First, regarding breaks, I mean voluntarily forfeiting a solid 15-minute break. I get bored going and sitting somewhere else for 15 minutes, so spend a few minutes here and there doing stuff online instead.
I do agree that something needs to be done about employers abusing their workers with the threat of outsourcing their jobs. Illegal workers take it at $7 an hour in unsafe conditions because they have little choice (the migrants who are here because they want to work I welcome with open arms, but the ones who want to leach off the system, and American-born people, who do the same, most of my own relatives among them, are the ones I want out).
If someone is fired for refusing to do a dangerous job without the right precautions have the right to sue. At the very least I wish more workers in unsafe conditions would make reports. You can file a complaint with OSHA annonymously.
The problem comes in when people spend so much time surfing that they are neglecting to get their work done at all. And since more and more people forfeit breaks, a few minutes here and there hurts nothing.
This is just amusing to me. If anyone should be taken down, it should be the spammers. It's so hard for companies to keep this stuff at bay. When you click to junk something, people like my coworkers (I do the antifraud primarily) do work with it to help identify new messeges as smap or not to send to your junk folder or inbox. The rate that this comes in in just incredible. And the tricks they use to keep a program from spotting it as spam? The worst may be an e-mail that is entirely a clickable image. You might be surprsed at what people fall for, the rate of catches. It's mindboggling.
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First, regarding breaks, I mean voluntarily forfeiting a solid 15-minute break. I get bored going and sitting somewhere else for 15 minutes, so spend a few minutes here and there doing stuff online instead. I do agree that something needs to be done about employers abusing their workers with the threat of outsourcing their jobs. Illegal workers take it at $7 an hour in unsafe conditions because they have little choice (the migrants who are here because they want to work I welcome with open arms, but the ones who want to leach off the system, and American-born people, who do the same, most of my own relatives among them, are the ones I want out). If someone is fired for refusing to do a dangerous job without the right precautions have the right to sue. At the very least I wish more workers in unsafe conditions would make reports. You can file a complaint with OSHA annonymously.
The problem comes in when people spend so much time surfing that they are neglecting to get their work done at all. And since more and more people forfeit breaks, a few minutes here and there hurts nothing.
This is just amusing to me. If anyone should be taken down, it should be the spammers. It's so hard for companies to keep this stuff at bay. When you click to junk something, people like my coworkers (I do the antifraud primarily) do work with it to help identify new messeges as smap or not to send to your junk folder or inbox. The rate that this comes in in just incredible. And the tricks they use to keep a program from spotting it as spam? The worst may be an e-mail that is entirely a clickable image. You might be surprsed at what people fall for, the rate of catches. It's mindboggling.