Court: Employers Must Allow Workers to Sit If They Prefer While on the Job

Re:Court: Employers Must Allow Workers to Sit If They Prefer... by JoshGlazebrook on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:45AM (#11439081)

Here's a weird observation. I recently moved from the Seattle to Austin. In Washington State, every single bank I went to it was open air between the teller and the customer. Here in Austin, the credit union I use has a physical non-transparent wall and you can only see the teller through a video screen and microphone.

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Re:Court: Employers Must Allow Workers to Sit If They Prefer... by koenigdavidmj on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:51AM (#11439133)

How much stabbier is Austin than Seattle?

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Re:Court: Employers Must Allow Workers to Sit If They Prefer... by 6stringmerc on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:17AM (#11439315)

If they're in the rapidly gentrifying area(s) on the East, which have traditionally been rife with poverty and petty crime (they were 10 years ago when I was there and before real estate is what it is now), then I'd answer "A lot more, a lot more stabbier."

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Re:Court: Employers Must Allow Workers to Sit If They Prefer... by lost_my_pwd on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:23AM (#11439354)

Are you sure the teller is really on the other side of that wall?

At my CU there is a teller there 24/7, it's just that after hours it is via video terminal integrated with the ATM piped to some remote office.

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Re:Court: Employers Must Allow Workers to Sit If They Prefer... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:11AM (#11439277)

I've lived in Dallas, Austin and New York, and I've never seen that. Where do you do your banking?

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Re:Court: Employers Must Allow Workers to Sit If They Prefer... by chrismcb on Saturday April 09, 2016 @03:00AM (#11460288)

There are plenty of banks in Washington that have thick bullet proof glass. And not just in downtown Seattle

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