I missed the "PornHub" in the corner at first. Maybe I won't share this with colleagues...
So, "CEO stock value pump and dump scam". Again. As is tradition for CEOs in 2023.
Employees should be automatic shareholders. Ought to be a workers right by default to receive some portion of the equity they're producing.
Edit: And to be clear, shareholders win too. More companies should voluntarily structure themselves to grant shareholder rights to employees. Dumbass company ending mistakes are usually seen a long way off by line and rank employees.
But it should also be legally mandated structure, much like 401k rules exist now. I propose that all players involved are better off with such a rule, other than the (not currently rare) asshole CEOs who only want to pump and dump their stock.
I'm afraid they'll be wearing their hooded white robes in public again soon.
That boat sailed off into the sunset a really long time ago.
Whatever comes next should consider not starting by talking down to new users.
Source: I'm still pissed about a ten year old bug that threw out my helpful answer after I composed it because I didn't have enough bullshit Internet points.
A decade later it doesn't really feel like SO has fixed their fundamentally "asshole to new contributors" vibe.
I'm glad someone else contributes, but I can't be arsed myself. And honestly, it doesn't look like the staff at SO really care.
So I expect the current SO cohort will eventually age out and something new, with a new vibe, will replace it. I hope it has pokemon memes.
If that new thing is polite, I might contribute there.
Pro tip: I'm at least twice as likely to contribute to the next thing if they revive the domain ExpertSexChange.com.
Dude whose job it is to rip off consumers says "consumers will lose".
I'm sold. Pass that law. If the CC company bozos are against it, it's probably a good thing.
This reads as "if our prices have to be competitive, we're cancelling our bullshit programs where you could game back some of the money we took from you."
Yeah. We know you won't be able to afford that, because we will still have all of that money. That's the point.
Edit: "Let them eat cake."
If you're a European citizen, nothing Reddit does can remove your right to be forgotten.
If you're a citizen of a lot of other places, your government doesn't enforce that right.
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
These are fun. For any other CEOs reading along, here's your new policy/advertisement:
- Furniture Row could convert every employee workstation to standing only.
- Starbucks could require every staff member to go caffeine free.
- Underarmor could set a black tie dress code for all employees.
- Master lock could shut down their staff gym citing uncontrolled theft from lockers.
- Grayhound could ban employees from traveling together to events.
- General Mills could establish a rewards program for employees who participate in a daily morning fast until lunchtime.
- Atlassian and Salseforce could shift their internal help desks to in-person only with 100% paper records.
- Peterbilt could start an incentive program that reimburses staff for buying local.
Do I just upvote this post if my answer is the same?
Asking for a friend.
There's a lot of gamers in this thread too young to remember how overloaded and miserable the free console game servers were.
Microsoft was like "chuck us like ~$5 per month and we will put up enough servers so the games are actually playable". At the time, it was the best deal available for console gaming.
Honestly an argument could be made it was the most economical way to play online, in general, at the time. The console cost was subsidized, and the online servers were arguably at-cost, and you really only needed to buy one copy of Halo to join the fun.