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Comment It's evident that mgmt is running out of scapegoat (Score 5, Insightful) 480

by Lead Butthead (#50182285) Attached to: HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code

HP management is looking for scapegoat for their incompetence and has finally ran out of (other) scapegoats.

A sure sign of a company in trouble is when assholes at the top begins to blame people at the bottom for all the failings. I expect to see a lot of people shorting HP soon..

Submission + - Senator Ted Cruz believes that Kirk is a Republican while Picard is a Democrat (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: Republican presidential candidate and Trekker Ted Cruz claimed in an interview with The New York Times Magazine that "It is quite likely that Kirk is a Republican and Picard is a Democrat.”

Cruz also stated a strong preference for Kirk: "Let me do a little psychoanalysis. If you look at ‘‘Star Trek: The Next Generation,’’ it basically split James T. Kirk into two people. Picard was Kirk’s rational side, and William Riker was his passionate side. I prefer a complete captain. To be effective, you need both heart and mind."

William Shanter responded via Twitter: "Star Trek wasn't political. I'm not political; I can't even vote in the US. So to put a geocentric label on interstellar characters is silly"

Submission + - HP conversion to corporate hell complete as R&D dress code enforced. 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: HP was once known as a research ant technology giant, a company founded in a garage by a pair of engineers and dominated by researchers. Whilst a part of that lives on in Agilent any hope for the rest of the company has now died with the announcement that HP R&D will have to dress in business "smart casual" with T-shirts, baseball caps, short skirts, low cut dresses and sportsware all being banned.

Submission + - Olympic Organizer Wants to Feed Disabled Athletes Fukushima Produce (yahoo.co.jp)

Submitted by Grady Martin
Grady Martin writes: Toshiaki Endo, Japan's government-appointed parliament member in charge of planning for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has expressed hopes of supplying the Paralympic village with foods grown in Fukushima, stating, "Using foods from Fukushima in the [Paralympic] village is another possibility. I wish to strengthen ties with ground zero in numerous ways."

Submission + - Google Staffers Share Salary Info with Each Other; Management Freaks (dice.com) 1

Submitted by Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes: Imagine a couple of employees at your company create a spreadsheet that lists their salaries. They place the spreadsheet on an internal network, where other employees soon add their own financial information. Within a day, the project has caught on like wildfire, with people not only listing their salaries but also their bonuses and other compensation-related info. While that might sound a little far-fetched, that’s exactly the scenario that recently played out at Google, according to an employee, Erica Baker, who detailed the whole incident on Twitter. While management frowned upon employees sharing salary data, she wrote, “the world didn’t end everything didn’t go up in flames because salaries got shared.” For years, employees and employers have debated the merits (and drawbacks) of revealing salaries (Dice link). While most workplaces keep employee pay a tightly guarded secret, others have begun fiddling with varying degrees of transparency, taking inspiration from studies that have shown a higher degree of salary-related openness translates into happier workers. (Other studies (PDF) haven't suggested the same effect.) Baker claims the spreadsheet compelled more Google employees to ask and receive "equitable pay based on data in the sheet."

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