When my org announced RTO, I started looking for another job. A month later I had a new gig and a nice pay bump. Nobody's gonna look out for you but you, my friend.
THPS 1+2 released in 2020 with a soundtrack that included a blend of the classics we expected alongside some new bangers. So Tay Sway had a real shot 4 years ago and she didn't make the cut.
My experience with American Airlines was basically the same. Happened to me back in checks notes last weekend.
Fuck American Airlines in particular. They gave zero shits about getting us back home, zero shits about offering a place to sleep for the night, and zero shits about refunding our tickets. Absolute garbage airline.
That said, I still feel bad for the people who got fucked over here. There are a lot of options Sony could have pursued in order to do right by their customers, but instead Sony chose to be shit bags about it.
It's equally amazing that the US population continues re-electing their dipshits, because they believe that it's everyone else's dipshits who are the problem.
I honestly don't know if this system is capable of being repaired.
Our top talent would walk and we'd be left with the dregs who can't find a better job.
Yuuuuuuup. This is exactly what's happening at my job right now, after they mandated at least three in-office days per week. Only the top people are leaving, too; the chaff and the bums love it, because they no longer have to produce, rather they just have to be seen.
Going to the video rental store was hella fun. My partner and I were going to a local Family Video up until it closed a bit after the start of COVID.
It's conceptually just like listening to music on vinyl; the ordeal, the inconvenience of it makes it special... even fun. It turns something that has become so simple that it's boring (i.e. picking out a movie) and it makes that thing into an event.
Amazon exec doesn't give a shit. Their whole model with tech workers is to recruit them based on the "prestige" of working for Amazon, dunno increasingly more talking on them, burn them out before they start asking for real raises, rinse and repeat.
For a median salary of $112k/yr. Just sayin'.