Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

• distortwave@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Last I checked we sell our labor power, not our entirety of our existence.

  Ppl seem to rly want slavery modes of labor back again. Sad

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  • Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lol, what?

    You represent your employers at work, not every waking hour.

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    • distortwave@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gotcha. Microsoft against vigils. Like I said I’m not surprised since it’s a garbage company.

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    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It has been shifting to every waking hour for a while now. Your behavior is being monitored to a greater, and greater, extent everyday, and the big companies, that truly own the economy, are becoming more, and more, likely to take punitive actions against you for anything you do, at any time, because “as an employee you are a representative of our company”.

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      • Daveyborn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Social media has been an awful tool for them to use against us. I’ve had coworkers that were let go for airing out stuff on Twitter that was pretty minor compared to something like this, usually just trash talking the company for being passed up for promotion.

        Never use your real name on them.

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    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Employers in the US often include “morality clauses” that mean they can fire you because they deem you to be harming the reputation of the company due to behavior outside of work.

      More importantly than “the rules”, though, US employers can fire you for basically any reason they want and then just lie about it. Nobody is going to force them to be truthful. Not even if they are union busting. The Biden-Harris NLRB, which the president dragged his feet staffing and staffed with wet blankets, has even upheld the Trump NLRB Electrolux decision - and the vast majority of people never get to the point of launching a lawsuit that would be relevant, as it costs tens of thousands of dollars.

      If you want power in the workplace you need to organize a union competently and develop capacity real leverage (direct action, community support, naming and shaming).

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• Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m sorry that the facts don’t fit your narrative. It must be frustrating.

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  • TseseJuer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yea I’m seething you dork

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