• @[email protected]
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    189 hours ago

    Next step: political adverts that quiz you on what you’ve just heard and repeat each segment if you get the answer wrong.

    Just kidding though (or am I). This is truly some dystopian shit. My first reaction was what the actual fuck. And I bet you that their numbers aren’t really going to hurt that much because of this. Mark my words.

    • @Professorozone
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      169 hours ago

      What really grinds my gears, is for every shitty “feature” like this, for every denial of policy or piece of spyware… someone thought it up.

      I wonder does anyone ever, in the meeting where this is decided, bring up what a horrible idea it is? I’m sure that person won’t have the best career, but has anyone ever seen someone take the bullet?

      • @AnUnusualRelic
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        23 hours ago

        Seen from abroad, US companies have always kind of been anti-consumer, but lately they’ve been super turbo pedal to the metal implementing that shit.

        I guess they want to quickly make as much money as possible in the few years left before everything goes to hell.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        56 hours ago

        Man, I’ve been to these meetings.

        Shitty MBAs have a shitty idea, and when you go “that’s impossible to do / directly against any sane set of values / clearly and plainly very, very illegal”, they just go “don’t worry about it” and have you do the stupid shit. When it comes crashing down, responsibility is usually distributed like when you take a turd and throw it in a high speed industrial fan, everyone gets a little.

        Then you have a choice between either becoming so jaded and cynical that it’s not even funny anymore, or switch jobs. I’ve had too many jobs.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 hour ago

          At my former job, I saved a ridiculous number of email chains that showed my objections and the management reply to just do it in a folder I creatively named “CYA”.