The family behind LIDL is the richest in Germany…
I shop at LiDL here in the US. It's interesting that they're doing so well when they have much lower prices and pay their employees better than other grocery stores in the area, yet these other stores claim to be barely scraping by or even losing money.
Hire people to create the illusion of growth, fire them to create the illusion that you know what you're doing. The cycle of life!
reporting from Bloomberg on April 1
Um ...
I've long said that the more people you add to a software project, the longer it will take and the worse the final product will be. Your scenario describes one of the many reasons why this is the case.
Not many people know that "Baba Yaga" is the real name of the song, not "Teenage Wasteland".
Mine was $300 (a '76 Rabbit) and a couple of weeks later I got rear-ended and his insurance company totaled my car and gave me a $700 check. The car wasn't any worse than before I got hit and I drove it another three years, so -$400 for three years of car.
No way in hell I could buy a new car. They cost more than my house.
Hire a bunch of people to create the illusion of growth. Fire a bunch of people to create the illusion of ruthless efficiency. Rinse and repeat.
I had a coworker who got stopped for DUI at 3 AM and blew a .032. Somehow she was allowed to go home and was at work at 6:30 that same morning. Unremarkable except I'm a school bus driver, so she was driving kids three and a half hours after blowing a .032.
She was suspended and after two weeks she was allowed to resign, so she is presumably still driving kids somewhere else. The reason for this is we're unionized (Teamsters) and she was the shop steward, which made firing her very difficult. I've very pro-union but GOD DAMN there are some aspects to unions that just fucking suck.
My first brand-new car was a '90 Nissan Sentra, back when Sentras were the absolute bottom of Nissan's product line. It had AC but the car basically couldn't accelerate with it on unless I was going downhill. Unfortunately I lived in Florida (no hills) so I drove around with no AC. In Florida. This was bad enough but also the windows were hand-cranked so I just left them down all the time. That car was a soggy mess and I kept getting shit stolen.
There's a guy in my town who keeps a herd of goats and rents them out for brush clearance. I assume his neighbors hate it but there seems to be nothing they can do about it. I've been meaning to ask him if he sells goat meat.
I've been feeding my local crows unsalted shelled peanuts for more than five years. They know me and fly into the tree above my driveway and caw when they see me. They're still not at all comfortable around me and won't come down for the nuts until I go back inside. They've never given me any kind of gift unless you count the bird shit on my car.
They're like a Marvel movie in terms of power comparison. If a hawk shows up, they will chase it away. Meanwhile, a single bluejay a tenth their size will chase off five crows by itself. And the crows will just stand there glumly watching a squirrel eat all their peanuts.