Work Reform

Just watched a chain restaurant employees do their hourly picture taking of the store to send off to corporate through a locked down tablet. I asked them about it. Turns out corporations are now using tablets and Ai to manage stores. Holy shit

cross-posted from: https://possum.news/post/2967

cross-posted from: https://possum.news/post/2966

cross-posted from: https://possum.news/post/2963

The time for us to stand united is now!!! Our government is in shambles and our rights, jobs, and lives are at stake. We need to come together in overwhelming numbers to say that enough is enough!

April 5th, 2025 there is a mass protest scheduled in Washington DC at the National Mall. EVERYONE should know about it. That's why today I leased a billboard next to the highway. I shared my story with some of you and it became clear that others feel the same way.

So let's do it. Let's get some billboards!!!

Our goal is to raise $10,000 to lease as many billboards as we can within roughly 150 miles of Washington DC to promote the peaceful day of action on April 5th. Together we will get the word out. Together we will stand side-by-side in Washington. And together WE WILL BE HEARD!!!

The National Education Union (NEU), the largest teaching union in the UK, is concerned AI teaching tools could lead to some in the profession losing work, particularly lower-paid teaching assistants whose tasks could become automated.

Alarm bells were set off in January when the government announced it was giving £1m in funding to 16 tech companies to build teacher AI tools "for feedback and marking, driving high and rising education standards".

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26783021

Sounds like a place I'd love to work for

I work for the Federal Government (DoD). The new push to have everyone respond to the OSD request for 5 bullets of "what you did last week" was supposedly because "they wanted to make sure the employees actually exist" and aren't dead or fake. However, I had a colleague send me a whole PowerPoint presentation he made on how to use chat GPT (the government version) to read our PD (position description that basically says everything you should be doing for your job) along with your list of things you completed and then rewrites it to ensure it matches what you should be doing.

His reasoning for doing it that way is:

"DOGE has full access to the Global Address List (GAL) as well as other HR resources. This means they know who works where and everything about everyone's position Description (including what the expectations are for that position). In reorganizations, there exists the possibility to downgrade positions. This can only be done by understanding what work the person is performing. The "5 bullets" is how they're going to get that information from everyone in DoD, which means we must be smarter than the system and make sure our input matches what they're measuring"

Essentially, he came up with a prompt to write the bullets to match our position to prevent them from punishing us due to misunderstanding the assignment or not putting the correct tasks in the bullets email. Honestly, there was no guidance and I do way more than 5 things a week, so I wasn't sure what to include and just kind of picked things at random. Hopefully, I didn't screw myself since we've already sent 2 emails for the last 2 weeks. Starting Monday, I'm using his method to ensure I'm playing the game correctly.

I'm glad I know smart people.

A Reddit user has created (and continues to update) a treasure trove of ideas and concepts that are easy to chose from in ways to fight the current US administration, including many things this community would hold dear.