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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (7 children)

No way. I don't want my employer to also be my landlord. Nothing good could come of that.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You commit 16 lines, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some people say a man is made outta blood. A code monkey's made out of Fritos and crud. Fritos and crud and skin and bone. A back that's weak and a mind that's strong...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nice, I like it. My back feels called out though.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sounds illegal until I realized its tech workers who refuse to unionize and think they are getting paid bank but to live like a virtual slave.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

As one in the industry, it's incredibly frustrating. Colleagues have been saying "oh, we get all of these perks and get nice salaries, we don't need a union" while others are bucket-crabbing with "you make big money, why do you need a union?", both overlooking the immense amounts of unpaid overtime that are endemic. Then, there's the push for RTO, which does nothing to benefit employees and would be readily prevented by strong unions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

it's very easy to ignore social inequities if you spend all your time working for a shitty company making absolute bank

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

think they are getting paid bank

Objectively, they are.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A lot of companies used to run company towns. Toyota still does, as far as I know. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a return of that sort of thing with real estate prices getting absurd and companies wanting to drive people back into the office.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Hah, I actually did that when I first started working for a small company.

The co-founder also rented out a house he owned as a duplex.

Actually wasn't that bad, he charged slightly below market rate, and was pretty attentive. But definitely felt weird and I was happy to move out after a few years. It's just an unnecessary source of potential drama.

Now my manager lives there, and has for five years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

No no you don't understand. It's work from home but work IS the home! You see it makes perfect sense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The good that comes from that, from the perspective of the boss-landlord is that if your employee-tenants start getting the idea to strike, you control both their income and their shelter, so they reconsider.

Then you offer on-site housing to your scabs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What if you got to lord it over the other tenants and didn't pay rent?