Sounds quite American to me. Maybe I just work at a very diverse company but that name would not be remotely out of place for our employees in America.
Plus I don't know any Indians called Sidd, although I guess it could be an abbreviation for one of those fantastic 23 character long names that even the Indians can't pronounce (or spell).
Odd. I find making eye contact and smiling works very well. They're doing a boring dull shitty job and they know it, you know it, and why not treat them as humans.
It also shows I'm not nervous, I don't feel threatened by them, I'm comfortable engaging with them and I don't feel I have anything to hide.
Of course, ask me for the disk encryption password for my work laptop and it's going to be a more difficult conversation. One that involves an unfortunate level of memory loss and a recommendation to contact the information security team at my employer, who will be delighted to assist and could I perhaps get a cup of coffee while we wait?
Other way around. I have work numbers on my personal phone.
I bought a phone I like and want to use. I occasionally carry a work issued device because it includes unlimited 4G data and a secure way to view work email.
Use the work device as a phone? I don't hate myself that much.
I agree though, we shouldn't kick all the Poles out. There's a delightfully cute blonde living just north of Nottingham that's bloody fantastic to dance with. We can keep her.
Outsourcing comes and goes in cycles. It gets sold to management as a big cost saving, they reduce headcount, cash in the big bonus and fuck off on a fat pension.
New management realise how shit the service they're getting is, end up rebuilding the whole in house capability.
Repeat.
what defines a good outcome
That big fat pension. Nothing else, or they wouldn't fucking outsource.
Some people use 'him' to describe Chelsea Manning and their intentional use of the term is hostile and indeed trolling in itself.
Bradley Manning is more complex.. Technically he was representing as male, so I'd call him 'him'. Chelsea though is a no-brainer. Just use female pronouns with her.
That's a courtesy some people seem to find beyond them though. I can understand Ars Technica choosing to remove rude trolls from their site.
What are you, a teenager? "You just don't understand!"
You keeping telling me that I don't understand, but you failed to make a coherent point to start with and haven't followed up with anything remotely looking like logic, common sense, insight or indeed constructive.
I don't think I even want to understand, it seems to require a lobotomy.
They could reuse the same employees being replaced and have better outcomes.
Really? Then why with that option and the massive labour pool available to them on and offshore do the outsourcing companies fail to deliver even equivalent outcomes?
Outsource your IT if you want to hit headcount numbers. Do not outsource your IT if you want to improve outcomes.
Really? How is it taking advantage of people to locate your factory somewhere with a low cost of living and pay people a wage that gives them a great quality of life rather than locate it somewhere expensive and pay people even more yet still only give them a subsistence lifestyle?
Sure. Except that right now robots pay no taxes, their owners are fucking amazing at avoiding paying tax (due to transfer pricing and other 'legal' dodges) and the people that do pay tax are.. oh. People that actually fucking work for a living.
Forgive me if I share the fear that UBI would be paid for by the idiots that continue to actually work.
Fighting racism by being racist is racist. Calling that out is not racism. Twitter allows far too much anti-white racism, as proven by banning people that repost anti-white tweets but substitute 'white' for another ethnicity.
that tolerance requires tolerating bigots
Twitter believe this - it's the only possible reason they ban people that call out bigoted tweets by muslims and not the bigots that post them.
mocking people for calling out bigotry by moveing hte goalposts and totally ignore that the thing that just got called out was in fact bigoted.
What, like the criticism received by people like Milo? Whose racism includes a preference for getting fucked by black men, whose sexism includes a preference for getting fucked by men, whose homophobia includes a preference for getting fucked by men and whose bigoted bullshit includes drawing attention to the hypocrisy of people like you calling him racist, sexist and homophobic?
I'm not sure that without further context that would be considered hate speech.
You will certainly (and have in response to this post) get people trying to helpfully educate you, but that's not harassment. That's people trying to remove your ignorance.
But it's an interesting example; Twitter might ban you, and would almost certainly not ban people that actually did harass you for saying this. This is an inherent flaw in Twitter and why people are abandoning it as a platform.
Well, we agree that law is wrong. I don't want to be in a union, I refuse to be in a union and I now refuse to work for any company that demands a union negotiate on my behalf.
Last time I was in that situation the union's negotiating position was not to my benefit anyway, I was getting fucked over whether I was a union member or not.
Slashdot Mirror
What evidence? Of which crime?
Come on, there isn't even probable cause.
Sounds quite American to me. Maybe I just work at a very diverse company but that name would not be remotely out of place for our employees in America.
Plus I don't know any Indians called Sidd, although I guess it could be an abbreviation for one of those fantastic 23 character long names that even the Indians can't pronounce (or spell).
Odd. I find making eye contact and smiling works very well. They're doing a boring dull shitty job and they know it, you know it, and why not treat them as humans.
It also shows I'm not nervous, I don't feel threatened by them, I'm comfortable engaging with them and I don't feel I have anything to hide.
Of course, ask me for the disk encryption password for my work laptop and it's going to be a more difficult conversation. One that involves an unfortunate level of memory loss and a recommendation to contact the information security team at my employer, who will be delighted to assist and could I perhaps get a cup of coffee while we wait?
Other way around. I have work numbers on my personal phone.
I bought a phone I like and want to use. I occasionally carry a work issued device because it includes unlimited 4G data and a secure way to view work email.
Use the work device as a phone? I don't hate myself that much.
That made me laugh.
I agree though, we shouldn't kick all the Poles out. There's a delightfully cute blonde living just north of Nottingham that's bloody fantastic to dance with. We can keep her.
Yeah, IT outsourcing used to have the 'non-core' justification.
These days most businesses are IT businesses. They just don't necessarily realise it.
Holy shit you're naive.
Outsourcing comes and goes in cycles. It gets sold to management as a big cost saving, they reduce headcount, cash in the big bonus and fuck off on a fat pension.
New management realise how shit the service they're getting is, end up rebuilding the whole in house capability.
Repeat.
what defines a good outcome
That big fat pension. Nothing else, or they wouldn't fucking outsource.
Some people use 'him' to describe Chelsea Manning and their intentional use of the term is hostile and indeed trolling in itself.
Bradley Manning is more complex.. Technically he was representing as male, so I'd call him 'him'. Chelsea though is a no-brainer. Just use female pronouns with her.
That's a courtesy some people seem to find beyond them though. I can understand Ars Technica choosing to remove rude trolls from their site.
What are you, a teenager? "You just don't understand!"
You keeping telling me that I don't understand, but you failed to make a coherent point to start with and haven't followed up with anything remotely looking like logic, common sense, insight or indeed constructive.
I don't think I even want to understand, it seems to require a lobotomy.
They could reuse the same employees being replaced and have better outcomes.
Really? Then why with that option and the massive labour pool available to them on and offshore do the outsourcing companies fail to deliver even equivalent outcomes?
Outsource your IT if you want to hit headcount numbers. Do not outsource your IT if you want to improve outcomes.
Really? How is it taking advantage of people to locate your factory somewhere with a low cost of living and pay people a wage that gives them a great quality of life rather than locate it somewhere expensive and pay people even more yet still only give them a subsistence lifestyle?
I'm not seeing the contradiction there at all.
Sure. Except that right now robots pay no taxes, their owners are fucking amazing at avoiding paying tax (due to transfer pricing and other 'legal' dodges) and the people that do pay tax are.. oh. People that actually fucking work for a living.
Forgive me if I share the fear that UBI would be paid for by the idiots that continue to actually work.
When you're running a country? There's a level of sense to trying to predict the future.
Otherwise you suddenly find yourself short of energy, or food, or the cash to maintain a welfare system. Riots happen, maybe worse.
But that's ok, you're welcome to walk around blind and ignorant. We'll look after you.
My problem with twitter's policies is that influential media organisations use it as a communication channel and also quote it in serious news.
E.g. the BBC "live" coverage of events in parliament is liberally sprinkled with twitter comments.
The BBC are already demonstrating a horrific lack of diversity in their reporting, letting twitter skew that further would be bad.
people who think fighting racist is racist
Fighting racism by being racist is racist. Calling that out is not racism. Twitter allows far too much anti-white racism, as proven by banning people that repost anti-white tweets but substitute 'white' for another ethnicity.
that tolerance requires tolerating bigots
Twitter believe this - it's the only possible reason they ban people that call out bigoted tweets by muslims and not the bigots that post them.
mocking people for calling out bigotry by moveing hte goalposts and totally ignore that the thing that just got called out was in fact bigoted.
What, like the criticism received by people like Milo? Whose racism includes a preference for getting fucked by black men, whose sexism includes a preference for getting fucked by men, whose homophobia includes a preference for getting fucked by men and whose bigoted bullshit includes drawing attention to the hypocrisy of people like you calling him racist, sexist and homophobic?
guys like you
Project much?
Interesting, you just confirmed his point for him.
Note that your post is abusive, trolling and should thus warrant banning you from twitter.
It's also making a number of assumptions, demonstrating clear biases and also revealing an almost comical level of ignorance.
Get a fucking hobby, shitlord.
One of my hobbies is pointing out stupidity on the Internet. Thanks for playing.
"There are only two genders. Male and Female."
I'm not sure that without further context that would be considered hate speech.
You will certainly (and have in response to this post) get people trying to helpfully educate you, but that's not harassment. That's people trying to remove your ignorance.
But it's an interesting example; Twitter might ban you, and would almost certainly not ban people that actually did harass you for saying this. This is an inherent flaw in Twitter and why people are abandoning it as a platform.
Clearly you haven't visited London recently.
you won't get access to the emergency funds
Whose fucking money do you think pays for those emergency funds?
(For the next two years)
Well, we agree that law is wrong. I don't want to be in a union, I refuse to be in a union and I now refuse to work for any company that demands a union negotiate on my behalf.
Last time I was in that situation the union's negotiating position was not to my benefit anyway, I was getting fucked over whether I was a union member or not.
You completely misunderstood everything apparently
Really? You're the fuckwit that thinks eliminating some left turns and not others is impossible.
The rest of us understand how this is viable without any issues at all.
Ah shite. Don't tell SCS, I turn right on a red all the time :(
Here are three left turns. We eliminated them by turning right instead.
Sadly we weren't able to eliminate stupidity on the internet, even from people with three digit Slashdot UIDs.
Maybe at some point you will address my point about it being MANDATED by law that the union negotiate for you
Because being in a union is an indicator of reading difficulties.
Because I can negotiate my own fucking wages.
There are several. Musk is probably open to some of them. Tesla may already have implemented one or more of them.
a deal that's fair to all sides
UAW is not one of those mechanisms.