At my last company, one day someone in accounting approached me at lunch and quietly told me I need to ask for a raise because I was way underpaid.
They gave me a number to shoot for. It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.
So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.
I got what I asked for.
If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known. I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.
You should at least check sites like salary.com to start the process of seeing what you should be making.
I love that Ubisoft’s response to the racist white man pain mess that was Watch Dogs was by giving WD2 a black male lead. But then when racists got angry, Ubisoft put wearable blm merch in-game, added playable buff female characters and black vikings to For Honor, diversified their roster in Rainbow Six Siege, made their newest Assassin’s Creed games take place in China and Egypt, and made Far Cry 5 be about beating up white supremacists.
Conspiracy Theory: Ubisoft Was Killed And Replaced By A Look Alike
Whatever demons Ubisoft inhabited exited into Bioware.
#ubi 3 years ago: how do i animate a fucking woman
Yo, I’ve got a really good female friend who works for Ubisoft. Instead of acting like it’s witchcraft that Ubi’s changing it’s tune, you can thank the women and other minorities working inside gaming companies that endure being called names by all of you lot AND being treated like crap by their own coworkers and still keep persistently trying to push for change inside their company.
They work tirelessly despite getting shit from absolutely everyone, gamers, co-workers and internet trolls alike.
Story time!
Back when I was the head lifeguard at the YMCA, I got the previous aquatics director to steal a bank of lockers to put in the guard room for all the guards. We each had our own mini locker, and the director printed out cute little aquatic animals and wrote people’s names on them so we could stick them on our lockers.
After that aquatics director left and we got a new aquatics director, @offduty-mermaid was hired. Rather than follow the trend of aquatic animals, I decided they should have a water type pokemon instead.
This started an unprecedented barrage of requests. Before Rosie, no one really cared what fish or whale or shark or jellyfish or whatever they got, but now? With pokemon? These guards were going NUTS.
Gio wanted a gyarados. Libby wanted a Kyogre. Sal wanted a squirtle, but not just any squirtle, a squirle squad squirtle. Our department’s facebook page was blowing up with requests when @squishy-gay made a simple request: The humble mudkip.
So, wanting to be a good head lifeguard, I looked up mudkips on google images, looking for the absolute cutest mudkip to use for Nikki’s locker.
That’s when @offduty-mermaid walked into the guard office, looked at my computer screen full of mudkips, and promptly walked right back out.
Amazon didn’t kill retail, Traffic and hassle-filled parking did.
Upper management cutting training and reducing staff and hours killed retail. They were unsatisfied with the profits they were seeing, decided they could get more money by not paying for any of the things that kept the store running, and then when their stores broke down because nothing was where it was supposed to be and none of their employers knew enough to help customers they blamed online shopping for providing a superior service.
Accurate.
In the couple of years I worked at my last job, I saw training for new employees cut down from two weeks to 45 minutes.
Like, Amazon’s success is due to a lot more than just people’s desire to avoid parking. They crap on their employees just as much as any retail business, if not more, but they do it in out-of-sight warehouses and shipping centers so that customers never need to be exposed to overstressed or undertrained workers.
People who perform manual labor should be not only given high and liveable wages, but unlimited access to healthcare and physical therapy to help manage the myriad conditions that come from doing back-breaking work.
Like this is not an absurd concept. It bothers me that people think that it is.
capitalism stops the growth of knowledge, when one is forced to work endless hours to simply survive, they never get a chance to research and improve their surroundings. there is no way you can argue it’s the most efficient way to “advance” society technologically, academically, etc.
this even goes beyond the whole “humans always have to work to survive blah blah” most of us are working far more hours than humans did a hundred thousand years ago to survive lmao. here’s the shocker they had far more free time than we do lmao.
there’s no excuse for the amount of hours people are forced to work, when the vast majority of it is simply busywork that does nothing to improve the lives of people, and creates grotesque amounts of excess waste never to be used.
all that fucking labor appropriated and for what? to be thrown in a landfill or the ocean, etc. and to deplete our scarce resources? yeahhhh real conducive to societal advancement right there.
Under capitalism, research only gets done when you can find someone to fund it.
While there are non-profit bodies that fund research without immediate economic benefit, the vast majority of funding, especially in the sciences and engineering, goes to research that is profitable, or at least can be presented as such.
Not does capitalism diminish the potential pool of researchers and ancillary staff, it actively disincentivizes research in a potentially infinite range of areas.
And then what research IS done is hidden behind paywalls so few can read and build on it
I really want to emphasize that because academia and research are largely dependent on capitalist funding in America, it’s difficult to get solid research done unless it can be tied to some sort of profit.
Good science is peer reviewed. Good studies must be replicated. But science done under a capitalist model is less focused on intellectual integrity and more focused on prestige. After all, in America, nothing is better than being the FIRST. There’s less value in producing a solid replication of a groundbreaking study than actually producing the original findings.
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