pdxfed @ pdxfed @lemmy.world Posts 53Comments 1,723Joined 2 yr. ago
Cloudflare is stellar. I just bought tickets to SeaWorld and my mobile phone was successfully blocked from being able to open the automatically emailed link with the ticket pdf in it. Top notch security.
The state of things is devastating. Actually getting out is the best option, I know easy for someone else to say. Right wingers love to point yo companies moving to red states for lower taxes and no employee protections, when people start leaving the states is when that narrative will change.
Not sure where you are but Colorado has paid family leave and is generally fighting a good fight and may be closest to you, depending on your red state location. Depending on the type of work you donl or want to do, securing employment in advance of relocating or looking at WFH options may be the best option to allow you to get a job and then move and not have to worry about the job location piece. Coastal places with better protections and rights are expensive as hell and probably less of an option for you but depends.
Hope you can get someplace at least measurably better and safer for you.
You don't want analytics on your Hope Breakdown Chart, and monthly Hope Growth rates by category?
Seriously though, I came specifically to comment how much I loved it's in a spreadsheet, sometimes even when it's something that doesn't necessarily lend itself to analytics a spreadsheet helps me organize thoughts sometimes.
Oregon has bonding time for fathers as well and paid family leave, actually the most generous pay rates and broadest application in the US. 100% of pay up to ~$60k indexed to inflationary measure and benefits tapers down for higher earners.
Good news. REI retaining the same legal firm that is representing Amazon, Trader Joe's and Tesla trying to have the NLRB unconditional made me never want to shop there again. In the last 20 years they have become nearly completely disconnected from their mission; they mostly sell overpriced stuff you can buy anywhere else and tried to pretend retail employees aren't the most valuable part of their store and brand. You have to be wealthy as fuck to shop at their stores.
They fought against unionization. They've now closed their Seattle flagship location, Portland downtown location...while retail is almost always a dying proposition since 1998(some companies are just now noticing) REI has a niche where it can work: build loyal shoppers who come for actually experienced employees who add value to their shopping decisions and education. It's the same point apple stores have; showroom with people that love the stuff that is being sold. Going down market on employee wages and skills when selling high margin stuff that can be bought elsewhere is always going to fail. It's a poor customer experience and eventually just conditions people to buy online.
Their pricing is outrageous. It's not like they're stuff completely full of local, small, high-quality sustainable Bcorp business products--they carry massive brand companies with products shipped from wherever wages are cheaper.
One of the few things they had was a lifetime product guarantee but they started whittling away at that 10 or so years ago as enshittifying practices took root.
All of these decisions were driven short-termism; a desire to increase profitability at the cost of their company and removed enviable business advantage their brand had. This is a failure of business management, the board, and long-term strategy. The bad news is brands can be built over decades(Boeing anyone?) and a few crappy ceos and boards or VC investors(Southwest airlines or late) can eviscerate it in just a few years so Lumbergs can get his 1/4 of a percent per share bump.
All corps with competent board members should write into bylaws long-term exec comp only that increases their comp compared to now but only long term. Pay them 300 million in stock--but only if the improvements are sustainable. This protects the business, board and investors, and employees from the current standard of fly-by-night chainsaw artists that cleave and value from companies they can and then leave the husk for bankruptcy, layoffs and investor ruin. We're 40 years into the "let's copy GE" BS and are at end times. It must end.
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Well no, just the largest ones who can pay some fine or have nearly endless legal funds to discourage challenges to their practice, this bring a form of a pretend business moat. The average company won't be able to and will get shredded.
The language is not typical for an investor suit recognizing the inherent evil in the process, it makes me think it's for publicity or to drive a legal precedent around the inhumanity required to operate a C corp.
Thank you for sharing. I feel like this is the first fediverse exploration I've had the energy for since coming over in the Reddit exodus.
Can someone explain how this can/would work for a Lemmy user? They talk about federation, would that be just within this bonfire platform where anyone can put a website and social media to connect via their goals and aims and structure or could this connect to Lemmy somehow, or would that require an integration between bonfire and Lemmy? How would instances of bonfire decide whether to connect or federate with Lemmy or vice versa?
The irony of this great piece being published by the NYT as opinion rather than front page news and a rallying cry is the sad irony of the NYT business putting it's political, advertising or financial fortunes ahead of the country it was founded in that is deeply wounded. That is of course the point of the oped.
"heckuvajob" is the established nomenclature.
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While also completely missing the boat on the potential of graphics cards and watching Nvidia and even AMD become massively more relevant in recent years.
And then, to bring us full circle to OP, Microsoft made it's strategic acquisition of Nokia long after they had squandered enviable market share to Apple and Google 😂 https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/25/11766540/microsoft-nokia-acquisition-costs
Hey, RIM/Blackberry's CEO went to mobile world Congress in 2010, 3 solid YEARS after the iPhone launched, was dominating and defining the smartphone world and said, "we feel touchscreen is not the future of mobile phones" and rolled out another hybrid touch/keyboard model like the 5 they already had
Blackberry was $150/share as of 2009 with the entire world in front of it. It's now worth $3.59/share.
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And "which manufacturer's constant recall notices do I want to receive while many other fixes to safety and consumer wellbeing are fought and argued against for profit?"
Yeah, that at least can be systematically identified and corrected; the bias and also inaccuracy of judgement of current human officers seems far worse and when combined with the fact non-vehicular safety is seen as a low priority or completely ignored, getting to "good" for safety of non-vehicular traffic is life and death. A few tickets that get waived, or in my city, Portland Oregon, a citizen sued to prove the cameras inaccurate where they were and won vs. engineers, is a small price to pay vs. the current state of zero enforcement and bodies littering crosswalks and cyclists mown down in "bike lanes".