Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills
by EvanAnderson on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:13PM
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Given that civil service, outside the military, has been demonized by the right since the Reagan years I expect that, at least at the federal level, major incidents of a non-military nature will be handled by slapdash decisions made by non-experts.
Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills
by dr_dshiv on Saturday April 25, 2020 @04:02PM
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This. I moved to the Netherlands and it is incredible how general competence in governance makes such a huge difference in quality of life.
Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills
by doyougnu on Saturday April 25, 2020 @04:28PM
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So much this. I just moved to Germany and the difference in civil servants and general infrastructure is palpable compared to the US
Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills
by jconley on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:21PM
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It's deeper than state by state, It's county by county, city by city, store by store. Varying policies everywhere.
Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills
by ethbro on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:24PM
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> > Target doesn't have any kind of social distancing policy so it was business as usual, no lines or anything.
> That's definitely state by state, fwiw.
Is it? As an employee of a T10 US retailer, I'm pretty sure we've enacted mandatory social distancing and maximum-customer-in-store policies across all our stores.
Target should be doing more at the corporate level.
Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills
by magicalist on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:54PM
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>> That's definitely state by state, fwiw.
> Is it?
I guess the question might better be "should it be?", in which case I'd definitely agree.
Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills
by ethbro on Saturday April 25, 2020 @07:20PM
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The fact that some state doesn't mandate medically sound guidelines doesn't absolve Target, as a company, of not setting a better example.
They're legally free to enforce whatever policies they want to put in place at their stores.
That they choose not to is their decision.
That's definitely state by state, fwiw.
> but I've found myself drifting towards believing this is all complete madness, that politicians have failed to draw any distinction between reasonable health precautions in problem areas and unreasonable blanket policies
Well, yes, I don't think anyone was expecting for a pandemic in the US to end up being handled by slapdash decisions by non-experts and instead have some level of preparation, guidance and coordination from our extensive scientific and public policy experts who had prepared for this situation.
We might still not have masks or unemployment checks, but we'd likely have measured policy sooner and we'd actually be coordinating on things like testing.