Comment on San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code

• hansl@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It kind of started when Google, Apple and others started colluding to keep wages low by refusing to hire each other’s talent. They’ve been found guilty of that and I got a nice check of about 10$ plus a pinky promise they wouldn’t do it again. Yeah!

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  • vidarh@lemmy.stad.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It started before that. In '98 I remember having dinner with someone who worked at Netscape before then who told me about how a co-worker had just been fired for living in the office, something they’d apparently decided to do in the first place because they already then had all of these perks designed to keep them in the office.

    The Google, Apple etc. collusion certainly was a huge step up in abusive practices, though.

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