I'll sign it without hesitation. Non-competes are illegal in my jurisdiction, and illegal clauses in contracts are void.
Startups around here get hoovered up including the former owners as "consultants". Basically that means you get money for doing nothing, at least as long as you don't try to start a competitor because guess what "consultation" is no longer needed should you try that...
C'mon. Please. When has the free market ever tied the hands of corporations? If that ever happens (and yes, there is indeed that nonzero chance that we're heading into an employer market, at least in some fields), rest assured that the game will be rigged some more in your disadvantage.
The only reason that corporations were fine with government letting "the market" sort it out was that until now, they had you by the balls. Let's wait what's gonna happen should this change.
Here's the thing, though: I am needed. But unfortunately, I'm one of the few.
But that's besides the point. What matters is that the replacement rate of young people vs. old people is only at about 80%. And that's not gonna change in the near future. For every 5 people leaving the workforce, only 4 will join it. Save immigration, of course, but let's face it, you only need so many goat-herders...
And that's the point. It's not just the burger flippers and shelf stockers that retire. It's also the researchers and doctors, the finance gurus and the engineers. Yes, there has never been a shortage of unskilled idiots. And that shortage sure isn't in any danger of growing, considering that the bar to enter the workforce sure rises yet again with AI taking over more and more unskilled jobs. So I don't fear for the low level jobs that they may go unfilled.
What I fear is that high level, senior positions will be hard to fill. For two reasons: First, the aforementioned 80% replacement rate. But even with 100% replacement rate, if we replace our juniors with AI, where should they get the experience to become those hard to find and highly sought seniors?
How about this one?
You don't consider it serious that you're essentially indentured servants of corporations and that they can easily circumvent due process and force you into settling on their terms?
O... kay...
Yeah, there's a lot of lamenting, but face it, it's tantamount to complaining that the Beef Wellington isn't exactly medium on point where everyone around you is starving to death.
Compared to the problems you face, we're actually, I hate to say it, pretty well off.
You are aware that the replacement rate of young people is not up to what it used to be, yes? For every 5 people you fire, you can only hire 4 new ones.
"who the fuck is the UN to tell ANY sovereign power what to do, much less occupy any country?"
Good point. They should not have founded the nation of Israel in the partition of Palestine in the first place.
So you're saying the British shouldn't have given that territory up, after all we fought to take it from the Ottoman empire (mostly using Arabian or commonwealth soldiers).
But now that they have, there is a moral obligation to address the problem of Israel perpetrating a holocaust against Palestine.
You are happy with a status quo which involves the torture and murder of Muslims, so you don't want anything done. Just admit that so we can move on without you.
If you're happy parroting terrorist propaganda. That means you support the rape and murder of pretty much everyone who HAMAS holds as an enemy and I hate to break it to you, that means your (and my) western arses as well.
If you're done with HAMAS' talking points, the UN isn't a world government, so it can't tell individual states what to do. This goes the same for Tuvalu as it does for China and the US. They get to make recommendations but beyond that, the UN needs to do what it's meant to... Be a platform for negotiation. One thing a lot of people never get about something like the UN is that it isn't a mono cultural beast with a single overriding will. It's a huge bureaucracy and has a lot of different departments with different purposes, goals, ideas and conflicts. People think of it as a thousand hands guided by a single head where it's really the other way around, a thousand heads trying to guide a hand.
Everybody seems to think we want to have virtual meetings with these things when half of the folks don't even bother putting an avatar photo into their Teams profile, let alone turn the camera on or desire better camera interfaces.
The greatest benefit of remote meetings is not having to look at one another. The only people that want to ruin that are people that live to have meetings, and don't really see them as a function of the job.
I thought the greatest benefit of remote meetings was the ability to put yourself on mute and then get on with some actual work/play on your phone/zone out whilst Gerard from presales drones on about something that has zero relevance.
I expect Nissan USA has quite different conditions than Nissan Europe.
Different software, even different cars.
Nissan is also, not that popular in Europe. Especially since they got rid of their decent cars like the Lancer EVO and just started selling hideous SUVs like the Juke. Europe makes it's own hideous cars (see: Fiat Multipla). Pretty sure the Juke isn't even sold in the US.
The issue is with the strategy. Its to remain at the high end and charge a premium. Its worked very well so far, but the problem is that the size of that segment tends to reduce in most markets over time as the low end suppliers catch up on features at far lower prices. In effect your price premium gives them a safe area where they can raise their game.
This happened to Apple in the PC market, its happened in the tablet market, it happened in the music player market. They have been able to draw the process out in the phone market by trading on linking different products together, the ecosystem strategy. But it delays rather than stops the process.
The first indicator is slowing sales growth. To be followed by real falls in sales. At that point you either tackle the problem head on, become competitive at lower prices, which is where the market is now. You retreat to the niche and forget growth. Or you find a new market, like for instance VR headsets. But that seems not to be going all that well.
To everything there is a season, and this is a season to sell the shares.
The fact is, in most places in the world Apple has become passe. Being popular is a fickle mistress. It seems to have happened first in Asian countries as Apples support of non-English language is second rate at best, even supporting En_UK properly is a bit beyond them and it gets worse the further away from English you get.
However it's at the point where no-one cares what phone you have so you may as well get a phone on criteria other than brand and primarily that comes down to price, specifically what the monthly payment is to your telco. Secondary to that are people who want specific features and the high end Android market here is very, very competitive.
Zooms to annoying looking kid "whats an Apple"... welcome to the post Apple world.
It's texas. They moved from California to Texas so that they could get away from the regulations that required them to treat employees well when they fired them in Mass.
If they're moving to Tennessee it's probably just a tax Dodge. Texas has notoriously high taxes and they've probably started to shake down Oracle. The governor is spending literally billions of dollars showboating on the southern border and that money has to come from somewhere since it's not coming from the federal government... Seriously look it up they've spent something like 6 billion dollars mobilizing the national guard. You could take every single migrant for the next 20 years and pay him $50,000 a year to sit on their thumbs and you'd come out ahead
And this is how the "low tax state" bears fruit. It's a race to the bottom and there will always be a lower tax state willing to ignore the abuse of it's people in exchange for "winning" business by effectively giving them taxpayer money. The whole thing isn't sustainable.
What you want is a place where good workers want to live with an environment conducive to business (I.E. as few barriers as possible to maintain a competitive, fair and non abusive market).
When I try something new, days whizz past even faster.
Yep, doing the same thing, day in, day out, over and over and over again seems to make the days drag on and on.
What was that thing about the definition of insanity?
In a red state, the money would just be embezzled and then some semblance of the project is realized, preferably in a way that nobody can or would ever use, so nobody notices it's unusable.
You have to drive them horizontally. Not vertically.
Of course you're breaking ground if you slam a high speed train right into it. Jeesh.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
