#WORk

[reasonsforhope]

"The Spanish government took the first legislative step on Tuesday towards reducing the working week from 40 to 37.5 hours without loss of pay, following an agreement with the unions but without the support of the country's main employers' organisations.

The bill, which the main unions CC.OO and UGT described as a historic measure that could potentially benefit 12 million workers, many of them women, according to union sources, was approved by the Council of Ministers - a move welcomed by Pedro Sánchez's government.

“Today is a day when it is worth being part of the Spanish government, and it is a historic day”, commented Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz.

"It is not just another economic variable, but a project for the country and a measure to modernise Spain," added Díaz, stressing that this is the first reduction in working hours in Spain in the last 40 years.

Meanwhile, the country's main employers' organisation, CEOE, rejected the text and called for a "gradual" reduction in working hours through collective bargaining, RTVE reported.

According to the organisation, small businesses and the self-employed will be most affected by the measure.

Sánchez's government argues that those who will benefit most are the workers who are not covered by collective agreements, who could be subject to a working day similar to that of the last 40 years.

Such situations are particularly prevalent in some regions of Spain, and mainly affect commerce, services, hospitality or trade.

The bill will now begin its journey through parliament, where Sánchez's government will have to secure the necessary support for it to become law - no easy task.

The Secretary of State for Employment, Joaquín Pérez Rey, said on Tuesday that the progressive executive was confident that the text would reach Parliament "at the end of February or the beginning of March.""

-via Euractive, February 5, 2025

[feathery-dreamer]

signal boosting the shit out of this

fight back against your abuser any way you can

[typhlonectes]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[prokopetz]

I guess the reason all that Backrooms stuff has never really fazed me is because I worked in on-site networking support for a while, and literally every city's downtown district is just Like That once you get off the beaten path. Not just the really big cities, either; the one I'm currently living in has a population of less than 250 000 – metro area included – and a downtown area about six blocks across, and the service corridors still manage to do some House of Leaves shit. At one point I was trying to map the route of a misbehaving network cable, started out in a shopping mall parking garage, and ended up surfacing in the basement of the casino across the street. Totally unsecured – apparently neither the mall's administration nor the casino's managers knew that particular service corridor existed.

[shamebats]

[glassshine]

nobody wants to work anymore

[oasisr]

after hearing "simply having a wonderful christmas time" by paul mccartney 74 times while working in retail, I came to the conclusion that they shot the wrong beatle

[audley-and-cherry]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

[followthebluebell]

I was digging through my drafts and found this formerly unreleased picture of Q back when he was still full gremlin mode. Just a complete and utter 'oh shit I shouldn't have fed him after midnight' beast.

He was 1.9 pounds in this picture and being syringe fed, but really wasn't eating much. Most of it just got on the rest of him at the time. Which really didn't add to the whole thing about him. I forget how he got up to the little ledge there. I think he had been trying to dig out the wand toys that are kept in there.

[animentality]

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Being rude is easy. It does not take any effort and is a sign of weakness and insecurity. Kindness shows great self-discipline and strong self-esteem. Being kind is not always easy when dealing with rude people. Kindness is a sign of a person who has done a lot of personal work and has come to a great self-understanding and wisdom. Choose to be kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time because kindness is a sign of strength." U.N. Owen.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

@magitekconveyor

[nyxelestia]

Honestly your job sounds amazing, low key wanna know what it is.

Oh! Apparently I have a title. I should look that up and see what it means.

[prokopetz]

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.