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JonathanOct 18, 2024
The Stallman reportOct 14, 2024

We, the anonymous editors of the Stallman report, have published our investigation of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation today to a general audience:

https://stallman-report.org

Our report exhaustively catalogues, analyzes, and offers a rebuttal of Richard Stallman's political program of sexual violence, catalogues credible allegations of misconduct, and documents the misconduct of the #FSF circa 2019 and 2021. Please read and share our work.

Boosts encouraged.

#freesoftware

The Stallman report

October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project. He is responsible for innumerable contributions to the free software movement, setting its guiding principles, organizing political action, and directly contributing to a flourishing free software ecosystem. The majority of Stallman’s political activity has been of priceless value to society at large.

The Stallman report
JonathanAug 30, 2024
FastmailAug 29, 2024

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JonathanAug 6, 2024
ghorwood↙↙↙Aug 5, 2024

- tech firms lay off thousands to boost stock price
- jobs report shows rising unemployment
- stock market panics and nasdaq crashes
- tech firms' stock prices go down

brilliant strategy. the best.

JonathanJun 21, 2024
Ars TechnicaJun 20, 2024

Nearly half of Dell’s workforce refused to return to the office

Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/nearly-half-of-dells-workforce-refused-to-return-to-the-office/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.

Ars Technica
JonathanMar 27, 2024
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JonathanJan 17, 2024
FastmailJan 17, 2024

Your calendar is crucial to planning your work, scheduling events, and staying on track. There are so many ways to customize your Fastmail calendar to complement your unique workflow and make this the best year yet!

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JonathanDec 12, 2023

I didn't know you could perform +/- operations between arrays in Ruby. ♦️

I tried it in JS. Yeah, didn't work 😅

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Ars TechnicaJun 20, 2024

Nearly half of Dell’s workforce refused to return to the office

Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/nearly-half-of-dells-workforce-refused-to-return-to-the-office/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Show threadStarcadeJun 20, 2024

@arstechnica

We faced the same at our company. Some of our employees moved away without telling anyone.

Show threadrabbleJun 22, 2024
@Starcade @arstechnica I moved from SF to Uruguay without telling yahoo HR in 2007. They eventually discovered and fired me. My team knew and were fine with it.
Show threadnickJun 22, 2024

@Starcade

If the work can be done remotely, the employee should be able to live where they want. If a company doesn't like that, don't offer remote work.

Simple as.

@arstechnica

Show threadChris Lilley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jun 20, 2024
@arstechnica Form a union
Show threadtriswebJun 20, 2024

@arstechnica This sounds like they're calling their bluff bigtime.

Like, good luck running your company and retaining people actually doing their jobs if you're gonna stick with this.

I'd take that bet.

Show threadJacobRPG❌👑Jun 20, 2024
@arstechnica @gemini6ice what a dumb policy from Dell. If you are remote you can't be promoted. C-suite still mad they lost so much power in a covid-changed world.
Show threadMatija NalisJun 21, 2024
@jaykass
have to admire inventive win-win scenario devised by those upper management parasites, though. They've just increased their own bonuses due to ensuring huge profits by making sure half of workforce has "willingly" opted out of raises forever. 😱
@arstechnica @gemini6ice
Show threadPiotr BialeckiJun 22, 2024
@mnalis @jaykass @arstechnica @[email protected] No, what'll happen is that those folks will just move away & get promoted elsewhere. And Dell will get stuck with new hires & no-one to mentor them.
Show threadthehereticJun 20, 2024
@arstechnica those people are based as fuck
Show threadShadSterlingJun 20, 2024
@arstechnica kindof surprised it wasn’t more
Show threadIanJun 21, 2024
@ShadSterling @arstechnica I'll bet the other half is all management since Dell seems like one of those top heavy companies.
Show threadBernhard Hofmann 🇬🇧 🇨🇭 🇺🇦Jun 20, 2024
@arstechnica This is the way
Show threadDavip PrestnodJun 20, 2024
@arstechnica makes me want a dell computer
Show threadXipherJun 20, 2024
@arstechnica Good, fuck that policy :D
Show threadToon Van de Putte 🍉Jun 20, 2024
@arstechnica If you save ~2hrs of commute every day, that's kind of a 'promotion' right there.
Show threaddjwJun 20, 2024
@toon @arstechnica Yep, and it's a helluva pay raise too. My time has value, gas certainly has value (more than it ought to, these days), etc.
Show threadsabikJun 22, 2024
@_ @toon @arstechnica
Not to mention the promotion/raise of reduced risk of long covid
Show threadGFJacobs Is Still MaskingJun 20, 2024
@arstechnica fuck the corporate vampires.
Show threadJerry on MastodonJun 20, 2024

@arstechnica Tell me Dell has low employee morale without telling me they have low employee morale.

I keep hearing this claim that coming into the office increases collaboration. But, if this were the real reason, then companies wouldn't hire offshore developers who can only be collaborated with for two hours per day. It's OK to limit collaboration if the company saves money? Somehow it's not so essential, then?

There is some dishonesty about this, especially when people come in to attend video meetings.

Show threadbluGillJun 20, 2024

@Jerry

@arstechnica they cancled my trip to india a few weeks before they mandated my return to office. There would have been more value in that trip than all my time in the office. I bike to work so at least I get some exercise out of it.

Show threadKévinJun 20, 2024

@Jerry @arstechnica

My take is that it's about protecting commercial real estate valuations (would love for a professionals to weigh in)

Also, many metro areas are experiencing a housing crisis.

1) Commercial to residential conversion: Not easy, but possible.

2) Reduce GHG emissions? More WFH.

But instead the corporate push is "back to office", for many who then collaborate virtually with people not in the same office.

An interesting article on the topic.

https://www.tvo.org/article/you-can-try-to-bully-workers-back-into-the-office-but-that-wont-solve-the-real-problem

TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts

Show threadKévinJun 21, 2024

@Jerry @arstechnica

The reason I think this is outlined below.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/impairment.asp

What Does Impairment Mean in Accounting? With Examples

An impairment in accounting is a permanent reduction in the value of an asset to less than its carrying value.

Investopedia
Show threadgreenpepper22Jun 21, 2024
@Jerry @arstechnica exactly, if you wanna get the advantage of the company overall getting like 15 hours of work done everyday you need to accept remote workers cuz nobody’s gunna go into an office for 3 hours of virtual meetings and totally free for the rest of the day. I feel like the obvious solution is to build separate in person and remote teams.
Show threadhalcy​ Jun 22, 2024
@Jerry @arstechnica offices aren’t even designed for collaboration anymore (i.e. small to mid sized rooms, well separated spaces suitable for working as a small group), they’re all these completely open spaces where if you walk over to a colleague to talk, you’re annoying 10 other people in the vicinity
Show threadM.O.M.O.Jun 20, 2024
@arstechnica They know they can still get promoted, by accepting another job
Show threadAlanJun 20, 2024
@arstechnica Seems like not being promoted if you're remote is not a threat if, like many other corps, Dell isn't promoting very often anyway.
Show threadPirateRoJun 20, 2024

@arstechnica I don’t have a problem with the all staying home. I can see the burden of taking care of a family member with long Covid for years while Dellmakes it’s next billion. Look at physicsgirl. Here you go.

https://youtu.be/I-QEwJOdlAw?si=e-zjIy9PhUx9bDUz

Long COVID condition gets a new definition

YouTube
Show threadBill LambJun 20, 2024

@arstechnica

Once had a sub-editor (I forget his exact title) at a Texas metro complain to me about how much time he spent in meetings. Never enough time to write, he said.

He was responsible for one column a week.

#journalism

Show threadcow99Jun 20, 2024
@arstechnica and most people don’t get promoted after some level, so this just removed the stress. No need to try to prove yourself anymore, just do your job, and turn the computer off at the end of the day.
Show threadSpace WranglerJun 20, 2024
@arstechnica
Management really underestimates the damage commutes do to people
Show threadabsintheJun 20, 2024

@arstechnica
I'll bet they weren't going to be promoted anyways!

F RTO!

Show threadabsintheJun 20, 2024

@arstechnica
No surprise that Dell sucks up to tfg & the gop.

From leaked ted cruz fundraising papers:

Show threadChristie DudleyJun 21, 2024
@arstechnica @briankrebs This speaks to more than just an unwillingness to return to work. It suggests that certain employees do not see themselves as having any possible hope of promotion. That's the kind of hopelessness that foments among minorities and women in tech.
Show threadLog 🪵Jun 21, 2024
@arstechnica They weren't going to be promoted anyway. And the few who would? Yay! You get a private office with a window now. That you already had at home. But this one you have to drive an hour each way to look out of, and the view here is of an opposing wall of windows and traffic instead of a flower garden with bees and goldfinches in it.
Show threadstephen ryner jr. 🦉Jun 21, 2024
@arstechnica @jerry “Others still noted that it seemed pointless to go in to an in-person office when the teams they worked on were already distributed across multiple offices around the world, so they'd mostly still be on Zoom calls anyway.”
Show threadstephen ryner jr. 🦉Jun 21, 2024
@arstechnica @jerry “Many interviewed admitted they were looking for work at other companies that aren't trying to corral employees back into the office.”
Show threadI am Jack's Lost 404Jun 21, 2024

@nuthatch @arstechnica @jerry

Corral is a good word here. That's exactly what this is.

Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Jun 21, 2024
@nuthatch @arstechnica this is why I rejected RTO - they want me to pick up and move to a different state so that I can work out of an office that won’t have enough space for me full time to manage the team I lead, which is almost exclusively overseas. No thanks 🚮
Show threadDavid H. McCoyJun 21, 2024

@nuthatch @arstechnica @jerry @maxleibman

Welcome to my world.

Show threadreaply Pop&NetBSD🚩Jun 21, 2024
@arstechnica corporate right now
Show threadmayaJun 21, 2024
@arstechnica "workers stayed remote even when Dell dangled some keys in front of them."
Show threadLeszekJun 21, 2024
@arstechnica that's great news, ppl will choose life over work if they only can afford it!
Show threadEric CurtinJun 21, 2024
@arstechnica when I worked at Dell in 2019 there was a push to make many people become full time remote workers. Most but not all were fine with it (everybody is different). Employees seemed happier and Dell's stock price has trebled in the meantime. I'm a little surprised by the change of stance, all things considered.
Show threadPunished Bernadetta Jun 22, 2024
@arstechnica "return to office, we want to see your reaction to getting laid off because we replaced your department with workers from India on our CCTVs"
Show threadStatic RaiderJun 22, 2024

@arstechnica
When there is no such thing as company loyalty, and your job can be done fully remote I understand the decision from many employes. From what I hear most, if not all the time, its better to switch companies then get a raise/promotion anyway.

As a side note, it seems like companys and banks are getting pretty desperate about the uselessness of office spaces, at least for tech fields and tech related work. Its going to be intresting watching how this all plays out.

Show threadexus1plJun 22, 2024
@arstechnica almost 4 years of world going fully remote and they still think it doesn't work?
Show threadShoreGuyJun 22, 2024

@arstechnica This company lied to its workforce. Families made "life decisions" based on what they were told. Then they enact a policy that requires a return to office (expecting high levels of resignation)? Then when they realize the workforce won't relocate to go back to an office or quit they try to covert fire people with a No Promotion Policy?

I'll never buy another Dell product nor hire anyone from Dell Leadership.
You shouldn't either.

#dell

Show threadThe DoctorJun 22, 2024
@arstechnica What's a promotion?