Work Reform

There was quite a few in the UK as well, mostly in Leicester (large Indian immigrant population there). People being paid £3 an hour when it should have been about £8 at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/13/poor-working-conditions-persist-in-leicester-garment-factories-finds-survey

If you buy cheap clothes from the likes of BooHoo you should know that they're made in these places, and if you buy expensive clothes, then they're probably made in the exact same conditions with a nicer label sewn in the back and a better PR department to handwave away any wrongdoing.

I work with a few Indian development teams, and "sweatshop" is an apt description. We work on software dependencies, as specified by them. After we deliver, they decide it's not what they wanted, change the specs and treat it as a "drop everything else" bug. It gives me no greater pleasure than telling them to relax, that we'll get to it in due time when we have the capacity. I like to think that a few of their managers already popped a vein.

Has this been reported? If this Is in Canada there are worker protection services....

https://bunelaw.com/unjustly-fired/

I've been subject to the same treatment by a white person in Canada. Three out of my 5 colleagues were from India because apparently they were the only ones that could take it. They didn't fire me they made my life hell until I quit because of my mental health crisis. They made me sign bad performance reviews, the manager and her assistant shouted and screamed at me and made me work on holidays and kept accusing me of things that are not true until I quit. They did this to other people as well and no one had any grounds to sue them because they knew how to play the game. It's not just Indians that do this in Canada. Some Canadians do it too. This happen in the national capital region no less.

My partner took an "anonymous" survey at work once.

When the results came out, it categorised the results. Site, m/f/o, role.

Turns out that there was only one female engineer at her site... So everybody knew she was annoyed about some specific things.

I love those.

I filled one out onetime and one of my teammates told us it's really anonymous.

So I bet him $100 dollars that I could prove it wasn't.

we filled them out and a couple days later I printed off his survey and taped it to his monitor.

he was pissed. I told him he could keep the $100 because the look on his face was worth it.

I had access to the drive where all the reports spit out. in the reports were the IPs of the submitters. I knew his IP and just grepped it. I'm sure leadership does the same thing.

Have a bath? NO. GET A BIKE.

looks at companies forcing RTO 👀

The stoner dudes high as balls 247 who don't give a shit and are not stressed a bit: :DDD

I have always engaged with every one of them and have been negative quite often yet never anything bad came of it. Probably because we have employee rights where I live. So the actual problem is americas lacks of rights.

I worked for a youuuuuuge international corporation that did a survey in the late 1990s.

They took them extremely seriously and trained and replaced the poor performing leadership.

It led to a big jump in profits.

Or engage with them but expect the repercussions.

I'm very candid when this shit comes around my corp and am extremely nuanced in explaining the culture challenges.

The trick is to not explicitly call anyone out and highlight it's a systemic problem.

It was toxic internet point grabbing in action - https://indianstartupnews.com/news/yes-madam-clarifies-on-firing-over-100-employees-for-being-stressed-says-no-one-was-fired-it-was-an-awareness-initiative-8416411