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Time for the redcafe hierarchy to bring in their own ’paid for’ verified accounts?
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concerning
Anyhows;
Time for the redcafe hierarchy to bring in their own ’paid for’ verified accounts?
To be honest I don’t think this is a Muskism. It’s the result of things like GDPR and Apple’s privacy changes having a cataclysmic effect on social media’s monetisation. Users have always been the product, that has to change now and users are now the customers again.
So all those messages in 2015 that facebook would stop being free were true! omg, what have I done
Im sure this $1.5bn was already included in their risk assessment and they felt it was a profitable move anyway.
Quite possible, but if they don't actually remedy the situation the fines are going to come faster and get bigger. They could go up to 4% of annual global turnover. I don't know if there are any other tools the EU can use if Facebook simply eats that ~$5 billion per year, but I assume that would eat into their European profit margins quite a bit.
How does the EU use the money it generates from these fines?
What's the latest with Microsoft buying Activision? This has just become relevant to my job 
Anyone following the case closely?
Anyone following the case closely?
Could become a behemoth so it can go in here…
Yikes - looks like my nice "ESPN/Disney+/Hulu" package will go away. Bummer.
There have already been a few changes the last year.or so. EE & BT merged and BT Sports rebranded to TNT and now this. With Apple deciding against bidding for Premiership football and Sky retaining the majority of the games, until 2029 this monster may be lining up a future challenge.
I would hope this would offer better deals for the customers but I doubt that will happen. Ultimately it will just end up funding more obscene wages and high match ticket and merch prices.
Don’t see how this happens.
Yeah, don't see it happening either.
But here's the rub. He could be right. Yet there is never data provided to back up these people that make definitive claims. He suggests google lost its edge with WFH. Google has been a big company for a very long time and WFH is less than 5 years old in its current form. Google isn't going to allow a huge drop in productivity to just go unchallenged. So WFH for some employees may drop productivity, but how long do those people last in the company?
This is what I hate about the "wisdom" of rich people. He says things and because he has a bank balance with too many zeros that means authority.
His argument that it's WFH and work balance can be thrown back in his face to argue that Google by its enormous size is simply unable to react like a start up simply based on size. That's as legitimate as anything he's claiming, yet grabs straight for the "workers have it too good" schtick.
This obsession massive corporations have with behaving like start-ups is such a cancer. And it’s so fecking dumb. They’re wilfully ignoring the fact that the vast majority of startups fail. So why the feck should a big corporation want to behave like companies which so frequently bankrupt themselves?
Plus the secret sauce behind the very very few startups that are successful isn’t working long hours, or because they’re buzz words like “lean” and “agile” it’s because they’ve identified a problem or gap in the market and have a clever idea about how to make money from that. Take away that clever idea and nothing else matters.
Start up working practices are almost completely irrelevant to their success yet these bozo CEO’s seem to think they are all that matter. Mainly because that’s what they’ve been told by management consultants and/or other CEOs on LinkedIn. Stupid overpaid wankers.
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Such a stupid, boomer take. Big companies have been beaten by lean start ups in every area of business since the beginning of time. All these workaholic gimps seem to have no concept of the difference between themselves and a normal worker. Comparing people working in a start up with massive incentives to work ridiculously hard to people in a 100,000 employee company that might get a few more RSUs and % bonus is so silly that I would question his sincerity.
One of the most legendary CEOs of all time, who has lead one of the biggest and most innovative technology companies for over a decade is wrong.
Caf posters who have never lead a company and are not even in this field are obviously right.
Caf posters who have never lead a company and are not even in this field are obviously right.
Yeah, having an average salary of 400k* (L5 where I assume most Googlers are) is not an incentive at all.
* Not counting stock appreciation which effectively makes the real salary significantly higher.
Killing yourself in work to make someone else millions, when you could go down the road and make 80% and not kill yourself, there is no real incentive there, vs. the gamble of being very early/founding a start up.
You've been posting your bootlicker stuff on all these CEO types for years, so I'm not surprised you agree with this wind bag.
To be fair, it’s an empirically wrong statement. If you’re going to point to the moment when Google lost its “edge”, it wouldn’t be in the last 4 years based on any hard business metrics: profits, stock prices, capital investments, etc. You could switch it to soft measures like “culture”, but Google didn’t have a startup culture in 2020. Little pockets of it existed then as they do now, but it became a mega corporation with a corporate culture long before then.
He’s said something that’s obviously true; people at startups work harder than people at big corporations. The rest of the narrative is either untrue or completely disconnected from that. All he’s doing is saying things aren’t like they were in my day, when I was in charge. Work from home is just the shorthand for that. There isn’t any more substance to it than that.
Says the person who created an account to voice criticism about the way professional football players play and professional managers manage.
You're completely missing the point. People working in a startup will grind themselves to the bone for the potential to earn a lot of money, at a company where they are currently earning very little (or nothing). That's a massive, life-changing, exponential increase in income. The fact that Google employees are already very well paid gives them no incentive whatsoever to work as hard as someone in a startup. If their CEO wants to cry about them not working as hard as someone in a startup then give them the same incentives as someone in a startup.
Mate you're posting this on a football discussion forum, and to the best of my knowledge you are neither a footballer nor a manager.
The "funny" thing is, when that plonker complains about people "going home early", he doesn't actually mean that they go home early. He means that they go home when their regular workday is over, while there's still daylight outside.
The delusional thing here is to think google was just fine and dandy in January 2020
. They are still eating off a algorithm built 20+ years ago that is steadily doing it's job worse year on year.Does he explicitly make a connection with the pandemic though? Did Google's WFH policy start only during the pandemic?
Thanks.
Huh?
It's not just Caf posters, the problems at Google have been evident for years and been well documented and they started a long time before Covid. There's huge overlaps in the business, products being shelved to be replaced 18 months later by a less well developed version of the same thing, decisions that were made to kill well received products and then blame being late to the market for not selling well in the same product line years later.
Alphabet are huge so can survive all that, but there's pretty obvious management issues in the business.
On that note, I had no idea that Google had killed Chromecast just a few days ago to be replaced by something 5 times the price.
https://killedbygoogle.com/