Arthur D. Hlavaty

Return-to-Office Mandates and Brain Drain

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:20:10 GMT

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

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:20:25 GMT

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

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 11:01:44 GMT

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

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:06:07 GMT

Uber is going under. [New York]

Thanx to Metafilter

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Filling a needed void

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 14:03:08 GMT

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

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Private Government

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:13:10 GMT

Employers resemble the state. [Vox]

Thanx to conuly

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Towards a free market in cyberspace

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:34:46 GMT

Bring back anti-trust [Guardian]

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From inside the Beast

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:51:47 GMT

The Amazon Diaries [Guardian]

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Selling yourself

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:14:12 GMT

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer [Kalzumeus]

Thanx to andrewducker

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Whodunit

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:03:47 GMT

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

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:15:11 GMT

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

Thanx to andrewducker

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I hate to think what this might explain

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:55:07 GMT

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

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:34:19 GMT

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

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As ever

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:54:18 GMT

International Women's Day celebrated by brands that hate women

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Circling the drain

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:11:06 GMT

Barnes & Noble on the way out

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Bain of our existence

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:15:22 GMT

How Private Equity Killed Toys “R” Us

Thanx to andrewducker

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Obscenity

Sun, 24 Dec 2017 11:49:35 GMT

The ventriloquist who revolutionized the dildo business

Thanx to Metafilter

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Taking over

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:55:39 GMT

Corporations as Evil AI

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Predictable

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:52:56 GMT

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

Sun, 03 Dec 2017 12:07:30 GMT

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

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:26:13 GMT

How Gurdjieff led to today's business bafflegab

Thanx to Metafilter

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We can stamp out CSR in our lifetime

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:08:55 GMT

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

Thanx to andrewducker

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Monopolies

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:10:50 GMT

Amazon is worse than Facebook & eBay.

Thanx to andrewducker

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A gigantic racket

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:11:27 GMT

The big business of science publishing

Thanx to andrewducker

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Grade inflation in the private sector

Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:16:17 GMT

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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