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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

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All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
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Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
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Bandai Namco reportedly tries to bore staff into quitting, skirting Japan’s labor laws (www.theregister.com)

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Bandai Namco has reportedly turned to the unspoken Japanese tradition of layoff-by-boredom by stuffing unwanted employees into oidashi beya, or "expulsion rooms."

Employees ~~banished~~ reassigned to oidashi beya are left to do nothing, or given menial tasks at best. According to Bloomberg's unnamed insider sources, Bandai Namco has moved around 200 of its 1,300 person team to these rooms in recent months.

The goal of sticking someone in an expulsion room is to literally bore or shame them into quitting, and Bloomberg's sources claim it has worked on around half the people Bandai Namco has stuck in there so far.

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[–] qarbone 45 points 3 months ago (11 children)

In the immortal words of that dumbo from Blizz "do you guys not have phones?"

If you leave me in a room and give me no tasks while still paying me, you've got me on salary to slack. And I will outperform everyone. Or no one, I'm not sure which one.

And honestly figuring that out is probably not in my job description anymore.

[–] Demdaru 6 points 3 months ago

And company has cameras. Where I live, most monitor workers 24/7. So they would that especially while trying to get rid of you.

Of course, they say it's for security and that's what you sign for, so they can't simply grab screen of you on phone and throw you out...however, suddenly management gets super instinct.

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