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Devils_Avocado

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    Comment #18495633

    ...if everyone is over-promising & you're confident in your delivery, all you need to do is "promise" something between what is expected & over-promised in order to "under-promise"…

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    Comment #18495590

    I have spent my entire career in your area and can say with 1000% confidence that "the value that I create will talk more than the nonsense of some people" is something that EVERYO…

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    Comment #18495572

    +10,000,000 the comment below. If you feel you have not received recognition or reward in proportion to your efforts while in the employment of this company, its time to 1) start l…

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    Comment #18495495

    OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT - watch out for your US Dollars y'all, I heard at least one physical paper $20 bill was used …

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    Comment #18495133

    Who pays the salary & bonuses? Who owns the entity that pays the salary & bonuses?

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    Comment #18495092

    Read a S&P500/FTSE100's Directors' contract, then get back to me...

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    Comment #18495011

    Yes... their contracts are written such that they align the self-serving motivations of the employees with the fiscal obligations to shareholders. Internet points be-damned, i find…

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    Comment #18494829

    You'd have to ask them (after noting that preemptively out-of-court settling breach of contract claims with a large cash sum & an NDA is standard practice throughout the Western wo…

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    Comment #18494775

    ...and who owns the corporate entity? The "owners of shares"?

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    Comment #18494720

    What do their contracts say? Agnostic of your own judgement of the morality of their actions, company agents are employed by shareholders to maximise returns on invested capital. I…

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    Comment #18494686

    Google/Alphabet get fucked sideways. Seems you & all the fellow downvoters've mistaken my statement of fact for a statement of moral obligation... Company agents are employed by sh…

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    Comment #18494653

    Nope. They already tried that, the troika rushed in to stop even the suggestion of that being a possibility.

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    Comment #18494639

    > If Google's goal is truly to create a safer work environment for everyone... Google's directors' goal is to fulfil their fiduciary obligations of maximising net returns on invest…

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    Comment #18475137

    The other choice was to let the Greek govt default on its debts; there're almost 300billion reasons why Germany & France didn't want to do that...

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    Comment #18327814

    > I just can’t believe that the EU ... actually ... tries to regulate something it does not really understand just because... This is generally how government works! But it's even …

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    Comment #18299103

    So, do 'scientists' not have dopamine pathways and an innate biological drive to maximise their personal longevity & reproductive success by securing control of as many resources a…

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    Comment #17892079

    http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Aquinas plus the wikipedia article on Aquinas. Basically, he developed what were regarded at the time as deductive "proofs" for the 'self-evident' trut…

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    Comment #17845877

    From my own professional experience, I'd say it's got more to do with the artificial delivery constraints that come with the mandatory annual and quarterly financial reporting of p…

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    Comment #17657573

    The CC fee gets baked into the price, so you don't notice it - if a store takes card payments then all its products are ~2% higher than they would be otherwise.