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Shame Boy posted:Hey now the only time Big Clive sold out was when he realized he could get a company to send him a free LED streetlight to take apart If you have trade secrets that can be figured out by purchasing one of your items and taking it apart, then they are definitely not a secret from any actual competitor.
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Day Man posted:If you have trade secrets that can be figured out by purchasing one of your items and taking it apart, then they are definitely not a secret from any actual competitor. Yeah, it was incredibly obvious how the thing worked too - Clive figured it out after like 10 minutes of cursory examination. It wasn't like, a pre-release version or anything either, so I'm really not sure what they hoped to accomplish by demanding he remove the video... I assume their marketing team was like "find us internet people that are into LED lights!" and Clive was right at the top of the list, so they contacted him... without actually watching any of his stuff, because he takes something apart in every single video.
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NOTObjurium posted:SHOT's gonna be great! AFTER Objurium posted:Like, I guess? But in a separate email they also made sure to let me know what they think of the OTHER bandwagon backpack armor companies. PARKLAND
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Not sure if this is the exact place but does anyone have recommending reading on the history of Corporate Ethics? As in, what are examples where corporations decide to do or not to do something despite profits because it was unethical.
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Tab8715 posted:Not sure if this is the exact place but does anyone have recommending reading on the history of Corporate Ethics? 
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Tab8715 posted:Not sure if this is the exact place but does anyone have recommending reading on the history of Corporate Ethics? Penicillin wasn't patented. That's all I got.
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Jan 17, 2019 03:10
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Costco doesn't treat their employees like total poo poo and is often used as the example of an "ethical" company but still pays people $11/hour while the company makes $4b profit and the CEO gets paid $7.4m a year.
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Powershift posted:Costco doesn't treat their employees like total poo poo and is often used as the example of an "ethical" company but still pays people $11/hour while the company makes $4b profit and the CEO gets paid $7.4m a year. and they bust unions
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Powershift posted:Costco doesn't treat their employees like total poo poo and is often used as the example of an "ethical" company but still pays people $11/hour while the company makes $4b profit and the CEO gets paid $7.4m a year. Hmm I thought they all paid higher than that as a minimum? Like 15? guess not.
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actionjackson posted:Hmm I thought they all paid higher than that as a minimum? Like 15? guess not. I was making 14.50 there as a seasonal in the deli over the holidays, and apparently the floor and register people get 14.
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actionjackson posted:Hmm I thought they all paid higher than that as a minimum? Like 15? guess not. Their minimum wage is $14/hr, but for hourly floor employees it can get up to $50+/hr for highly tenured people.
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Raldikuk posted:Their minimum wage is $14/hr, but for hourly floor employees it can get up to $50+/hr for highly tenured people. Wait someone who works on the floor at a costco can make $50/hr??
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Don't get too excited of the two founders.of Costco only one is still alive and he's in his 80s. You'd better believe that when he passed away the people left in control of that company will surely turn on its employees and customers in order to make an extra buck.
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actionjackson posted:Wait someone who works on the floor at a costco can make $50/hr?? I'm not 100% positive on that; just that tenured hourly employees can reach that high. I'm basing this info off of this BI article. But even then, they say it is for people who have been there decades, but still, if floor workers can make up to that, that puts every single other establishment to shame. EvilJoven posted:Don't get too excited of the two founders.of Costco only one is still alive and he's in his 80s. You'd better believe that when he passed away the people left in control of that company will surely turn on its employees and customers in order to make an extra buck. Of course, this is the big thing... shareholders have been after blood for years trying to get costco to cut wages and benefits. The only reason they haven't is because the current CEO and founder won't have any of it. Once the reigns get passed, expect some serious slashing.
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Guillotines are more of a chopping mechanism. I really hope some board of directors for something like Costco reads the market and retails the same guillotines used to deal with this late stage capitalism issue.
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Tab8715 posted:Not sure if this is the exact place but does anyone have recommending reading on the history of Corporate Ethics? CVS stopped selling smokes.
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It wasn't because they got in trouble for selling to minors or anything?
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guaranteed that's not because ethics but rather a corporate branding decision. CVS can't market itself as a healthy friendly drugstore when they sell cigarettes.  e: quote:In September 2014, CVS Health became the first national retail pharmacy chain to stop selling tobacco products in all of our stores because it conflicted with our purpose of helping people on their path to better health. yup
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Moridin920 posted:guaranteed that's not because ethics but rather a corporate branding decision. CVS can't market itself as a healthy friendly drugstore when they sell cigarettes. under capitalism is there a meaningful distinction between ethics and a corporate branding decision??
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It's academic because "Doing it from the goodness of their heart" and "doing it to promote their brand" is a distinction we can only apply to people not large corporate entities
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Lmao CVS the only food you sell is candy you gently caress
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good idea if they put the $500m in housing where the $5b of housing currently stands
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I really need to get into the guillotine business but make it new and flashy. Maybe like those old terrifying paper cutters in school
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p sure that corporations building affordable housing is the backstory to Brazil
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Raldikuk posted:Of course, this is the big thing... shareholders have been after blood for years trying to get costco to cut wages and benefits. The only reason they haven't is because the current CEO and founder won't have any of it. Once the reigns get passed, expect some serious slashing.
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Xand_Man posted:It's academic because "Doing it from the goodness of their heart" and "doing it to promote their brand" is a distinction we can only apply to people not large corporate entities of course because a corporation has no heart - but it's worth pointing out to people who think corporations do stuff out of goodness because a big difference is that if smoking somehow became as socially acceptable as it was fifty years ago, they'd start right back up we all know that of course but not everyone thinks that way, and not out of malice or stupidity so much as never really feeling cause to consider the fact
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Moridin920 posted:guaranteed that's not because ethics but rather a corporate branding decision. CVS can't market itself as a healthy friendly drugstore when they sell cigarettes. You could buy smokes at a loving pharmacy? In 2014? And, from the quote, I'm guessing that other pharmacies still sell them? loving hell, America. You never cease to amaze and horrify.
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Pharmacies were among the only legal places to buy whiskey during Prohibition
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ScrubLeague posted:Pharmacies were among the only legal places to buy whiskey during Prohibition A lot of "Illness: Nerves. Prescription: Booze" going around back then.
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i took a course in software ethics a lot of the course was dedicated to respecting and obeying the monopoly claims of capitalists over thoughts and ideas through "intellectual property" ethics as a concept has been twisted to mean respecting rich peoples' rights over charging economic rents on medicine that they hired other people to create or research or received through enormous government subsidy so that people are literally dying lol
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