‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s Battle with A.I

Re:‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s ... by Animats on Sunday July 23, 2023 @04:13PM (#36839335)

The New York Times recently outsourced its sports section to The Athletic, a YC startup which the NYT now owns. 35 sports reporters will be "reassigned". It's partly union-busting - the NYT is unionized, but The Athletic is not.

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Re:‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s ... by BigElephant on Sunday July 23, 2023 @04:29PM (#36839496)

Not relevant here.

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Re:‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s ... by voz_ on Sunday July 23, 2023 @08:16PM (#36841455)

It absolutely is? They wrote this piece, and context matters because it can shed light many things, including hypocrisy. In this case, the commenter is pointing out just that.

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Re:‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s ... by KennyBlanken on Sunday July 23, 2023 @04:30PM (#36839504)

Didn't they retaliate against Wirecutter staff when they tried to go union, too?

Half a billion dollars for a startup by two techbros, but the Times can't afford the cost of their employees unionizing?

I guess I'm not in the least bit surprised then that every time I happen to click on an article from The Athletic out of boredom, it feels like something a freshman journalism major might write and then later be embarrassed about...and that every article I've read has been attributed to "The Athletic Staff."

Sidenote: it always amazes me that in the US, you supposedly need permission from a complicated, slow federal bureaucracy to be "recognized" and thus protected from retaliation for actions.

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Re:‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s ... by JimtheCoder on Sunday July 23, 2023 @04:31PM (#36839512)

"...but the Times can't afford the cost of their employees unionizing?"

It's not cost, it's control...

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