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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by azemetre on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:30PM (#28012603)
Yeah but it also denies the fact that we spend 1/3 of our working lives at work. It's extremely silly to say not talk about things that directly impact you, especially work related things.

It reminds of the crappy jobs I'd work at where management would tell us that discussing salaries was illegal, it's not illegal.

This isn't an 1880s mining town, Apple isn't the only game in town. Workers have options and I doubt Apple employees would honestly struggle to get jobs at other more remote friendly workplaces like Crowdstrike, SalesForce, or even Facebook.

It's one thing to not allow something, it's an entirely different thing to force people to stop discussing something because a massive multinational corporation feels threatened by a few hundred employees.

It is pathetic.

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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by duxup on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:09PM (#28013961)
Mining job comparison over slack channels?

That seems pretty out there.

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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by azemetre on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:36PM (#28020569)
The comparison being that several hundred years ago if you wanted to work in a certain city sometimes there would literally be one company that ran everything.

They were aptly named company towns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town#United_States

They have an interesting, and often sordid, history.

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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by duxup on Saturday July 31, 2021 @06:38PM (#28022100)
I know the history. The connection to slack channels seems absurd.
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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by azemetre on Sunday August 01, 2021 @10:49PM (#28032395)
It's no different than companies stopping workers from organizing. It's scare tactics plain and simple. Rather than confront people and give real answers they take their ball and go home.

It's a poor look.

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