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   Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 06:21:04 JST Pete Zaitcev
   My new union immediately leaked all my private data to the open market, and now I receive cold calls from recruiters. I always knew that unions were evil, but this seems like new low. Well, at least they aren't throwing me into Lake Buchanan in concrete shoes, so there's that.
   
   Also TBH, Red Hat did it to me too, by way of their work gamification provider. Workers are given a budget of tokens, which they award to other employees. Their targets then convert the tokens into perks like merch at the provider. When they cash tokens, provider steals the PII.
   
   I guess the disappointment is that employer doing this is expected (unless it was a paternalistic org like Red Hat, which resisted this shit for 20 years I was with them), but union is supposed to be on the side of the worker.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 04:09:04 JST feld

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     • Hyolobrika
     @Hyolobrika @zaitcev makes me wonder if whoever is responsible in the union heard of a cool new revenue stream and didn't actually understand what was happening
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     Hyolobrika (hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 04:09:05 JST Hyolobrika

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     Do unions usually do that?
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     Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 04:21:23 JST Pete Zaitcev

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     • Hyolobrika
     • feld
     @feld @Hyolobrika Occam Razor points to either that, or perhaps not caring. I heard real people say about spam: "what's the big deal, just delete it".
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