One night at my job I recently noticed that the security cameras in the break room didn’t have their usual red light on. I checked closer and sure enough it didn’t seem to be active. Curious, I went to switch off some lights through the breakers and sure enough, the red light came back on.…
Unsafe Workplaces Christopher Nowinski was once a professional wrestler with a promising career ahead of him. After participating in a talent search show called Tough Enough, he began working for World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002. Much was made of his having graduated from Harvard University; he was a smart guy who was valued as a…
An Economy of the Poor and Productive By Winter Trabex If you’ve happened to read any of my previous pieces on this site, I haven’t exactly come out strongly in favor of the current economic system we have today. Although it’s better than some others (such as whole nations full of starving, desperate people), there…
So…this is something. Also see here for the unedited video: Also, does anyone wanna hit those dudes that are bullying those robots? I know it’s (ahem) their job but…
A while back my friend, supporter of the site and past contributor Ryan Calhoun sent me this story about how Amazon “solved” the problem of work for its employers. The problem being, that the Amazon workers wanted overtime pay due to the amount of time (somewhere around a half-hour) that they’d be detained before leaving so…