I’ve been in the workforce for 30 years. I’ve never seen anything even close to this happen anywhere I have worked, I haven’t heard stories about it from my friends either.
But we aren’t tech bros.
The circumstantial evidence seems to suggest that the tech industry has a big problem with this kind of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Why? I have no idea.
But that industry needs to take account of this and hold themselves to a higher standard. Getting support for this is probably hard for lemmy users because many of them are probably tech bros themselves and possibly blind to this sort of thing happening in their workplaces too.
Def seems like the rumblings around tech culture and sexism has some teeth though
What makes you think it’s ‘simply existing’? It’s providing a rare and valuable service to people who value the service.
There isn’t a lot of parking in Toronto.
If you think a person should make more for doing less, you’re way out of touch with reality. Even under communism the government expects you to be at least somewhat useful.
I don’t know where this idea came from that a person just simply existing entitles them to a certain income given to them by other people who are actually providing enough value that they can subsidize your lack of value.
Just be useful, it’s society. If no one was useful we’d all be fucked. What makes you so special that you can be supported by everyone else?
You’re going to a Toronto maple leafs game and you’re smart enough to not live in the city, you have a couple choices.
Park at yorkdale and take the subway, or try to find a place to park near the arena.
Or you can park further away and pay less and walk if you don’t waste too much time in traffic getting downtown.
You need to pay a lot to park at the airport too, catch your plane, go on your vacation and then have the convenience of getting right in your car and driving home, not trying to arrange someone to come pick you up and drop you off.
Capitalism works. There are markets who will pay for these and that’s why they are made. That’s what capitalism is.
If not for capitalism, these games wouldn’t even exist.
Now, the issue I think you’re worried about is that people begrudgingly pay for the game when they don’t really want to. Or pay more than they want to for it.
That’s not capitalism, that’s FOMO.
People make a ton of shit everyday that I don’t buy. But obviously someone is out there paying for this shit, or it wouldn’t be being made.
What do I care, or what do you care about it enough to even address?
If people don’t buy it, it either gets cheaper or it’s not made at all. So just don’t buy it. I haven’t bought a sports game in 20 years because of this. But they keep making them and people keep complaining about them.
Complain about yourselves, it’s not capitalism, it’s the consumers.
Don’t lie, that’s bad advice. Instead, be honest just like you been here.
Tell them “I’ve owned my own business for the last several years, but covid hit me pretty hard. I haven’t had a manager that I’m still in contact with prior to those years”
This was really weird to read. Self harm like this is normally associated with pretty severe mental illness.
Like what did she think they were going to do if she called in sick? Beat her up? Definitely a strange part of the story.
She probably should have kept that part to herself