SARCASM

Just another of the free services I offer.

(sign behind the counter of my local pet store).

Another good one, is an urn behind the counter that is labeled "Ashes of Difficult Customers".

It's wild that when you give consumers a chance to consume legally without squeezing them like a grape, they respond by purchasing your product!

Who knew?

I happen to be a Senior Director and I'm constantly pushing back on my VP about turning the screws on the return to work thing.

There are undoubtedly some tasks that are better done in person, but a "one-size-fits-all" approach is just stupid.

In my own case, I got a lot MORE done when I was remote, because I mostly used my saved commute time to work. I also got more family time.

I was fitter, happier, and more productive.

No we are making people upset and lowering productivity. Managing is hard, but managing by seeing who is sitting in their chair is awful. If you can't manage people on their objectives, then we have no business being a manager.

This is totally disingenuous. There was a mix of Democrats and Republicans on the board along with a lot of CEOs who lean heavily conservative (even though they sometimes go along with performative progressive stuff if they think that is the way the wind is blowing).

Henry Kissinger, William Perry, Bill Frist, James Mattis, and Gary Roughhead? That's a Democrat political appointment group to you?

Some of her biggest investors were Rupert Murdoch, Betty De Vos, and Larry Ellison.

This was corruption and fraud. Not political.

Great, if our oligarchs can't compete fairly, let's criminalize the competition!

Yay for US innovation!

Broadcom doesn't care. The revenue they lose from companies leaving will be more than offset than the revenue they squeeze out of companies that can't so easily leave.

Broadcom knows that VMware doesn't have much of a moat anymore so Hock has decided it is time to kill the Golden Goose.

It's brutal but it will likely maximize Broadcom's return on their purchase of VMware.

Clearly Hock buys into the maxim that the only thing that matters is increasing shareholder value. No other stakeholders matter.

Is that the same Microsoft CEO who blew billions of dollars on the Metaverse?

I got laid off from a mid-level position in a Fortune 500 company during the Great Financial Crisis (my whole team was cut).

I got a generous severance package (5 months) if I signed a document that said that I couldn't disparage the company or sue for wrongful termination.

Interesting, I was technically still employed by them while I was receiving my severance. So, I was getting my salary but couldn't get unemployment. If I got a new job it stopped.

When I finally found a new job (it was tough back then!) I had them put off the starting date to almost exactly 5 months of my layoff, so I didn't skip a beat (and I was technically never unemployed).

Records have been kept since 1850. Please see:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202407#:~:text=The%20average%20temperature%20of%20the,in%20the%20130-year%20record.

This is the first time I've ever seen a product endorsement in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Indeed. Paying Rivian a fee for their mapping app and also giving them your privacy and data is much better.

It's like the local band scene when I was still playing back in the 2000s. There were a lot of shows where 80% of the audience were people in other bands in a similar genre.

Cat chasing its own tail.

I need to learn how to listen? You need to learn how to read:

SpaceX plans its first trip to the Red Planet in 2022, carrying only cargo, to be followed by a manned mission in 2024

You're assertion about unemployment doesn't agree with the facts. Look at the graphs of historical unemployment rate charts. It goes up and goes down and certainly doesn't support your claim that two world wars brought us back to "something resembling full employment".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_in_the_United_States

Musk predicted first manned landing on Mars in 2024.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/spacex-mars-rocket-elon-musk-1.4312878