Track_ShovelFeb 20

Get bent, Brenda

https://slrpnk.net/post/34371577

Show threadfinalarbiterFeb 20

Hi Brenda,

I wanted to reach out regarding a small observation I made in your last email. In telling me how to spend 30 minute meal break and encouraging me to cut it short for the company’s benefit, you violated US labor law.

Let’s correct this behavior and try to be more mindful of that “our company is not above the law” spirit so we can keep your momentum going in the right direction. :-)

Eric

Show threadNate CoxFeb 20

See, the people that do this shit are well trained though. Brenda didn’t demand that he work during lunch and was in fact clear that he was within his rights to not. Instead, Brenda has simply suggested that it would look better and he would conform better if he worked some unpaid time.

They know how to skirt the law. They can still go fuck themselves though, the gaslighting assholes.

Show threadT00l_shed
She did also say “correct this behaviour” which is the corpo way of saying “do it or else”
Feb 21 at 12:41amWeb
Show threadNate CoxFeb 21
Corpo language is corpo language for a reason though: it is legally safe to deploy. Intent is so very very hard to litigate.
Show threadDomeGuyFeb 21

If you were in a jury box and were shown just this message and a note about how he was fired two months later for “not being a team player” you’d infer the intent and vote to hold the company liable for wrongful termination.

Corpospeak keeps a “work through lunch” message from being a self-evident labor law violation even if no adverse action occurrrd. They don’t disguise intent if those later bad actions occur

Show threadNate CoxFeb 21
Workplace litigation effectively never gets a jury.
Show threaddion_starfireFeb 21
Particularly in countries that allow employers to force arbitration clauses on employees. You don’t get a jury, you get an “impartial” arbitrator paid for by the company.
Show threadNate CoxFeb 21
Yep. Frustrating.
Show threadknightly the SneptaurFeb 21
Because the company knows it can settle to avoid the Discovery process.
Show threadbrbpostingFeb 21
Mastercardery & Visary processes too
Show threadJcbAzPxFeb 21
That is a bald faced lie.
Show threadObjectivityIncarnateFeb 21

Doesn’t “correct this behavior” very directly imply that the current behavior (in this case, taking your full lunch break) is incorrect and therefore in need of correction, though?

It’s one thing to suggest something, but calling it a “correction” changes things, I’d think.

Show threadNate CoxFeb 21

You’d think. Really, you would, I’m not being sarcastic.

I’ve also been around long enough to know that rational doesn’t really apply to corpos. As dumb and as frustrating as this is, I really don’t think this message would be actionable.

Show threadJcbAzPxFeb 21
Someday an employee is going to sue you and you will lose.
Show threadNate CoxFeb 21
I’m guessing you didn’t actually read my comment at the start here.
Show threadarrow74Feb 21
No that’s not a “safe” way to say this. It’s a pretty god damn clear demand
Show threadfartographerFeb 21
Even here in Texas, I’ve learned that “let’s correct this behavior” can be shown as evidence that you received threats of a personal improvement plan