What's actually really unhelpful and actually harmful to the viability of hybrid work arrangements is RTO. > "I should be able to work anywhere and my employer must accommodate me" is an extremely privileged and elitist…
I like a full service espresso bar at the office. If I ask my employer for that, guess what they'll say? Fuck you, you're here to work. And I have to take it. I'm sure you can guess why.
> This makes sense when you consider that all of these big companies are run by leaders who talk in similar networks and listen to the same consultants (McKinsey, BCG, etc Yes, it certainly does! I'm sure they also talk…
RTO is about controlling labor, nothing else. Everything else is a smoke screen. Ask yourself the following questions and you'll understand what happened: - why did RTO happen seemingly right after salaries jumped and…
To be clear I'm having a lot of fun being snarky here. Like everything it's a mix. In seriousness, I do find the labor perspective sorely and quite conspicuously lacking in these discussions, both discussions about…
Do you pay your programmers hourly or on salary?
I've already kind of made it clear here where I stand on this, but I gotta tell you, you really do sound a lot like management. Do you really think your superstar programmers are well and truly doing intellectual work,…
For your comment about the turn towards authoritarianism, yeah, there's a reason every DEI program at every large corporation was pulled back within a few months, and it's not because the C suite all reads the same Musk…
It's not about productivity at all. These same companies were commissioning studies during Covid that told their analysts "look how productive our employees are now that they are working from home!" It's about crushing…
I would call that having health insurance and a place to stay when things go south 9 times in a row.
I have always wondered how we can reconcile that things "are" objectively so great and yet "seem" subjectively so bad. In my experience both online and off, there is a pessimism about work, poverty, and basic security…
It does take time. But I would put it up in the trifecta of Most Important Things a person can do. Everyone says exercise makes you happier, but I will take it a step further: it fulfills a fundamental need for a person…
Someone will have them. Who do you want it to be?
I am American, and I hear this from Americans all the time. The reality is far different, though. Does the Russian military perform more humanely in war than the US military? I don't think so. Would the Chinese? Things…
What is the solution? I would rather have automated drone armies in the hands of the US government than anyone else. The same could be said of the atomic bomb. A weapon made purely for mass scale indiscriminate…
He has a point though. The author chose lawyers as a comparison point. Why? Manual laborers work long hours. People with two or three part time retail jobs work long hours. Lawyers have a different set of qualifications…
Artstyle is far far more important than graphical capability. A game like Team Fortress 2, released in 2007 (!) looks so much better than many modern games because there is a coherence and style to the art. It's not…
I think it's the natural depression that eroded where the water first comes off the top half of the chute.
That would assume that the number of people buying domestic wouldn't just shrink in proportion to the tariff, because they can't afford goods anymore. And also perhaps in addition, because their company cannot pay them…
this would separate the wheat from the chaff with regards to special interest groups.
Best thing I've read about the news: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews I read monthlys now. Only sometimes I can't resist checking the daily (or instant) news.
If you thought eliminating interference in the taxicab market was difficult...
Not when they decide to drive themselves and their kids on the freeway every workday.
It was going to happen regardless, but it makes me deeply cynical to see this infrastructure going up in the folksy tone of "neighborhood safety." I guess to justify erecting yet another component of the massive…
Singapore. I didn't even mention first class, because I forgot about it -- they boarded the plane from a separate walkway/door to be insulated from the peasantry. I think they have individual beds/cabins.
What's actually really unhelpful and actually harmful to the viability of hybrid work arrangements is RTO. > "I should be able to work anywhere and my employer must accommodate me" is an extremely privileged and elitist…
I like a full service espresso bar at the office. If I ask my employer for that, guess what they'll say? Fuck you, you're here to work. And I have to take it. I'm sure you can guess why.
> This makes sense when you consider that all of these big companies are run by leaders who talk in similar networks and listen to the same consultants (McKinsey, BCG, etc Yes, it certainly does! I'm sure they also talk…
RTO is about controlling labor, nothing else. Everything else is a smoke screen. Ask yourself the following questions and you'll understand what happened: - why did RTO happen seemingly right after salaries jumped and…
To be clear I'm having a lot of fun being snarky here. Like everything it's a mix. In seriousness, I do find the labor perspective sorely and quite conspicuously lacking in these discussions, both discussions about…
Do you pay your programmers hourly or on salary?
I've already kind of made it clear here where I stand on this, but I gotta tell you, you really do sound a lot like management. Do you really think your superstar programmers are well and truly doing intellectual work,…
For your comment about the turn towards authoritarianism, yeah, there's a reason every DEI program at every large corporation was pulled back within a few months, and it's not because the C suite all reads the same Musk…
It's not about productivity at all. These same companies were commissioning studies during Covid that told their analysts "look how productive our employees are now that they are working from home!" It's about crushing…
I would call that having health insurance and a place to stay when things go south 9 times in a row.
I have always wondered how we can reconcile that things "are" objectively so great and yet "seem" subjectively so bad. In my experience both online and off, there is a pessimism about work, poverty, and basic security…
It does take time. But I would put it up in the trifecta of Most Important Things a person can do. Everyone says exercise makes you happier, but I will take it a step further: it fulfills a fundamental need for a person…
Someone will have them. Who do you want it to be?
I am American, and I hear this from Americans all the time. The reality is far different, though. Does the Russian military perform more humanely in war than the US military? I don't think so. Would the Chinese? Things…
What is the solution? I would rather have automated drone armies in the hands of the US government than anyone else. The same could be said of the atomic bomb. A weapon made purely for mass scale indiscriminate…
He has a point though. The author chose lawyers as a comparison point. Why? Manual laborers work long hours. People with two or three part time retail jobs work long hours. Lawyers have a different set of qualifications…
Artstyle is far far more important than graphical capability. A game like Team Fortress 2, released in 2007 (!) looks so much better than many modern games because there is a coherence and style to the art. It's not…
I think it's the natural depression that eroded where the water first comes off the top half of the chute.
That would assume that the number of people buying domestic wouldn't just shrink in proportion to the tariff, because they can't afford goods anymore. And also perhaps in addition, because their company cannot pay them…
this would separate the wheat from the chaff with regards to special interest groups.
Best thing I've read about the news: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews I read monthlys now. Only sometimes I can't resist checking the daily (or instant) news.
If you thought eliminating interference in the taxicab market was difficult...
Not when they decide to drive themselves and their kids on the freeway every workday.
It was going to happen regardless, but it makes me deeply cynical to see this infrastructure going up in the folksy tone of "neighborhood safety." I guess to justify erecting yet another component of the massive…
Singapore. I didn't even mention first class, because I forgot about it -- they boarded the plane from a separate walkway/door to be insulated from the peasantry. I think they have individual beds/cabins.