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Employees at Apple's first unionized store in Towson, Maryland are pushing for a contract that includes the introduction of tipping. "You're gonna wanna buy this accessory for that." *opens hand expectantly*
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Sorry for all the workers that do need the tips to make to the end of the month. I know in the US and other places is almost mandatory usual to tip, but... But I only tip, where I get a good service.
Once a (really bad) waiter asked me (here in Germany, where tips are pretty usual too) when I was standing up and getting my coat: "Hey, where is my tip?"
My answer was: "In the same place you left your education and your respect to the customers"
(Disclaimer: I did tip that night, but it was for the kitchen personal. Food was superb, but that moronic waiter... )
And many of the Apple Stores I know (used by friends and relatives) are not really famous due to their good service and nice workers.
M.D.V.
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So, are they also requesting a base salary of only $3/hour?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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What I wonder about is why they think putting this in their contract is going to make anyone walking into the store tip them? I'm thinking next year apple will roll out ChatGPT driven kiosks into the stores.
absurd.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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They're doing it because a non-zero number of people will feel obligated to toss something into a tip jar if one is there. The next step if they get Apple to agree will be to have the payment kiosk have a tip slider defaulted to 20% because a larger share of their customers will be too embarrassed to slide the amount to zero while the clerk is watching them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I guess it would have to be on a sliding scale. Tip 20% on a new MacBook? na...
I don't see this taking off, then again, I find it ridiculous to have to pay an uncharge to be able to pick your seat on an airplane.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Google appears to be scaling up the ads it shows to Gmail users according to tens of online reports and social media posts. If you go down to Gmail today, you're sure of a big surprise.
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Poor Google. Must suck being such a cash-poor company. Firing 12,000 employees couldn't pay for Pichai's bonus, so they had to figure out some other way to pay for it.
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The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least seven million people worldwide. I kind of prefer living my life worrying, though. I feel like that's the healthy way to proceed.
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Sean Ewington wrote: and killed at least seven million people worldwide. Sadly many of them were not from the parties looking for it...
R.I.P.
M.D.V.
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Unfortunately the long-lasting loss of freedom around the world is still with us. Totalitarians in all countries used COVID as an excuse to restrict free movement, speech, and association.
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obermd wrote: Totalitarians in all countries used COVID as an excuse to restrict free movement, speech, and association. They use every excuse they want... IF an excuse is used at all.
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time for bill gates to make a new tedx speech
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Sean Ewington wrote: I kind of prefer living my life worrying, though. I feel like that's the healthy way to proceed. There will be something new to worry about soon enough. Governments despise a vacuum.
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With a little bit of math, decompilation, and understanding of computer architecture, we are going to force a user-controlled arithmetic overflow to occur in Magic: The Gathering Arena, and use it to buy millions of card packs for "free" (only using the starting amount of in-game currency given to new accounts). "Using buffer overflow to gain infinite in-game currency locked to one account in Magic: the Gathering Arena and then disclosing the exploit to the publisher"
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Someone setup a bucket on S3, called xrpc and served a file from it called com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle which allowed them to claim the s3.amazonaws.com handle on Bluesky. Bluesky: "Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me ..."
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Last week, the open-core team chat platform Mattermost announced that “Mattermost Cloud Free will no longer be offered after July 26, 2023.” This likely came as an unpleasant surprise to users on that plan, as less than a month before, Mattermost’s pricing page featured the promise that the Cloud Free plan would be “free forever”. "Free Forever? I'd like you to meet my friend, Free Tools."
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Sean Ewington wrote: "Free Forever? The first shot is always free...
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Well, they didn't lie. The Cloud Free plan has been free and remains free. It simply won't be offered anymore, but it's still free.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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A Financial Times journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok. Sounds like, "My pet tiger attacked me. Why?"
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China, pure and simple. TikTok is wholly owned by a Chinese company, which in turn is beholden to the CCP. This is why the US Government has banned the use of TikTok on any US government owned equipment, including government issued cell phones.
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IBM's CEO, Arvind Krishna, says employees' careers could suffer if they work from home.
Krishna told Bloomberg during a Monday interview that although he wasn't forcing his own staffers back to the office, he thought remote workers may struggle to get promotions. If there was a more subtle, yet assertive way to discourage your employees from remote work, I'm not familair with it.
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IBM's CEO still hasn't caught up on how the job market works today. Promotions are rarely vertical, they are diagonal: employees move to another company with a higher position. Rinse, repeat.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Discord’s major username changes to adopt standardized handles aren’t sitting well with its longtime users. Non-Discord users are equally incensed.
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