[-] brianary@startrek.website 20 points 1 month ago

None were leftist, and only one got as far as violence.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 22 points 2 months ago

It's literally impossible to fully boycott Amazon, I've been trying for years. Even if you buy elsewhere, often you'll find out after the fact that Amazon does the shipping or payment processing.

We should nationalize their monopoly or break it up.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 18 points 2 months ago

"Puritanism — The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." — H L Mencken

[-] brianary@startrek.website 22 points 3 months ago

It's like "extra medium".

Trump: "I know words. I have the best words."

[-] brianary@startrek.website 17 points 3 months ago

Beating them at their own dishonest game has worked much better than trying to fact check them, and getting completely outpaced, ever did.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 18 points 3 months ago

Give it time. Soon enough he'll hire a reputation management company, shave his beard, show up for Dancing on the Stars, then SNL will put him in a sketch as Waluigi.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 22 points 4 months ago

A job is not a social club. You may need a mix of personality types, but if you lock yourself into a candidate pool from a tight geographic area, that'll be far more constraining.

You can't just make up a percentage based on anecdotal observation and expect anyone to take it seriously.

Generally, my online meetings work great. When there's lag, or for low-priority or asynchronous points, we use the text channel. No interruption. That's not really available in person. It also allows more input from thoughtful introverts, which typically get steamrolled and ignored in person.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 23 points 4 months ago

There is work like construction, transportation, and customer service that can't really be remote.

I'm not sure if there's a good argument for work that can be done remotely to insist on both in person and remote work. It doubles the amount of workstation resources required, or compromises on at least one of them.

Maybe teams benefit from in-person communication? That's probably simpler for some that haven't found comparable online versions of whiteboarding tools or whatever. Good tools do exist, but feel people that haven't adapted to them by now, it'll take some real demand to make it happen. This might not be a characteristic of a highly effective team, though.

Most frequently, hybrid insistence seems do be more about justifying middle management, based on my highly unscientific observations.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 19 points 5 months ago

Let's hold up on the self-congratulations a second.

There's a very long way between a multinational corporation's published policy and the practice at street-level, even if yesterday is the only report (so far). Is this a franchise? What authority does the store have contractually, or in practice? Is the policy enforced? Is there a history of enforcement? Was this a rogue employee, maybe a recent hire, with a political motivation?

Did you check the original thread https://x.com/AmmahStarr/status/1804608613916328334 for the context of the discussion? Did you check the account for a history of "rage-bait" before dismissing this woman's experience?

Skepticism is important, but caping for corps is seldom necessary. They pay people for that.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 16 points 7 months ago

Zero is freezing

10 is not

20 is pleasing

30 is hot

40 frying

50 dying

[-] brianary@startrek.website 22 points 9 months ago

This company has been caught multiple times going back and changing the location of recorded shots in their system after the fact. I don't know why they're still in business.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 22 points 9 months ago

So do feature testing, not user-agent sniffing! For Pete's sake, it's 2024! That's been the best practice for decades!

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