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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

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]

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.

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4546306.html

Uber is going under. [New York]

Thanx to Metafilter

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4527041.html

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

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4523783.html

Employers resemble the state. [Vox]

Thanx to

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4521262.html

Bring back anti-trust [Guardian]

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The Amazon Diaries [Guardian]

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4514437.html

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer [Kalzumeus]

Thanx to

andrewducker

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4507895.html

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

Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4502288.html

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

Thanx to

andrewducker

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4466278.html

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

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4451083.html

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

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4423412.html

International Women's Day celebrated by brands that hate women

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Barnes & Noble on the way out

Current Mood: sad
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How Private Equity Killed Toys “R” Us

Thanx to

andrewducker

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The ventriloquist who revolutionized the dildo business

Thanx to Metafilter

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4334283.html

Corporations as Evil AI

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4328167.html

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

( Article )

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4326467.html

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

Thanx to

andrewducker

Crossposts: https://supergee.livejournal.com/4319080.html

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