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[-] MudMan@fedia.io 44 points 1 month ago

You can, in fact, ask that. It's just that you shouldn't have to because labor conditions should be regulated by law.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

I asked that when I was being interviewed. I wasnt aware it was abnormal. My boss didnt make a big deal out of it either. I also asked what benefits the position came with. We negotiated on my pay on the spot, which is where i definitely got a bit uncomfortable.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Labour conditions shouldn't need regulation, we should just recognise another being's suffering.

Though if we are going to have governments, they might as well do something useful.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

we should just recognise another being's suffering.

We do. It's just that those that revel in it get rewarded.

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Don't be ridiculous. Some of them just see additional free time of the masses as bad for the health of their gold hoards. When people aren't working all the time, they have enough time to think about your gold hoard. /s

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

There is literally no other thing that needs regulation more. It's the entire reason contracts are a thing that exists. If anybody comes to you claiming they'll set your working conditions based on empathy, that's your cue to find a different job and a good union.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Rape whistles shouldn't need to exist, either.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago

You US people should not normalize "sick days". They're unethical.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

Dutch people can take 729 sick days in a row, assuming they're actually sick, that is.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago

I'm with you, but it's already normalized and the laws aren't on our side (plus there's an entire party trying to further erode worker's rights).

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

Autism helps (I've done shit like that, especially when I was younger. If I need to know something, I ask ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 😂)

[-] li10@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

Depends how it was asked and general attitude imo.

If that’s one of your leading questions then that’s a massive red flag, and anyone saying otherwise is being obtuse.

If it’s one of a few questions they asked at the end then that’s fine.

[-] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

You should lead with that question, but not to a potienal manager, instead ask it your politican since in most of the western the answer would be "all the days that you're sick"

[-] tektite@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

The owner of a company I worked for made it through interviews and the entire hiring process several times without telling people their hourly pay. I'd trained new employees who asked me how much they'd be making. When I mentioned it, the owner was like, "They never asked!" WHAT THE FUCK.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You shouldn't have to ask that, but you kinda have to if you don't want to end up having to come in with the flu.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

For my current job we had a "culture fit" interview where I basically just went out to lunch with my future coworkers. That's when I asked for the real truth about benefits, turnover, bullshit levels, promotions, and raises.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

You can ask that, but I wouldn't if I actually wanted to be hired there.

[-] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

If an employer looks down on you for asking about benefits you're legally entitled to, you're probably better off not working for them.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, you are. However, good luck finding somewhere that isn't like this.

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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.

To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx

In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland

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