• Sundial@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Please tell me this is a joke. I legitimately don’t know if it is or isn’t.

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      2 months ago

      At least I can tell you that it does not work in my country, where bosses and authorities cannot decide whether or not you are sick, only doctors can.

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        2 months ago

        It’s amazing how low on the ladder American doctors’ opinions are!

        Far below politicians, bosses, and most of all insurance companies, who, as we all know, possess way more hands on medical training. (is /s even needed!? Lol)

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            My gosh, you’re right. They always say “In my professional medical opinion” or “within a reasonable degree of medical certainty”…I always found it reasonable wording because we’re indeed a litigious society and nobody can be 100% certain…

            … But is a major function of that paradigm just to allow the likes of insurance companies or random senators to say “That’s just like, your opinion, man” at them? :|

            (Effectively: "The Lebowski Shutdown " maneuver)

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      2 months ago

      I could 100% say this is a possibility in america. ( Except the “we’ll bring her to office” part lol )

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      Definity a fake post. The small text says the cost of the check deducted from the employee’s payroll.

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          2 months ago

          Yeah not holding my breath that my assumptions on what’s reasonable in American work culture will last forever.

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        2 months ago

        meanwhile useless incompetent middle managers across america are seeing the post and salivating while furiously looking for where to sign up for the service

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          Tesla might get in some serious trouble in Germany for allegedly doing this to sick employees.

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        “cost deducted from employee’s payroll” is the most realistic part, IMHO. I worry this joke will give someone ideas IRL. And that part is how they will sell it to CEOs.

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          That part is currently illegal even in the US. So, baking it into an app would be a bad idea. Most of the time companies do illegal things, they try to be less explicit.

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        2 months ago

        Honestly, based on the stories of what’s happening in America. That’s not a reliable indicator.

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        Not gona lie, I do like the speed limit leaderboard. Though I would see people trying to get the “high score” on something like this.

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          “Go for the high score” is definitely a thought that crosses my mind every time I see one of those speed radar things the police sometimes put on the side of the road that flashes your speed at you. Kinda feel like those things actually encourage unsafe driving because of people like me with impulse control issues.

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          This was a huge issue with the automated speed signs around where I live. They had to take them down because of it and reprogram them to stop showing the speed and instead flash the speed limit when people were speeding.

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          Nobody beats my high scores. Nobody.

          E: actually, some trivia. You have seen those “your speed” signs with an led readout? Now I can’t say how I know this, but - at least on some variants, models, etc - there is an upper limit/safety check. “if user’s speed variable is higher than X, turn off the sign, it’s malfunctioning” logic. So, just for a hypothetical situation, the assigned speed limit is 25mph but you go through at, I don’t know, let’s pick a number that is absolutely not what I tested, and say 60. The readout will reach that number as the user accelerates towards it, hit the upper limit, immediately shutoff, and will (afaik) need to be reset manually. Returning hours later reveals a dead readout. Returning a couple days later, oh hey it’s back.

          So we already have this, but it’d be nice to get scores higher than like ~40 over. And history, sharing…