Comment on In a leaked memo, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke put limits on employees having side hustles, saying Shopify requires 'unshared attention'

Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  *Unless the employee is competing directly with the company

  (I originally read into nonexistent context from the headline and am dum-dum.)

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  • Cheers@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck that noise.

    In tech, my brain is my brain. Your employment is a license to use my brain for 8 hours a day. If I choose to get employed elsewhere, I still have my brain and it’s being licensed there too. If you want to license my brain 24/7, then we’re upping the cost significantly and you better fucking put it in the terms.

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    • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah you’re not understanding the hypothetical at all.

      If I hire you to do a job, and outside of working hours for me, you’re actively working against me, you’re fucking fired out of a cannon.

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      • Cheers@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thing is it’s never that black and white. Every business does somethings better than it’s competitors, otherwise one of them would have already gone under. It’s people that work at both that brimg both businesses forward.

        Why do you think big tech big tech companies call as soon as you leave another big tech company?

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Big words for a little guy who’s not currently paying me.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thing is I’m all for a company dumping an employee who engages in hate speech, for example, in their spare time. It’s at-will employment so anything goes technically.

  The problem here is that the guy is targeting something totally inappropriate. He’s saying in thinly coded language that he expects people to be working all the time. He wants to own their spare time. There’s nothing to do about this except for his staff to dump him and his company and quit their jobs. It’s at-will employment so anything goes.

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• LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The capitalist mindset is basically slave holding with extra steps. They think they own you, but couch it in corporate-speak, using emotive words like ‘loyalty’ and ‘efficiency’. That way, instead of sounding like the narcissistic leeches they are, the onus is on the employee to not break the bonds of ‘trust’ bestowed upon them by their capitalist overlords.

  I felt this so hard, when I started getting sick, I quit my job proactively rather than inflict the harm my tardiness and less-than-peak performance might do to the company. No severance, no safety net, and now I’m literally destitute after being a top performer in my industry for years. It works.

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