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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

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All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

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Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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Bandai Namco reportedly tries to bore staff into quitting, skirting Japan’s labor laws (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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Bandai Namco has reportedly turned to the unspoken Japanese tradition of layoff-by-boredom by stuffing unwanted employees into oidashi beya, or "expulsion rooms."

Employees ~~banished~~ reassigned to oidashi beya are left to do nothing, or given menial tasks at best. According to Bloomberg's unnamed insider sources, Bandai Namco has moved around 200 of its 1,300 person team to these rooms in recent months.

The goal of sticking someone in an expulsion room is to literally bore or shame them into quitting, and Bloomberg's sources claim it has worked on around half the people Bandai Namco has stuck in there so far.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Bandai Namco has reportedly turned to the unspoken Japanese tradition of layoff-by-boredom by stuffing unwanted employees into oidashi beya, or "expulsion rooms."

Employees banished reassigned to oidashi beya are left to do nothing, or given menial tasks at best.

Ever since I watched Silicon Valley I'ved dreamed of being oidashi beya'd.

Like, you're just gonna give me zero work and a room to nap in for 8 hours along with a salary?

Fucking sold man. Let me live that Bighead life, dude is a nihilist spirit animal.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I think they would just make it extra shitty. Nothing to do plus normal workplace rules: no sleeping, no private conversations or electronic devices, nothing not work related on the computer. Enjoy doing nothing nothing, where anything remotely resembling a mental escape is not allowed.

[–] SanicHegehog@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Says them. What are they going to do, fire me?

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 weeks ago

Yes. And because you are technically at fault, there will be no compensation.

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