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  • I had a recruiter after me hard one time. They had a company they were trying to grow and had already plucked away a couple of guys from my team.

    He offered what he thought was an aggressive offer based on what the other guys said they were making.

    I asked about WFH, he said the company preferred people in the office to collaborate. This was my third time asking this, the first two times I told him this was a non-starter, and this offer was to try to go above and beyond that to sway me with dollar signs.

    I laid out the costs that were involved: commuting, car, gas, childcare, lunch, etc. and how his aggressive offer still had me coming up behind, and that’s before I even take into account time and comfort lost.

    He’s called back again twice, and it’s the same freaking question, “any movement on work from home?”

    We all know the answer.




  • Complaining about downvotes is a sure fire way to get more downvotes.

    But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the information you’re presenting, so much as the way you’re presenting it.

    There’s tons of emotion around news and facts these days and people just want it cut straight without the fat. Don’t tell us how to feel, or why we should feel that way, tell us what the facts are and we’re grown ups, we’ll put our big people clothes on and make up how we feel about it on our own.

    Any emotion you put into it is likely to undo any good points you may have made. There’s a time for that, this isn’t it.





  • I think this could have been smelled in the water for a long while. Tim Cook was trusted to steer the rudder but his specialty is supply chain management, and I don’t think anyone can say he’s done a bad job.

    But. On the R&D side I don’t think people could say he’s done a great job.

    The ideas have dried up. When you go “safe” at CEO you make money, but you limit your ceiling, which, once again, with Apple is already breaking the mold.

    Consumer electronics is saturated. There is little to no breakthrough there anymore.

    Evolution is outside that, but outside that might not be in Tim Cook or Apple’s executive suite’s realm anymore.




  • That’s not how this works at all.

    There are plenty of ways to deal with this, and issue a death penalty to the corporation while not punishing the workers:

    • Forced turnover of executives and board members (with jail time and high % fines), corporate watchdog for x amount of years

    • Dissolve the mega-corp into smaller corporations, and/or force all subsidiaries into a planned disengagement from parent company

    • Bail-out in the form of state ownership by government buying majority stake

    In any of the above, or even in a complete mega-corp dissolution the demand doesn’t disappear. If you want to have the argument that these “oh so wonderful stewards of business” are the reason people have jobs in the first place, you can’t ignore that demand is the reason those very same executives have jobs too.

    If they tear it down, someone will build something else to replace it.