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muse , to news in John Deere lays off hundreds of employees, after a $10B profit year
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I don't know about y'all, but I'm getting a hunger. Particularly for The Rich.

some_guy , to news in John Deere lays off hundreds of employees, after a $10B profit year

We’re living through the shittiest part of late-stage capitalism. It’ll never be good for typical people again.

explodicle ,

I dunno I think we can do better, just saying.

Boozilla , to news in John Deere lays off hundreds of employees, after a $10B profit year
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

Most people know this recent history, but in case you missed it:

www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913

homesweethomeMrL ,

So payback for right-to-repair? Feh. They’d have done it anyway. Flag-wavers in farm country expecting some incoming cognitive dissonance.

Boozilla ,
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

Payback wasn’t the point, I was just providing some context. John Deere sucks for multiple reasons.

NegativeInf , to news in John Deere lays off hundreds of employees, after a $10B profit year

Profit doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make the line go up! It’s a failing company because line didn’t go up! Tractors aren’t the product. Only line is product. All hail line. If we pray to line, perhaps line go up?

homesweethomeMrL ,

Yes, yes, now: about those executive paychecks. We feel $27M per year isn’t competitive. We’re thinking more like 500M. To start.

Rhaedas ,

They wouldn't use the word competitive though. They use that word for the lower employees, and its meaning is "we'd pay you lower if we could". Well actually I guess for a few hundred they did just that by going to zero. Nothing can be done though, line is all. The joke at my work is about the company stock price. All praise stock. We don't see anything from it, but it's glorious.

ThePantser ,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

Yup sadly with how the Crockmarket works a company can fail because the line didn’t go up. If it doesn’t go up investors will pull out and kill a company but this thinking is bullshit because as soon as a company starts to dip some will sell but others will step in and then the new line is a bit lower but then it can go up without layoffs.

cheese_greater ,

Remember that trope about AI destroying humanity due to mistakenly trying to over-optimize for bent paperclips

Turns out it was actually always about the lines humanity itself could raise along the way

Fedizen ,

10 to 15 yrs later: “Line no longer go up! We need bailout!, if no bailout, line go down and politicians fired!”

Samvega ,

Humanity is not important. Humanity must sacrifice itself for The Line.

The Line will continue to Go Up, whether or not humanity is around to see it. All hail the Line.

grrgyle ,

Me furiously taking post-apocalyptic worldbuilding notes from your comment 🫨🫨🫨

Samvega ,

The Line will the people, from the Place of Lies to the Land of Plenty. The Line does not deviate.

NegativeInf ,

The Line Lay as The Line Like!

Asafum ,

We ONLY made 10 BILLION in profit!?

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK JOHNSON!? We made 10 last year! This year is supposed to be 12 billion!

YOU’RE ALL FIRED!

The inner workings of a Totally Sane Business Economy™

andrew_bidlaw , (edited )
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

Line them throats, line them wrists,

For the market share

They’d call us terrorists

We can hardly care.

einlander ,

Let us all gather and pray for the ascension of the demarcation.

grrgyle ,

Me, imitating the pose of a thoughtful looking person I saw in a magazine: have we tried AI the line? Like make AI do the line, and me have more money? Need more money for AI implement line AI money make?

Carrolade , to news in John Deere lays off hundreds of employees, after a $10B profit year

7-8 billion actually. But I suppose they rounded up.

thehill.com/…/4750201-john-deere-laying-off-hundr…

zqwzzle ,

What’s a few billion between the bourgeoisie.

Dipbeneaththelasers ,

No joke, in certain instances of my profession a few billion is a rounding error. Real money numbers today are fucking enormous.

homesweethomeMrL ,

The struggle is glorious innit

disguy_ovahea , (edited )

Billionaires aren’t the bourgeoisie. They are the aristocrats. The bourgeoisie is more like six-figure annual income in the US.

homesweethomeMrL ,
Carrolade ,

Ah, it’s last year vs this year. I get it.

FlyingSquid , to news in John Deere lays off hundreds of employees, after a $10B profit year
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Not good enough for Republicans. John Deere has to abandon any and all programs to have a diverse workforce.

sunzu ,

I am taking they fired DEI grifters then...

Who is crying over that lol fuck those clowns.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

And you’re evidence that those people were “grifters” is what?

sunzu ,

My work made sit a through "seminar" one time because exec team is all white...

They though hiring this trash and wasting my time will fix the perception of all white exec team...

It did not haha but now I know what DEI actually means tho

Where is your evidence this shit has use beyond corporate PR cirlc jerk?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Ah, I see. Anectode, the plural of data.

Clearly because the specific people who your work made you sit through being pointless means all DEI everywhere is a scam.

sunzu ,

You ain't even got an anecdote tho

What data are u relying on...

Actually what is this data even prove?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry, that’s not how the burden of proof works. You made the claim that DEI is a scam. It’s not my job to prove that’s true.

sunzu ,

So nothing ... Ok

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Correct. I cannot prove that your claim is incorrect. Similarly, you cannot prove that I don’t put an invisible pink unicorn on your ceiling unless you make the specific claim that I did not do that.

Because it’s not your job to prove someone else is wrong. It’s your job to prove that you’re right.

I made no claim. You did.

www.ethosdebate.com/burden-proof-really-means/

sunzu ,

So we just gonna trust DEI grifters provide value now?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

You have yet to provide any sort of non-anecdotal evidence that they are grifters.

Declaring things to be true doesn’t make them true.

sunzu ,

former Facebook diversity program manager pleaded guilty to scamming the social media giant out of more than $4 million through a scheme in which she faked business deals in exchange for kickbacks, the Justice Department said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/13/former-facebook-diversity-leader-pleads-guilty-to-fraud.html

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Two anecdotes is still not data.

I can show you plenty of other executives that have nothing to do with DEI who have been guilty of fraud.

GenitalHurricane ,

This loser works cashier at a gas station in a racist town until evidence is provided to counter my obvious facts

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Me? I don’t work at all. And this is one of the less-racist towns in Indiana because we have a somewhat larger black and Latino population than many others, but it’s still Indiana, so yeah, it’s a racist town.

Less racist than when they lynched an innocent man back in 1900 though.

GenitalHurricane ,

Not you

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry.

sunzu ,

I understand you want to insult me but why are you disrespecting an honest worker?

Disgusting attitudes like these got to stop. An honest worker should not be mocked by an online tough guy tbh.

GenitalHurricane ,

So nothing … Ok

sunzu ,

former Facebook diversity program manager pleaded guilty to scamming the social media giant out of more than $4 million through a scheme in which she faked business deals in exchange for kickbacks, the Justice Department said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/13/former-facebook-diversity-leader-pleads-guilty-to-fraud.html

ElJefe ,

So you still don’t get the point. Sure, this person scammed fb. The fact that they were the diversity program manager is irrelevant and not the cause for lack of morals and ethics. You’re conflating two separate issues and saying that anyone who supports DEI will steal your wife.

You can be an honest person, and that’s good. You can be honest and support DEI. That makes you a better person.

sunzu ,

I never an issue with working with fellow workers... I have an issue with a grifter being hired to tell me "mission accomplished" now back to slaving peasant!

People who need this shit are old and in charge, they should sit through this stupid shit if they so desire.

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds like you should blame your executive team for using DEI as a prop rather than blaming DEI for not being some magical cure all that would force your executives do something beyond token gestures

sunzu ,

Cute of you to assume corpos and DEI grifters do anything beyond a charade haha

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

I also have a job believe it or not. We build analytical tools that are stratifiable by different types of demographics because not everyone has uniform access to healthcare. It’s a real thing even if you don’t want it to be.

FlyingSquid ,
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I’m not curious enough to ask them, but I am mildly curious what they think the solution should be to get a diverse workforce. I’m guessing it’s “don’t have one.”

AbidanYre ,

Dear God. If your writing is indicative of what made the cut, I’d hate to see who they let go.

sunzu ,

say what?

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