PHB = Pointy Haired Boss (reference to Dilbert's boss in the comic strip)
What others regard as "slacking", I view merely as "efficiency". In business, the goal is to provide as little to the customer as possible, while still getting from the customer as much as possible. This maximizes profits, as long as you give just enough to the customer so that they continue to do business with you.
This is the same exact thing that slackers do TO their employers. They provide just enough work to keep from getting fired, while getting as much pay from them as possible. Thus maximizing their profits.
Companies don't want employees to think like this, though... they only want the company to act like that. But we're ALL indepedent contractors, whatever label our employers wants to stick on us.
Everyone should give their employer as little as possible, and suck them dry as much as you possibly can. After all, that's what they're trying to do to us. Turnabout is fair play, and a lot of fun, too.
What? You aren't checking the elementary schools???? What horrors are you permitting the young dears to see... oh, my heart shutters at what a pack of slavering 3rd graders might DO after seeing "Naughty Nurses on Parade"!
Look, if the company owns the network, and the hardware, etc.... that's fine, they get to say what happens on them. Do work at work, yes I agree.
BUT! These are the same companies that DEMAND 60+ hour work weeks! If they're so anal as to demand complete control over everything their employees do, then they can pay for every stinking hour that the employee is there. Don't pay more than 40 hours? Then watch your employees walk out the door at 5 each and every single day. Got a deadline? TOO DAMN BAD. We all have to go home and live our lives -- since we sure aren't allowed to do anything personal at the office... right?
So unless your a mobster (or someone else with a nefarious purpose in life) you don't really have to worry about anything.
Short-sighted fool.
Give them the ability to do this kind of thing now, and in five or ten years, who knows what will be considered "a nefarious purpose"? THEY are the ones deciding that, remember?
The section on Purchase Circles that shows up under the account maintenance area does NOT allow anyone to "opt out" of having their data included in the purchase circles. It only determines which circles show up by default on the user's screen when they log in.
Just because you don't look at a circle, doesn't mean you're not being lumped into it.
I don't see the point of saying this. This simply encourages them to do whatever they want, secure in the knowledge that they can back out of it if too many complain. Do you really want chuckleheads that would even THINK of doing this in the first place to get customers to return?
Remember, the competitors are watching all this quite closely. Abandon Amazon, and never return, even if they beg you. Hang them out to dry -- as an example to the others.
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PHB = Pointy Haired Boss (reference to Dilbert's boss in the comic strip)
What others regard as "slacking", I view merely as "efficiency". In business, the goal is to provide as little to the customer as possible, while still getting from the customer as much as possible. This maximizes profits, as long as you give just enough to the customer so that they continue to do business with you.
This is the same exact thing that slackers do TO their employers. They provide just enough work to keep from getting fired, while getting as much pay from them as possible. Thus maximizing their profits.
Companies don't want employees to think like this, though... they only want the company to act like that. But we're ALL indepedent contractors, whatever label our employers wants to stick on us.
Everyone should give their employer as little as possible, and suck them dry as much as you possibly can. After all, that's what they're trying to do to us. Turnabout is fair play, and a lot of fun, too.
What? You aren't checking the elementary schools???? What horrors are you permitting the young dears to see... oh, my heart shutters at what a pack of slavering 3rd graders might DO after seeing "Naughty Nurses on Parade"!
(yes, this was sarcasm)
These guys really push my buttons....
Look, if the company owns the network, and the hardware, etc.... that's fine, they get to say what happens on them. Do work at work, yes I agree.
BUT! These are the same companies that DEMAND 60+ hour work weeks! If they're so anal as to demand complete control over everything their employees do, then they can pay for every stinking hour that the employee is there. Don't pay more than 40 hours? Then watch your employees walk out the door at 5 each and every single day. Got a deadline? TOO DAMN BAD. We all have to go home and live our lives -- since we sure aren't allowed to do anything personal at the office... right?
So unless your a mobster (or someone else with a nefarious purpose in life) you don't really have to worry about anything.
Short-sighted fool.
Give them the ability to do this kind of thing now, and in five or ten years, who knows what will be considered "a nefarious purpose"? THEY are the ones deciding that, remember?
The section on Purchase Circles that shows up under the account maintenance area does NOT allow anyone to "opt out" of having their data included in the purchase circles. It only determines which circles show up by default on the user's screen when they log in.
Just because you don't look at a circle, doesn't mean you're not being lumped into it.
I don't see the point of saying this. This simply encourages them to do whatever they want, secure in the knowledge that they can back out of it if too many complain. Do you really want chuckleheads that would even THINK of doing this in the first place to get customers to return?
Remember, the competitors are watching all this quite closely. Abandon Amazon, and never return, even if they beg you. Hang them out to dry -- as an example to the others.