Radical posted:

i work at amd and can confirm the whole situation would get retarded if this company went under

edit: as i wrote that someone who works at blackberry messaged me saying half their team got laid off

vyst posted:

Id love to creampie surprise marissa mayer

John Denver Hoxha posted:

as cool as HD and perfect clarity is, not every movie needs or uses it... in some weird way the way colors smear out and a little bit of warpiness and glitches from video aging is kind of cool (so pretty much the same as why I like records)

Dr. Capco posted:

I still use my zune hd at the gym and it owns. Gonna use that fucker until it dies.

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:

This will make me unpopular but the handful of executives I've encountered in a work environment were nonstop busy...like come into the office on Sundays busy. Busy enough to justify their salary? Probably not but it left me w respect for their work ethic

Uncle Enzo posted:

Leo Apotheker (as CEO of HP for less than one year):


The personal computer division? Yeah that had netted something like 4 billion dollars the previous year- not gross, net profit. It also gave them crazy deals with suppliers, which they then leveraged to make their high-end servers, which were even more profitable. He proposed selling off a massively profitable, crucial part of the company because ...??

The dude got paid 1.3 million dollars a month to lose the company billions, then waltzed off to go sit on boards and advisory whatevers.

BgRdMchne posted:

Sears and K-Mart:
http://beluscapitaladvisors.com/2013/11/04/tragic-death-kmart-happening-right-front-eyes/

Nonsense posted:

My grandpa got very militant when he found out he couldn't buy Windows XP machines anymore

FishionMailed posted:

Last night I got on my gf's Windows 10 PC and hit the Start button and said 'hey where's the search box?' and she said 'idk there isn't one you gotta just open File Explorer and search from there.'

That alone makes Windows 10 retarded as gently caress. And even if there is a search box somewhere and my gf just missed it, then it's stupid that they made it so obfuscated (which is their favorite pastime wrt the control panel settings so maybe that's intentional).


ayup. idiot people think companies just have 'extra' labor costs they can cut. poo poo's already cut as much as possible; domino's doesn't have an extra employee on Thursday nights for shits and giggles.


because the boards are usually made up of shareholders who like the short term profits, too. pump the company's figures until the share price is ballooned, sell, watch as it collapses, acquire shares, fire the CEO, repeat until it finally collapses.

Professor Shark posted:

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

Depends on what you're willing to do to sustain it. If you're okay with reducing the working class to effective serfdom, fighting tooth and nail over jobs that will provide them a meager sustenance only barely capable of keeping themselves and their families alive in a Holodomor-like hellscape, then pretty much forever.

Y-Hat posted:

it's the root of why income inequality is so high, and we're seeing so many people in low-wage jobs from ones that paid more money that they're not using as much money on consumer goods as much as they were a decade ago. it's definitely bad for the economy in the long term (and we're arguably seeing the effects of it now), but most companies don't give a poo poo about that unless it affects their quarterly report

in other words: it's not very sustainable at all, especially since this practice has been going on unabated for more than 30 years

naem posted:

There used to be this thing where you go outside of your house/apt and do stuff on purpose instead of tapping your phone and boxes show up at your house

Several businesses catered to this trend to create a pleasant atmosphere as part of their sales strategy, one could spend ones leisure sipping coffee and reading while shopping (leisure was a period of deliberate non-labor undertaken for pleasure that was once granted by employers)

Roger Craig posted:

Video compression company Pied Piper was recently busted for fake new users for their platform and was sold by Raviga for pennies on the dollar. I doubt they'll be able to survive much longer.

canyoneer posted:

At the department store I worked at in college, some of the old timer managers would tell a story about one of their colleagues who chased these two shoplifters out to the parking structure.
They had secret codes they'd announce over the PA system for the managers to report to a certain area to assist with shoplifters, and this one manager never used to go. She told me the story of the guy who chased the shoplifters out to the garage.

He got accidentally ran over and killed by the getaway car (driven by one of the shoplifter's girlfriends), over a $200 pair of sunglasses.

Professor Shark posted:

Or just eat the rich when there's no more cake left or ehatever

I misspelled "whatever" because I'm terrible typing on my phone, but I've decided that "eh-atever" is a good word