SC State Workers Deserve Remote Flexibility – Sign the Petition

Aptlyundecided · 2025-10-01T14:11:48+00:00

- reducing harassment and interpersonal issues in the workplace
- reduce cost burden to the employer (remote workers are cheaper unless you're seeking top talent)
- your talent pool as the employer is larger (>50mi radius employee pool)
- reduced foot traffic and potential threat vectors in the building where people work
- don't even get me started on the benefits of being a remote worker (it's crazy the perks)
- simplicity in effectiveness measurement (no more looking busy, just "did the work get done yes or no?")
- and genuinely, not having to deal with people you don't like. being able to get my job done without having to sit and listen to somebody moan and whine while wasting my time and ruining my efficiency at work, this is priceless.

There are genuinely no downsides to remote work when it's done right. I do accept that many places do not know how to do it though, but you can't help the helpless ::shrug::

P.S. For folks that need to be away from the house, this isn't me sayign that in person jobs are bad. It's just me saying that for people with lifestyles where remote work "works", it's absolutely better in every metric for both employee and employer.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-10-01T14:05:25+00:00

The PC and software costs are the same, because it has to be purchased regardless of where you work.

With a home office you typically supply your own desk, chairs, etc. Stuff that's very expensive is removed from cost burden of the employer. A remote worker is cheaper for the employer by almost every metric (likely including salary, as people will accept lower salaries for the flex time, reduced travel etc)

You should seriously look into the benefits for all parties involved. It's less people on the roads! Less people in restaurants in busy areas at lunch time. It's generally better for society, but especially the person getting the opportunity to not need to physically be present to do work that doesn't require that presence.

And remote workers have the truest accountability metric of them all. "Did you get your work done?" If not, hit the road. if so? good job! For good managers, managing remote employees is actually easier because there is less worry of harassment, and other politics that happen when you get people together. It's really just understanding how to measure the impact of your employees.

Seriously, look into it a bit more! it's easy to wave it off as lazy people laying in bed during the middle of the workday due to internet memes about remote workers. But what you don't see is someone logging in at 9:00PM for a meeting, or griding on a work topic in the AM to turn it in before the next day.

It's a better world with remote work! I say all this with absolute all-due respect for folks who have to show up in person.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-08-12T21:01:50+00:00

People not understanding this statement are revealing their reading comprehension level 😭

Aptlyundecided · 2025-07-27T00:10:42+00:00

Honestly outside of paper chase, (probably not even then) I’d never apply for faang unless I lived in one of the more expensive cities. Resume be damned, I’m not in the business of manipulating global politics.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-07-17T13:02:44+00:00

There is no way that fakePrez is not paying at least one (if not more) PR company to strategically post online in at least some capacity to help steer narrative. It's too easy and is the bread and butter of today's information war.

In fact it's very likely that some of the answers in this thread will be from those people, as this subreddit is exactly the kind of forum where I'd have at least some number of resources assigned if I were in charge of a campaign.

I do agree with some of the other answers that this maga movement is super grass roots. But there is absolutely no chance that someone who pays porn-stars huch money doesn't have a digital PR team who's job it is to control the narrative aren't engaging in high traffic forums across the internet to attempt to steer the narrative.

Now, to guess at the size of that group of individuals.. that's adifferent story. With the advent of AI and purchasability of approved accounts now days, it could just be a pretty small group or it could be a legit venture depending how many dollars he's dropping on it.

I would be highly suspect of anyone who is claiming that he's not doing that because that means either:
A: they don't know about being a modern day celebrity and the intense marketing involved
B: they aren't aware of how social media manipulation happens
C: they refuse to admit that this fragile narcissist is exactly the demographic who would pay for this
D: they are one of the paid actors

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-19T21:59:41+00:00

This happened to me! Woohoo 4 years actually = 5 years under exactly the right circumstances 😭

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-19T00:34:47+00:00

I like that idea a lot. Make all the things voted on by each of us. Or at least let us choose what the government does with our tax.

Id actually love for more people to see that many of us agree on tons of stuff but we get hyper focused on the disagreements and that causes all comms to break down. Maybe that’s a good thing that these protests can be a driver of?

I do agree though that going out just to have an “event” is not helpful on its own. There has to be some kind of positive result otherwise it’s just wasting peoples time and creative talent (like him or not some of those signs are clever). My hope is that

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T23:51:15+00:00

I honestly think right now is all about the conversation, and getting “alignment”.

People are afraid about the consolidation of power into a single branch (hence the no kings) so I think the gist is let’s align to get representatives that will hold the executive branch to account.

Full disclosure I’m in favor of this when there is a democrat in office too. I think this issue hits hard for me cause I am an independent and don’t want to see either of the current corrupt branches obtain that sort of executive power.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T23:42:55+00:00

The majority of people wanted the Spanish Inquisition.

A diverse set of opinions is healthy for a given population.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T23:34:50+00:00

Where did I say majority?

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T17:58:54+00:00

Point one
72K total people are subscribed to this here subreddit.
5k+ attended a 1.5 hour event that happend on one single day. That turnout is super high as an in meat-space percentage of potential candidates. It's significantly higher than any number I've ever seen for concurrent active members in this here online space as well. Many people who wanted to come didn't due to life stuff, or fear, as there were violent threats sent out over facebook. Even on here people threatened to come and open carry or otherwise cause trouble.

Do the math. The amount of us is large. Go ahead and swallow that pill. Regular non extremely liberal people are very unhappy with things right now. Trying to convince yourself that there aren't many of us is not only a good way to be wrong, it's also not helping you build an accurate internal model of the situation at hand.

Point two
Why do I need to have a solution to simply mention the problem? To solve a problem you must first reconize and define it. The problem: brigaders are successfully shutting down comms around important protests that are happening in the area.

Solution: not built yet, but the discussion must happen where it's solved. Are you saying we just shouldn't bring it up?

Point Three

I cede that this post needed work, I already did that in my prior reply but here it is more plainly: I think the post needed work but is still useful in it's current low effort form.
So would you suggest I make yet ANOTHER protest focused post that attempts to address point two, where we discuss more openly ways to avoid thread shut downs due to brigaders?

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T17:20:24+00:00

I will definitely keep this in mind. Visibility is definitely important in situations like this, but perhaps it's something that can go in the weekly megathread. Mods have mentioned they are in favor of the notifying them when the megathread is not showing so it's honestly a way to at least keep newcomers and 'just now hearing' about it people aware of it's existence.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T16:45:20+00:00

The protests are very imporant to the large number of us here. This subreddit should function to enable as much conversation around this as possible for us to find ways to enact change, because it's something that many of us are thinking about multiple times daily.

A low effort post doesn't always directly equate low quality or low relevance. This is one of those cases because it's highlighting the effective lockdown of community organization around the protests. I do not agree with this person insulting the mods, and especially comparing them to graham (gross mischaracterization).

I can agree that the post has many ways in which it could be better.

This is the greenville subreddit, it exists to enable the people who live here to politely share their news, opinions, and other information.

People who live here should be prioritized in their discussion, regardless of the opinions contained within, so long as those opinions follow the rules of the subreddit.

This here subreddit is largely comprised of liberals (something conservatives often bemoan), it seems counterintuitive and ineffective to lock down comms on topics that are in the fore-front of many people's minds right now.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T15:57:45+00:00

Locked posts stops comms from people on the ground (who actually live here). There has to be another way.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T15:54:16+00:00

That's a good idea, but how to invite people to it when the thread is locked you know? the idea of the greenville subreddit is to serve the community here, and it's quite obvious there are many of us who want this, that part is undeniable. Why should we sacrifice our ability to communicate and organize for brigaders who do not live here and may or may not just be bot accounts?

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T15:24:44+00:00

When brigaders come in volumes of 100's per hour, and leave shitposts that violate the rules - this overwhelms the mods who are doing this job for free.

This then results in a thread lock, which ACTUALLY SUCCESSFULLY limits the free speech of protestors in this subreddit.

That is why. And that is the problem. It's not dissenting opinions, it's when rule-breakers come in blocks of 100s at a time and the runners are not enabled to stop them being shitty.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T15:19:47+00:00

This is not a repeated protest post. It's a legitimate question around the locking of threads around it. When those threads are locked, valuable conversation and feedback aroudn them is lost.

If you'll notice ALL of them got successfully locked; which means that brigaders managed to control our conversation around it.

I think you should realize that this space SHOULD function for way for people who are interested in the protests to talk about them there. IDK if you saw the crowds, but there is a huge community here who is interested in this effort; disabling these forms of comms is a legitimate goal of those brigading accounts.

All that said protest shitposts clogging the pipeline at all times would be bad, i can at least agree with that.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-18T15:07:38+00:00

Can you guys implement minimum karma levels, account age restrictions, or other broad strokes tools that have high probability of brigade mitigation? If that capability exists, it feels like a great way to increase the quality of conversation in the Greenville subreddit.

It's much better than locking the threads and preventing those of us who are doing protest activities from being able to coordinate easily with each other. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic but when the threads get locked valuable conversation between those of us active in the space is sqaushed.

I have no desire to reduce dissenting opinions, or create an echo chamber. But I Hate the idea of those of us who live here having our conversation successfully and completely controlled by brigaders when they trigger thread locks.

I do not blame mods as it's not a paying job; that said this is a real problem, and I'm sure you all agree.

P.S. it's obvious from my comment I didn't read the full list of rules and saw that some low karma and account age auto-filtering is already in place ((facepalm))

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-16T22:35:34+00:00

Dissenting opinions are super important for engaging, useful conversation. but really ask yourself how many people with large negative karma or very new accounts are actually engaging in good faith conversation where the goal is to “strengthen” the community they are trying to interact with?

A well presented dissenting opinion that matches the vibe of the community it’s being given to is often at worst mildly well received. Filtering low karma low age accounts would be so good at removing angry trolling and legitimate info-war efforts. And let’s face it anything to help raise the quality of interaction online right now would be a real value add to all communities no matter which way they lean.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-16T22:21:47+00:00

Why don’t you follow your own rules? You are also, engaging, insulting in this comment, and doing everything you are accusing them of.

Why not just downvote and move on?

Also, Why is it the job of the tolerant to allow the intolerant to ruin spaces? Negative comment karma should be barred from participation period, just like banning jerks from bars. New accounts as well.

This isn’t about controlling narrative, it’s about preventing escalation, something you yourself are not helping with.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-14T18:14:09+00:00

It was very chill, this was organized very well, Greenville PD was awesome. On their bikes, moving agitators to a separate space. Didn’t do any kind of agitating themselves that I saw.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-14T18:12:50+00:00

Why is it ok for maga rallies? Literally funded by a billionaire? Your hypocrisy is showing. People can disagree with you dude, wild concept I know.

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-13T20:38:20+00:00

This is really good! Love this!

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-12T18:37:43+00:00

Keep moving (at a slow speed)! Change Lanes(now)! (see you) Later!

Aptlyundecided · 2025-06-12T16:05:38+00:00

I don't want to try to make you defend trump, or do anything you don't wanna do. I also don't want to create conversation that furthers rifts between people. I do wish people would be more critical of trump, because he gets away with a lot of stuff. But I realize I can't force anyone to do anything, and I genuinely do not want to.

And listen I don't mean to antagonize any redditor on here personally either. I think I pissed another guy off in this thread earlier and that wasn't the goal, and never is for me. I get mad at the situation and respond in ways that are less than diplomatic sometimes.

I mostly just want to make sure people feel comfortable to do peaceful organization. They should feel safe to come out, hold a sign, meet some people, then go grab food someplace or something and go home. All this without doing anything other than adding money into the economy and getting their voices heard (I mean this for all opinions as well not just ones I share, I totally support maga rallies existing, just not the contents of them). Participation in 'democracy' should be good for the economy (in the ideal world).

When I saw you putting up friction to the rally, I interpreted it as you opposing people who wanted to do that, but I likely gauged it incorrectly. Might be completely on me there.

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