Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?
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Sports Direct workers invited to press sad or happy emoji clocking in
Union says use of fingerprint recognition technology in survey system at warehouse means grievances unlikely to be raised
Sports Direct warehouse staff who say they are unhappy with their working conditions are being identified by their fingerprints and asked to explain their grievances to management, according to the trade union Unite.
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They should tie the sad emoji to an electroshock, that will quickly improve their score.
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@cartman82 said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
They should tie the sad emoji to an electroshock to the person who signed off this terrible idea
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@pjh said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
Sports Direct warehouse staff who say they are unhappy with their working conditions are being identified by their fingerprints and asked to explain their grievances to management, according to the trade union Unite.
For a minute I had a mental image of Sports Direct labcoated CSI staff dusting the prints off the sad button.
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Solution: press it with a stylus. If it's a capacitive screen, use one of those smartphone styluses.
But make sure you're not the only one doing it, otherwise the lack of a fingerprint is just as identifying as a fingerprint
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It's funny that they spend money on emoji buttons while their non-english websites are machine translated using what seems to be Babelfish from 1999. Good thing almost everything they sell is garbage, otherwise I'd be miffed.
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If they press sad, they are asked whether they are sure about their decision and, if they press it again, they can be called in by managers to discuss why they did so.
Ah yes, the good old "everything must have a perfect rating all the time or it's a big deal".
Like in eBay. 5 star rating = normal seller, 4.9 star rating = will probably run away with your money, avoid at all costs.
Although it's pretty clear than in this case, the goal is to discourage :(s so they can make a bogus report about how happy all the employees are. So I guess at least it makes sense from a selfish point of view.
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@anonymous234 I've always thought the google play UI (where you get a bar chart indicating how many people voted 1/2/3/4/5 stars) is significantly more informative than a star average.
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@jaloopa said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
Solution: press it with a stylus.
But then they're not clocked in. This is a story from last year which illustrates what sort of company they are:
โDisgracefulโ Sports Direct accused of โsecretly recordingโ MPs
Camera was hidden beneath stool in meeting room during tour of Shirebrook premises
Six MPs from the business select committee arrived to carry out a spot-check of the companyโs controversial Shirebrook premises โ a facility previously described as a โgulagโ
Anna Turley, the Labour MP for Redcar said: โAt the end of the meeting, we sat down to have a private conversation in a room by ourselves.
โA lady came in with some sandwiches, which was very kind. I saw her take too long to do it, she put it down and I saw her put a recording device on the floor.
โShe left the room and I went over to pick up the device and there it was: a camera and a recording device for the conversation that we were having privately.
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@boner said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
This is a story from last year which illustrates what sort of company they are:
And from two years ago (which was, I believe, one of the reasons behind the aforementioned meeting.)
Revealed: how Sports Direct effectively pays below minimum wage
Guardian undercover reporters find world where staff are searched daily, harangued via tannoy to hit targets and can be sacked in a โsix strikes and youโre outโ regime
Warehouse staff at the group, which is controlled by Britainโs 22nd richest man, are required to go through searches at the end of each shift, for which their time is unpaid, while they also suffer harsh deductions from their wage packets for clocking in for a shift just one minute late.
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@jaloopa said in Are you or to be working for Sports Direct?:
Solution: press it with a stylus. If it's a capacitive screen, use one of those smartphone styluses.
But make sure you're not the only one doing it, otherwise the lack of a fingerprint is just as identifying as a fingerprintI'd hazard a guess that it's a biometric clock on system, where you would have to use a fingerprint to clock on, and then the emoji come up on the screen the reader is attached to. So if you wanted to get paid, you'd still need to use your fingerprint.
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@boner Wait, why are MPs inspecting a store in the first place? Is this company so fucking awful that not only did the government decide to step in, but national politicians felt that they needed to form a select committee on it and investigate it personally?
Because holy fuck, that a
of colossal proportions. Was Sport Direct involved in human trafficking or something?
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@scholrlea it was a committee investigating poor working conditions and breaches of minimum wage / contract laws, of which SD was the most egregious example.
Zero-hours contracts* are a political football at the moment so it's important to be seen to be doing "something".
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@pleegwat said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
@anonymous234 I've always thought the google play UI (where you get a bar chart indicating how many people voted 1/2/3/4/5 stars) is significantly more informative than a star average.
I leave you with XKCD on Tornado Guard.
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@anonymous234 said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
If they press sad, they are asked whether they are sure about their decision and, if they press it again, they can be called in by managers to discuss why they did so.
Ah yes, the good old "everything must have a perfect rating all the time or it's a big deal".
Like in eBay. 5 star rating = normal seller, 4.9 star rating = will probably run away with your money, avoid at all costs.
That makes me think of a seller called "The Barry" or similar, back in the day. He was the cause of me being able to tell my wife, "And hey, you have a letter from the FBI." She didn't believe me until I gave it to her.
This guy had over 13,000 sales with good results, then one day he went completely off the rails, and ran off with about 200 people's money without delivering the goods. The letter from the FBI was of the "You may have been the victim of a Federal crime" type, but the look on her face when I told her that she had a letter from the FBI was ... priceless. I believe the guy got three years in the Big House for it.
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@boner Linking mobile wikipedia...
Y U DO THIS
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@jazzyjosh my edit was something like "I'm having difficulty posting a link because I'm mobile, sorry."
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@boner said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
@jazzyjosh my edit was something like "I'm having difficulty posting a link because I'm mobile, sorry."
We'd be able to tell if your edit history was visible?
Also, apparently my DNS for wikipedia is borked, it's leading me to
198.35.26.96, which is totally not responding...
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@jazzyjosh said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
@boner Linking mobile wikipedia...
Y U DO THIS
One of the most amazing things about Reddit is that bot that changes all mobile Wikipedia links to non-mobile.
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@jazzyjosh said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
@boner Linking mobile wikipedia...
Y U DO THIS
This is the downside to that fark.com solution to mobile that @blakeyrat keeps going on about. Linking from mobile will give everyone the mobile view
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@jaloopa said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
Linking from mobile will give everyone the mobile view
So, it's possible to user-agent sniff to redirect from desktop to mobile, but not the other way around?
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@raceprouk presumably sites go for thinking that if you've specifically gone to the mobile version of the URL it's because you want the mobile version
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@jaloopa The same could be said for the desktop version of the URL, though admittedly that case is weaker because Google.
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@jaloopa said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
This is the downside to that fark.com solution to mobile that @blakeyrat keeps going on about. Linking from mobile will give everyone the mobile view
That's a far lesser bug than the myriad of bugs we get from the current broken shit behavior.
You could argue it's not a bug at all: recipient of the link sees exactly what the linker expected them to see.
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@blakeyrat said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
You could argue it's not a bug at all:
No. You are not allowed to use those words.
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@boomzilla What if you don't use words?
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@pjh said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
Sports Direct workers invited to press sad or happy emoji clocking in
Union says use of fingerprint recognition technology in survey system at warehouse means grievances unlikely to be raised
Huh. I mean, I don't know how helpful that will be, but if you're trying to gauge the morale over time with some kind of anonymous
@pjh said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
Sports Direct warehouse staff who say they are unhappy with their working conditions are being identified by their fingerprints and asked to explain their grievances to management, according to the trade union Unite.
Oh.
Well.
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@blakeyrat said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
@jaloopa said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
This is the downside to that fark.com solution to mobile that @blakeyrat keeps going on about. Linking from mobile will give everyone the mobile view
That's a far lesser bug than the myriad of bugs we get from the current broken shit behavior.
You could argue it's not a bug at all: recipient of the link sees exactly what the linker expected them to see.
Correct, that's not the bug.
The bug is having a different URL for different devices accessing the same page. And that is not better than just making a good, responsive page.
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@masonwheeler said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
@boomzilla What if you don't use words?
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@masonwheeler said in Are you ๐ or ๐ to be working for Sports Direct?:
@boomzilla What if you don't use words?
๏I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting for blakey to communicate by emoji.
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