Google directly employs 2 orders of magnitude more people than live in my suburb. It is meaningless - completely meaningless - to hold up one example of a subcontractor as some sort of general case. Especially without context, there is probably more to the story that didn't make the article.
Also my condolences to this woman if her parents named her Tuesday.
I didn’t read the article but clicked in of the comments “knowing” they be stuffed with Reddit like fury. “How dare they!”
I was wrong… Like usual.
It seems this community is significantly less jump-to-outrage prone than many others (eg. much of Reddit).
We still let the marketing-engineered clickbait headlines slip through (since they are the actual articles’ titles) - such as the title of this post.
But still, some of the least outrage-y responses on the internet.
Thank you Reonxi and thank you HN community.
Edit: spelling (more bloody autocorrect fails)
There’s a name for this that’s not coming to my mind right now
Also, January Jones is a fine actress. See her in Mad Men if you haven’t already.
Tuesday Carne, I think it's a play on Taco Tuesday?
> my condolences to this woman if her parents named her Tuesday.
At least it wasn't My Girl Friday.
Regardless, I think this is a bit of a strong reaction to what amounts to a light "human interest meets tech" collection of tiny stories. It includes as much detail about a spat over tweets, and a rescue dog's story being sold as an NFT (...), as it does this worker's story. It's pure fluff and it wears that on its sleeve.
Replace it with Sausage to get an idea about how it affects my mind, and why you should be careful about what you draw attention to.
##The worker, Saturday Sausage, worked for a Google subcontractor called Modis in South Carolina. At a meeting Nov. 17, managers told her and others they had to work the holiday without any extra pay, Sausage says. I spoke with Sausage, and she said, “The only thing in my mind that I thought could be against the rules is that I said, ‘That’s bull**’.” Google employees’ Alphabet Workers Union is helping Sausage file paperwork with the feds.
Edit: I live in a third world country and not all Holidays are the same. Some are ALWAYS paid in full (workers earn twice as much if they work during the holiday, and thrice as much if the holiday was sunday free day), some are optional (the worker may ask the day off without pay) some are irrelevant (they aren't Holidays for the worker) Holidays are appointed by a government as a way to gain popularity. They are costly for employers.
Right! The surname exists! Still distracting, I would use a pseudonym if it was me.