No, they pretended to get mad so they had an excuse to cut their workforce without having it labeled a layoff.

What would those solutions actually look like?

It’s a relief valve though. As someone who has suffered from unavailable care, black market drugs probably saved my life. I’m not terribly against adults being able to make such decisions on their own judgment.

Oh snap

The same story of publicly traded companies again and again.

Your steady growth isn’t good enough.

Your growth has to grow - and if it’s not growing fast enough then you’re not doing your duty to the shareholders.

Add in the fact that we’ve let businesses get so large they empty all the air from the room and we’ve managed to enshittify our entire society.

They really could work on their branding a bit

I had to explain to a friend recently why

“I’m at Steve’s house”

Was fine but

“I’m in Steve’s house”

Was weird. Like, get out of there before you get arrested.

Haha oh man it’s weird to see this mentioned so many years later.

I helped organize that protest. Thanks for coming down with us!

I guess a political movement demanding better metrics / KPIs wouldn’t be all that sexy, huh.