Arthur D. Hlavaty

Return-to-Office Mandates and Brain Drain

2024-12-19T11:20:10Z

As Calvin said to Hobbes, “We must be careful not to learn from this.” The beginning of COVID forced many organizations to allow employees to work from home, and an overwhelming number of employees liked it that way. Now the bosses want the workers to return to “birth, commutation, and death”* and they’re losing a lot of their best people
*Thank you, William Gaddis

Thanx to andrewducker

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The ratings racket

2021-03-21T16:20:25Z

Whenever a company asks me to rate the service their employees gave me, I assume:

1. They want me to do their work for them (gratis, of course) by finding employees to punish
2. Anything less than the absolute top rating in any category will be treated as failure and may well inspire them to nag me for details.

Here’s how Instacart does it. [Vox]

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Things go better

2019-01-11T11:01:44Z

Satirical article suggests that if the government shutdown continues long enough, the Coast Guard should start selling seized cocaine to keep going. Richard Condon made the same suggestion for the entire government in Emperor of America. If so, they should wait until Trump is out because he may the only person who could lose money in that particular enterprise.

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Crash

2018-12-10T11:06:07Z

Uber is going under. [New York]

Thanx to Metafilter

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Filling a needed void

2018-12-07T14:03:08Z

Workers need more pretend training with overpaid bullshit merchants. [Daily Mash]

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Private Government

2018-12-03T11:13:10Z

Employers resemble the state. [Vox]

Thanx to conuly

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Towards a free market in cyberspace

2018-11-21T12:34:46Z

Bring back anti-trust [Guardian]

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From inside the Beast

2018-11-21T11:51:47Z

The Amazon Diaries [Guardian]

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Selling yourself

2018-11-09T12:14:12Z

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer [Kalzumeus]

Thanx to andrewducker

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Whodunit

2018-10-31T10:03:47Z

How vulture capitalists killed Sears. (And, remember, children, Mitt Romney took away your toy store.) [Huffington Post]

Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.

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Legalized torture

2018-08-24T11:15:11Z

The team-building will continue until morale improves [BBC]

Thanx to andrewducker

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I hate to think what this might explain

2018-07-26T13:55:07Z

Students with brain parasites are 1.4x more likely to major in business, 1.7x to emphasize entrepreneurship [Proceedings of the Royal Society B]

Thanx to andrewducker

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Unsurprising

2018-06-03T21:34:19Z

Fake reviews now generally necessary to do business online [Boing Boing]

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As ever

2018-03-09T11:54:18Z

International Women's Day celebrated by brands that hate women

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Circling the drain

2018-02-15T18:11:06Z

Barnes & Noble on the way out

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Bain of our existence

2018-01-25T12:15:22Z

How Private Equity Killed Toys “R” Us

Thanx to andrewducker

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Obscenity

2017-12-24T11:49:35Z

The ventriloquist who revolutionized the dildo business

Thanx to Metafilter

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Taking over

2017-12-14T10:55:39Z

Corporations as Evil AI

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Predictable

2017-12-12T16:52:56Z

Apparently, Amazon has done to Whole Foods what it does to things.

( Article )

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I owe my soul to the company store

2017-12-03T12:07:30Z

Cities race to see who can give Amazon the biggest bribe to move there.

Thanx to andrewducker

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Talking in your (waking) sleep

2017-11-27T11:26:13Z

How Gurdjieff led to today's business bafflegab

Thanx to Metafilter

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We can stamp out CSR in our lifetime

2017-10-11T11:08:55Z

CEOs: Corporate Social Responsibility may be hazardous to your job!

Thanx to andrewducker

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Monopolies

2017-07-11T11:10:50Z

Amazon is worse than Facebook & eBay.

Thanx to andrewducker

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A gigantic racket

2017-06-28T11:11:27Z

The big business of science publishing

Thanx to andrewducker

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Grade inflation in the private sector

2017-04-12T11:16:17Z

I learned a long time ago that when a business asks me to evaluate something they did for me, anything below “Super Duper Excellent Wow” means I was dissatisfied and perhaps they should call me to find out in detail what I didn’t like. A Lyft driver explains.

Thanx to andrewducker

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