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#fuck corporate america
hobgobknowsbest · 4 months
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God I had such hope that gen z would absolutely be able to end the line of terrible and predatory products but corporations are so fucking evil that they're keeping up. Kids finally getting educated that smoking is terrible and will fuck you up? Hey what if it tastes like cotton candy and comes in a thumb drive. Gambling is horrifically addicting and will destroy your life? What if you paid $3.99 for the chance to get your newest waifu. It's garbage and I hate how targeted it is
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If Reddit hadn’t seen significant revenue drops, SPEZ wouldn’t be ready to force moderators out of communities. If they were making the same amount of money, he’d be enjoying it while functioning on a fraction of the server load and operational costs. But they’re not. They’re not making the same amount of money. The protests were way larger than he expected, they’re way more affective than he expected, and they’re lasting way longer than he expected. Now he’s using Musk-like temper tantrums as a last resort.
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guavagyal · 7 months
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you're probably better off being an influencer, streamer, or content creator in this job market. employers want 5+ years of experience and Bachelors for a job that pays $30K with pitiful benefits. and you better be ready for 4 interviews and an assessment.
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cococowboah · 4 months
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Patreon removed a story of mine as a character in it suffered from SA instigated by her father.
Now, Patreon can do whatever it wants, that's their platform. But they specifically asked me to remove that part of the story if I wanted it to stay up.
I'm pissed, not because "oh no, I can't make money on it," no. Nobody was reading SPURRED, it wasn't an active project, and I'm not currently making money on ANY of my projects anyway. I don't care about that.
What I'm pissed about is how this might affect my future works if I ever do begin making a living from my work through Patreon. I'm not going to just change my characters stories because they deal with uncomfortable topics like SA. I'm an SA survivor, I write characters who are SA survivors. I'm not going to censor myself or my projects because a corporation says I need to if I want to benefit from their platform.
So, I don't really know what to do now. Pieces of Him is also going to deal with SA. I can't even consider putting it on Patreon now knowing I'm going to get a notice that I need to change pivotal moments of a character's backstory for the sake of a corporation wanting to maintain a squeaky clean image.
And before anyone asks, no, the story did not explicitly detail the SA itself. Insinuation was as far as I went. I wanted the reader to feel uncomfortable without feeling offended. I wanted the reader to feel uncomfortable because it's an uncomfortable fucking topic and it shouldn't be skirted around. If someone didn't like it they didn't need to read it.
I'm so sick of how censored the internet is getting. It's NOT for the sake of protecting SA survivors who may be triggered by certain details of a story. This is about making the internet nice and clean and proper for advertisers and investors. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's about money and it always will be.
If it were about protecting survivors, then they would acknowledge that engaging with media that explicitly deals with those subjects and characters overcoming the trauma surrounding SA can be cathartic for survivors if they choose to do so.
Again if you are uncomfortable with something then do. not. read. it. There is a detailed warning at the beginning of the story. It is the responsibility of the reader to gauge what they're okay with and not okay with. Not mine.
I just wanna take a moment to thank platforms like AO3, our literal final bastion for freedom of speech and creativity. SPURRED isn't a fan project so it doesn't really belong on AO3 but I'm thankful that we have one place on the internet where I know my work is never going to be removed or requested to be changed for any reason whatsoever. It's the one place where I can write without the anxiety of a corporate overlord looking over my shoulder and saying "Nope! Don't like this! Change it!"
Rant over, to sum it up, fuck censorship and, does anyone know of any good Patreon alternatives? I definitely can't use them for future projects knowing what I know now. It's only a matter of time before a guidelines update gets Pieces of Him axed for "Promoting Homosexuality and Infidelity" as well as Paul's past as an SA survivor.
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prole-my-tariat · 1 year
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All American school children should be taught:
1) how to contact their congressional representatives
2) that they can and should message them about anything
3) that they are not celebrities, but public servants
We were done a disservice by not learning this and it’s helped cultivate this ridiculous notion of them being untouchable and their opinions absolute.
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Hiring tip! If you're at the point where you're interviewing candidates, TAKE YOUR FUCKING JOB LISTING DOWN SO THE REST OF US DON'T WASTE OUR GODDAMN TIME ON YOU
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fanvoidkeith · 2 months
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i'm really sad that kiddo me was like, "woah robots and artificial intelligence sounds so cool! it's just like in science fiction, like star trek!!" and then i grew up and companies and grifters decided, "hey, let's use ai to steal art and ruin artist's careers so we have to pay less money for 'art' that's not even good!" and now those bastards try to scam people for images that literally aren't worth a goddamn penny
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The emptiness I feel from trying to handle job hunting in corporate spaces and continuing to see hussle shit is unnerving. Like god dammit, I have never been able to be as aware of my autism as I am right now. Fucking window to the soul.
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hobgobknowsbest · 5 months
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artificer4396 · 3 months
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“We just can’t find anyone who wants to work”, says the faceless corpo-rat after turning down dozens or even hundreds of applications because it’d be slightly less profitable to pay employees
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exclusivelyhomosexual · 11 months
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Not me being interviewed for a job that I was lead to believe was a full-time benefited position, only to find out *during* the interview is part-time and nonbenefited, when the district manager who’s doing the interviewing says straight to my face
“No one wants to work. No one applies. And when they do apply they don’t care about the job.”
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I've been kinda on the fence about starting a corporate blacklist of companies I don't wanna buy from, but I caved and finally did it. I noq have a .ods Spreadsheet with a "Company" and "Reason" tab. Hopefully I can keep up with it and stick to it as best I can.
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thepossumpunks · 7 months
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Pizza Party Participation is Mandatory for Employment Arf Arf! Threadless Shop
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angierod · 10 months
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ive found my people
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willinglyghoulified · 10 months
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This new job has me literally getting home feeling so overworked that I'm nauseous and like my body's floating and tingling as soon as I take my shoes off and lay down
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