Quote-Unquote posted:

edit: while working at GAME, one Christmas they had this great reward scheme for staff. For every (admittedly crappy) own brand £10 PS2 pad you sold, you got an extra quid in your pay. Sales went through the goddamn roof. Now these pads cost the company less than £1 to make, so it was still massive margin for them.

After the Christmas period was over, they put the price of the pads up to £15, removed the £1 staff incentive bonus, and told everyone that if their attachment rate of own brand pads to games and consoles dropped they'd face disciplinary action, since it was obvious that we could sell that many if we tried.

Sales absolutely plummeted and loads of staff quit.

BloodBag posted:

I do electron beam welding so everything I do is done under a vacuum to protect the beam as well as eliminate oxidation.

BigDave posted:

Les Wexner, yeah. He's the only client of Epstein's they have been able to verify, and the two of them have been very close. Epstein almost certainly has video of him loving children

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Yeah, there's no loving way that was actually veal.

CitizenKain posted:

Solo just had the misfortune of coming out right after everyone saw Infinity War and Deadpool 2. It was also only a few months since TLJ. Not to mention all the per-release press on the movie was grim.
If they had pushed the movie back to December I bet it would have done fine.

Krispy Wafer posted:

The problem with Rogue One is the ending is so magnificent that I have no interest in watching the rest of it. I'll just put on that Hammerhead Corvette ramming the Star Destroyer and watch from there.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I still can't get the image of a kid frantically trying to get a flaming infinity gauntlet oven mitt off his hand, running around screaming because he just wanted to help mom with dinner.

Moon Slayer posted:

If they didn't want to be laid off they should have worked harder and gone to management and said "hey you're paying us too much and giving us too many benefits, yes I'll be happy to work unpaid overtime." Management cannot fail, it can only be failed.

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

THE EASIEST WAY TO SOLVE HOMELESSNESS IS TO GIVE UNHOMED PEOPLE HOMES

(check out "housing first" programs for citations.)

confiscate the investment properties, airbnbs, vacation homes, and vacant condos and give them to people who don't have homes

YggiDee posted:

Apparently they do... Mail-order invisible braces? You send them a 3D mold of your teeth and they have an Orthodontist look at it and they mail back braces. So it's either a clever way to disrupt the comically overpriced and corrupt US medical industry, or its yet another startup scam targeting vulnerable folks who can't afford dental plans.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

That or if their tech skills and English are good enough they're on their way to moving to America anyway. From what I've heard India in particular also has a massively growing tech sector. Even where I am in America I can't go anywhere tech-related without tripping over Indians constantly.


That only works in the short term and I feel like that's what some companies are actually finding. If you frustrate your customer until they quit trying to get you to fix the problem they're going to remember that the next time they buy something. Yeah they can just not give a poo poo if they're a monopoly but there's even limits to that; when I moved away from a place where my options were "Comcast or lol gently caress you" I actively looked for places that had other options. On top of that people remember those things whenever the company rolls around trying to sell them something. Once people hate a particular company they'll jump away from it the first opportunity to get. Obviously this is part of why companies love forming monopolies. Can't go to the competition if there isn't any.

totalnewbie posted:

When poo poo gets unfucked...

Ofecks posted:

Is branch banking becoming scarce in rural areas as well?

Biplane posted:

American banking was one of the bigger shocks as a european coming to live there. Actual physical paychecks, practically non-existent online banking and transfers taking days. Here I can instantly transfer money or pay bills, with no fees attached, online on my phone.

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

. (Although there might have been a tacit understanding that otherwise the EC might simply just have dictated one.)

Dannywilson posted:

Also add in what happened to WA when they legalized, poo poo started out at like $25/g because it was following black market pricing+tax, and is now less than $7/g because the market stabilized.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Keeping office drones happy isn't all that difficult, I think. My guess is probably a few changes. First thing is to make things less loving soulless. Offices are just so bleak. Let the drones actually decorate the drat place. Next if they get their poo poo done early let them go home a bit early instead of forcing them to sit in a box and pretend to work. If they get their work done in half the time you expected then give them a drat raise and find them other things to do. Then stop it with the MANDATORY CORPORATE FUN DAY bullshit. It's always the most boring, inoffensive crap that almost nobody actually likes. Alternatively let the people participating in the activities choose. Maybe get multiple potential options together and let people pick which ones they want. Most assuredly never schedule that poo poo on Saturday. Let them work from home more. Actually reward people who accomplish exceptional things. Leave them the gently caress alone on the weekend unless it's an emergency. Last thing you do is get rid of the politicking busy bodies that have nothing better to do than lord whatever tiny sliver of power they can get over everybody else, actively look for any excuse to complain about inconsequential crap, and actively avoid doing any actual work. Those people are organizational cancer.

Now give me a billion dollars, tia.

mind the walrus posted:

Chick Fil A is still in business, and when called out on their terrible poo poo they go "Ok. We also make bomb-rear end chicken. Do you want some chicken?" and the overwhelming majority of their customers go "Yes, also, we too agree that abortion is murder, gays are icky, and Jesus is Lord."

Glenn Quebec posted:

Lmao, fine the joke sucked but why are you guys so hot and bothered by people clearly bullshitting about Chick-fil-A on the forums?

Glenn Quebec posted:

This poo poo is unjust gently caress this weird dog pile. Don't say homophobic slurs and justify your Sturm und drang citing it's "authentic passion" or whatever

Ghost Leviathan posted:

This is what happens when you don't pay up on Tuesday.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

https://twitter.com/isosteph/status/1192166184763871232

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Uncle Lloyd posted:

They stumbled into a spectacular amount of money by investing early in Alibaba.

OMGVBFLOL posted:

what baffles me is how best buy is afloat with the sharp decline in physical media. are they the one chain surviving on high dollar durable goods?

Biplane posted:

For anyone wondering Norway has steadily moved towards the american model of society due to our hardcore capitalist governments over the last couple of decades. Austerity! Brown people bad! Tax cuts for billionaires (that are paid for by increasing taxes for poor people) good!

rotinaj posted:

I have been wondering this for a while

How many thousands of people would become instantly unemployed from their jobs at health insurance companies? And not just some dickhead whose job is to deny old ladies their coverage, but mailroom clerks and accountants and secretaries and people whose job is just to do paperwork. If universal healthcare passes, that eliminates the purpose for a lot of the private companies, and will mean massive layoffs if not shuttering of companies, right? Sure, those people can get jobs in new places, but that's still a lot of people entering the job market all at once. Not a great situation, as far as I see

mind the walrus posted:

You would think conservatives would be all over the way reform would inevitably screw over a percentage of workers and patients. They love knowing there are winners and losers.

OMGVBFLOL posted:

companies that should have no trouble attracting investors

Detective No. 27 posted:

Check out that icon in the upper right corner.

FlamingLiberal posted:

I was surprised to see that Circuit City has an actual site but it's very bare-bones. I guess if I ever need $64 HDMI cables I know where to look

quote:

Our Story

We know the name Circuit City comes with a long history of tech innovation, dating back to the late 1940’s, and we intertwine this deep rooted knowledge and know-how into our modern shopping experience. We believe in making the first move, encouraging gusto, and disrupting the way that technology and commerce connect.

Our personalized shopping platform is designed to give you the one-on-one customized experience you would get as if you had a personal shopping assistant by your side. We’re extremely proud to have such a reputable brand name to work under and we don’t take this responsibility lightly. And while we’re outrageously loyal to the prestige of this strong brand name, we also acknowledge that fun and exploration are essentially to maintaining any long-lasting, modern, and forward-thinking brand identity.

Ofecks posted:

I bought the first DVD volume of this waybackwhen because the anime people told me it's essentially Xenogears (or the other way around?), a PS1 RPG with mechs/religious overtones which I enjoyed. I liked the DVD but have never explored the series further. Is there a subtitled version on Netflix? I do not like dubbed anime at all.

Reading the news lately about the ex-Nissan CEO being wanted internationally for more shady business stuff... does this sort of thing happen in Japan often? It's kinda surprising to hear due my own (mis)perceptions about their play-by-the-rules culture.

WITCHCRAFT posted:

I remember thinking it was SO COOL and SO CRAZY that there was a Little Caesar's inside the KMart when I was a kid. I only ever got to eat there once, despite badgering my mom every single time we shopped there. It was just the same Little Caesar's pizza you could get anywhere else, but it felt like the biggest treat in the world to get to eat that IN A KMART after shopping for school clothes.

As an adult, I was shopping at BJs and they had a no-name concession stand at the checkout with pizza and hotdogs. I remembered how loving excited I was over $2 of pizza as a kid, and let my son get pizza and we sat at the little "food court" area.

The next time we went, the "food court" area was closed "for renovations." It remained closed for almost a year and now it's just empty polished cement floor next to the shopping cart return. Nothing there. My son was devastated. And I understood entirely.