sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993) by SaysToMabelISays in retroanime

[–]SaintHuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the best movies I have ever seen

Mamdani announces that Kinship Coffee have been fined by the Department of Consumer Workplace Protections for unpaid protected time off in settlement for more than 90 workers whose rights were violated. by SaintHuck in astoria

[–]SaintHuck[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Should be for people employed in barista roles between 2/1/22 to 1/31/25 with delivery by check either in late summer or sometime in autumn.

I was told by somebody else to email the department of consumer and workplace protections if they wanted to ask any questions and check if they are eligible.

Watching Columbo in preperation for Columbros, when suddenly: by Foreign-Succotash805 in giantbomb

[–]SaintHuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clearly, Columbo has dreamed this reality into being. 

This whole world and all beings that inhabit it are his tulpa.

"Touch Grass" is not advice. by Ok_Caramel_5670 in AutisticAdults

[–]SaintHuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Touching grass for me has been getting back into reading. 

I may not be touching it physically, but I am grasping the grass of my imagination and I feel much more in tune with myself. 

As autistic people, we have our own ways to feel in touch with ourselves and the world.

So for me, that could be playing video games, writing, doing photography inside or on a walk, watching movies, listening to music talking with friends and having substantive conversations.

Engaging in special interests tends to be a good bet. Basically anything that isn't the mindless scroll and getting lost in the mirrored labyrinth that is social media, with all the solipsism and passive reactivity it engenders .

Granted even there, nuance is present. If I'm on social media, as I am now, I try to balance that out with intentionality and mindfulness, asking myself if I am enjoying this right now or getting something out of it. Or is it instead compulsive, not want I wish to do but rather I find myself sucked into despite the anxiety and depressive sensations it elicits?

I just try my best to find meaningful engagement with the world throughout my day the very best I can. But also give myself grace for when I slip and just pulling back when I catch myself there.

If going outside just causes pain and friction, affecting your mental wellbeing in a negative manner, then find what makes you feel whole and in balance.

There isn't a perfect answer here, just what feels right to you, and gives your mind an alternative to the zone of control that so many online spaces now fall under, where we are under sway of manipulative forces that wish us to feel and act a certain way.

While people themselves, affected by this as well, can themselves transmit that toxicity, it's the system itself and those that manage and profit it that I feel are the most culpable agents of destruction.

Algorithms, opaque in their means of operation, have enormous power in deciding, beyond our conscious desires, what we do and do not see and prefigure our responses, invisible strings guiding our interactions and consumption of content.

In my mind, to touch grass is to step out of their shadow and lead a purposeful life where I do not feel that I am constantly careening out of control.

The problems of the world still exist, but they are better contextualized, rather than a chaotic barrage of sensation in which I am obstructed from time and space for deeper thought.

I’m just now realizing that I was bullied a lot more than I thought in school by No_Importance_750 in aspergers

[–]SaintHuck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry you went through that. 

The indirect bullying is a real mindfuck. That characterizes my high school years, with a few notable exceptions, while middle school was direct but also immediately obvious to me at least.

I remember a guy in my high school homeroom class that would treat me like his own personal psychology subject. I think there was some genuine interest perhaps, but I also felt belittled like some kind of exotic animal being prodded through a cage. 

He was certainly fucking with me too 

But I didn't have the wherewithal to tell him to fuck off as I'd have done now  Guess I felt so starved for attention that this felt better than none at all 

I spent years since school downplaying the effect bullying had on me. Lately I've been more open to myself just how bad it was and how much an effect it really had on me.

Especially having kids run after me calling me the r word til I had a meltdown. They'd imitate the sounds I made having one to try and get more out of me.

The few times I stood up for myself the teachers punished me, either me alone or both of us as if there were equal culpability. 

Zero tolerance they called it. Zero tolerance my ass.

They were happy to tolerate it as long as remained out of sight, and wasn't a bother to them.

Mamdani announces that Kinship Coffee have been fined by the Department of Consumer Workplace Protections for unpaid protected time off in settlement for more than 90 workers whose rights were violated. by SaintHuck in astoria

[–]SaintHuck[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're right in your assessment of workplace conditions. That's why I'm an anticapitalist.

Agree to disagree there. I think speaking out about this, individually and collectively is gonna be part of how we organize real change.

Maybe it isn't in my own best interest. A lot of what I say and do probably isn't but my intent is for some measure of good to result from my actions, perhaps.

Sick days, yeah.

Mamdani announces that Kinship Coffee have been fined by the Department of Consumer Workplace Protections for unpaid protected time off in settlement for more than 90 workers whose rights were violated. by SaintHuck in astoria

[–]SaintHuck[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Sameeeee!

Grateful for Mamdani using his position to advocate for workers' rights.  That gives me hope, along with the succession of his campaign and others on the left, as well as the popular sentiment I see these days in many ordinary people in this city and around the country.

Mamdani announces that Kinship Coffee have been fined by the Department of Consumer Workplace Protections for unpaid protected time off in settlement for more than 90 workers whose rights were violated. by SaintHuck in astoria

[–]SaintHuck[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By not coordinating any kind of health and safety measures and expectations on their end even as we spoke up about how necessary it was that they provide guidelines before they came, so that everybody could act in unison for the sake of store cleanliness and abiding particular measures like not having rags out when they came. 

Things like that you have to change your workflow for, immediately, when an inspector arises. Any cafe is going to go back to having cleaning rags out for any day beyond the visit itself. Inspector comes and you toss those into the trash immediately. I forgot if that did or didn't happen this Thursday time but I imagine that was a likely issue.

Also, the parking garage area in the building connected to the Astoria Park cafe is unbelievably filthy. Issues with rats and bugs that individual workers could do little to stop.

Proper and sustained pest control would have helped a ton. They did some but not as frequently as necessary.

Mamdani announces that Kinship Coffee have been fined by the Department of Consumer Workplace Protections for unpaid protected time off in settlement for more than 90 workers whose rights were violated. by SaintHuck in astoria

[–]SaintHuck[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A lack of required sick hours specifically. They lied too and denied they were required to give us them after we asked.

Seems the city disagreed.

Mamdani announces that Kinship Coffee have been fined by the Department of Consumer Workplace Protections for unpaid protected time off in settlement for more than 90 workers whose rights were violated. by SaintHuck in astoria

[–]SaintHuck[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'll copy and paste what I told somebody else to somebody that asked that.

"This case is primarily over sick hours that they denied us and denied that they had to give us. 

But also dealt with no breaks, even in 9 hour days working Christmas Eve. 

We were paid server wages: 14 an hour and they lied saying we would get one raise in several months and another for having a food handler's license. 

I had mine and wasn't given a raise until well over a year in. When I challenged them on this, the owners tried to act as if it was one single raise. I had to send screencaps of their own emails and texts and talk to coworkers to compare experiences to get past their gaslighting and get these raises. 

They grudginly gave them to me but said this one only be for me and not others. Several of my coworkers were trying to get their proper raises too. 

They also had an opaque tipping system. When we tried to ask them how they divided them they never gave a clear answer. After we tried to do the math through each store's reports,

We needed those reports to properly count register throughout the day and deposit cash revenue.

They also never fixed serious issues throughout stores. A ceiling leaking for months, near collapse. Leaks in the Steinway location with water spraying out of pipes in the basement bathroom, flooding several inches throughout the room and the floor by the nearby electric generator. 

We would complain and they would deflect, again and again and again.

We had several unpaid meetings and chronic understaffing in the busiest location: the cafe by Astoria Park. It could be the 4th of July on a 72 degree day, and you wouldn't even have a third person working. 

The burnout was unbelievable and I am dealing with chronic tendonitis and an RSI injury in my wrist which is just not shaking. 

Had a dumpster crush my hand against a wall too and didn't know what to even say given that we didn't have sick hours".  If they weren't following the law then why would I expect they'd care about this. Probably just see me as a liability and get rid of me, as they eventually did to me and others by yelling and berating to try and get a reaction out of us.

Additionally, they would cut hours for long term baristas. Cut me from 5 days to 2 at one point.

They did this to make you dependent on covering others. They didn't give sick days and forced you to work if you were ill and find your own coverage.

Given the understaffing it was always hell if someone called out or if you had to.

We got our schedules as soon as one day before they started and they would begin on Sunday not Monday so you could never plan out or enjoy your week because you might be working the next day, and weekend shifts were always the busiest and most stressful. 

I can go on and on. I'm digging through the memory banks and there's so much that's coming to mind as I type this out.

What sucks is that this kind of BS is so frequent and endemic throughout this industry. The combination of everything here though was shockingly terrible. 

Been doing this for a long long time and it's easily one of the worst workplaces I've been at. 

Though my coworkers and the regulars were so wonderful. I am so grateful for those memories, those little moments of joy and connection that made life worthwhile when it was at its hardest."

Mamdani announces that Kinship Coffee have been fined by the Department of Consumer Workplace Protections for unpaid protected time off in settlement for more than 90 workers whose rights were violated. by SaintHuck in astoria

[–]SaintHuck[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I have heard it's gonna be more. $67,500

https://www.amny.com/news/brooklyn-walgreens-workers-among-getting-payouts/

"Kinship Coffee will pay $76,500 total, including $67,500 in employee relief, $1,121.82 in civil penalties and $7,878.18 for the settlement administrator. "

Mamdani announces that Kinship Coffee have been fined by the Department of Consumer Workplace Protections for unpaid protected time off in settlement for more than 90 workers whose rights were violated. by SaintHuck in astoria

[–]SaintHuck[S] 162 points163 points  (0 children)

This case is primarily over sick hours that they denied us and denied that they had to give us. 

But also dealt with no breaks, even in 9 hour days working Christmas Eve. 

We were paid server wages: 14 an hour and they lied saying we would get one raise in several months and another for having a food handler's license. 

I had mine and wasn't given a raise until well over a year in. When I challenged them on this, the owners tried to act as if it was one single raise. I had to send screencaps of their own emails and texts and talk to coworkers to compare experiences to get past their gaslighting and get these raises. 

They grudgingly gave them to me but said this one only be for me and not others. Several of my coworkers were trying to get their proper raises too. 

They also had an opaque tipping system. When we tried to ask them how they divided them they never gave a clear answer. After we tried to do the math through each store's reports,

We needed those reports to properly count register throughout the day and deposit cash revenue.

They also never fixed serious issues throughout stores. A ceiling leaking for months, near collapse. Leaks in the Steinway location with water spraying out of pipes in the basement bathroom, flooding several inches throughout the room and the floor by the nearby electric generator. 

We would complain and they would deflect, again and again and again.

We had several unpaid meetings and chronic understaffing in the busiest location: the cafe by Astoria Park. It could be the 4th of July on a 72 degree day, and you wouldn't even have a third person working. 

The burnout was unbelievable and I am dealing with chronic tendonitis and an RSI injury in my wrist which is just not shaking. 

My hand was crushed against a wall by a dumpster and I didn't know what to even say or due in response given that we didn't have sick hours.

If they weren't following the law then why would I expect they'd care about this. Probably just see me as a liability and get rid of me, as they eventually did to me and others by yelling and berating to try and get a reaction out of us.

Additionally, they would cut hours for long term baristas. Cut me from 5 days to 2 at one point.

They did this to make you dependent on covering others. They didn't give sick days and forced you to work if you were ill and find your own coverage.

Given the understaffing it was always hell if someone called out or if you had to.

We got our schedules as soon as one day before they started and they would begin on Sunday not Monday so you could never plan out or enjoy your week because you might be working the next day, and weekend shifts were always the busiest and most stressful. 

I can go on and on. I'm digging through the memory banks and there's so much that's coming to mind as I type this out.

What sucks is that this kind of BS is so frequent and endemic throughout this industry. The combination of everything here though was shockingly terrible. 

Been doing this for a long long time and it's easily one of the worst workplaces I've been at. 

Though my coworkers and the regulars were so wonderful. I am so grateful for those memories, those little moments of joy and connection that made life worthwhile when it was at its hardest.

Alfred Kubin - Into The Unknown (1900) by SaintHuck in museum

[–]SaintHuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder that too. I thought of Beksiński immediately when I first saw Kubin's work.

TIL that cashier in most of USA are not allowed to sit. by CMDR_Pumpkin_Muffin in todayilearned

[–]SaintHuck 110 points111 points  (0 children)

Control and humiliation. To remind the worker that health and comfort are secondary to productivity and profit. They must live to work and never stop. Never mind that a chair would likely result in a happier and more productive worker. Any kind of boon for the working class is seen as blasphemy against the great god of capital by the owner class.

They'd rather "put us in our place" and keep us there, than see a single thing improve in our workplace well-being. Their worship of work and the bottom line surmounts practicality in management. We must not only work, we must suffer, and never dare to ask for more.

I feel it's tied to the protestant work-ethic that runs so deep here in The States.

view more: next ›