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Don't be that #asshole.
You understand your #computer. This makes you a member of a #minority. Unless you are going to #volunteer to be someone's #techSupport, do not tell them to do things with their #computers that they do not understand.
My opinion is informed by the thirty or so years I've had #Linux on my personal boxen. I help #boomers run blogs. These are not stupid people, but they struggle with #password #managers. There no way they can operate a Linux system without a fucktonne of support.
#Managers at #Suffolk #FireAndRescue service were roasted by His Majesty's #Inspectorate for poor decisions and creating a toxic working environment and low morale (they also fired their in house IT staff, causing extra costs in recruiting contractors, and may struggle to build the separate control room (they are splitting from sharing the control room with Cambridge, which causes confusion on 999/112 calls due to widely duplicated street names) #EmergencyServices
BBC NewsMorale lowest it has ever been at Suffolk Fire Service - reportFire service receives £1.6m from council after inspectors find improvements called for in 2022 not met.
As Louise Murphy (Resolution Foundation) points out:
'When we asked what young people would change about the world of work, they didn’t ask for big, flashy reforms. They wanted to have more human, understanding managers'!
Its a sad indictment (but no surprise) that young people entering work find managers are not friendly or supportive people... I've said for years many of the UK's workforce problems are linked to rubbish managers & this is what the young find out!
This #PremierLeague #player says his #team would #welcome a #gay #footballer ‘with #openarms’
#LewisCook's #LGBTQ #support is clear, but there have been noticeably fewer PL players and #managers talking about #RainbowLaces this year.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports Soccer #Allies #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
→ -2000 Lines Of Code (via @nitot)
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
In 1982, managers of the Lisa software team began tracking engineers' progress by the number of lines of code written weekly. Bill Atkinson, a key implementer, optimized Quickdraw's region calculation, reducing code by 2,000 lines and making it six times faster. He reported "-2000" lines of code on the form. Soon after, managers stopped asking him to fill it out.
www.folklore.orgFolklore.org: -2000 Lines Of Code
Our corporations and administrations are dominated by a clique of people who, because they are symbolically interested, "give 100%" and expect others to do the same.
We can speak of a social class in charge of organizing work:
"Capital chooses a management team to represent it on the spot [in the corporations. Executives are meant] to supervise and organize the labors of the working population" (Harry Braverman USA, 1974, p. 405)
For Braverman, the people who really count in this team are those whose managerial positions offer them "a _share in the surplus_ produced in the corporation, and thus is intended to attach them to the success or failure of the corporation and give them a ‘management stake’, even if a small one." (pp.405–6, original emphasis)
Americans are paying too much for #prescription #drugs.
It is a common, longstanding complaint. And the culprits seem obvious: Drug companies. Insurers. A dysfunctional federal government.
But there is another collection of powerful forces that often escape attention, because they operate in the bowels of the health care system and cloak themselves in such opacity and complexity that many people don’t even realize they exist.
They are called #pharmacy #benefit #managers.
And they are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government.
The three largest pharmacy benefit managers, or 
P.B.M.s, act as middlemen overseeing prescriptions for more than 200 million Americans.
They are owned by huge health care conglomerates
— CVS Health, Cigna and UnitedHealth Group
— and are hired by employers and governments.
️The job of the P.B.M.s is to reduce drug costs. ️
Instead, they frequently do the opposite. 
They steer patients toward pricier drugs, charge steep markups on what would otherwise be inexpensive medicines and extract billions of dollars in hidden fees, a New York Times investigation found.
Most Americans get their health insurance through a government program like #Medicare or through an #employer, which pay for two different types of insurance for each person.
One type covers visits to doctors and hospitals, and it is handled by an insurance company.
The other pays for prescriptions. That is overseen by a P.B.M.
The P.B.M. negotiates with drug companies, pays pharmacies and helps decide which drugs patients can get at what price.
The theory goes, everyone should save money.
the largest P.B.M.s often act in their own financial interests, at the expense of their clients and patients. Among the findings:
P.B.M.s sometimes push patients toward drugs with higher out-of-pocket costs, shunning cheaper alternatives.
They often charge employers and government programs like Medicare multiple times the wholesale price of a drug, keeping most of the difference for themselves.
That overcharging goes far beyond the markups that pharmacies, like other retailers, typically tack on when they sell products.
The largest P.B.M.s recently established subsidiaries that harvest billions of dollars in fees from drug companies, money that flows straight to their bottom line and does nothing to reduce health care costs.
The P.B.M.s, which are responsible for paying pharmacies on behalf of employers, are driving independent drugstores out of business by not paying them enough to cover their costs.
Small pharmacies have little choice but to accept these lowball rates because the largest P.B.M.s control an overwhelming majority of prescriptions.
The disappearance of local pharmacies limits health care access for poorer communities but ultimately enriches the P.B.M.s’ parent companies, which own drugstores or mail-order pharmacies.
P.B.M.s sometimes delay or even prevent patients from getting their prescriptions.
In the worst cases, patients suffer serious health consequences.
The New York Times · How PBMs Are Driving Up Prescription Drug Costs
#Russia #Arrests #Gay #Club #Managers in First #LGBTQ+ ‘#Extremism’ #CriminalCases.
The two individuals face up to 10 years in #prison if found #guilty of “#organizing #DragShows (#extremist #activities.)”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Russia #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #FuckRussia #FuckPutin #EmptyThePews
The Moscow Times · Russia Arrests Gay Club Managers in First LGBTQ+ ‘Extremism’ Criminal Case
The Hill: "The outdated concept that’s biasing managers against remote work"
'... With no management training to assess the performance of #remote staff, #managers adopted an “out of sight, out of mind” attitude and underestimated their #productivity...'
A review of nearly 2000 studies of #workingfromhome confirms what many knew already: 'there are ways to make the home working approach actually work well for the organisation & also for the employee'!
But first you have to convince #managers who see #WFH as undermining their power & are as a result are keen to have intrusive #surveillance as part of any acceptance of #HybridWorking.
And of course WFH has its downsides, from distractions from routine work to snacking!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/17/working-from-home-can-bring-big-health-benefits-study-finds
The Guardian · Working from home can bring big health benefits, study finds
#TheWhoolers, a #NewYork #Pizzeria Pays $25,000 to Settle #Trans #Worker’s #Lawsuit
#Transgender #cook claimed #managers and #coworkers #misgendered him, asked #invasive #questions, and compared him to a #pedophile.
#TransMen #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Business #Workplace #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
https://www.metroweekly.com/2024/02/new-york-pizzeria-pays-25000-to-settle-trans-workers-lawsuit/
Metro Weekly · New York Pizzeria Pays $25,000 to Settle Trans Worker's LawsuitTransgender cook claimed managers and co-workers misgendered him, asked invasive questions, and compared him to a pedophile.
Millions of tech people bite their lips hard as a manager utters the immortal "I'm not technically minded"... #UK #managers #PostOffice #news
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-67941754
so 240,000 people got laid off from #techbro companies so they could go lay down solar panels?
if this is not more reason to unionize all #software #developers, project #managers, info #architects, #sysadmins, whatever the #tech title pops into your mind?
seriously, #unionize Silicon Valley
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/01/climate-tech-job-market-2024/
TechCrunch · Climate tech might be the hot job market in 2024 | TechCrunchWhile much of the tech world has been besieged by layoffs, climate tech continued to hire. Next year looks no different.
So what exactly is it that so many #managers seem to fear about the rise of #workingfromhome?
I have two answers for you:
1. #WFH increases #workers autonomy, as they're not under constant potential surveillance & work to their own arrangement(s); Managers feel threatened by this avoidance of direct control;
2. data on WFH seems to indicate workers are happier when hybrid working than when in the office full-time; whatever, they say, managers prefer fearful workers who're easier to manage
#workingfromhome is better for the #environment!
It makes sense;
less commuting = less emissions!
But its not all good news; emissions generating social activity while #WFH rises... so the Q. is the balance between the two - the more you work at home, it seems the more you reduce your net emissions
However, will the #managers wanting people back int the office care?
The Guardian · People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office
‘#Essential’ new #guidelines for #trans and #nonbinary #inclusion at #work issued by #HumanResources #association
The #guide #provides #HR #professionals, #employers, and #managers with the #information needed to take an #informed and #proactive #approach to #supporting #trans and #nonbinary people at #work, as part of a broader #diversity, #equity and #inclusion (#DEI) #policy
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Business #Workplace #Allies #Representation #Culture
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/essential-new-guidelines-for-trans-and-non-binary-inclusion-at-work-issued-by-hr-association/
PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news‘Essential’ new guidelines for trans and non-binary inclusion at work issued by HR association