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I've always wanted to bike, and the city finally said yes, let's make the city bike-friendly.

And then they go ahead and just paint a white bike lane right next to the car lane. Yea, even when politicians listen to their constituents, they just half ass the effort.

I'm not risking my life to ride in that bike lane, so I still use a car.

Of course, it depends on the person. If the person doesn't want lunch, and the boss keeps singling you out to go, that kinda disrespects you. And vice versa.

People are not all the same. Some people are shy, some people are gregarious. Respect their nature, that's it. When someone who has power over you just disregards you as a person, that's both not professional AND abusive if it happens over and over again. It's not a hard concept to get.

All these big publishers always parrot the same, 'just go to HR' as though that'll solve your problem. HR has always been the legal shield of the company; they exist to shield the company.

> one option is to take the issue to HR, especially if the perpetrator is a boss. Although speaking up takes courage, Sharma advises people do it sooner rather than later “so that matters can be treated with a sense of urgency, and they don't impact your mental wellbeing in the long term”.

Yea, that's just gonna get you fired depending on how severe the accusations are, and whether the person being accused has clout within upper management. If your boss is friends with the big boss, guess whose ass HR is gonna can?

Sadly, every time these articles come out from these big publishers, none of them suggest worker organization. That's the best way to fight back against these toxic practices, look how much worker benefits we've gotten over the back of dead workers just by banding together and pushing back: fire exits, reduced work hours, no child labor, etc.

That's absolutely false. Bullying doesn't have to be just physical abuse, everything you listed definitely counts. While you don't have to be 'friends' with people at work, that's kind of irrelevant. Why not ask why this behavior is even acceptable in the first place, especially when work is supposed to be a professional environment?

My confusion is that if I have 10 GB of photos in my Google Photos, that counts towards the Google cloud storage. Gmail contents also contribute to the total cloud storage. So if Google Takeout is taking my 10 GB photos and creating 10 GB zip files for download, where is it gonna store those zip files? If I sent it to my gmail, doesn't that mean I'll get 10 GB of new zip files that takes up my gmail storage space?

If I send it to my Google Drive, then those 10 GB zip files take up my drive storage space... So Google Photos + zip files... that's 20 GB. Double the storage right? And if I don't have enough space to store those zip files, then I'll have to upgrade my storage space and pay more money...?

Where is Google Takeout storing those zip files if not on my storage space?

Yea I mean it's good advice to get a lawyer, but imagine you had to do that for every job offer. You'd be spending so much upfront just to get a job. And they don't even reimburse you for the cost of the modified contract from the hired lawyer if you accept.

What about your college degree on your resume? Don't you have to list the year you graduated? Even job portals that make everyone fill the damn web forms manually, it generally always asks when one graduated.

From that they can deduce your age?

So do sellers who got scammed by Opendoor get any kind of reimbursement? Or does FTC dust off their hands and call it a day?

Was the cancellation message only deceptive in Australia? Or is it everywhere, and Australia is the only country to prosecute?

> As part of the severance plan for the over 2,800 laid off employees, Pelton is offering a curious benefit: A membership to Peloton.

Is that it? There's nothing more in their severance? I wish the article would explain this more.

I should clarify this behavior is mostly at larger companies... and although it's my anecdotal piece, it is what I've consistently seen at different companies and what my friends tell me they've experienced at other large companies. I've also worked at smaller places and this behavior was not as prevalent since everyone knows everyone on the dev team.

Also, at larger companies your manager tends to reorg. I've gone through 5 managers in a single year before. And with them goes all the goodwill you built up during that time. New manager comes in, and it basically resets your 'perception' factor. The old manager might tell the new manager that some people are good, but you have to get lucky to get the new manager to care, because they haven't seen the results with their own eyes yet. That small time window is when it's ripe for someone to swoop in and claim ownerships of projects, while smooching up to the new manager. That's what happened with the senior dev I saw, but he had aces up his sleeves. What an epic showdown.

Yea, I should leave probably, but it's just one burning ship to another. That's our fundamental reality.