#Workplace

Entirely agree, and I've noticed in Cambridge how porters seem to have born the brunt of culture war complaints from students and faculty, whether its Dr Gopal accusing the Kings
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if you think fat politics or disability justice are about "loving yourself" and nothing more, can I suggest: read a fucking book or something I don't know anyone who is
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We're Alphabet workers. We’ve been organizing for over a year, & we’re finally ready to share why.This morning, we're announcing #AWU, the first union open to *all* workers at any
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@Folkhalsomynd today released an updated reported on relative risk and school employees, finding that teachers were not at increased risk compared to the rest of society. To their credit they
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This sort of thing really is bordering the Yellow Peril line. Shameful that a prominent journalist like Uhlmann is endorsing it, but symptomatic of everything wrong with the discourse around
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Lockdowns represent a massive primitive accumulation, asserting capitals further control over people's home and social lives in the name of public health This isn't an argument to say that you
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Brief thread on Oldham, for anyone who’s interested.The problem with locking down Oldham today - aside from the obvious economic devastation - is that its numbers are down on last
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says residents have to quarantine for 14 days if they're engaging in non-essential travel from a high-risk state even if they test negative for Covid. There's
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Honored to have worked with @sbagen on this important project.https://twitter.com/sbagen/status/1285659464146866176 The personal responsibility ethos that has driven the US response to the coronavirus pandemic has been ineffective, atomizin
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Since I started freelancing in 2018 I’ve been interviewed 171 times. Yeah that’s a stupid big number. Here’s a Thread of what I learned from them. To begin, below are
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Saw tweets saying AOC’s statement, “My parents did not raise me to accept abuse from men” Is an example of victim blaming.Some parents DO raise daughters to accept abuse from
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A couple of interesting points from the Test & Trace report for the week ending 11 August.1st. Remember the 5k deaths removed from the DHSC count because of the arbitrary
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How Ireland count Covid deaths is mostly atypical and leads to an overestimated death toll, relative to many places.However, it was a responsible approach taken by all involved to count
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Schools is fraught with complex issues I wouldn't dare offer an opinion except they must be safe for education workers, parents, students and wider community. With asymptomatic testing and highly
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Going AsynchA work culture dominated by synchronous communications norms is suboptimalhttps://workfutures.substack.com/p/going-asynch  Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. | Jason Fried
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My favourite autism metaphors, a list - because contrary to popular belief we are not entirely unable to grasp the metaphorical - more likely we may just want to check
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