AFAIK, you can tell someone today, “Get out” without prior notice, but then you have to continue to pay them for the duration of the WARN period.
Regarding this story, this situation only exists because companies have gotten so secretive about layoffs. I have been through multiple rounds in the past few years and management loves to dance around the issue. No hard numbers on people cut, the teams, or even the dates when it will be effective. No surprise that those with the ability sought to get hard data on the scope of the action.
I also enjoy how the company framed this as practically hacking people’s PII, but I can believe it just took querying the internal company directory for some key metadata. Recently added to the “TO-BE-CUT” OU or something.
This is what every company I've been at does. They fire and give severance during the WARN period. Nobody will ever give you a list of who was laid off at any company I've worked at. You would just have to.. figure it out
What I meant was that I thought this information was required to be sent to the government and public via something like a FOIA request, so this was always available to anyone motivated.
My experience with how companies administer the layoffs has been the same as yours.
It was a somewhat recent discovery that there were animal reservoirs escaping detection. Carter had hoped to outlive the worm, but it was thought that the animal pools were going to make full eradication take an additional 20 years.
What is the best place to see local model rankings? The benchmarks seem so heavily gamed that I am willing to believe the “objective” rankings are a lie and personal reviews are more meaningful.
Are there any clear winners per domain? Code, voice-to-text, text-to-voice, text editing, image generation, text summarization, business-text-generation, music synthesis, whatever.
Teams won't even display all office file formats without you having to open the dedicated app…
… I don't need one app to do everything half-assed, I need one app that does exactly what it's meant for well.
Teams should be about communicating. Viewing other document formats is layering on complexity for which it can never do as good a job as the native application.
There is no unringing this bell. Maybe a sane administration would slow the migration, but the damage is done. America is a capricious partner who can flip the table at any moment.
The reason there is no unringing this bell is not just that we have a capricious, vainglorious president, it's that all of checks and balances that are supposed to restrain the executive have proven worthless so far. Republicans in Congress have completely declared their impotence, having fully relinquished their duties that the Constitution specifically delegates to the legislative branch, like tariff power, war powers, etc.
Absolutely not. History has shown again and again that human memory is short and greed is unbounded. If there isn't an active fire burning under people's asses they'll choose the $0.01 cheaper option even if it ends up being much worse for them in the long run.
There's no memory to be needed. The US is officially an unreliable ally. They have been for several decades now. They will continue to be so. EU politicians might've been overly ambitious but they're not naive.
That, plus massive influence campaigns from Russia, China, and US oligarchs like Musk and Thiel, are how we came to be living through the current general disaster.
Exactly. Trump is just the messenger. The underlying problem, festering for decades, is that a large enough fraction of the US population thought that Trump was even remotely qualified to lead a country to begin with.
The fact that we didn’t immediately remove him after the Greenland letter just demonstrated to our allies that that same fraction of people also don’t value our relationship with Europe.
The CCP looks thoughtful and stable by comparison. It’s too bad that the result of this will be to force more people to align with them, because they’re just as self-serving as Trump, they just have the good sense and temperament to hide their true intentions.
A terrible potential is that US products may find themselves unable to get footing internationally, due to broken trust and increased competition, so instead they'll try to rely on every-expanding protectionism and corruption to stay dominant in the US market.
Just as we've seen in the car industry we'll wind up less innovative, less productive, and less economical.
From a fun perspective, this is unfortunate, because there is usually one or two weapons that are general purpose enough they should always be carried. The rest have some sort of gimmick that makes them useful only in certain circumstances (tank approaching, sniper area) or are just wacky (shrink ray, freeze ray, net gun). With the tiny weapon limit, the esoteric guns never get any playtime. Larger arsenal also encourages some kind of rock-paper-scissors resistance mechanism where critters take double damage against foos, but resistance to baz.
Regarding this story, this situation only exists because companies have gotten so secretive about layoffs. I have been through multiple rounds in the past few years and management loves to dance around the issue. No hard numbers on people cut, the teams, or even the dates when it will be effective. No surprise that those with the ability sought to get hard data on the scope of the action.
I also enjoy how the company framed this as practically hacking people’s PII, but I can believe it just took querying the internal company directory for some key metadata. Recently added to the “TO-BE-CUT” OU or something.
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