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by throwaway11460 759 days ago
Yeah, I saw it at few corporates. Came back myself one time, other times my friends/colleagues decided to go back. You can't take it personally, the CEO doesn't know your name, the name of your manager or their manager. It's a nice opportunity to negotiate a better deal for yourself.
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Zigurd 759 days ago
Why does this sound like normalizing the behavior of an actually harmful person who is running companies that affect political discourse and national defense? Especially with a broad assertion, generalities, and no examples.
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throwaway11460 759 days ago
He's not affecting my local political discourse nor national defense, I am from Europe - you deal with that.

What form of examples would you like? It's not really something that would be in the international English speaking news - not even municipal news, it's just normal life, except when Musk does it to a bunch of overpaid engineers apparently. The rest of us don't matter that much to anybody.

Don't tell me you have never heard about a company closing a branch or a department, I have very hard time believing that. I can't believe nobody around you - family, friends, colleagues - ever experienced that. If it's true, you live in a social bubble that's very distant from what the average person experiences.

Or alternatively, all that talk about EU vs US job safety is the exact opposite of reality and US jobs are incredibly safe - but I don't really think so.

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Zigurd 758 days ago
Platforming parties like afd, and politicians like Victor Orban affects the security of Europe. That's specific and concrete.

On the other hand even the ham fisted actions of Boeing trying to build their most complicated airplane with inexperienced workers in an anti-union state isn't spastic and random. They had a plan. It might be a bad plan but it was a plan. Elon just rage deleted a department.

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throwaway11460 758 days ago
Parties like AfD still have their place on national TV and regional news, just as Orban does. I don't agree with them but I don't think they should necessarily be banned from Twitter if they still have the right to be on TV and radio.
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