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The University of Technology Sydney says it needs to cut 400 jobs, roughly 10 per cent of the workforce, as part of a cost-cutting initiative to save $100 million.

After ABC News revealed high levels of psychological distress among staff facing the axe, UTS rolled out advice to support their wellbeing.

Staff say the health advice, which includes making time to wash delicates and brush their teeth, “de-legitimised” their concerns.


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  • curlywurly@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Good grief. I went into this thinking ‘wash delicates’ was some kind of Australian idiom, perhaps related to the people whose jobs are under threat shitting themselves. That university is wild for suggesting this.

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      They probably outsourced the mental health suggestions to AI. Corporate parasites. When will the average talking chimp realise this race to the bottom pyramid scheme of a system is a dead end?

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        11 hours ago

        I recently had an interaction with my healthcare provider on their chat platform, and the most recent response they provided was very obviously LLM generated. I called them out on it; they haven’t responded yet.

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        Corporate-provided AI “counselling” for stressed employees is the soothing pastoral scenes painted on the walls of the abattoir.

      • primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus
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        That sounds scary and like it would require work, so as long as i can possibly put it off. I will remain aggressively part of the problem until that exact moment, then be annoyed you don’t do whatever delusional half asses probably racist bullshit I want as soon as i decide I personally have had enough but still don’t want to jeopardize my class position(s). Thank you in advance for your compliance.

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      11 hours ago

      Perhaps it makes more sense in the part of the world where a toilet flush backwards

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      Perhaps it makes more sense in the part of the world where a toilet flush backwards