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jaete posted:ok so how many ubers is $219,000 per hour Let's start from Uber's recent earnings... quote:Uber lost a whopping $5.2 billion in the second quarter of 2019, the company revealed on Thursday, its deepest quarterly loss ever, thanks to an expensive initial public offering earlier this year 91 days x 24 hours = 2,184 hours. $5,200,000,000 divided by 2,184 hours = $2,380,952.38 per hour. We Company's hourly losses are still only approximately 9.2% of Uber's hourly losses.
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Sundae posted:91 days x 24 hours = 2,184 hours. $5,200,000,000 divided by 2,184 hours = $2,380,952.38 per hour. Imagine if instead of hours, those were households. Imagine if billionaires were just handing out 2.4 million to a different family/person every hour. Imagine if TARP had given a quarter of that amount to every household facing eviction. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Aug 16, 2019 |
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It looks like they use the same accounts but change ambassadors occasionally. https://twitter.com/AmazonFCHannah/status/1133518706406055938
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Wallet posted:The mind-melting part of this is how poo poo they are at it.
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Baronash posted:It looks like they use the same accounts but change ambassadors occasionally. I mean, real people sharing an account is indistinguishable from there being just one person writing fiction and signing different names.
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Cheesus posted:There's a lot being hurled at Amazon over this. They're shared accounts. Name/age/profile mismatches are probably just comparing a tweet older than a month. Here's a clearer example https://twitter.com/null_fruit/status/1161992893957099520
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this makes it even sadder. their stories go from hilarious attempts at corporate whores to elicit empathy from readers to quiet stories of desperation by workers having their very experiences packaged and sold for the benefit of The Company
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Aug 17, 2019 00:01
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Hello FRIEND! I am completely real human employee of CORPORATION!!! Haha we have the GOOD TIMES here, no needing to do any RITES for bathroom breaks, definitely no sacrifices to the GRAND WORM either, it's a great place to perform labours in exchange of *hungry paper*
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Aug 17, 2019 00:35
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Probably is just regular folks who got the option to tweet corporate fanmail instead of stacking crates or whatever. It's worse than if it was a marketing firm. Like they have to be all positive and bubbly so we all know it's bullshit and they know that we know. They decided to do it anyway either because they're Stockholmed and truly believe it or because selling their dignity and integrity is worth it to briefly not stack crates.
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Owling Howl posted:Probably is just regular folks who got the option to tweet corporate fanmail instead of stacking crates or whatever. It's worse than if it was a marketing firm. Like they have to be all positive and bubbly so we all know it's bullshit and they know that we know. They decided to do it anyway either because they're Stockholmed and truly believe it or because selling their dignity and integrity is worth it to briefly not stack crates. 10 hours of moving boxes or 10 hours of answering tweets that we will only be monitoring for performance reasons and we would never ever use to evaluate your dedication to our ethos as a company and your dedication to our culture I promise.Yes?
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Aug 17, 2019 03:03
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I bet many of them are taking classes at the local college and hoping this assignment will help them get a transfer outside the fulfillment center. I doubt it will work though, people who work at HQ probably consider the fulfillment center employees to be disposable peons who are only there as a stopgap until they can build better robots.
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Unnerving corporate loyalty isn't a new thing, or something that is concentrated in tech, but tech companies have certainly brought it to the forefront. You can't even complain like you used to. All the old social places that we had 40 years ago aren't the same, social media has usurped them, and companies spend way too much time monitoring them for anyone to really vent on them. There are people who sit in Bentonville, for example, who just monitor the various walmart subreddits, and figure out what store the posters are from and send their posts the the store manager. You can't even vent about how lovely your job is anymore, even as a lowly grunt. And that's now. Give it another decade, with better algorithms and bullshit metrics. The people watching social media will turn into server farms crawling the entire web, enforcing those rules in the company handbook that forbid workers from disparaging the company. I hate this future.
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Pochoclo posted:Hello FRIEND! I am completely real human employee of CORPORATION!!! Haha we have the GOOD TIMES here, no needing to do any RITES for bathroom breaks, definitely no sacrifices to the GRAND WORM either, it's a great place to perform labours in exchange of *hungry paper*
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Owling Howl posted:Probably is just regular folks who got the option to tweet corporate fanmail instead of stacking crates or whatever. It's worse than if it was a marketing firm. Like they have to be all positive and bubbly so we all know it's bullshit and they know that we know. They decided to do it anyway either because they're Stockholmed and truly believe it or because selling their dignity and integrity is worth it to briefly not stack crates. They're not real employees, they're 100% a lovely "digital marketing" firm, or just a single "social media manager" pretending to be multiple people At MOST they might use the names of real employees, but it's basically gonna be an email sent to them asking "hey we're gonna post this in your name, any objections?" Pochoclo fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/jessiedotjs/status/1162364434846822401quote:I joined Google because we were the good guys.  just say it was the money. All the Google goodness examples given are generic corporate community outreach programs
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Ruffian Price posted:https://twitter.com/jessiedotjs/status/1162364434846822401 I can sort of believe someone with little real world experience (the coddled tech bubble sort) falling for the "we're not as poo poo as the rest" image Google projected during its early years - it was certainly a thing in the tech world that Google had a shiny image, I would say during the 2000s, and the first few years of the 2010s But loving megalol if after ~2015 anyone believed in that anymore
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Aug 17, 2019 14:54
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"do no harm " - gogole old phrase
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Ruffian Price posted:https://twitter.com/jessiedotjs/status/1162364434846822401 This lady is going to be so let down by the rest of the world, that isn’t flush with cash.
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Ruffian Price posted:https://twitter.com/jessiedotjs/status/1162364434846822401 I was pretty naive as a teen and totes fell for the "don't be evil" poo poo, I don't think I really realized it was complete poo poo until quite a while. They had good marketing
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Ruffian Price posted:https://twitter.com/jessiedotjs/status/1162364434846822401 A big part of the Google mistique comes from the fact that, from the inside, it does not feel like a monolithical beast, but more like an ant colony. Individual employees have (had?) an unusual amount influence on the direction their team takes, as well as the influence their team has on the company as a whole. As a consequence of that, it's really easy to look at a bad decision and get the impression that it's a bad apple's influence that managed to bubble to the top and exculpate the leadership.
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 wow thanks for the insider insight Aramis posted:As a consequence of that, it's really easy to look at a bad decision and get the impression that it's a bad apple's influence that managed to bubble to the top and exculpate the leadership. Ruffian Price fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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"Don't be evil" was always disingenuous bullshit and Google is right up there with Facebook in the negative real world consequences department, as far as I'm concerned. Having said that, anyone that works for any for-profit company because they think it's making the world a better place, or they're 'the good guys' is huffing paint.
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Family Values posted:"Don't be evil" was always disingenuous bullshit and Google is right up there with Facebook in the negative real world consequences department, as far as I'm concerned. Having said that, anyone that works for any for-profit company because they think it's making the world a better place, or they're 'the good guys' is huffing paint.  That’s why I wrk for the world’s largest nonprofit, IKEA.
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This chart on Ikea's corporate structure on Wikipedia reminds me of those charts you see in police procedurals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:IKEA_ownership_chart
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Pochoclo posted:They're not real employees, they're 100% a lovely "digital marketing" firm, or just a single "social media manager" pretending to be multiple people https://twitter.com/VivJaye/status/1162030419736322048?s=20
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it was a completely terrible idea to begin with and the most interesting part of this story is who authorized the money to pay for this thing, and for what reason. i doubt corruption, more just enthusiastic incompetence
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re: WeWork https://twitter.com/theAntiBinge/status/1163491010346967042
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Family Values posted:"Don't be evil" was always disingenuous bullshit and Google is right up there with Facebook in the negative real world consequences department, as far as I'm concerned. Having said that, anyone that works for any for-profit company because they think it's making the world a better place, or they're 'the good guys' is huffing paint. img_sonic_no_such_thing_ethical_consumption_capitalism.jpg I’ve come to realize that to exist in a capitalist society you need to either commit to 1) working in a business that does evil poo poo somewhere down the line, or 2) go fully off the grid and try like hell to survive. The people that pull off the latter are remarkable and badass in their ability to survive. Edit: Non-Profits are evil as hell too, look at Goodwill (let’s pay disabled folks less than minimum wage by saying they’re “incompetent” while getting loving free merchandise to sell) and Satan’s own shop, the Salvation Army.
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Ripoff posted:img_sonic_no_such_thing_ethical_consumption_capitalism.jpg I wasn't going for capitalism must be destroyed with that comment. (I'm not in that camp, sorry, I think there's a place for tightly regulated capitalism as long as it's accompanied by socialism for the important stuff. Capitalism is fine for tech gadgets but not to be trusted with healthcare, for example) No company, even a relatively benign one, are the 'good guys' though. And Google is pretty far from the benign end of corporate behavior.
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“So the problem is these things you call ‘trees’?” furious typing
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Speaking as someone that worked at a bar where they tried using resin on their floors (why, I don't know), I'm not surprised the panels were trashed after a few months. It's too brittle, and roads need to be able to flex, expand, and contract by design to extend a life fraught with temperature swings and constant traffic of varying weight and speed.
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yeah, the necessary material properties of solar panels and road beds are highly divergent and i feel in my bones that the big idea behind solar roads is "we already have all of this black stuff all over the place... solar panels are black... what if the roads could convert the thermal/solar energy they absorb into electricity?" as if noticing two things have a similar property means they can be linked based on that property
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It's not in the headline, but not taking the weight of tractors into account in a rural region is pretty  worthy. You'd think you'd want to conduct some kind of survey to see what kind of traffic goes over the road but gotta chase that disruption dream.
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luxury handset posted:yeah, the necessary material properties of solar panels and road beds are highly divergent and i feel in my bones that the big idea behind solar roads is "we already have all of this black stuff all over the place... solar panels are black... what if the roads could convert the thermal/solar energy they absorb into electricity?" as if noticing two things have a similar property means they can be linked based on that property It is 100% "solar panels are so gauche, if only there were a way to use them where I wouldn't have to see them?" Like my shithole trumper town that has essentially banned them.
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Next year: "If you put fans on either side of the highways, the drafting will generate electricity!" 
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luxury handset posted:yeah, the necessary material properties of solar panels and road beds are highly divergent and i feel in my bones that the big idea behind solar roads is "we already have all of this black stuff all over the place... solar panels are black... what if the roads could convert the thermal/solar energy they absorb into electricity?" as if noticing two things have a similar property means they can be linked based on that property Sounds like a thermoelectric generator plus regular, gets hot in the sun, asphalt is the way to go. It'd be less efficient per unit area than a traditional solar panel, but cheaper and more reliable.
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Don Gato posted:It's not in the headline, but not taking the weight of tractors into account in a rural region is pretty How do you not take leaves and tractors into account when building any kind of open road?
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