It's a mix of that, but also they have to make good on all these "AI investments" that "boost productivity" and allow employees to do more. I'm a principal engineer so it was part of my job to assess how much these tools actually boost productivity and they don't at all. They change where the mental power goes, but it's not really faster and is more mistake prone. If I had to make a comparison, it's a bit like a concorde plane, it's technically faster airspeed, but then you spend all your time trying to make a thing that can shove air out of the way faster than it wants to move (supersonic) and that's just a lot more effort in other areas. Notice concord planes are nowhere to be seen despite existing for decades and being objectively faster. Not worth, but in the AI craze who cares.

They also took advantage of taxpayer funds to boost their profits during the pandemic, and that money is gone now, so if you aren't cutting a big part of your staff, either you didn't take advantage of the pandemic, or you did and you have dead weight. It's important to note that most big tech companies made record profits during that time.

If you were a tech company and you weren't killing off a chunk of your staff, it was a signal something was wrong with your business in some way. It's entirely a speculative stock market thing, which is all that matters these days. They can invent other reasons why they aren't meeting targets.

TLDR; those losses are on another spreadsheet

Yep, and in many cases people got let go, then rehired 2 days later when things got cleared up, and kept their severance. The layoffs were mostly rushed. One guy was going to be a speaker at an event for the company, and as everyone sat down waiting for him to hop on stage, they hadn't realized he was let go. Absolute waste just to make the numbers look good on paper, but a huge loss of investment.

Imagine youre a senior engineer with 2000 stock units with accelerated vesting (was about 32$ at the time), severance at least in canada was over 20 weeks of pay lump sum given the collective dismissal + vacations. They were dropping 100k(before tx) to engineers to make them go away, and hire them back the week after.

Worst company I've ever worked for, but I did make a pretty penny that week. Luckily I got hired a month later somewhere else.

Wasn't the cop29 leader caught just using the oil people who show up to secure contracts?

More like copium29

I don't give a shit what the waiter wants honestly, I shouldn't have to pay the owner and the worker separately

Cmon dude. All these people are saying we don't need these laws because waiters can just quit to pressure businesses to pay them well. So why do these laws even exist? You didnt even respond to the last post. I wont hold my breath.

Businesses that don't have convoluted pay schemes that involve tips will die, and businesses that advertise tipping isn't a thing will thrive, like has happened many times in the past.

You know what doesn't change anything? Forcing the people stuck in the system to get more stuck in the system..

That's just antisemitism /s

Because he's attacking all institutions that have some sort of control he wants. The wide net just feeds into the deep state narrative and he needs to capitalize on that right now

Kids, healthcare, education, private equity etc.. that's how you make a dictatorship.

See it this way, BlackRock has enough power to do to the republican party what the republican party is doing to the gov. They need all of that gone to become megalomaniac authoritarians.

If I wanted to become Bill Gates, and make my own Microsoft, i first have to outlaw bill gates and Microsoft.

Saw videos/articles online that this was the "end of gamedev" or whatever.

While patents for games are shit, theyve been around a long time and are hard to enforce. Palworld made it incredibly easy for one of the most ruthless companies to go after them. I expected they waited to see the final game before taking action, and until palworld made a ridiculous amount of money.

I've worked on Pokemon clones that are commercially available, and while they didn't sell as much as palworld, they took a bit more care designing around stuff

Funny this article mentions nothing of that. I had read it somewhere else.

This is what Maccabi Tel Aviv Hooligans did in the Netherlands that triggered all the violence against them after the authorities did nothing, don’t let anyone twist it.

Israelis are not the victim.

They took down Palestine’s flag and then it all started.

An eyewitness stated: “It all kicked off when they pulled a Palestinian flag off a facade. Then they started provoking and destroyed a taxi driver's car and beat up the driver themselves.”

Some Maccabi fans were seen with metal chains, ready to attack.

Also during tonight’s match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, the Israeli supporters refused to hold a minute of silence for Valencia flood victims. They even started illegal fireworks.

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They sang racist extermination songs

“Let the IDF win to Fuck the Arabs”

Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans chant their genocidal song while being protected by the police in Amsterdam, this song they’re chanting has a part that says “there are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left”.

Don't like tipping? Protest the policies by not going to restaurants, dont shove it on the workers who are stuck in the system.

The owner is 100% happy you came to pay him and not the waiter he didnt wanna pay anyway.

Flushable wipes are not flushable! These companies should pay to remove them, it was completely false advertising

Is this fuck cars or fuck the us?

Show of hands, who pays for ambulances regardless of why?