Work Reform

Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company. When he was done with his shift, he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots, sexting with real lonely people he suspected were in the United States. His boss was an algorithm that told him to flit in and out of different personas.

“It required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man. If I’m talking to a gay person, I need to act like a gay person,” he told me at a coworking space I met him at in Nairobi. After doing this for months, he, like other data labelers, developed insomnia, PTSD, and had trouble having sex.

“It got to a point where my body couldn’t function. Where I saw someone naked, I don’t even feel it. And I have a wife, who expects a lot from you, a young family, she expects a lot from you intimately. But you can’t, like, do it,” Asia said. “It fractured a lot of things for me. My body is like, not functioning at all.”

I was applying for a senior backend engineer job in this european startup in the healthcare sector.

I passed through 4 rounds of 1 hour interviews. Everyone was telling me this company is remote first, nobody works at the office.

Contract type is as remote on linkedin.

The offer arrived, 80k euros. They are very reluctant in giving the contract to me so I can proceed with the bureaucracy regarding blue card and job change before 12 months.

The contract arrives and it's full of traps:

• They can require work on weekends and holidays with no notice
• There isn't a single mention to remote working on the contract
• They can relocate me to any place with a 2 months notice
• HR refused to add remote clause on the contract

To make it even worse, they were processing my emails through an undisclosed AI tool using chatgpt, in which I've sent my personal documents.

Avoid these traps like hellfire.

Company name is Recare.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/60167542

I'd feel more considered if I'd gotten no email at all

Some think this isn't an LLM (I still disagree), but either way I find the message to be incredibly patronizing. My effort doesn't feel acknowledged when their not putting any effort into rejecting me.

With all the crazy bullshit going on, I've often wondered how realistic it is for people to leave the city and farm. Like going the Amish way. I have zero knowledge other than my garden, so I'm looking for more information.

Have there been any good studies or analysis of how realistic it would be to abandon modern work culture and return to farming?

Heard an ad for this pledge the other day while I was listening to a podcast and immediately thought this has got to be propaganda.

As somebody who has been struggling with a chronic health issue while continuing to work full time, I can understand why somebody would want their employer to be more understanding of how unpredictable chronic conditions can be...

But for fucks sake, the stress of work and people viewing your value based on what they think you should be doing for them is really the last thing people should be dealing with on top of being sick. Most people are forced to keep working just to survive and keep their health insurance.

Out of curiosity decided to look into the company that started this, and I have to say, their track record really doesn't help change my initial reaction.

Ad giant Publicis Health agrees to $350M settlement over claims it helped fuel opioid crisis

https://www.reddit.com/r/advertising/comments/1o049v3/publicis_exposed/

an ex-Publicis employee just exposed all the wrong everyone in this industry already knows. discrimination, retaliation, bad managers etc

Qorvis, a U.S. subsidiary of Publicis, has represented the country of Saudi Arabia since the September 11 attacks and has been accused of helping to whitewash its record on human rights.[27][28] More recently, the writer Ken Klippenstein obtained leaked documents from Qorvis, which show the PR company pitched a private company on a four to five minute propaganda video, which hoped to improve the reputation of its Homestead, Florida shelter for "unaccompanied alien children"

Based on their other controversies, they sure sound like typical corporate scumbags who profit from and enable fascism (and likely sex trafficking of children) while gaslighting the public and insisting any critics are just being dramatic/blowing things out of proportion.

Immigrant Youth Shelters: “If You’re a Predator, It’s a Gold Mine”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43578170