It also is likely costs that are having to be done anyway because of web based sales or other distribution channels. So it’s even worse that Apple and Google act like they’re providing so much when they’re literally just preventing businesses from using their existing infrastructure.
I have “unlimited” with the handbook specifically saying we’re to take at least four weeks a year, and it’s the first time in my career I’ve actually been getting time off because of it. Everywhere non unlimited it was never actually approved and I’d get a lousy check every year for it. You know what’s way better than money? Time off.
If you and your coworkers aren’t using your benefit perhaps you all should discuss it and work out reasonable minimums you all expect to take and then take it. And don’t judge your coworkers for taking any of it.
Every price has gone up. Salaries haven’t. So… yeah.
I mean, you do understand that this money isn’t just vanishing right? It’s being spent on people, manufacturing, materials. It doesn’t just vanish into nothing.
When places talk about how they’ll be “the next Silicon Valley” this is one of the reasons none of them have actually managed it. In CA people in many cases can take a good idea that their employer doesn’t want and do something with it themselves. In most other places it will get so tied up in non competes that it’s not worth the effort to even try.
And it’s not just tech, here in Colorado we recently had a restaurant try and shut down another restaurant simply because the newer place’s chef had worked at the older place. They settled but it’s so entirely ridiculous that it could have even started court proceedings in the first place.
If a business wants a particular outfit to be worn then they should provide the uniforms in their dollar.
Machine learning tool used by people too lazy to do their actual job accuses everyone else of using machine learning tools.
Sounds like a great reason to re-nationalize the public utility companies.
I would rather they fund NASA to the fullest, and nationalize SpaceX under them.
Cause that’s worked out so well for Britain 🤪
“Oh thank you for letting us know so we can verify that all five have been opened up. Wouldn’t want to miss one”
Especially since how much ingested fiction is about this exact scenario.