Some Ghoulish Law School Shitheads posted:

The whiskey maker, describing the offending products as “poop-themed dog toys,” countered that there is a likelihood of confusion, meaning the product violates trademark law.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-hr-executives-prepare-for-layoffs-behind-the-scenes-2023-2 posted:

We were a national company with thousands of employees across Canada, and we were downsizing across all divisions. From Calgary, Alberta, I was a vice president of human resources.

Up until that point, I was so in love with this company that I used to joke I would get a tattoo of its logo.

Then executive leadership decided it was going to terminate more than 100 people. I felt it was contrary to the values that we had been espousing and the culture we had built. I really had a hard time wrapping my brain around it.

Initially, I proposed offering early retirement and allowing people to apply for voluntary severance packages. But C-suite leadership didn't want to do that.
It was scheduled down to the 15-minute mark

While planning the layoffs, HR felt that doing all the layoffs on one day and managing the communications that were going out would help us control the narrative. Because we were in different time zones in Canada, we had agreed that we were going to do everything within a four-hour window. It was scheduled down to the 15-minute mark.

We had scripted it out for our own divisions. I was in the west division. We had simultaneous terminations going on, and each HR business partner was assigned one or two people.

The managers didn't know this was happening. The only people who knew this was happening were the executives and the HR team. The executive responsible for the termination would go sit the manager down and explain what was happening.

Then HR would call the employee to a meeting.

We would explain that their employment was being terminated as a result of corporatewide downsizing. Then we would go over their severance offer.

Another HR person would go and gather the person's belongings — their purse, their keys, their lunch bag — and bring them to the room. The employee would be discreetly escorted out of the building. We packed up the person's desk after the fact.

Once everything was done, we met with the teams of the colleagues to explain what had happened and, where we could, give assurances that the cuts were over. This was going to be the impact. This is how we were going to transition the work. Because often in cases when somebody leaves, the remaining people pick up the workload.
I didn't want to hurt anyone's self-esteem

Unfortunately, I had two members on my team that were on the list. I did the first one, and the employee was completely caught off guard. When he asked why he was getting laid off, the only thing I could say was, "We're downsizing."

Then I hopped on a plane to another city to do the second one. I was completely sick to my stomach on the flight. I didn't want to affect somebody's livelihood; I didn't want to affect somebody's self-esteem. This person would have to go home and face their family and friends.

I arrived at the next office and was walking into the meeting to do the termination with my second person.

As I was walking in, I got a phone call from Calgary from one of my other managers who didn't know any of this was happening. He said to me, "Angela, I've decided I'm going to retire. I'm phoning to give you one month's notice."

I immediately called my boss, who was the senior vice president of operations. I said, "Hey, this is what's happening. Should we abort this termination I'm about to do?" And she said, "Yes, because that will count as one of the layoffs." We ended up not doing the second termination.
Maybe there was something in the air

I believe it was totally coincidental. The person who retired wouldn't have known that saying he resigned would save somebody else's job. Nobody knew layoffs were coming except the executives and the HR team.

Then again, who knows what energy was in the air? You would be surprised at how many times a company has decided to terminate somebody on a certain day, say, on a Tuesday, and that Tuesday, the person calls in sick.

Ultimately, executive leadership made arbitrary decisions about which departments to cut and by how many people, without any analysis of need, knowledge capture, and knowledge transfer.

It was the first time in 70 years that this company had downsized, and it caused a lot of disengagement and distrust.

gschmidl posted:

NYT has a write-up of the 3AC guys and what they did while 3AC was collapsing.

https://archive.is/Wh7cn

Cup Runneth Over posted:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-jack-daniels-poop-themed-dog-toy-trademark-fight-rcna86030

Ooops! I meant to buy a big bottle of liquor, but instead I bought a squeaky dog toy! If only the government would step in to prevent greedy businessmen from profiting off this sort of confusion, and protect poor customers like me!

Weatherman posted:

xpost

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1667340407527682050?s=20

rise up comrades

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1667340407527682050?s=20

rise up comrades

christmas boots posted:

it’s legitimately cool that orcas don’t attack people and also have figured out exactly what part of a boat to attack to shut it down. like even if there’s no broad purpose and the orcas are just doing it because it’s fun that’s wickedly cool

they’re not on a killing spree they just don’t like the boats lmao

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1667340407527682050?s=20

rise up comrades

Ham Equity posted:

I was going to quote some highlights of this, but holy poo poo it's like 80% highlights.

They have to be two of the stupidest people alive, and yet somehow their stupidity is dwarfed by their complete and utter lack of self awareness.

HashtagGirlboss posted:

We should be able to get a pretty accurate idea of who is stupider than them just looking at who invests in GTX

Subjunctive posted:

what’s GTX?

Subjunctive posted:

what’s GTX?

gschmidl posted:

NYT has a write-up of the 3AC guys and what they did while 3AC was collapsing.

https://archive.is/Wh7cn

quote:

For the past few months, Mr. Davies and Mr. Zhu have been planning a comeback. In April, they unveiled Open Exchange, a marketplace for traders who lost money in last year’s crypto implosions. Customers will be able to buy and sell claims to the bankruptcy estates of defunct crypto firms like FTX and possibly Three Arrows itself.

In pitch documents sent to investors in January, Mr. Davies and Mr. Zhu code-named their new company “GTX,” an alphabetical successor to Mr. Bankman-Fried’s failed exchange.

“I just thought it was very funny,” Mr. Zhu said.

Maed posted:

all these cryptofucks cannot stop embellishing everything no matter how worthless it is to embellish, even their trophy wives call them out on their poo poo in front of reporters. I hope they feel like the biggest loving losers on earth and are in jail soon with the rest of em

I hope that white boy in bali gently caress gets steve irwined while scuba diving (not actionable as I am not aquaman)

Shnag posted:

I bet to an orca whacking a flimsy over priced yacht feels great. like you punching a bag with gloves. don’t have to hold back and you know you can damage it without getting hurt unlike metal or wood.

Shnag posted:

I bet to an orca whacking a flimsy over priced yacht feels great. like you punching a bag with gloves. don’t have to hold back and you know you can damage it without getting hurt unlike metal or wood.

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1667340407527682050?s=20

rise up comrades

AvesPKS posted:

It's funny, but what happens when the orcas attack a boat with a small child aboard? I feel like that has to happen only once for people to not passively receive being deruddered.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

the orcas would also save the child in this hypothetical

cat botherer posted:

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

the orcas would also save the child in this hypothetical

Ham Equity posted:

quote:

The summer after their freshman year, they traveled to Buenos Aires and set up shop in a cafe, offering to teach local workers how to play online poker and then stake them some money in return for a cut of their winnings.
But their plan to create an army of South American cardsharps had a fatal flaw: Neither of them spoke Spanish. They had wrongly assumed that working-class Argentines would understand English.

quote:

It’s been a big week (f)in orca news. The black and white cetaceans, often referred to as killer whales, seem to be making some unexpected moves—popping up in numbers and places where they usually do not.

On Sunday, a group of researchers—surveying the seas from a plane—spotted four whales just south of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, in an area where orca sightings are exceedingly rare, according to a New York Times report. Elsewhere in New England, a fishing crew noted another orca in Cape Cod Bay near Provincetown, Massachusetts on the same day.

christmas boots posted:

comrade orcas got tired of waiting for us to start the revolution so they just did it themselves

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

What Are the Orcas Planning Next?

yes

YES

uber_stoat posted:

https://twitter.com/finchfrii/status/1670234481595400192?s=20

quote:

The employer has agreed to a consent judgment and settlement. U.S. Judge William B. Shubb on May 8 ordered Che Garibaldi LLC and its operators, Eduardo Hernandez, Hector Manual Martinez Galindo, and Alejandro Rodriguez, to pay $70,000 in back wages and $70,000 in damages to 35 employees. In addition, the restaurant and its owners must pay $5,000 in civil penalties to the Department of Labor.

uber_stoat posted:

https://twitter.com/finchfrii/status/1670234481595400192?s=20