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X accused of illegally firing employee who criticized Elon’s return-to-work plan

www.theverge.com X accused of illegally firing employee who criticized Elon’s return-to-work plan

The NLRB alleges her firing was retaliatory.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.stad.social/post/20808

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. I'd never imagine that nice Mr. Musk would do that... Oh? He's been a total ass to workers at his other companies too you say? No, say it isn't so...

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X accused of illegally firing employee who criticized Elon’s return-to-work plan

www.theverge.com /2023/10/14/23916931/x-labor-law-violation-nlrb-complaint-fired-return-to-work

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labor disputes are not technology
- Technology doesn't spring from the ground from nothing. Labor in tech is still important tech news.
  
  Not when it's just another article about Musk being shitty. This isn't news, and I doubt anyone is shocked that he fired someone illegally.
  
  by that reasoning we don't need magazines since it's all part of the same universe.
  
  That didn't sound as smart as you thought it did
  
  I wasn't trying to put a show for you. I only followed the stupid claim to it's stupid conclusion.
  
  "X is not in category Y"
  "X creates Y and is relevant. X news is still important Y news"
  "By that reasoning we don't need X since it's all a part of Y"
  Your conclusion is entirely non-sequitur to anything anyone else has said. Whether your original post was right or wrong, your reasoning is nonsense.
  
  The mental gymnastics people go through to miss the point. I will try to make thos short so you don’t get confused again. Non tech news should be shared in generic news or specific groups related to the topic.
  
  I was never arguing that. I'm arguing that your "we don’t need magazines since it’s all part of the same universe" is complete nonsense that's not relevant to anything being stated.
  Though if I'm gonna argue about your initial point, you're also wrong and foolish there, albeit it to a lesser degree. Unfortunately X, the platform formerly known as some shit, is a "Big Tech" company. In fact it's one of the biggest. Now, you may or may not be familiar with this, but the "Tech" in "big tech" is short for "technology", marking Twitter, the platform formerly known as shit, a monolith in an extremely large and broad industry.
  As a result, that which is news-worthy for such a monolith is precisely what technology forums such as !technology@lemmy.world are for. It would also be relevant if Facebook lost 50% of its valuation in a day. It would also be relevant if Instagram started giving employees free heroine. It would also be relevant if Google harvested all the world's oysters in search of black pearls.
  These companies are so large they they, defacto, are tech in a manner of speaking. Just because you're tired of hearing about some rich dork whose racist father hates him, the man formerly known as Eyore Must or something, doesn't mean that it's any less of a tech company, and doesn't make news about it any less "about tech" as an industry.
  
  That actually makes zero sense. Labor builds and creates the tech that people talk about. That makes labor extremely important to tech.
  
  that makes zero sense. without a universe to live in we can't even have labor.
  
  What are you on about?
  
  the point hes trying to make is that just because x relies on y, that doesnt make y relevant to the topic of x.
  so labor, while needed for tech, doesnt belong in tech. just like if i started posting about food shortages here, i could argue that food is needed for tech, but it does not belong in tech.
  
  Food shortages at the google campus would belong in tech.
  
  i accidentally deleted instead of edited my coment:
  original:
  i dont agree. thats not about technology. thats about the people at a tech-related loction not being able to eat. thats the lacroix of tech news if anything.
  i think id be fine with even something like this or even this musk news if it wasnt in such high volume from something so indirect to actual technology posts. the frequency of these is so tiring.
  
  Yeah, it feels like the tech industry is on repeat these last few months.
  
  i dont agree. thats not about technology. thats about the people at a tech-related loction not being able to eat. thats the lacroix of tech news if anything.
  
  What are you on ~~about~~?
  FTFY
- They're literally at the crossroads of technology, and it's going to get much worse as people ignore the reality of that fact.
- Then why didn't you make the technology labor and make you not see it to begin with, HMMMMM, TEASHIPS, some /s in there because it's this timeline.
- Yeah, I was hoping that this community wouldn't become a Musk news feed like it was on Reddit, but here we are.
  It would be nice if a technology community could actually be about technology.
  
  I was hoping it wouldn't be all press release copy pasta from scam battery companies and "AI" grifts. But here we are. I'd prefer it cover actual technology that actually exists, but the odds of that are zero these days.
  
  Lemmy is pretty much just an Elon feed and it’s annoying AF. I get it, Elon is a shit human. I personally don’t want to promote shit humans, even if it’s to talk shit about them. Let X die
  
  lol man all these downvoters. cant yall just make c/xitter or c/SuckItMusk and post your hateboners there?
  
  Or, you know, seeing as you guys are the ones being downvoted into the negative, you could take your own advice and start your own Elon-free tech community. Nothing is stopping you.
  
  the popular answer does not equal the right answer. this is called c/technology. before you spin that elon is in tech so how he picks his nose matters, it doesnt.
  
  How he picks his nose doesn't matter. How he runs a tech company and how he affects people working in tech does.
  And the popular answer does equal the right answer when the question is "does this community think this question is relevant to this community?" The votes are literally this community telling you whether or not it thinks that is true.
  
  No, the antics of a tech company owner are not relevant to a technology sub.
  Musk is a shitty person. This is not news. We don't need a running ticker on what bullshit he's done now.
  All you're doing is giving a narcissistic bully exactly what he wants - attention.
  
  No, the antics of a tech company owner are not relevant to a technology sub.
  The votes prove you wrong, no matter what your opinion on it is. You're free to disagree, but the notion that the people who make up this community are not the arbiters of what is and is not relevant to a community flies directly in the face of the very foundation Lemmy is built on.
  
  People voted Trump into office, so I don't put a lot of stock in people's votes.
  
  That is a reason for arguing that people don't always make smart choices. It is however not an argument for claiming how people vote does not show what their preference is at the time of voting, which is what is relevant here.
  It's perfectly fine to argue you think it's stupid of people to want to read about Musk, but the votes clearly show they do in fact want to.
  
  Hmm. You don't know much about US elections, I see.
  
  All you’re doing is giving a narcissistic bully exactly what he wants - attention.
  I don't know about that. I don't think laughing hysterically at how stupid he is is what he wants. That's actually the best way to hurt narcissistic bullies -- mocking them and laughing at them.
- It is on Lemmy, where it has become an Elon bad platform, just like reddit.
  
  The major thing I miss from reddit is the RES feature where you could block posts via keywords.
  Elon
  Musk
  Trump
  Tesla
  With these four words you feed was so, so much better.
  
  God that's awesome..would love that here
  
  I think I can do that on the voyage app, but I shouldn't have to. The mods need to do their jobs and remove content that's not about technology.
  
  Elon does what he chooses to do. We choose if we want to lend credence to what he chooses to do.
  
  It's pretty boring
  
  He is legitimately bad, though.
  
  Sure....sure
  
  Did you know this before this post?
  I assume yes.
  So what did this post achieve for you?
  
  It continues to spread the word, and hopefully contribute to some Musk cultists finally pulling their heads out of their asses. Every such post is one more hammer strike to the nail.
  
  I admire your optimism, but you are not changing anyone's mind.
  
  No raindrop thinks it is responsible for the flood.
  
  You think you are a special raindrop...
  
  And apparently you have delusions of being a telepath.
  
  For someone who wants to change the world for the better, I can tell you that you need to work on your engagement technique.
  
  Who would want to engage with you?

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