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Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)

Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b...::undefined

bus_factor ,

All of Silicon Valley is just like the show. Some friends of mine couldn't even watch it because it hit too close to home.

bus_factor ,

If the new company also matches, it'll probably make you more money than staying, because the max match is reset. If you really game it you might max out the match for both companies in the same year.

bus_factor ,

Still says Becky in "Becky says".

A RULE SPY'S IN THE BASE?! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

I searched up "Lemmy" on the PlayStore and noticed that Reddit appears right before the last lemmy client in that search X3 do u guys know if there r any other lemmy clients worth trying? I randomly felt like trying all I could find and for now I'll stay on Jerboa and the Web UI but I use Voyager too now, mainly for DMs...

bus_factor ,

The tracking disclaimer is the standard message you get when an app uses Google ads. Pay for it and there are no ads, and by extension no tracking.

bus_factor ,

One of the last bosses in Half-Life is a testicle with pointy spider legs.

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No regrets on my Brother laser printer! Didn't even consider HP, they've been trash for ages.

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Maybe she's Canadian and just being polite. You really can't know.

bus_factor ,

Management was handing out bullshit busywork recently, and some people were complaining. Then some guy was like "they pay my salary, so I do whatever they want!"

What kind of bullshit wage slave mentality is that? I am the vendor in this scenario, my employer is paying for the privilege of using my services. There can be terms and conditions from both parties of that deal, and if they're incompatible the deal is off.

bus_factor ,

Do you brag about your long hours, or do you complain about the lack of predictability from management? Only the former matches the statement in the quote.

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Sure, if there's a business need for cleaning the office toilets I'll stop coding and do it for a day.

In this case it's "everyone needs to spend a few weeks getting points in the training portal, we don't care what you do in there as long as you get points". This clearly doesn't fulfill any business need, people just do whatever BS is the least effort per point. And as you might expect from an internal training portal, spending 20 minutes in that thing makes me want to stab myself.

Again, if there's a business need for it that's a different story, but useless mandates just to jerk people around are a deal breaker.

bus_factor ,

See, those are needed for compliance/CYA. That has business value, so I can work with that. What I'm referring to here is just training on useless stuff for the sake of racking up points.

bus_factor ,

At my grocery store the line for self checkout is longer than for the registers, so people would very much be waiting for you. And instead of the time the cashier takes to scan all your stuff being out of your control, they'll judge you personally for being slow instead.

bus_factor ,

But the people at the self checkouts do it at a fourth of the speed, so it cancels out. Plus the line for the self checkouts is four times as long anyway.

Although it's not always easy to predict how long something takes. Self checkout is less vulnerable to someone paying in all nickels or having an issue with their food stamps. I'll take that chance to not have to stand there and guess what species of banana I'm trying to buy, though.

bus_factor ,

I remember we weighed our own vegetables in Norway in the 90s. It stopped when they got the fancy registers which scanned barcodes and had a built-in scale.

bus_factor ,

You've presumably had registers with barcodes for several decades now, so I'm guessing your way of weighing produce is pretty safe.

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