A great response.

In my limited experience, unions crush productivity and protect the slackers. They set up a system where the newer employees get the worst vacation and the least overtime opportunities. Work tasks are divided up based on seniority instead of capabilities.

You say they protect the workers but they really seem to protect the longest term workers at the expense of newer workers and productivity. Unions are ok with two-tier seniority based pay plans and benefits packages.

At the risk of sounding like an Amazon fan - cause I'm not.

They provide better pay than their competitors. They provide way more benefits than their competitors. They have better promotion paths because of their growth.

Amazon really suffers from inconsistent management. Their performance and turnover is directly tied to the local management team.

No I'm not talking about it from being in management. Because I am not in management nor am I in a union shop any more.

We used to work trade shows. Moving an empty box from the show floor took three of us. One to push the box, one to lift the box, and me to track where it went.

Overtime and time off is all by seniority. The newer employees never get a shot at money or time off no matter how big much of slackers the other employees are with more seniority. A friend of mine took a 13 month sabbatical in a union shop and lost any ability to schedule vacations because all their seniorit got tossed.

Unions also support the two-tier pay plans where older employees benefits are protected while the newer employees end up with a different tier of benefits and pay.

Amazon actually gives benefits, insurance, time off, and a certain number of days unexcused. Unions should go after Target which makes everyone part-time, pays lower wages and provides fewer benefits.

Or the women could be right. Men, in my 30 years in IT, have historically belittled and put down the accomplishments of women in tech. Women, in many orgs, have only been able to get a head by "being one of the guys".

You have no idea why an individual person got better. Many get better with a placebo because "they got better" on their own.

That is why we run studies to see if there is any statistically interesting differences in outcomes.

Taking a bit of the contrarian view here will get me abused let's try anyway. I do not work for and have never been employed by Amazon.

Amazon is far from the worst in that space. They pay a higher wage than most with full benefits immediately. In the US that is a big deal. They don't play the 26 hours per week game that Target or some of the retailers do. Amazon has a promotion path. They used to have a good stock program that set up early workers for retirement. They have a tuition program. They have a fairly lenient "didn't bother to show up for work" policy because they know the workforce. Hourly workers can and do get promoted into management. Those promotions change lives.

IMO the real problem is that many of the facilities are run completely differently. They take on the feel and personality of the management team. Bad management team? Really bad working conditions. Good management team? Pretty decent conditions. Warehouse retention is driven completely by the capabilities of the management team. You can have all the automation and programs you want but it all comes down to execution.

If you don't want your sleep monitored then don't buy the product and enable the eature.

Apple migrated iOS and Mac OS to 64bit with TPM years ago. The windows ecosystem needs to catch up.

I suspect the biggest impact will be older laptops. Some will get firmware TPM.

My oldest laptop is Neverware Cloudready. Weâ(TM)ll see how long they will be supported as Chromebooks.

That won't work.

The domicile state is going to want state income taxes and unemployment taxes. The health care provider in-network coverage will only be for your home address.

Not sure why they should keep paying Cost of Living adjustments to people who don't qualify.

This isnâ(TM)t a censorship case. This is a violation of pretty clear Terms of Service. Amazon has a clause in the contract that Parler signed that talks about encouraging violence as a violation.

Conservatives that are trying to ban minorities from voting donâ(TM)t get to play the âoewhite people victimâ card.

The alternative is to just block conversations that talk about killing government officials and people MAGA consider traitors.

Amazonâ(TM)s complaints about TOS violations could easily be solve by Parler without jeopardizing their core mission of being a Q-crowd echo chamber.

Parler violated their vendors ToS. Amazon has plenty of evidence. Their TOS and the violations are available on line. Parkerâ(TM)s lawyers dropped them at the same time.

Conservatives have plenty of voice. Theyâ(TM)ve been driving the country for the last 4 years from their minority position. Now they want to abandon their states rights positions to throw out millions of votes. They planned, on Parler, to hang the VP and kidnap congress critters who disagree with them.