#Employee Participation

[townpostin]

Tata Steel's SMD Hosts Successful Blood Donation Camp

72 Units of Blood Donated at Tata Steel SMD’s One-Day Camp Tata Steel’s Spares Manufacturing Department (SMD) organized a blood donation camp, collecting a total of 72 units of blood. JAMSHEDPUR – A blood donation camp organized by Tata Steel’s Spares Manufacturing Department (SMD) collected 72 units of blood in a single day. The event was graced by Tata Workers Union President Sanjiv Choudhary…

[forsaken-sedai]

There were many but the biggest red flag Mr Beast had was being the biggest Elon Musk fanboy and constantly shilling for Tesla

[some-pers0n]

interesting ideas about AI art and by no means am I trying to send hate but I believe majority of people hate AI art is because it's truly just the byproduct of a giant plinko board bouncing through pieces of art made by artists who put love and care and SOUL into their work. A visual product of a math formula. While it's "art" in the most litteral sense, not having a true human behind it putting though and effort into its every detail, for many people (myself included) devalues it from a tradition artists work.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that AI art is inherently unequal to non Ai art, specifically for this reason. (Hope this made sense sorry if it's incoherent)

I agree in that sense there. I personally do not find myself wanting to engage in a work when I purposefully know the creator had used AI to create the entire product. Something something,,,I cannot find myself getting invested in something that is little more than a product. I don't wanna read a fic about my blorbos when it was written by Chat-GPT

I also agree with the idea that a lot of people hate AI art because of this heavily emotional, debatably reactionary mindset that stems from one thing: fairness. It's the same sort of emotion I find one gets if all of the work on a group project gets shafted onto them whilst their fellow peers sit idly by. It feels unfair to sink hours into your craft, spending all this time fighting to develop your skills and flourish as an artist, only to see someone type half a paragraph and have a machine spit back something that looks not half bad. Let's be honest with ourselves here and say that AI art, at least in a visual regard, has progressed quite a bit to the point where most of the mistakes people find can be dismissed as wonky perspective and the line art being a bit fucky, which is something a ton of artists struggle with too

People develop a sort of a superiority complex over it. I can't blame them honestly. A number of times I've felt it too when people tell me they're using Chat-GPT as though it were Google and when I see my family members and friends playing around with AI art. I gotta bite my tongue and choke back a chortle, both because it's kind of a dick move and also because I don't want to relish in this feeling. It's infectious though to feel as though you have an edge over another person just because you abstain from using Chat-GPT or whatever. Not to be all "grrgrgrr you should LOVE Chat-GPT and if you dare to say anything bad then you are EVILL!!" of course though. It's emotions. They're messy, intense, and oftentimes you don't really realize when you're feeling since you get locked into your perspective. Yet, I think it's important to realize a lot of hatred of this generative AI stems from emotions. Reactionary ideals and claims stem from emotions after all

I think ultimately what the conversation about generative AI should revolve around is about the concerns of labour. The several strikes from a while back from VFX artists and scriptwriters come to mind. They are most at stake from generative AI as tools like Chat-GPT are cheaper and more cost-effective than paying an actual employee for their time and effort. I would also mention the environmental issues, but if we were to talk about that we would also have to acknowledge the fact that so, so much water is being used up daily to generate power for servers. Hell, this post alone will probably contribute to drying up some marsh in the greater scheme of things

Anywho yada yada TL;DR: I agree yes but I also think it's important to recognize that a good chunk of your hatred to Chat-GPT stems from feeling cheated and a sense of pride and superiority over others for simply not using it. There is no quality to Chat-GPT that makes it inherently evil. I can't get upset at my grandma for sending me a photo of her and her dog that went through an AI anime filter. I can feel maybe some exhaustion when seeing a fellow classmate using Chat-GPT to write their essay, but ultimately I write my own work for the love of the game. I can get upset however at those in higher power who use it to push artists out of jobs. Chat-GPT is a tool that has its pros and cons and I think it's reductive to just basically sit there and hiss like a vampire when presented with a cross when faced with the mere word "AI", especially when your only big argument for disliking it is based purely in feeling cheated when someone types a prompt into a program and art that would've taken you seven hours to draw gets spit out in about a minute or two

[anotherpapercut]

we are doing a secret santa thing at work and I don't trust one of my coworkers to get a good gift for his person (who deserves a good gift) so much that I actually bought it for him today. it was $15 and for some reason he gave me $40. I'm still confused about this interaction

[lionfanged]

i would say for halloween atticus is dressing slutty as is tradition, but given it is a thursday, he's actually in the office. full business attire. being professional or some shit.

[theemployees]

The Employees are practicing for their Preliminary matchup later this week! Meanwhile the turtles are stuck on the sidelines 😂 oh well.

@tmntaucompetition

(Collaborative piece between @quirkycorgianimations , @disgracedghostprincess , @suya-khamie and @artstufff-jpg )

[knuckleduster]

sometimes i feel like arguments about pride events between the "commercial" mainstream pride parade types and more activist perspectives on pride really just come down to aesthetic sensibilities. often this is articulated through the concept of feeling like mainstream pride is making a spectacle out of gay people for a largely cisheterosexual audience but what gets lost here is that the basic bitch gay aesthetic sensibility is about putting on a spectacle and that this is fine

[snuuyfanged]

everyone clap and cheer i've managed to finish fine, great in which i uploaded the last two chapters of it so i could free myself of my iron chains /hj

...unfortunately i am headed to work soon so i can't make a proper post Yet so. i will do that later but for those who have been waiting for an update it is there

[townpostin]

Record-Breaking Blood Donation Drive at Tata Steel CRM Bara

161 Units of Blood Donated, Surpassing Previous Record of 142 Units Tata Steel’s CRM Bara department organized a highly successful blood donation camp, collecting a record 161 units of blood. JAMSHEDPUR – Tata Steel’s CRM Bara department has set a new record by collecting 161 units of blood at a donation camp, surpassing the previous record of 142 units. The blood donation camp was held at the…

[howtobeamagicalgirl]

I want to quit my job soooo bad

[mewdivorce]

the store i work at is celebrating 20 years so theyre doing all this employee appreciation stuff which is awesome cause ive worked there for like a month and have had pretty much fuck all to do with it for the last 20 years but still get stickers and whatever

[unproduciblesmackdown]

truly further [2 sides same coin] of billions tragic failing of either quant's writing that the effective Demand that taylor & rian must have a very special dynamic is all about going "well i'm epic & you're epic" at every stage, which is nothing, while winston and taylor can never have a dynamic b/c he's so Not Epic, despite that he's more similar to taylor in any ways that actually matter or could mean anything, while also if rian was ever peers with winston / had a reciprocal dynamic there, maybe we'd Have to have had more of an actual character from that role, but instead once again [no] b/c he's so Not Epic. billions writing getting an award for [okay. tmc trifecta] as the only option heading into s6 & giving us Nothing instead

[kimberlychapman]

I have been in multiple professional, business environments (mostly in Texas, go figure, but Austin so...like...yeah...) where we were all supposed to just be okay with gathering around, closing our eyes, and joining in on a prayer.

I have never kept my eyes so aggressively open as I have when one of these company prayers was going on. Like Sauron-level lidless and fiery with rage.

But acquiescing because of the power dynamic forcing me into doing so. Hence the rage. Silent, staring Gowron-eyed at all of the Christians, full on dishonour-on-your-cow rage.

And then yeah, they think they're the oppressed ones because LGBTQ+ people exist.

one of my father’s hindu colleagues was surprised that my family didn’t make everyone say a christian prayer before we sat down to eat dinner. we were like “….this is your house.” and she laughed and said that her christian friends “make” her pray all the time. like what the fuck. how fucking rude can you be to make the host pray to your god. you are in their fucking house.

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

Okay so we have this huge problem with forgetting about everything that’s happened by the time the next election rolls around so I’d like to keep a running list of things as they’re happening to help remind us when the 2026 midterms roll around. And please add to this if I’ve missed anything.

January 2025:

Donald Trump pardoned 1500 people who participated in the insurrection of January 6th, including those who violently assaulted and nearly killed police officers.

Donald Trump has declared that trans and non-binary people don’t exist.

Donald Trump is working towards firing everyone in the government who isn’t loyal to him.

Donald Trump has effectively fired everyone who he claims is an “illegal DEI hire” …whatever that means

Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization

Congress are trying to pass the Laken Riley Act to, effectively, round up every immigrant in the country, including LEGAL immigrants

Donald Trump removed caps on prescription drug prices.

Donald Trump wants to withhold federal aid to help combat the LA wildfires and help the thousands of people who have been displaced and lost their homes.

The Department of Justice has put a hold on all civil rights cases.

Donald Trump has cut off aid to Ukraine.

Laken Riley Act has been passed by Congress and is awaiting being signed into law by the President. Here’s the breakdown of the votes: House Senate

Donald Trump purged a dozen inspectors general from the federal government and intends to replace them all with people loyal to him.

Pete Hegseth has been confirmed as Secretary of Defense. Here’s the breakdown of how the Senate voted. Note, it was a 50-50 tie that JD Vance had to break.

Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Colombia after the Colombian government turned away two airplanes carrying migrants. Columbia has retaliated by imposing a 25% tariff of its own on US goods.

Donald Trump has also issued a travel ban for Colombian citizens and revoked visas from Colombian migrants coming to the US.

Donald Trump has now backed off the tariffs and other threats against Colombia. Note for future reference: this comes just hours after Trump made the threat in the first place and he and the Colombian president got into a big fight on social media.

Nearly 1,000 migrants were arrested mostly in Chicago on January 26th by ICE and ICE has been told to meet a quota of 75 migrant arrests every day.

Donald Trump rescinded an anti-discrimination executive order from Lyndon B. Johnson

Donald Trump signed an executive order banning trans people from serving in the military and also ordered that people who were discharged for refusing to get mandatory vaccines be reinstated.

Donald Trump has frozen all federal grants to institutions.

After pressure from state governments, activist groups, and the general public, the White House has rolled back some of the freezes on federal funding.

Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) has proposed a change to the 22nd Amendment to allow Donald Trump, specifically, to serve a third term.

Donald Trump is trying to fire all federal employees who don’t want to return to the office (work-from-home saves the federal government millions of taxpayer dollars in overhead). He also sent an email to federal employees saying that if they’re not loyal to him, they’ll be investigated.

Donald Trump has signed the Laken Riley Act into law.

Donald Trump has said he doesn’t think Palestinians should be allowed to return to Gaza but instead should be sent to Egypt and Jordan.

Native Americans have been targeted by ICE raids.

Donald Trump has ordered undocumented immigrants to be sent to Guantanamo Bay

Donald Trump signed an executive order to expand federal funding for school choice programs. [x]

Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that he will deport visa-holding students who protest against Israel. [x]

Donald Trump has blamed DEI for the plane crash that killed 67 people in Washington D. C. [x]

Donald Trump signed an executive order that schools should no longer teach about racism and discrimination. And that schools should only teach history that is “patriotic” [x]

Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna wants to add Donald Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore. [x]

Trump’s Department of Education has called book bans a hoax. [x]

The Department of Justice has barred certain news outlets from receiving information from the Pentagon. [x]

The Trump administration has fired multiple FBI officials who investigated the January 6th insurrection. [x]

February-June 2025

I’ll keep adding to this list as new things come up and, again, please feel free to add anything I’ve missed. I know that in this world of constant news it’s easy to forget, so let’s give our future selves a little help!

[hroutlook]

EEOC Alleges Grocery Chain Unlawfully Coerced Employee into Mandatory EAP Participation

Weis Markets, a chain of Mid-Atlantic grocery stores, faces a lawsuit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging misconduct in handling a sexual harassment complaint at its Mifflintown, Pennsylvania store. The lawsuit contends that following the employee’s complaint about alleged harassment, she was summoned to a meeting with HR managers and supervisors. During this meeting, she was informed that multiple coworkers had accused her of creating a “hostile work environment” and expressed fear that she might report them for unspecified conduct.

For more details please visit our website : https://www.hroutlook.com/2023/12/12/eeoc-alleges-grocery-chain-unlawfully-coerced-employee-into-mandatory-eap-participation/

[canichangemyblogname]

AITAH—

I (28 m) programmed an event into my boss’ (51 f) calendar with the exact location: street number, town, zip— everything. She went to the place down the street, ten street numbers off. “Based on the address, I thought we were having it here.” “Ugh—no; they’re closed at this hour. The event down the street.” “Okay, well, you need to put that information in my calendar.” “Sorry, I could’ve sworn we put the address in—” “No. I need the name of the place and the context, like details on parking and entrances and hours of operation.” “Oh, okay. Sorry.”