So we'll start with those in authority that bully those under them?

To be a bit snarky and cranky on this point, I find it funny they gave business the golden egg of low interest rates for years, well beyond what was needed to recover from the last downturn. It wasn't until the worker started gaining any sort of benefit that the Fed started in on curtailing growth. I know it isn't so simplistic, but the cranky old man in me just shrugs and says "of course they did"

I didn't pay that much attention. It was higher than my savings account was making where the refund went. Like someone else mentioned, it is the same rate they charge when you are late (without the penalty of course). I certainly wouldn't file as paper expecting them to be that far behind again as an investment/interest reason. Just an oddity I had couple years back.

I am an accountant and I file my return by paper every year. My taxes are really simple and I refuse to pay for any of the third party software providers. I make too much for the free electronic filing. I fill out my basic forms, scan the whole thing for my copy, and then mail in the originals. It takes 30-60 minutes depending on how many stock transactions I have for the year. Year before last they took so long to process the mailed in returns they actually paid me interest on the refund I was due (and sent me stuff to claim that as interest income the following year). This past year it took them about 4 weeks. I will be happy to file electronically, but as long as it costs more than the cost to mail it, I will continue to mail it.

I swear that list of items could describe just about any company with 1k employees in this country.

I remember that article too. Most of them included routine life items in their work day that the rest of us have to contend with on our own time. Some of those examples from the article included exercise time, dropping off / picking up dry cleaning, grocery shopping, yoga classes, etc. I'm not saying those things don't factor into a person's day, but none of the rest of us get to count that as time we've spent working. The reality is those people are simply not existing in the same reality as the rest of us mortals.

People shouldn't have to quit/leave their job to not be harassed, bullied, or endure illegal stuff. If you don't like the dress code at a job, sure, quit. Don't want a manager sticking his hand up your skirt should be a minimum bar of expectations, not something if you don't like you should have to leave over.

The regional president for the company I work for is related to the founder. The company has had to settle tons of lawsuits around his behavior. While doing tech work for a sales agent once she wasn't happy with the company's policy on some minor thing. She say, just a minute and I'll call X. She whips out her personal phone and calls. Overall the policy didn't get changed, but it was of no surprise that the attractive, blonde, big boobed sales agent had a direct line to this guy (practically no other line people have it).

I was wondering when the comments could come back to this point. Jack Thompson already went down this path dozens of times (on the same freaking game series). Nothing in here is different than the crap that got thrown out before. Its just a waste of money and energy. I thought we had finally moved passed this specific waste.

If you are a stock/option trading platform and you disallow that specific activity the rating should effect that. If a company selects certain companies that you can't transact trades on (or only one side of that transaction) then that seems to run contrary to a self-directed trading platform. Sure people may be swarming and going batty, but it is a pretty clear failure of the concept and thus somewhat deserved.

It certainly causes me grief and problems without any real potential upside. That doesn't lessen the underlying concept that we all have a responsibility to challenge the immoral, unethical, and wrongs when we witness them.

This mostly speaks to my current situation in my work. Granted, it is on a much more minor scale and the work I do is far less related to ethics. We have a fairly clear ethical issue that crops up a couple of times each year. This last week my boss finally asked "why do you bring it up every time it happens?" and he was floored when I responded with "because it is still wrong and will still be wrong the next time it happens." I face mockery for even raising the point of the ethics violation. The immediate people actually agree that the situation is not good and not how they would deal with it. They also say they aren't going to challenge it. I gain no benefit and suffer real harm by bringing it up. I can go home and tell my children the importance of being truthful even in the face of adversity though. The price of that is feeling like a souless husk at times at work though. Nobody at work cares, least of all those in charge of decision making and the people that create the company culture. I take the position it is incumbent on every individual to challenge immoral, unethical, or wrongs when they see them. Even if the individual can't change the world, if they do what they can within their own spheres then that should encourage others to do the same. If everyone did that then the systematic things like this could change. Sadly, I feel isolated on my own island on this and makes me wish I won the lottery so I could avoid it. There are processes in place where complaints could be made. Those processes are ineffective, would not be effective or create change, would create harm to people I don't wish harmed (even though they are complicit in the issue), and would certainly create massive live challenging/changing harm to myself. I know I am not alone in concept on things like this, but it absolutely feels that way almost all of the time.

I do budgeting work with that type of infrastructure oddly enough. When I'm putting models together I always start from scratch. Re-using prior work always creates problems and doesn't save any real time.

YouTube continues down a dark path. They must have hired a bunch of cable TV folks or something. They made YT unusable on the Roku with the amount of ads they've been showing (including mid-video ads). My household finally gave up the ease of the Roku remote and had to go back to a computer browser window controlled with a mouse solely due to the amount of ads. I suppose it is nice they are consistently trying to make their services unusable across the board.

I see Google is heading down the path to make YT unusable. I finally had to switch from watching YT on the Roku to the living room PC since the ads are absolutely out of control (no real luck blocking stuff via the Roku, but great success on PC). This is less user friendly (remote vs mouse) and results in less overall YT use. Adding in more ways to get in the way of what I'm after is just going to make it less relevant until they get to the point it is ignored completely.