Work Reform

The National Education Union (NEU), the largest teaching union in the UK, is concerned AI teaching tools could lead to some in the profession losing work, particularly lower-paid teaching assistants whose tasks could become automated.

Alarm bells were set off in January when the government announced it was giving £1m in funding to 16 tech companies to build teacher AI tools "for feedback and marking, driving high and rising education standards".

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26783021

Sounds like a place I'd love to work for

I work for the Federal Government (DoD). The new push to have everyone respond to the OSD request for 5 bullets of "what you did last week" was supposedly because "they wanted to make sure the employees actually exist" and aren't dead or fake. However, I had a colleague send me a whole PowerPoint presentation he made on how to use chat GPT (the government version) to read our PD (position description that basically says everything you should be doing for your job) along with your list of things you completed and then rewrites it to ensure it matches what you should be doing.

His reasoning for doing it that way is:

"DOGE has full access to the Global Address List (GAL) as well as other HR resources. This means they know who works where and everything about everyone's position Description (including what the expectations are for that position). In reorganizations, there exists the possibility to downgrade positions. This can only be done by understanding what work the person is performing. The "5 bullets" is how they're going to get that information from everyone in DoD, which means we must be smarter than the system and make sure our input matches what they're measuring"

Essentially, he came up with a prompt to write the bullets to match our position to prevent them from punishing us due to misunderstanding the assignment or not putting the correct tasks in the bullets email. Honestly, there was no guidance and I do way more than 5 things a week, so I wasn't sure what to include and just kind of picked things at random. Hopefully, I didn't screw myself since we've already sent 2 emails for the last 2 weeks. Starting Monday, I'm using his method to ensure I'm playing the game correctly.

I'm glad I know smart people.

A Reddit user has created (and continues to update) a treasure trove of ideas and concepts that are easy to chose from in ways to fight the current US administration, including many things this community would hold dear.

Attending an indoor sports meet this weekend for my kid and can't help but see that half the parents are working on their laptops. It hurts me inside to see people having to work on the weekend, especially so many. Is this hustle? Or is this just part of the job?

Either way, people need to be free on their weekends or it will drive you nuts. This work culture isn't healthy.

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are attempting to enact what some experts have called the “largest job cut in American history“—but don’t worry, these geniuses have a solution to pick up the significant amount of slack caused by letting go of tens of thousands of domain experts and civil servants all at once: a chatbot.

According to Wired, DOGE has given about 1,500 employees at the US General Services Administration, the agency that manages federal real estate and oversees most government contracts, access to a proprietary chatbot called GSAi.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26471893

Summary

Trump is revoking collective bargaining rights at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), ending union protections for thousands of airport security officers.

The Department of Homeland Security claims the move will improve efficiency and security, but unions argue it is a retaliatory attack on federal workers.

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) plans to challenge the decision. TSA workers fear the rollback will worsen working conditions and retention.

The policy reverses union rights granted under Obama and expanded by Biden.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26310955