I don’t know if calling them “corporations” is even accurate. That’s being too kind. Anonymizing the villains of this story.
It’s not the random Amazon delivery driver. It’s Jeff Bezos. He’s the baron here. Name and shame.
It’s not the random engineer cleaning up Elon’s latest temper tantrum at Twitter, it’s Elon musk.
I think some of the points you have to look at demographically and use privilege to correct it. I’m not a woman, but I’ve seen women I work with have their ideas “shot down” simply because it was from them even if it was paraphrased a minute later by a man then magically it’s perfect!
I often make a point of correcting that in my org by saying “This was a good idea the first time from (woman), why did we move on from it last time?” So then people who shot this down have to awkwardly explain why they “didn’t understand” or make up some excuse. It works to highlight that maybe you just weren’t listening. Because it was a woman speaking. It’s unfortunate but it’s common in FAANG. I’m just tired of seeing it as someone who’s worked with some really incredible women who left the industry because of the toxicity.
Yeah, I mean to be fair I’d not consider tech reporting as the tech sector or industry. Like what she’s doing. Eng, product, hardware, applied science, eng managers and maybe program if you’re lucky to have tech program managers. But otherwise you don’t need any engineering degree for their work.
Right? And it says she’s in Vancouver. That’s how you know she’s desperate because her wait time at VGH would have her bled out in the waiting room!
In all seriousness though; this screams wildly of startup bro culture. Especially the part where she said they had this “verbal agreement” yeah, they didn’t want anything written down because they know how screwed they’d be.
I hope she lawyers up!
As someone with way too many years in the tech industry having suffered these toxic brogrammer cultures I can confidently say the reason unions won’t take off is people assume if “I am in a union then as an engineer I’ll only make as much as the project manager, and I want my 300k TC!” Which is completely incorrect but good luck convincing these younger engineers that, I’ve been trying for years.
I wonder what they thought that Prius’s battery was made out of. Must have been gas cells or something. Couldn’t be one of those pesky rare earth batteries.
Feelings mutual. You’re choosing to ignore all the data people are presenting you with cited information and then calling it invalid or a conspiracy of censorship. If you wanted to see people’s opinions sway, show the data. Nobody here is commenting about the morality of the issue or in a way that couldn’t be swayed.
And I mean; can we just not ignore hydro at all and point out that if you own an EV in most of Canada you have broken even after your first year of driving then? Because we don’t get a choice to use “clean beautiful coal” like the trump folks want! We only get that dirty hydro!
So. Yeah. I’m happy with my EV. I bought it because gas prices are completely outrageous in British Columbia (2 a litre or 8 a gallon for the U.S. folks) I honestly didn’t think I was helping the environment so much as helping my wallet. Turns out it does both. Cool with me.
Yeah! Thank goodness for that magical gas appearance! And there’s never any rare earth metals used in those pesky computers on cars these days! Nobody has touch screens or anything! It’s all switches and dials like we used to have in the 70s!
Right? ….right?
Called it way above in the comments didn’t I? I must have ESPN or something.
So just so we’re clear; if there’s published scientific data around it: it’s a conspiracy of scientific censorship because of the “climate narrative”, but if it’s unproven opinion narrative that works for the oil companies profits that happen to be huge public policy lobbying forces; it’s definitely the truth. Because obscure scary reasons, “not many people know this” Got it.
Help your fellow canucks out and tell us who’s doing this! I’m happy to save myself some sanity and not attend the weekly superstore circus.
Okay but am I the only one disturbed that somehow tomatoes are too expensive but pizza…which is made with tomato sauce…is getting cheaper? Unless…what is dominos making their sauce out of?