Tag: corporation

  • “We thought we were safe,” comments BGS gameplay engineer and union representative Anne Barrett, in an interview with The Guardian. “I mean, Bethesda Games Studios is Skyrim, it’s Fallout. We have really highly anticipated stuff coming out. We thought that the work we were doing was going to keep us safe. And instead, we got…

  • Maybe Paramount-Warner Should Leave L.A.

    Ellison isn’t overpaying $110 billion for dirt. He’s stealth buying the most undervalued industry in America while everyone else stares at the COVID wreckage and mistakes it for the whole picture. Meanwhile, the writers and actors warning you about consolidation do not live in the world. If they did, they would understand that nobody spends…

  • customer service people get tons of complaints, it’s probably genuinely meaningful for them to occasionally have someone email their manager to compliment them instead of complain about them — Read on www.atvbt.com/send-appreciation-notes-to-companies/ I worked in a call center during college, and can confirm how exceedingly rare this is, and how wonderful it is to get…

  • They are powerful because it is seen as unseemly to mock them because they are rich and “running a company,” a kind of corporate fealty that I find deeply unbecoming of an adult.  We are, at most, customers. We do not “owe them” anything. We are long past the point when any of the people…

  • The repressed object at the bottom of the nerd subconscious, the thing too scary to view except through humor, is that you’re smarter than everyone else, but for some reason it isn’t working. Somehow all that stuff about small talk and sportsball and drinking makes them stronger than you. No equation can tell you why.…