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Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 months ago by chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not illegal to unplug something

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Actually, it could be. That could be considered vandalism (you're intentionally making unauthorized modifications to equipment to prevent it from working as expected) which is illegal.

But this is New York, so who knows if they would even enforce that.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, at worst, it would be criminal mischief. Criminal mischief with $0 in property damage…

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So people can just unplug cables at data centers because it's "$0 property damage criminal mischief"?

Come on, their lawyers would (successfully) argue that they experienced loss of revenue for any amount of time their remote cashier system was not connected and operational...

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

No, “people” cannot even enter a data center without walking through multiple security man traps and providing identification that gets kept at the desk while inside. A data center is not a sandwich shop.

[–] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They can just plug it back in. It'll be ok.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I guess if you can just plug it back in, that just invalidates the downtime that was caused or data being lost.

Being able to undo vandalism doesn't make it suddenly not vandalism.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It’s not vandalism. Vandalism is destruction of property (physically destroying it). Unplugging something that was designed to be unplugged is absolutely not vandalism.