It is technically because you never see it AT all. There fore free.
But if you’d opted out or whatever you would have seen that money. Therefore the food was not free.
It is technically because you never see it AT all. There fore free.
You don't opt out.But if you’d opted out or whatever you would have seen that money. Therefore the food was not free.
If you're in the barracks, you don't get to opt out of that.But if you’d opted out or whatever you would have seen that money. Therefore the food was not free.
I work for an engineering firm. He're the free meals we get:I work at a arcade with a bar and grill the best I get is a discount. (Which is par for the course) for these kids I'ma play the world's smallest violin.
Edit: people have paid for my meal's before but that's not standard issue.
I'd rather get paid more than have "free" food provided by the company, because then I am sure I will be getting food I like and will for sure eat. Plus, just on general principal.
In any case, I think this whole "blue check mark" thing is clearly a huge misstep by Musk. He was probably not wrong that Twitter needs a "premium account" revenue stream, but entangling premium accounts with verified accounts was a complete self-own. Especially when he then got super mad about account impersonation -- dude, the ENTIRE POINT of account verification was to cut down on that some, what did you think was going to happen when you let people buy verification status without actually being verified?
No; but neither is there a rule that says they have to. Particularly when company is unprofitable, and the employees spend more of their time on the clock being activists than doing their jobs.Is there some rule you imagine that jobs *can't* provide quality of life anemities as part of what draws people to work there? Keep in mind that the big tech workplaces *are* large campuses on par with any college, and that these are not things provided out of "charity", but cold-blooded calculation that they're able to attract and retain better talent, push them harder, and get more out of them by providing such.
Isn't that some kind of crime? Like, pinning a crime on an innocent party?
Called it.
Didn't take long for the left to go from "it's a private platform" to "government must control it," once Musk bought it.
Yet there is another aspect of the Musk takeover that has little to do with free speech or even ideology—although it has a great deal to do with the class interests of Big Tech censors. As a recession looms, Silicon Valley is shedding the non-essential workers it acquired when unlimited venture funding made turning a profit an afterthought. Musk happens to have taken the helm at Twitter just as this reality is asserting itself. In this sense, the revolt against his leadership is the last stand of a cohort of activist hangers-on who are about to find themselves unemployed.
Musk paid $44 billion to acquire Twitter, and all indications are that the platform isn’t worth anything close to that. Once he got access to the company’s finances, the Tesla boss realized it was losing millions of dollars every day, and that many of its employees weren’t doing much work at all. So he proceeded to do what most executives would do in this situation: He laid off some of his workers.
“Tech companies ran off the cliff long ago.”
The abrupt firing of thousands of employees solicited a new wave of outrage from Musk’s haters. But even if you remove him from the equation, Twitter couldn’t have gone much longer without massive layoffs. The same thing is happening across Silicon Valley. Last week, the online-payments company Stripe announced it would cut 14 percent of its workforce, as did the rideshare giant Lyft; Facebook parent company Meta looks poised to do the same. Like Wile E. Coyote, tech companies ran off the cliff long ago; only now is economic gravity starting to assert itself.
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In short, Musk taking the axe to the Twatter ''workforce'' is but a symptom of the coming times. In times of endless credit the social media companies were a safe depository for spoiled brats of professional managerial class (PMC), with their useless diplomas. But endless credit is coming to an end and among the other measures, companies will seek to shed the useless hanger ons.