Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by lm28469 on Sunday May 12, 2024 @09:54AM
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It might be surprising to many but there is a life outside of the office...
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Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by throwaway5959 on Sunday May 12, 2024 @10:00AM
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Yes but most people work at least eight hours a day each weekday (Monday through Friday) and it’s incredibly painful for those that don’t want to waste 40 hours a week of their life to have to deal with people that do the absolute bare minimum to get by at work.
If people don’t like the job they’re doing; they should quit and find something else to do.
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by lm28469 on Sunday May 12, 2024 @10:03AM
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> to have to deal with people that do the absolute bare minimum to get by at work.
Not my problem
We designed a system that's actively hostile to life and well being to profit the top 0.1%
No contract states you have to give your best, and there is no way for anyone to enforce that anyways
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by thfuran on Sunday May 12, 2024 @10:47AM
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>We designed a system that's actively hostile to life and well being to profit the top 0.1%
And your proposed solution is to personally be actively hostile to the well being of those around you for your own benefit?
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by meiraleal on Sunday May 12, 2024 @11:06AM
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this is exactly what companies going through mass layoffs while distributing record dividends are doing.
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by thfuran on Sunday May 12, 2024 @11:09AM
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And as they say, two wrongs always makes right.
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by lm28469 on Sunday May 12, 2024 @11:40AM
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If you want to be abused feel free to go ahead no one will stop you. I hope you're confident with your choices because death bed regrets don't sound like fun, especially when it comes to grinding for big brother
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by meiraleal on Sunday May 12, 2024 @11:11AM
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Behaving like a sheep won't change their behavior tho. What's the point of leaving only them the option to abuse?
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by raydev on Sunday May 12, 2024 @01:27PM
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One party is a multinational megacorp with billions of dollars and the other party is a worker. Whether the worker does a "wrong" or a "right" or is even exceptional at doing "right"s, their behavior will never invite more favor from the megacorp, as evidenced by the many layoffs at many megacorps over the last 4 years.
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by vasco on Thursday May 16, 2024 @02:24AM
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What is funny is that in my insides I'm 100% sure the type of people that spout that crap about "not my problem" and fuck their co-workers are the ones that would act the most dictator-like and dystopian-capitalists if given the chance. They just reveal their true way of thinking- the fact they chose "the worker" cause they have no power doesn't mean they wouldn't flip if they had power.
Imagine acting in the most anti-communal way while thinking you have a moral high ground and fuck the little guys around you because you think you're sticking it to the man.
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by throwaway5959 on Sunday May 12, 2024 @10:14AM
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I never said it was your problem. That was the whole point of my post. It’s a problem for people that don’t want to waste eight hours a day, that want those hours to be meaningful and work with other motivated people.
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by johnisgood on Sunday May 12, 2024 @10:40AM
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And that is 8 hours a day. 12 hours long shifts are extremely common around here, with only 1 weekend free in a month. Sure, office jobs are mostly 8 hours long, but the rest are 12 hours, and there is a LOT of those kind of jobs. Overtime hours are typically not paid either.
Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ...
by vasco on Sunday May 12, 2024 @02:37PM
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Why would you not want to do meaningful things instead of work for a huge corporation, even if you think you're "sticking it" to them? Why not give it your full effort and work with good people you respect?