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The defunct Consumerist used to run a poll. https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/04/09/ea-voted-worst-company-in-america-again/?sh=2dc357397aeb . It was always strange how EA beat out the companies that I think do more harm to society for several years. For some reason it's entertainment companies that draw a lot of vocal ire from consumers, despite financial institutions, pharma, telecoms, oil, factory farms, etc. doing more explicit and literal harm.

It doesn't go both ways. That is why states like New York have banned employers from being able to ask current salary. And made it mandatory to post pay ranges on postings. And those ranges are huge.

You are right employees are better off knowing what others make, but once the employer knows what you make you are screwed. It can be a game of chicken where the employee loses. If current prospect employee makes 60k but asks for 90k, the employer can still just offer 75 or 80k assuming you will not be willing to walk away from a 15k raise.

That's just going to drive down labor. And some titles have pay ranges of line 75k to 100k based on experience. And the employee is at a disadvantage since they don't have the list of all employees to do the research themselves.

What did he whistle blow on? A whistle blower is blowing the whistle on their own company they work for for malfeasance. Leaking documents that are not tied to wrong doing by the IRS is not blowing the whistle.

How does making it public stop that problem? If anything that would probably just screw people over if potential employers could see exactly how much money you make. Let's make it illegal for an employer to ask how much you currently make, but then let employers just query a DB of your income? That doesn't make any sense.

For some reason people seem to experience the most rage, vocalization frustration, etc. when it comes to having their entertainment fucked with (whether pricing, content itself, etc). Companies can cause global recession or market crashes, be responsible for child labor resulting in death and dismemberment, or engage in flat out fraud, but those companies will never bring out the toxicity, death threats, entitlement, and communal anger like a video game or film/tv company that impacts the entertainment of the masses. When people used to think of the most evil company in America back in the early 2010's, EA was more hated than Bank of America, Wells Fargo, or AIG. That never made sense to me.

I have no problem discussing political opinions. I hate how every thread gets co opted by un critical hot takes for the circle jerk of up votes. It's frustrating that any post about digital media has the top comments all saying "Yarrrr, time to sail the high sees." Or anytime there's any news about a corporation, the top comment seems to be "fuck capitalism and those greedy greedy share holders." Those kinds of comments aren't critical, aren't contributing to any meaningful conversation. On reddit I think it succeeded when you had communities of enthusiasts having conversations about the thing they are enthusiastic about. Lemmy seems to have a lot more people enthusiastic about a political position just try to spread that on any and all communities.

For me it's the over representation of self described communists that take over every thread to poetically or unpoetically just keep saying capitalism=bad and then do shit like justify bad behavior because capitalism=bad or pretend to care about making sure employees get paid while advocating for piracy of everything being justified.

Not crazy at all. Not sure why there's a surprise. Advertising is everywhere. Design goes into making buying goods user friendly. The whole point of brands is to build loyalty to it. All of that has cost to acquire customers. So obviously customers are an investment because acquiring them has cost and labor involved.

It's like selling an iPhone knowing you will eventually make money on app store sales percentage margins.

The real hurdle for me is the cost of leasing a cable box and other service fees. Cable bundles sound good on paper until I factor that cost in.

Thank you for this reasonable and informed take. A lot of folks up in arms about the identity politics issue, but the real issue is the bureaucracy is not operating in a way that aligns with the law or instructs people to comply. Corrections should be allowed by the candidates and the bureaucracy needs to update procedures.

Yeah. That's why I was curious. I replied to a comment saying we need to raise penalties for layoffs to disincentivize it. But if employers are using performance as a guise to do layoff without a layoff, that might mean the layoff punishment is deterring it in a weird way.

Sorry about your position. That sucks. When I look around at colleagues and their age, it makes me wonder if I should move to a management track instead of staying IC.

“Managers should always be involved. HR should be involved, but it shouldn’t be outsourced to them, No employee should ever actually be surprised they weren’t performing. We don’t always get it right.”

Is it a layoff or not? It sounds like the employer is avoiding lay off penalties completely by calling it performance based.

A participation trophy for participating in a group made almost exclusively of election winners of various congressional districts?

It’s still congress carving out a special perk for themselves.

It's part of the job. It is a special privilege to be a member of congress. And the tradition of a congressional pin goes back a long time. I don't think it's uncommon for members of government to have some trinket the is a physical display of their position.

https://rollcall.com/2005/01/20/for-members-of-congress-traditional-lapel-pin-serves-as-more-than-just-a-form-of-identification/

Just think of all the tech bros and finance bros with their branded Patagonia vests and backpacks. $75 for federally elected leaders to have a pin that doubles as a security badge is a nothing burger, and shouldn't distract from passing of a budget which I am actually scared about.

40,000 bucks for 540 people is like 75 bucks a person. It's only a big deal if folks make it a big deal to spend time debating discussing. The biggest waste is spending significant time debating this given the salaries of all members involved.

So when are 144hz, 1440p, hdr oleds going to come down in price?

What does this statement even mean?

They are saying we didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning.