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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate management is now too lazy to even physically go to locations now.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The human elements are being stripped away along with consumer protections. So services are going to look more and more like the tech sector (like YouTube, WhatsApp blocking) where for a long time, the situation has been that decisions get made by an algorithm and there is literally no one to appeal to about them. Take banking as an example - with brick and mortar locations shrinking, it’s already so hard to get simple things done unless you download their app, agree to an unnecessarily long list of terms and conditions which can be changed unilaterally at any time, and your rights to sue are waived in favor of arbitration. We as consumers are doing more of the work that was previously being done by employees and without getting paid for it. Think self checkouts - when it started, I was very happy that I didn’t have to talk to a person if I didn’t feel like it, but now I am essentially forced to use it because there are few to no cashiers. And I’m not getting paid to do the work for which an employee was previously getting paid, nor am I paying less for my groceries as a result of doing the work myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you're too good at your job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be so cool if we could generate the entire amount of future energy usage all at once and just store it. May be we could launch the energy store in space and place it so that, let’s say it takes about 8 minutes for the energy to reach us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta approves plan for bigger executives bonuses following 5% layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only is it perfectly legal but the executives would argue that they are bound by their fiduciary duty to their shareholders. Layoffs increase stock price => shareholders make money => shareholders approve bonus for executives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel is the Nazi Germany of the 2020s with the Germans replaced by Jews and the Jews by Muslims. The cognitive dissonance is so strong - “We didn’t know there were war crimes happening in our backyard. We were just following orders.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll just wait for my doorbell to ring, thanks.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks like a marketing email because you agreed to share information with Shop as the first line says. It has nothing to do with your order shipment.

  Not to say it’s not annoying to see another “please please download our app” message, but the pitchforks aren’t necessary yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech CEOs are backtracking on RTO mandates—now, just 3% want workers in the office full-time⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because a lot of CEOs these days only care about quarterly reports. When interest rates went up, companies cost to do business also went up, so to keep the red profit line going up, they had to cut costs somewhere. Labor makes up most of the expenses so layoffs and forced RTO happened.

  These CEOs don’t care that they lose years of experience when employees leave. And by the time the lack of experience catches up to the companies shitting themselves, the CEOs hope to have moved on to something else with their massive stock rewards for “increasing shareholder value”. Even the Boeing CEO who wasn’t lucky enough to leave before shit hit the fan is going to get a golden parachute. So really no downside for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you on?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
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