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"Working in a retail environment, when things are busy, managers will step in and cover a desk while someone goes to a bathroom—things that, if you wanted to be a stickler about it, should be done by union labor, ..."

Started out making sure you didn't have to work 7 days a week, 14 hours a day with dangerous equipment - now has become, if you work in a bookstore and you need to use a bathroom for 10 minutes, the only person 'allowed' to cover for you is another union member...good grief.

Highlights perfectly why an ever increasing number of folks are anti-union and union enrollment continues to fall in this country.

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I have no real comment on the wider issues raised in the article, but I agree that this is —at face value— odd.

‘Since the latest layoff, “they’ve been scheduling managers to do things like work a register for hours at a time, sorting and shelving books.”

“This is deliberate and systematic,” he continued. “There are days when there are as many managers working on the floor as union workers.”’

Should it not be okay for a business to ask any of its employees to perform a reasonable and safe task for which they’ve been trained?

> Should it not be okay for a business to ask any of its employees to perform a reasonable and safe task for which they’ve been trained?

Apparently, according to one of the replies in this thread, it is “self-peasantisation”. They would rather prohibit people that are already employed by the business and trained to do those tasks from doing those tasks, because they are not in a union, so the business could hire union people instead to do those tasks.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess :)

I find a 'standard' 13" (as on an older Macbook Air, for example, which I think is technically 13.3" and 16:10?) a bit too claustrophobic for anything creative - either due to apps needing toolbars, or my workflow needing multiple windows accessible (e.g. coding, with VSCode, a shell or two, and a browser for docs and StackOverflow).

A 15" (which I have now) is nice to work with, but then the laptop becomes a touch too heavy for travelling comfort (unless this is something you specifically optimise for when buying e.g. [0] - but then there are other tradeoffs).

Thus I wonder if a 14-14.5" with minimal bezels, set in a lightweight chassis similar to a traditional 13" (see how big the bezels are on an older Macbook Air, for example - lots of space for a larger screen without unduly enlarging the chassis) might not be a sweet spot?

[0] https://www.lg.com/de/notebooks/gram/15z90rt-g-aa78g/

You clearly replied in an entirely wrong thread, but I upvoted because your reply was pretty interesting.

Out of curiosity, what was the comment that you were originally intending to reply to?

It was this little chain in the Framework 16 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39105227

Thanks for the flag - I've moved my comment there too :)

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