Of course they will. Sometimes the company might even lie to the benefit of the employee.

Back in 2016 the company I was with laid off 600 people. This wasn't driven by AI, but by two decades of excessive and unrestricted hiring that ran into reality pretty hard. Two names on the block in my area were folks with shitty attitudes, poor punctuality, and no desire to improve.

They got an unblemished, unremarkable "redundant" exit and a package. The company got a clean separation. Worked out well for both.

Companies will use this opportunity to cut ties under the guise of layoffs. Employees will always reach for the most nefarious of reasons, even when redundancy really is the cause.

But in the end, layoffs with reasonable exit packages aren't the end of the world. It's not disrespectful to lay people off. Respect is reflected in the process and the terms.

Oops... sorry. 10 million successful recipients. 17 million applicants.

Now, that's fine because I'm sure the current administration will pony up the funding to pay for interviewing those 17 million people for 2025, and then subsequently every year.

"This is not rocket science."

You're right. Rocket science is generally funded.

That's... let's see... approximately 10 million in person interviews. Oh yeah. No problem at all.

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Damn... I posted basically the same thing above, before I saw you covered it already. But your post is more nuanced. Thought I was getting in early, but... well put.

China, the collective set of manufacturers, is perfectly capable of delivering products to whatever quality the desired price point allows for. You have to monitor that output and guard against a number of problems, but ultimately it's not capability that is problematic.

The major dilemma is that the purchasers have to opt for cheaper goods because that's what the consumer wants. And China will happily fulfill an order for absolute crap as happily as they would a top end smart phone.

So what's shite? The manufacturing or the demand?

That's another way of saying they gave you the video service for free with your delivery service. You aren't really paying for it. The advertisements are.

You know, you can give them your money and have ad free streaming. It's under "accounts and settings", "ad free". That would fall under the first option in your either/or. Since that fulfills your demand I'll wait while you go sign up. :)

The introduction of ads for the reduced tier is long done. While the frequency is changing they aren't starting anything new.

If your complaint extends all the way back to the change in the service as thrown in with prime delivery... well, I get it... but why stop there? I'm sure you can find an earlier moment than that to decry.

DNA is what you're made of... your search history is who you are. :)

You can nitpick some searches as curiosity, but when crunched I'll bet it's a pretty good representation.

You may have missed my point with reference to the topic. This is about getting and remaining employed.

Yeah, it's great to have a counterculture, and people who buck the system are necessary. But those doing the bucking are not owed a living.

Expect to do work you aren't thrilled about.
Expect to have to demonstrate you can do the next job before you are given it.
Expect to have to demonstrate a commitment to the success of the company.
Expect to do things not specifically in your employment contract.
Accept that politics matter and they aren't necessarily evil or toxic.
Save complaining for really egregious circumstances.
Don't get upset when a company fails to pander to your delicate sensibilities.
Don't attempt to draw fixed borders during an interview.

Remember that a great many of the people in hiring positions are gen X and millennials. Expecting them to adapt to you is throwing sand in the gears of a nascent relationship, and it's just not in their best interests to hire a clear personality conflict.

Sure they might miss the absolute perfect-on-paper candidate, but they can certainly get 95% of that capability in a more compatible package,

In short... leave the self-serving world view at the gate. At least until your worth is proven to such an extent you can afford to be a pain in the ass.

I've been typing for 45 years, and never correctly. And I think that's why I have no signs of carpal tunnel or other repetitive motion injury. I never locked on to a rigid way of being at the keyboard.

I am curious why you think the tides are readily plundered. Do you not think they are doing things? Things that are environmentally important, and that will collapse when energy is removed at scale? Think like the footprint of dams, but with even greater reach.

The gap in cost is not as large as talking points suggest. There has been tons of analysis on this, and the answer is... complicated. Including the question of waste management. If you think anybody is building nuclear plants without a decent cost benefit analysis you're mistaken.

Too many people work backwards from the conclusion that nuclear plants don't make sense, and build their case to suit. And yet there is still activity in that industry. Must be some reason, right?

You are talking like these aren't solved problems. If they really were showstoppers, well... the show would stop.

Number 2 and 4 for uranium production are Canada and Australia. Kazakhstan is the big dog, of course.

You do not look at the phone and the map at the same time. It's physically fucking impossible. The focal distances are vastly different. You suffer from two major problems. Trying to juggle focus and context switching.

And I don't know anybody who unfurled a map while driving a car. That's just plain stupid. And I grew up driving on highways and using maps.