Posts by I should coco 30 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2020
I'd rather ensure that money goes to local business where I live. A lot of offices are in office parks where EVERYONE has to commute, even the Barista!
No excuse MD, you saw an op to save tax and get rid of staff knowing full well this will hit the bottom line for a period.
VF were recently informed by some of their HW suppliers that (as I work for one of them) we do not want to continue to do business with you as it is unsustainable.
They put out RFPs for kit where you end up barely making a $ and then they change their mind half way through the contract to renegotiate prices down.
Working with VF UK is a joke, eveyone has their own agenda and everyone is more important than the other. In VF Italy, Spain, New Zeland VF are a completely different animal and are a joy to work with.
What is happening to VF is all the fault of their management. I see other CSP/T1 suppliers doing well in the current climate, but not ever VF.
"with a much higher success rate." Well comparing anything to the S.A. Postal Service, you are going to get a much higher success rate. The S.A. Post is a complete waste of time, anything I have ever posted there, or indeed posted when I am there has never, ever, arrived; without fail
Ironically the SA postal service should be called "TakeALot" Because that's what they do. They take everything.
Its almost a charity, "Oooh I feel charitable this year so I will send toys to an orphanage" which is basically saying I will give the nice people who work at the post office some old toys.
Even innocent letters get opened just in case there is bank account information, or heaven forbid, actual money in them.
If the SA postal Service got hit by a cyber attack, nobody would notice.
#rantover
Apple has so much net worth that paying fair wages, offering decent health packages, proper time off etc. would not hurt them one bit and they know it. For the big cheeses its personal, how dare you ask to be treated fairly when no other employee in the US gets treated fairly, how dare you expect reasonable treatment. Know your place minions
Customer sentiment is that before the acquisition, VMware are difficult to work with, understaffed, and somewhat "haughty". "You will have to wait for us to delivery, we are VMware and you should be glad we are even letting you buy our Services."
Not sure if BM will want to increase the headcount, but they might.
Fairly sure the awful services VMware provide will get worse but as the big cheese said - leverage the partners while we focus on pricing, ....upwards
Good luck VMware colleagues
https://www.thelayoff.com/vmware
Perhaps if the schools were able to teach better English (instead of school survival techniques) then people would understand the meaning of the word "Amendment"
Quite simply people are dying in the US because of gun crime and this is to make a select group of very rich people even richer. That's all. Nothing to do with protecting rights. If you had proper rights in the US then why are so many of your citizens in prison?
I thought they were a design feature, not fault. Its only after I read this piece and looked at my model I realised I need new glasses.
I have to say having bought into the whole "proper" space themed Lego - Eagle, Space Station, Saturn-V, I think this is the best set yet. I thoroughly enjoyed building it and the attention to detail of the inner structure made me smile (when I should have been working).
If you live in a shack in Gugulethu then being force to work from home is not a nice option, Even if you live in a 3 bed semi in Reading then working from your couch or bedroom is not so nice. As others have mentioned here, if you can have a dedicated workspace that you "lock up" and leave at the end of the working day then this is WFH bliss.
Companies are starting to focus on outcome based management rather than micro management, lets hope this leads to the demise of the micro manager.
Lets not forget the different cultures in the office space too. I used to work in the middle east where you manage your manager, they like nothing better to be told at 10pm at night in the office that they "are just the most inspirational person and you are so lucky to be here with them now" (rather at home with my family).. This is a cultural change which will not go away overnight.
This is a game changer for sure. No need for office space, able to write up your bottom line (for a year anyway) as your Opex is reduced.
I am lucky enough to live in Spain working for a large multi-national who have sent most of the their workforce home. We get a one off payment for office equipment as well as a monthly stipend towards additional electricity and tinterweb. We are encouraged to take time out during the day, (i'm currently watching the whole of Red Dwarf at lunchtime) to have a virtual commute in the morning and evening which we switch off - not from work - but from phones and e-mail and get proper work done. Everyone wins here without any sinister theories about whats coming. The EoQ shows how effective (or ineffective) this new normal is. (btw it is for us).
Some companies will still need a physical office and need people to work there.
The world is adapting and its not happening overnight.
What other "fixes" have the FAA let slip in order to keep their corporate buddies $B's safe? This raises serious questions about the ability of the organisation to do its most basic role - making air travel safe.
Lets hope that other international regulatory organisations take note and (if they are clever) sell their shares in Boeing and Airbus before coming clean and fix what is wrong with this aspect of the industry.
This is the 21st century FFS, why should we, as consumers, be questioning the basic principles of "making a safe airplane"
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