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FilthyImp posted:Matt (formerly of X-Entertainment, current DinoDraculord) puts together a lootbox that's really just totally useless poo poo from your childhood. That's hilarious. I still Google the hungry man breakfast review from time to time.
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I was staying with a friend in Texas and it was several miles past seeing the Texas Instruments HQ that I was like "oh duh the calculator oligarchs" Never underestimate people being dumb and uninformed.
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Hands up who saw this coming when GE did all their fancy pivots a few years ago?
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Hands up who saw this coming when GE did all their fancy pivots a few years ago? This predates all of that. GE's been trying to get out from under their horrible finance arm for more than a decade now. I think they pretty much got out of most of those lending markets, but they can't offload their stupid insurance policies like they can bad credit card debt.
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just ask tcc
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So we just need to have everyone at GE try LSD, got it.
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Volcott posted:So we just need to have everyone at GE try LSD, got it.
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https://twitter.com/communalsauce/status/1162233507969507332 except the dollar coin is a skeleton
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i don't know, man. GE in a press release said "Nuh uhhh!"
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:https://twitter.com/communalsauce/status/1162233507969507332 da mf sh0rt z0ne
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Croatoan posted:i don't know, man. GE in a press release said "Nuh uhhh!" This is where it gets interesting. If what the whistleblower is saying is true I don’t think GE’s management can publicly say otherwise. They can use doublespeak and defer answers, but if they lie then they’ll get the Enron treatment. And Enron happened before they tightened the rules on what executives are responsible for. I guess they can always claim ignorance. But they’re always a memo somewhere.
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Krispy Wafer posted:This is where it gets interesting. If what the whistleblower is saying is true I don’t think GE’s management can publicly say otherwise. They can use doublespeak and defer answers, but if they lie then they’ll get the Enron treatment. And Enron happened before they tightened the rules on what executives are responsible for. There's also a certain point where claiming ignorance is admitting willful and deliberate negligence.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:There's also a certain point where claiming ignorance is admitting willful and deliberate negligence. Dodd-Frank was supposed to make it illegal to act dumb. I have no idea if that law still has any teeth after Congress rolled back some of it's provisions, but if you sign off on those financials you're saying they're correct. I always liked GE and it's going to suck if they go under, but they've been doing it to themselves for about 20 years now.
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I get the feeling that incurring the full penalty of the laws created in the wake of Enron isn't gonna happen under this administration.
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Ya think
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Krispy Wafer posted:Dodd-Frank was supposed to make it illegal to act dumb what if you actually are dumb tho
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:what if you actually are dumb tho I’m calling the police.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:what if you actually are dumb tho Have you ever considered running GameStop?
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Krispy Wafer posted:Have you ever considered running
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Krispy Wafer posted:I always liked GE... ... How? I'm baffled anyone could have an opinion on a conglomerate whose unofficial slogan is 'Beige, Personified'. A company you only ever hear about when poo poo goes bad. A company whose biggest penetration into the cultural zeitgeist was as a repeated punchline on 30 Rock. And the joke was almost always, 'Up to some evil poo poo' or 'excessively lame'.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:... How? I liked their appliances, I always found the 30 Rock jokes pretty funny, and I have a thing for turbines.
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I really hope they don't go under, if only because they employ a shitload of people near where I live.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:... How? That's totally unfair, becaus-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ueDHn2HTk 
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Had a bad morning and thought I'd hit Fry's to get a part I needed and Holy. loving. poo poo. It is not long for the world. Aside from crazy Tv prices (Samsung 55+" Tvs at $350), the place looked like it had gone through Black Friday and hadn't received a restock. Shelf space greatly scaled back. CD's were a corner or an aisle and all weird mishmash of titles. Actual physical stock wasn't on display for Motherboards. There were like 6 Graphics Cards on an empty shelf. The home domestics corner with fridges and poo poo was near empty. Employees were still helpful thankfully. Goddamn heartbreaking.
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Retail Archaeology, a Youtube channel specializing in dying retail stores, posted a video on Fry's today. It pretty much showed what you described: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8bEcgJRShw According to the video there's a rumor going around that they're planning to go out of business after the Christmas shopping season, and are effectively doing an undeclared liquidation sale right now.
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Hmm, I live right by the San Diego Fry's. I'll pop in there today and see how it looks. It's oversized even for a Fry's, so if their stock is dwindling, it'll be pretty obvious. It seemed fine the last time I was there a few months ago, so if it has changed it'll have been really rapid.
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When retailers start their death spiral things move pretty quickly. No one wants to ship product on credit and it's not like a struggling company can pay cash upfront. Maybe that's partly why everything looks so empty. The only stuff Fry's can stock are products they can pay in advance for and they're only going to pay for stuff they know will sell quickly.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Hmm, I live right by the San Diego Fry's. I'll pop in there today and see how it looks. It's oversized even for a Fry's, so if their stock is dwindling, it'll be pretty obvious. It seemed fine the last time I was there a few months ago, so if it has changed it'll have been really rapid. Any ATL goons know how the Fry's in Milton or Duluth are doing? I didn't have time to go out to either one the last time I was in the city. I remember being awestruck at how huge that place was the first time I ever set foot in one.
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Mr.Radar posted:Retail Archaeology, a Youtube channel specializing in dying retail stores, posted a video on Fry's today. It pretty much showed what you described: These are pretty good. I go to the Tempe one because it's closer but the Phoenix one is so nice and it's a shame its days are numbered and it will probably end up a mattress store.
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The Phoenix one is my Fry's. I go there at least once or twice a month these days. I must have been there two weeks before RA posted that video, and while it looked bad, it did not look that bad when I went. I just hope it doesn't go before GameStop.
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I dunno if anyone here is a Game Informer fan, but there's layoffs going on there. I dunno how to embed tweets so whatever https://twitter.com/SurielVazquez/status/1163866023105183744?s=09 There's a couple more staff confirmed with even more possible it sounds like. Rumor has it this is a GameStop decision, which sucks rear end. Edit: more people have been axed, one while on vacation, another while on the job in Germany  , and editor in Chief Andy McNamara is vague posting on Twitter. Is this how companies get shuttered?
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FilthyImp posted:Aside from crazy Tv prices (Samsung 55+" Tvs at $350), I just realized I've never bought a new TV. Is this price crazy because it's low or high?
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AvesPKS posted:I just realized I've never bought a new TV. Is this price crazy because it's low or high? Extremely low. Just a few years ago 55" TVs, of any kind, were multiple thousands. I remember 32" flat screen computer monitors costing $800.
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anonumos posted:Extremely low. Just a few years ago 55" TVs, of any kind, were multiple thousands. I remember 32" flat screen computer monitors costing $800. It's not too crazy. I bought a 65" 4k smart TV from Target last fall and it was about 500$. As someone who was born in the 80s and lived through big screen CRTs being thousands of dollars, they are getting stupid cheap.
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AvesPKS posted:I just realized I've never bought a new TV. Is this price crazy because it's low or high? It's not one of those weird Walmart "75" TV for $50" glitchsales but it's really affordable for the pricepoint.
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oh dope posted:I dunno if anyone here is a Game Informer fan, but there's layoffs going on there. I dunno how to embed tweets so whatever Welcome to how businesses get wound down in the US.
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I guess GameStop laid off like 120 people and a lot of that was with Game Informer which makes sense
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In America the only responsibility of company has its to its shareholders so it's actually better and more responsible for them to just fire all their employees with no notice, since they don't owe any loyalty whatsoever to their employees and the employees cost their shareholders money by demanding things like wages
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