Posted on 10/01/2020 7:44:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Glad for a few things in my life: Glad I’m no longer running a multi-million dollar company and no longer dealing with all of this BS from employees that lean to the left...and beyond! Glad I’m no longer raising teenage boys! Glad I’ve found True Love! Glad I’m RETIRED. Glad for home grown tomatoes. :)
How DOES one keep a company running when half your staff are a bunch of SJW losers? Not to mention the Pajama Boys and Snowflakes you need to coddle. Yikes!
Does anyone actually WORK, these days? I mean, other than in the Flyover States? ;)
“#Bitcoin (aka “crypto”) is direct activism against an unverifiable and exclusionary financial system which negatively affects so much of our society.”
Yikes. People have been killed for less. I’m thinking that Bitcoin isn’t really a threat to the system, because they haven’t been shut down yet. Shark bumps, yes, but no overt attacks ... Yet.
“Does anyone actually WORK, these days? I mean, other than in the Flyover States? ;)”
Yes, we’re called “White men”.
FBA
BITCOIN is EXTREMELY vulnerable to threats of public regulation. From a financial point of view, it would make sense to keep your yap shut and hire lobbyists for both sides.
I hope that those woke engineers who refused to work are Permanently fired.
Unfortunately the CEO did cave with a statement supporting Marxist ‘Black Lives Matter’.
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you ?.
My friend once told me,he had no trouble running a large scale bank...It was the employees that kept him awake at night...He retired at 55,so he could enjoy people once again....
Well, my ‘White Guy’ used to put in 14 hour days 365...and run a farm in his spare time. ;)
We’re both retired now - thank goodness! In less than 5 years for both of us, it would be very, VERY hard for either of us to go back into our fields and put up with the BS it would require these days. And we both really enjoyed our professions!
The cancerous Socialist Creep is destroying everything. Everything. :(
I posted this the other day:
In my entire working career, of all the things in the workplace that have angered and infuriated me, the compulsion of an employer to press upon me their political and social views has angered and infuriated me the most.
Especially now. My employer did an “eight minutes of silence, because that is how long George Floyd had his neck kneeled on” and also encouraged people to congregate and take a knee in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
I was so angry that my employer, who I have always respected and given my all for, would subject me as an individual to that.
I am, and always have been my entire life, beholden to the principle that for my employer to pay me, I should provide value to my employer. They are not employing me as a social benefit. They are employing me because they want a organization that can pay its own way and be self-sustaining in the ability to meet a payroll, pay taxes, and make a profit.
They aren’t hiring me out of some charitable motive.
In that light, if I give them what I need, I don’t expect them to subject me to social justice or any other kind of societal garbage. It is a simple contract-they pay me, and I give them what they need.
In accepting this as the terms of a bargain, I have more freedom and liberty than the greatest mass of humanity that ever existed before me in history. And the Left despises that bargain.
See post #10. I get it!
I texted this story to a buddy at Apple yesterday. He doesn’t understand why this is even remotely controversial to some, is really tired of political stuff getting pushed in his face in the workplace. “We basically have purity tests.”
It’s a really screwed up thing.
Embrace the suck.
RE: I texted this story to a buddy at Apple yesterday. He doesn’t understand why this is even remotely controversial to some, is really tired of political stuff getting pushed in his face in the workplace. “We basically have purity tests.”
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Yes we have. Remember Brendan Eich? He is the famed Software Engineer who created and developed the famous and still popular web scripting language JavaScript and was also responsible for the design and development of Mozilla’s FireFox Browser.
Eventually, Mozilla Corp. made the decision to appoint Eich as CEO of Mozilla Corporation. In 2008, Eich donated $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California, and also gave donations in the amount of $2,100 to Proposition 8 supporter Tom McClintock between 2008 and 2010. He did not make a big deal out of it and never made his donations public.
Guess what??.... this donation was discovered by someone !! Some company was able to collect 50,000 signatures to force Eich to quit.
Eich resigned on April 3, 2014, and left Mozilla over his personal opposition to same-sex marriage. In his personal blog, he posted, “under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader”.
Mozilla made a press release saying that board members tried to get Eich to stay in the company in a different role, but that he had chosen to sever ties for the time being.
All this brouhaha over a simple political donation which he never made public that was HIS RIGHT to make.
If this can happen to a famous CEO like Eich, it can happen to ANYONE, unless there’s a law SPECIFICALLY protecting people who exercise their right of free expression.
I'd forgotten all about that stuff. A stepson talked me into buying a 100 of those a long time ago. I wonder if they are worth more than the 27 ¢ each I paid.
He had me put them into something he called a crypto vault. Anyone here know what that is?
RE: I wonder if they are worth more than the 27 ¢ each I paid.
Did you really buy a bitcoin for only 27 cents?
1 bit coin is now worth $10,800 ( or close to that figure ) today !!
Bitcoin is a company whose goal is to make it easy for people around the world to buy, sell and manage various cryptocurrency accounts.
You joke I jest. I mine crypto. It is Bout 10.5K today.
And Brandon Eich’s open commenting tool was purged from the internet because Big Tech is against freedom of speech.
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