Vanth

joined 1 year ago
[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Sleep in, a leisurely breakfast, a drive out and maybe a hike to see the leaves changing, some chill time listening to music in my comfy chair, a nap that may turn into canoodling depending on how we're both feeling, toodle around with some hobby projects, out to pub trivia or live music with friends. Same sort of thing I do most weekends, minus any bills or housework.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Excuse me, sir/ma'am. This wasn't a grammar dispute, you have no jurisdiction. Am I being detained?

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I agree it gets very boring when you are too careless to accurately articulate your views. Good luck!

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
  1. What's going on with overpaid CEOs and underpaid workers is not nepotism

  2. cheating means breaking of rules, and they're not

You can argue that we should change rules to disincentivize some of the behaviors we're seeing and to make them "cheating". And I would't argue against you if we could somehow make those improvements. But if you're framing "cheating" as against yours or my personal moral framework instead of law, that is not something you can expect everyone to agree with you on.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 15 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Which is the way it's designed to work, so not cheating.

Also, the definition of nepotism involves favoring relatives. I get what you mean, but it's not quite accurate. There's certainly favoritism going on, just not between relatives generally.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 27 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Define cheating. I doubt many CEOs would consider anything they've done to get to the position they are as "cheating".

To "cheat", one must break the rules. And the rules have been designed to not only allow for but encourage current behavior.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

I subscribe to the digital stream of radio stations through my podcast app. WFUV out of New York City, WXRV out of I don't know where, some random station out of Sydney, Australia I stumbled on that has an EDM DJ on at the same time I'm waking up on the weekends.

I also have Spotify, but I tend to get better recommendations from real human DJs at radio stations.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Compared to most people in my IRL, yes. Compared to lots of people on Lemmy who work in industry or are much more serious hobbyists than me, no.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 16 points 3 weeks ago

Well, it is public knowledge that layoffs and furloughs are happening, so sadly, you're not wrong.

And they somehow enticed Kelly Ortberg out of retirement to take over as CEO. There's the hella juicy c-suite compensation package you talked about. He was already riding golden after he maneuvered that Rockwell Collins sale/merger/whatever.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Like many others on here, only to search for some specific information. And never logged in to an account anymore.

I miss sports game threads. The Lemmy communities are just not taking off enough for me. I am tempted to open up a reddit account for talking shit in game threads only.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That wasn't your question though. If a technical jerboa question is what you intended to ask, about 90% of your post didn't need to be included and the question in the title needed to be very different.

As to your edit, I would not recommend PM'ing the user directly; that may be very unwelcome and further breach rules of that community. Personally, I would have asked the mods for a chance to edit my comment and apologize publicly. But with previous history of your self-described "psychosis", if I were the mod I would be skeptical of your motivations.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For a short time I had the pleasure of working with a small site that treated the union as a partner and not an adversary. On the company side, it was an EH&S manager, not even the EH&S lead, who led annual negotiations with the union. There were disagreements and compromises, but both sides walked away every year feeling benefitted and ready to collaborate for another year.

Well, Corporate can do better than that. They sent in HR to run things this year. Everything is an aggressive conflict. EH&S dude was immediately recruited to a company down the road and left. Cue HR's surprised Pikachu face when all goodwill with the union disappeared overnight and the union is just as ready to play hardball.

I am glad I got to see one example of a company and union working together for mutual benefit. I think there will be vanishingly few situations like this throughout the rest of my career

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