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If you aren’t getting paid extra for after-hours, don’t pickup that phone!
What a garbage misleading title from Reuters.
We always could not answer calls after work, it was never mandatory.
What this change is, is banning employers from doing it all and giving fines for those who try to do so.
To allow? What? Was Australia requiring/forcing everyone to answer calls from bosses at all hours?
Lemmy is called that because we have to keep saying “Lemmy read that article for you, ya lazy cunt”
- Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours without penalty, with potential fines for employers that breach the rule.
Is this the good, banter cunt or the bad, you stink cunt in this context? I can never tell.
The “ya” bit makes it the bantery type. If it was “you” it’d be the stinky type
I took it as good banter and it’s a response to me. So if you’re offended in my honor then you’re a bit too sensitive for the internet.
I’m offended that you think I’d be offended!
Well I’m offend at your offense of my idea that you’d be offended!!
Fair enough. Cheers!
I mean you spend the time to read the article already, why not help someone else save that time?
Also, calling someone lazy is ableist, please don’t do that, you don’t know another person’s circumstances or if that’s a trigger…
Edit: For anyone interested to know more about ableism or why laziness is an ableist concept:
People like you make the world worse, not better
Calling someone a lazy cunt is better for them in the long term than being a self righteous wank like you
Lemmy’s in a fighting mood today huh?
Yeah, if someone uses “ableist” and “trigger” in the same sentence, they got their personality from other people online who are also just desperate to make everything about themselves and feel morally superior to everyone around them
Then they wonder why they grow old lonely lol
Telling somebody that using basic adjectives otherwise not considered pejorative is ableist is my trigger, so like… please don’t do that around me.
So ideally, one person should read the article and disseminate it to others, who then disseminated to others, all in the name of saving time? Have you ever played a game called telephone?
I have played that game! You make a convincing argument for reading the article and not relying on others to read it for you, as nearly every time I’ve played telephone the original phrase is completely lost.
I have fiddled with that concept, too! You are almost persuading me to buy a newspaper and have a look by myself, instead of trusting people to read the article to me, because when I send too many letter chains, the result is usually non sense.
First of all, thanks for the interesting outlook, it gave something to think about!
In general, I don’t like thinking in absolutes. It’s not like everyone will read the article or everyone won’t, some people will and some won’t.
There it helps me to break down to more categories:
- People that will read the article, understand it, and have critical thoughts to share.
- People that will read the article, understand it, but won’t have anything to add or critize.
- People that will read the article, but won’t understand it.
- People that won’t read the article, but would if something caught their attention (like a question on the comments).
- People that won’t read the article, but would read the comments.
- People that won’t read the article, but will comment something interesting about the title or the discussions in the comments.
- People that won’t interact with the post at all.
- Other possible categories I haven’t considered.
The telephone game is really helpful to understand how interactions between people of the categories above will go. However, keep in mind that the goal is not necessarily 100% accurate transmission of the author’s message. On the contrary, it’s possible people are looking for different interpretations, relevant information, criticism, and/or a laugh.
Personally, I really like it when people provide quotes they find interesting along with their own analysis. An example would be:
To allow? What? Was Australia requiring/forcing everyone to answer calls from bosses at all hours?
Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours without penalty, with potential fines for employers that breach the rule.
So you cannot be fired anymore for not answering your boss’s 2AM call. It nice to make to make progress, but the bar is so low it’s a tavern in Hades…
Sorry mate, didn’t realise you were an autist lol
Don’t learn to interact with people by using phrases that you read on the internet, you just end up sounding like a fuckin idiot, which I’m sure you’re not 😂. Entirely.
Our labour laws are a lot better than the US, but there are some gaps.
One of those gaps is out-of-hours work calls/emails: there’s currently no explicit protection against your employer insisting you make yourself available.
Lots of unionised workplaces have a ‘right to disconnect’ clause in the EBA, but if you don’t have an EBA, you’re on your own.
This legislation aims to fix that.
This wasn’t already the case?
I thought Aussies just lay about “in the bush” playing didgeridoo and hugging koalas cos it’s too hot? Like Spanish siesta on steroids.
I have it on good authority that Drop Bears routinely steal phones after 5pm and uncharacteristically return them by 8am the next morning.
Good Drop Bear, here’s a nice juicy tourist.
Why is this garbage even being upvoted.
Shocking isn’t it!? Everybody knows it’s black widows they’re hugging - not koala!
Mate, I’m not here to fuck spiders!
