This concept of paying people the same when they do the same work at the same level of seniority is at once both radical and obvious. But it’s pushing against ingrained habits, sly negotiation bullshit, and a what-can-we-get-away-with mentality that belongs to a different era.
“There are no negotiated salaries or raises at Basecamp. Everyone in the same role at the same level is paid the same. Equal work, equal pay.” m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-peo…
Another good step: “This means that even if you start in an entry-level position, like junior customer support, the starting salary is $70,000 right off the bat. Again, no matter whether you live in a high cost of living area or not.” m.signalvnoise.com/minimum-pay-at…
Anyway, sounds like this is more common than it appears: “six in 10 employers say they will continue to pay remote employees the same as in-office employees ‘no matter where they work.’” fortune.com/2020/11/22/wor…
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This reminded me that I needed to recommend the fantastic book The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart. In it, you get the bullshit history of Scientific Management, along with an exposé on just the kind of fraud that its popularizer, F. Winslow Taylor. indiebound.org/book/978039333…
Management consultant charlatans have tried to apply scientific methods to the monitoring of employees for well over a hundred years. It's a field that's built on a foundation of scientism, used to demean and abuse workers, and inflate the ego of a useless managerial class.
And that's exactly what Microsoft is promoting here. Ranking and outing employees on bullshit metrics. I'm sure there's a plan to integrate Lines of Code Written via Github soon enough. Makes about as much sense as counting mentions or chat hours or whatever the fuck else.
The amount of trackers and third-party cookies that @nytimes subjects even paying readers to is obscene. The fact you have to call or email individual trackers to opt-out is grotesque. Perfect example of where "transparency" is a shield for "wtf". nytimes.com/privacy/cookie…
Take Chartbeat, for example. If you'd like to opt-out of tracking from them on NYT, just: "We will work to respond to your Valid Request within 45 days of receipt. We will not charge you a fee for making a Valid Request.. call us at.. email us at..." 🤯
Or Sumo Logic: "CCPA provides California consumers the right to.. to delete their personal information, to opt out of any “sales” that may be occurring.. California consumers may make a rights request by contacting us at privacy@sumologic.com."
While cops in other countries are fighting riots, enforcing curfews, and monitoring armed militias, Danish police has so much excess capacity and calm that three(!!) motorcycle cops are assigned to fine biking parents taking kids to school for minuscule infractions 😂❤️
Every time I’ve been stopped by a cop in the US, it’s been tense. Often with one hand on their gun. The Danish officer had the manners of a flight attendant, the fine is being emailed, and I was on my way before we were even late to school drop-off ✌️🥂
But all the courtesy aside, it’s also just a reflection of what a rule society that Denmark really is. The fine was for turning right on red onto a bike lane with nobody in it. And cop saw no reason not to stop me and the two kids in a damn cargo bike. It was quaint.
Look, I get it. It's difficult to accept that a company that makes products you really like acts like an abusive, monopolist bully. It's a mindfuck for me too! To have gone two decades cheering the company, only to recoil at what it has become. All of the ughs.
This is what it felt using a PC in the late 90s. I despised Microsoft, and how they treated the developer community. The way they "cut off the air supply" to Netscape. But I gritted my teeth and kept using Windows because there wasn't an alternative at the time. That's monopoly!
Then, all of the sudden, there was real choice! Apple came out with OS X, and I got a white Macbook running OS X Puma in 2001. And suddenly I was free from Microsoft, and running with the underdog. IT FELT SO GOOD. Apple was everything Microsoft was not.
Machiavelli would be so proud of Apple. Trying to split the App Store opposition with conditional charity concessions, they – a $2T conglomerate – get to paint any developer making more than $1m as greedy, always wanting more. As clever as its sick. theverge.com/2020/11/18/215…
Quote from Cook is beyond cynical. Written in that faux-care style so beloved by lobbyists. Apple is making smaller app developers growl before Apple (this program isn't even automatic!), such that the abusive tax on payment processing is lowered from 10x to 5x the market rate.
But evne at face value, this is 🤯. If you're a developer making $1m, Apple is STILL asking to be paid $150,000, just to process payments on the monopoly computing platform in the US. That's obscene! You could hire two people at that take, still have money for CC processing.
Following the revelations about Apple’s phone-home program on app openings, the company has just announced it’ll stop logging IPs (but anyone listening on the line still can), improve security with encryption, and allow opt out! 👍 support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491
This is a very welcome admission by Apple that the current system is deeply flawed, and the changes promised are solid improvements. But why does shit like this always have to be let out to back door with an obscure update to an Apple help site article? Anyway 👏. Sunlight!
The whole process of having Apple mix these “protections against malware” into a system that’s also a “protection of our business model” remains deeply problematic. Apple is clearly positioning the App Store to soon be the only “trusted” default. Locking the Mac as with iOS.