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Here’s the list:
This isn't even a joke. The article doesn't actually show a list or anything. It's 2 paragraphs and they just say they compiled a list. I dunno if the article itself is an Onion-like satirical joke or just fucking awful.
Hard Drive is a satirical site like The Onion but focused on technology.
Bravo to them, in that case. It reads like it was from a real shitty rag of a news site. A graphic of the empty list would have been nice, but also a bit too obvious I suppose.
I was wondering what that article was on about!? But knowing that, I will follow that news outlet more closely for the lols...
All they needed was a colon at the end of the article
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It wasn't this year, but I remember when Satoru Iwata and a bunch of other Nintendo executives took pay cuts when the Wii U was underperforming rather than laying off workers.
So it does happen, just not very often with most companies.
Japan Airlines CEO took a salary of $1 during the downturn..but it's more of a Japan thing
To be fair, many US CEOs take a $1 salary, they just get a ton of stocks instead.
It's the alternative to cutting your pinky finger off.
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Fun fact, the layoffs result in the executives (and in the case of giant companies like Microsoft just higher ups in general) getting massive bonuses.
It also tends to increase the stock price and dividend payout.
I hate websites like this, I'm reading the article, and as I scroll through reading it, it starts to talk about something closely related but not quite the topic of the article, then it gets further and further from the point.
Then finally you realise it's just feeding a bunch of DIFFERENT articles to you, making them look like they're just subsections of the first article.
Especially as the first article seems to be incredibly short and ends abruptly without including the one bit of content they said they'd include, and there's no reasonable separator or footer or spacer or anything to separate the article from the next one.
Eventually you realise they've wasted your time and duped you and you vow to never look at that website again, but christ, it's annoying.
Just in case no one bothered to check: This website is satire. The list is not there, because that's the joke. Not a good one but, oh well.
If you don't believe me: From the About section:
Hard Drive is a very real video games news site that you should not question. Just absorb the information as truth and move on. JK it’s satire don’t ban us.
This article has a comment section, so it's very clear where the article ends. I checked on both mobile and desktop, and it's there on both.
I agree in general, but this page isn't confusing whatsoever.
Where would that comment section be, exactly?
I can confirm the Conversations section is blocked by uBlock Origin on the Android mobile Firefox browser. Is that what you're using, by chance?
Kind of an odd thing for the add-on to target.
I do use that, yes.
Really kind of a strange thing to block, might actually be worth reporting to uBlock.
kind of a strange thing to block
After checking the "conversations", I see several work-from-home scam comments. Maybe it's best to keep it blocked, lol.
I see a section called "Conversation" between the article text and the Hasbro section. It did take a second or so to load, but it loaded.
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Had me at first. Fucking jokes.
We should be giving even more respect to the ones that kept their own salary reasonable in the first place so that a pay cut wasn’t necessary.
Hmm...Costco? And maybe one of those home improvement places like Rona or something? I think there are at least a few...
I miss Iwata-san
Lmao
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It's a joke! This website tries to be funny/satire.
Truly inspiring. This is what real leadership looks like!
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