Zombie

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Normally when you sign an employment contract it will say something like you work 37.5 hours per week between 9am and 5pm with 30 mins lunch break, or whatever.

A zero hour contract doesn't state how many hours you will work, so there's no guarantee you get any hours. One week you might work 40 hours, the next week you get nothing, and the next you only get 10. It makes planning life difficult because you have no idea how much you'll earn each week.

Managers use it to bully, companies use it to exploit staff, and workers are usually too desperate to dare turn it around and use it to their advantage. The contract goes both ways. If the employer wants you to work and you have prior commitments you can usually refuse, but most workers fear being denied hours in future if they stand up for themselves so instead they get shafted, as usual, by business interests.

They're an awful tool of exploitation that only suits a very small subset of people who wish for extreme flexibility in their work, but are increasingly being used as standard employment contracts by companies wishing to control and manipulate staff.

They have a legitimate role, but 9 times out of 10 that's not what they're used for.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Nothing revolutionary about this.

Massive for-profit private interests being catered to by the government instead of public transit for the public.

And before the point gets argued like last time I brought it up. Yes in some scenarios cars can't be replaced, but the majority of transport required by the majority of people is better served via bus, tram, train, or bike. I'm not saying abolish cars, I'm saying they don't need massive government subsidy, other modes of transport do.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 17 points 1 day ago

Not just some backbench MP either, he's the SNP leader in Westminster. Essentially making him an unofficial co-leader with John Swinney.

There was no SNP presence that I saw at Saturday's protest, whereas the Greens had several speakers. However, the Greens and SNP do work together regularly, so despite not showing at the grassroots level it's good to see there's still resistance to Trump within the SNP.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Times are tough, but that doesn't excuse becoming a fascist's foot soldier. Join a union, organise, protest, fight for a better life, become politically active. You still have the pretence of democracy in America, use it.

https://www.iww.org/

https://youtu.be/kvj2WEaFtrQ

Times are tough, we all could use a helping hand
Troubles weighing on your mind, quickly sinking in this sand
Thinking thoughts about your future, trapped on this hellish land
I heard that death is what happens while you're making other plans
Looking 'round for help, may as well dig the grave yourself
Make your way out of the hole you made, you've got to save yourself
You've got to save your self

Run, run, run, you ain't never gonna win
Looking right, looking left, or at her, or at him
You ain't never gonna be anything that you wanna be
If you play it safe and place your real dreams under lock and key

Yeah, no one's gonna help you 'cause this world is so cold
And it likes to make examples out of all the brave and bold

But you've got to carry forward, can't afford to lose your soul

You don't look around for help, you've got to do it on your own
You've got to save... your... self

Fight, fight, fight, just as hard as you can
Change your luck, change your style, change the cards in your hand
I know life's getting peak, it's a mountain to climb
With the worry in your heart and that doubt on your mind

Yeah, no one's gonna help you 'cause this world is so cold
And it likes to make examples out of all the brave and bold
But you've got to carry forward, can't afford to lose your soul
You don't look around for help, you've got to do it on your own
You've got to save... your... self

Save yourself!

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh winter is coming.

It's just going to take a while, but it will come.

And it will either be a nuclear winter or an ice age. Yay!

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

Aye, happened in Aberdeen too.

An independent basement gig venue, with a standard old man pub on the ground floor, been there for years without issue. Right in the city centre so no expectation of peace and quiet, pubs and shops all over that street. Gigs finished at 11pm normally as well so not like it was a club playing music until 3am.

Then someone moved into a flat nearby. Made a noise complaint, kept pushing the council about it despite public backlash, got the gig venue shut down because they couldn't afford £80,000 for extra insulation, and then the cunt moved out and left to another city.

Aberdeen lost a brilliant independent venue that hosted the small obscure bands that other venues often wouldn't, and then a month later the pub shut down too.

RIP Downstairs and The Malt Mill

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/33468247

Aberdeen

Noon at William Wallace statue, Union Terrace

Edinburgh

Noon at US Consulate, 3 Regent Terrace, EH7 5BW

Dumfries

2pm adjacent to the Plainstanes

Show this stupid fascist that his extreme bigotry is not welcome here. Show both Scottish and British politicians that we won't tolerate their appeasement and engagement of fascists.

 

Aberdeen

Noon at William Wallace statue, Union Terrace

Edinburgh

Noon at US Consulate, 3 Regent Terrace, EH7 5BW

Dumfries

2pm adjacent to the Plainstanes

Show this stupid fascist that his extreme bigotry is not welcome here. Show both Scottish and British politicians that we won't tolerate their appeasement and engagement of fascists.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Too fucking right. If you're around, there's an anti Trump protest in Aberdeen this Saturday. Starts at 12 noon at the Wallace statue on Union Terrace.

https://stoptrump.org.uk/stop-trump-scotland-protest-details-26-july/

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago

"Davon haben wir nichts gewusst" was a shit excuse back then and an even worse excuse now, in the internet connected world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_of_the_Holocaust_in_Nazi_Germany_and_German-occupied_Europe

Tap for spoilerDavon haben wir nichts gewusst" ("We knew nothing about that")

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29506090 because the mods there killed conversation by turning off comments, cowards

 
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