Guys what if… guuyyyss… what if… what if we made all the apps in your phone into one app and used it to spy on you all the time and to control your life after we push out all the other app developers. guys! it’s just competition! Free marketplace of ideas. Besides, how else could we setup our own social credit system?! guyyyysss?!
Why would anyone support with this guy or buy his cars… Shit i feel bad about myself just for existing in america and being part of the economy nevermind outright supporting this guy.
tedious is the point! i love that by trying to make it quick and “catchy” he made it really long, cumbersome, and made it a meme that the rebranding will never work because we’re still referring to it as twitter but worse
Ironically, corpos like this who want good reputations is one of our few line of defense against these sites going full blown masks off with bigotry. If advertisers didn’t care, we’d be in a significantly worse place.
Well it says that many companies are spending extremely low amounts, like $10 on ads. So I assume musk has just been giving away ad space to try to keep those accounts open for as long as possible.
I don’t blame them. I expect viewership is down, as well as the other factors. Heck, when I click a link that goes to a tweet and it tells me I have to login… I press the back button.
Probably gonna get downvoted for this, but that’s a misleading headline. Nazi meme implies the meme itself is Nazi, where as the meme in question, according to the article, was comparing LGBT to Nazis.
I don’t agree with the meme, for the record, I just have (what I think is) a reasonably specific definition of Nazi. “Bigoted” would be a more accurate word to use here.
But then, this is Not The Onion, and the headline is technically correct (it’s a Nazi meme in that it’s a meme featuring Nazis,) so whatever.
Yeah, it should be called an anti-trans or anti-liberal meme. Saying she was supporting Nazis is misleading and sensationalistic. However, ironically it is a point of view that historical or current Nazis would support.
Though I am now enjoying imagining this woman trying to be a subtle bigot at a party, while Hitler keeps butting into the conversation to emphatically support her…
I wish her self-awareness and growth, and all the discomfort, embarrassment and revulsion at her own choices that will come with it.
The whole reason sick days are a thing is that giving employees paid sick time costs you less when they don’t come in and make other employees sick. If enough people get sick in a given org, that has a way of really impacting everything about a workplace, it really is cheaper if they stay home until they’re not contagious.
The worst part of this situation, to me: that anyone is pressing for sick leave to be tightly audited, or seeking to frame its use as a sort of graft or taking from the employer, or a pretext for preemptively firing employees deemed guilty of being too sick. This kind of talk creates pressure for employees to come to work sick in order to avoid being seen as slackers or thieves, and that in turn (especially in an environment full of flu and covid variants, doubly so on the heels of a fucking pandemic so we should all know better by now) defeats the point of having sick days in the first place.
Or a really bad day. Like unbearable pain, or a massive head ache. It’s better if people take the time off and recover because they work better and make fewer mistakes. Nothing sucks more then to redo work.
I was talking about the fact that pain is not contagious … Of course pain is a valid reason to stay at home!
My reasoning was that the risk of spreading the disease can’t be the only reason for companies to let you not go to work because it only applies to infectious diseases!
I think the majority of people misunderstood my comment
Prepandemic, Fleetcor workers in their 20s and 30s took one or two sick days a year, she says. Now, it’s more like three to five.
So pandemic taught people how viruses spread and how not to spread them and coming to work sick is shameful, not a badge of honor. Still, 4 days a year isn’t enough.
I worked with a guy, Clint, who had been at the company his whole life, worked his way from the factory floor to head of accounting. The thing Clint chose to brag regularly about was that he was 60-something and had never taken a sick day. Instead, he’d roll in obviously sick, sneeze on everyone, everyone he saw that day would get sick, a few of them followed his stellar example and got more people sick. During those times, no actual work got done except Clint lamenting about how everyone was getting sick. “Must be the weather.”
I mean, it helped teach me. It’s not that I didn’t actually understand it before, it’s that I hadn’t internalized it (and how selfish it is to go around getting other people sick). My dad is one of the “I never take a sick day!” people and when you hear that enough as a kid, the “merit” of that sticks in your bones. It took me several years as an adult to really believe that I wasn’t selfish or lazy if I took a sick day.
I am interested, but ultimately it’s irrelevant, because our subjective experiences don’t really hold a candle to the entire “anti mask” movement, the culture you’re describing here, and slightly different but akin to that cultural aspect, the idea of “hustling” to chase fortune.
And that’s just the philosophy of it. There’s also the millions that most certainly just don’t understand shit about germs, mechanisms of how illness spreads, etc.
Didn’t every adult in the developed world not learn this as a child from their parents? Or failing that, at school? Are most people genuinely that stupid?
It boggles my mind that it took a world changing pandemic for people to learn basic hygiene! If people just washed their hands occasionally (start with after you go to the toilet) perhaps COVID would have never happened.
Yes, I’m in the USA. The company just can’t understand why their retention of younger talent is so low. Honestly this use to be a premier job in my area, but has been watered down to average or below. Can’t wait to retire and have this mess in my rearview mirror.
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