• Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    21 hours ago

    Who cares about the legality?

    If somebody’s house burnt down, you give them whatever they need. Any company not giving somebody in that situation paid time off is a shitty company. I know for sure my boss would give me whatever I needed and ask if he personally could help in any way.

    Employees are humans first and foremost and need to be treated with respect and compassion, not slaves to be exploited and punished.

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      5 hours ago

      It’s not even about humanity, it’s also the right thing to do from a business perspective: You want your workers to be productive again ASAP, that’s worth not just continuing to pay them, but also focussing the collective buzz-bee energy of middle management on finding out what everyone needs and finding ways of providing it so they can actually do work instead of dealing with personal shit. Suddenly have 1000 homeless employees? Get them hotel rooms, find them homes, if need be build apartments. Have the legal department pro-bono the management of their insurance claims. Whatever is necessary, the next useless presentation and the next grand lawsuit you planned can wait. Don’t paint your nails while your feet are on fire.

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      I’ve never seen a big company like bytedance give PTO for a death in the family, much less for someone’s house burning down.

      Any of those companies big enough middle management can hide behind “company policy” and then off their hearts and brains.

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      21 hours ago

      A public company will 99,9% of the time be shit, that’s why you need strong worker protection enshrined in legislation. The fact that all the downvoters didn’t get the subtext is one of the reasons you got to this situation in the first place. The average literacy in the US is godawful and the political process only works in easily digestible soundbites, so complex themes like worker protection get relegated to the back seat in favour of who uses which bathroom.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        21 hours ago

        Holy shit take the L.

        No one here disagrees with that, or is unaware of the “sUbTeXt”.

        That’s just not how subtext works. You don’t get to say one thing, then claim you meant something entirely different (the reasonable take) and call it subtext.

        • rumba@lemmy.zip
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          12 hours ago

          We can’t take the L they have to be right because… Reasons

          God the trolls are out in force today. What did a new round of funding come in from Russia?

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            18 hours ago

            You’re not doing your home country any favors. Your inability to understand the situation is astounding really. Where are you from that made you so damn smart?