a chance and guess your gender. Timing a pregnancy is not as easy as you think.