High-flying AI scientist claims unfair dismissal following pregnancy leave
  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    85·
    2 years ago

    “Hello, we’re <insert multi billion mega corporation here>. Laws and rules do not apply to us. Go ahead. Give us a fine. Sue us. Whatever amount you request is mere crumbs to us.”

  • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 years ago

    Ghaderi claims Krishnakumar later pressured her into delaying the start of her maternity leave from the planned date of November 7. Agreeing to the request, she worked until November 15, 2022, “the day she was forced to undergo an emergency C-section,” according to the filing.

    What the actual fuck!?

    • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
      43·
      2 years ago

      delaying the start of her maternity leave

      “Hey, can you give birth a little later? It’s totally going to hurt our performance metrics this quarter.”

      • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        The thing that gets me is that it doesn’t even hurt performance metrics. The performance of this type of employee is not measured in hours worked. That extra week made zero difference to the company but had an immense impact on her.

      • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Soon it’ll be, ’ give birth in our facilities then you can work when you’re finished with labour, don’t worry we can provide education and daycare as long as you sign an indentured servitude for you and the new employee’.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    "Amazon specifically told me to ignore IP laws. That’s wild, right?

    On an unrelated note, did you know that there’s now a torrent with infohash 5e007531c6e7c8d23a957f0ccaba20d4c57b5078 that compiles all Kindle books and Prime videos? Crazy stuff!"

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netEnglish
      39·
      2 years ago

      It doesn’t sound like she did if you read the article. She was assigned to point out when their shit broke their own copyright policies; she did so, even pointing out that she was given contradictory goals between upper management and legal, was then transferred to a different tasks a few times, one of which being to rework the entire AmazonBot network storage system to reduce its size by 75% in 8 days (a task engineers told her was impossible even if she understood the system), basically setting her up to fail, before being canned.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        28·
        2 years ago

        transferred to a different tasks a few times, one of which being to rework the entire AmazonBot network storage system to reduce its size by 75% in 8 days (a task engineers told her was impossible even if she understood the system), basically setting her up to fail, before being canned

        I’m pretty sure that that is also illegal.

    • applepie@kbin.social
      314·
      2 years ago

      Highly doubt anybody ever “asked”

      She did it and she knew not to say stupid shit to legal so they don’t flag it.