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YouTube Music staff laid off in middle of meeting about employment rights with Austin City Council
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this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2024
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Wait, YouTube had/has staff?
Supposedly they’re actually employees of some notorious contractor that YouTube hired.
These workers are for all intents and purposes clearly google employees, google just doesn't want to pay them google wages.. so they stick a different name on the door and spend a lot of time lecturing employees that they aren't in fact google employees when the work they do all day every day is for google and under google's direction.
Yes, that’s pretty standard for the industry. Everyone complains how gig economy jobs should be treated as employees, but the real scandal is contractors and H1B visas in tech labor.
It was sort of like this when I worked for Cisco, although they'd generally hire you officially after a little while. For me it only took around 6 months but for most of my coworkers it was around 3 years.
I mean... it is pretty awful and the conditions are bad and you have no hopes to ever change anything because you're forbidden from ever contacting anyone from the parent company... but at least you're an actual employee of the vendor
(the structure may be different for Cognizant, I can only talk from my experience)
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Yep, it's Cognizant, and they don't have a particularly good reputation.
Still sucks for those workers, though.
This is Youtube Music. Of course they have staff. Who else would implement TikTok shorts in a glorified mp3 player interface?
Hey, does anyone know what the fuckn point of "samples" are? Like, I'm on the app to listen to music, not watch 1 minute clips of vertical strips of music videos. I'm gonna cut off this rant and say actually, I'm glad the youtube music staff got laid off