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Grindr Loses Almost Half Its Staff on 2-Day RTO Requirement

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Post by toolz »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #180
hgomersall wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this a serious reply? I mean, don't cats just ignore everyone? What do cat sitters do apart from spoon food from the packet into the bowl, replenish the water and occasionally tickle the cats tummy?

Cats are pretty sensitive to changes in their environment. They have a hard time with change, it's just if you're not paying attention it's hard to tell until they stop eating and you have to take them to the vet.

I imagine it depends on the cat. I've moved cities and states with a few cats a few times and they were back to mostly normal within a couple days and only stopped eating out of stress for maybe a day.

Takes them weeks to completely relax, but I wouldn't say that puts them in a relatively "sensitive" category when compared to other animals.

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Post by that_guy_iain »

mjhay wrote: post #6

Not sure that it's such a great business decision to lose almost half your staff, and probably moreso the higher-performing ones with other options. I'm guessing that this was intended to reduce the headcount without paying severance, which sounds attractive to the average MBA brain with zero ability to think through long-term consequences.

I’m pretty sure this was basically an unofficial layoff.

The company seems happy with the result. Plus, everyone they hire in the future won’t have an issue with office work. Short to mid term it may be painful. Long term as in 5-10 years this will be a blip.

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Post by enraged_camel »

mrguyorama wrote: post #165
toomuchtodo wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's likely. https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-28-bidens-nlrb-brings-wor... https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-issues-d... https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/national-labor...

That looks like a lot of marketing to me trying to shore up Biden's reputation with Union workers after he killed the railroad strike and left our necessary workers to the dogs.

You’re getting downvoted because that wasn’t Biden, it was Congress. Biden is probably the most union-friendly president over the past 50 years.

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Post by sneak »

wvenable wrote: post #13

> Staffing is the “single biggest cost” after fees paid to app distribution platforms like Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to Arison. This is a hilarious quote. It's a software company! What other major costs are there besides the staff to make and manage the software? I think I even find it a little disturbing that fees paid to Apple and Google are higher than salary paid to staff.

Apple IAPs are highway robbery. They charge ~10x the industry standard for card processing (30% vs 3%) and they only get away with it because sideloading competitors is impossible.

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Post by pdonis »

K7PJP wrote: post #182
mrguyorama wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

American Railroad ideology is that the most "efficient" railroad owns no track and runs no trains. American businesses believe they should be able to spend zero money and yet still make all the profit.

Yes, the railroad industry literally made this argument last year when (successfully) appealing to the Biden administration to block a railworkers strike. > During hearings before the board on wages … the railroads argued that labor from railroad workers does not contribute to their profits. “The Carriers maintain that capital investment and risk are the reasons for their profits, not any contributions from labor,” t…

> the railroad industry literally made this argument

No, they didn't. The article you cite misdescribes the situation (for ideological reasons that are old hat to anyone familiar with the history of socialism). The railroads didn't argue that they should be able to spend zero money and make all the profits. They argued that they were paying money: they were paying employees fairly and adequately for their efforts. And having done that, they, as the owners of the company, took the profits that were left after meeting all company expenses, including paying labor fairly and adequately for its efforts. That's literally what owning a company means. An employee is not an owner. Profits are what the owners get after paying their employees.

A much better argument against the railroads in this case is that the railroad routes that their companies have exclusive rights to are granted by government regulation, not in a free market, so the revenues that are available to them, and which determine what their profits are after paying their employees, are not due to their sound business acumen, but to their ability to buy government regulations that favor them. But the article you cite does not say that (again, for well known ideological reasons).

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Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan »

nevir wrote: post #17
wvenable wrote: post #13

> Staffing is the “single biggest cost” after fees paid to app distribution platforms like Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to Arison. This is a hilarious quote. It's a software company! What other major costs are there besides the staff to make and manage the software? I think I even find it a little disturbing that fees paid to Apple and Google are higher than salary paid to staff.

To us in the industry this is pretty obvious—but it's surprising to folks outside of tech.

Many (most?) technology companies manufacture and sell physical products, and have dramatically different cost structures than a pure software company like Grindr.

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Post by vuln »

callalex wrote: post #183
vuln wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That has absolutely nothing to do with the number of staff. It is directly related to the ADL’s campaign of convincing advertisers to pull out. It appears there will be a lawsuit. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/05/tech/elon-musk-adl-lawsui...

Just because Musk says something doesn’t make it true. In fact it usually means the opposite.

What about the ADL itself? Here’s their call to action against Facebook. Why wouldn’t they go after twitter… Oh wait they did barely one month after acquisition.

https://www.adl.org/resources/letter/open-letter-companies-a...

https://theweek.com/controversies/1018137/one-month-after-it...

https://forward.com/news/556095/adl-twitter-advertising-boyc...

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Post by fabrice_d »

hgomersall wrote: post #173
jmspring wrote: post #160

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A good cat sitter is hard to find. The wife and I have told ours, if we move, she is moving with us.

Is this a serious reply? I mean, don't cats just ignore everyone? What do cat sitters do apart from spoon food from the packet into the bowl, replenish the water and occasionally tickle the cats tummy?

You need someone to open the doors. And close them. And reopen them. Cats have a hard life!

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Post by [deleted] »

n8cpdx wrote: post #50

How many engineers does it take to lose chats, give bots unfettered access, not back up my messages, and spam me with low quality ads? It’s worth pointing out that the fees they charge for the premium subscription are absolutely outrageous. $20-$40 PER MONTH. I guess they just added a web client, which absolutely no one needs, that probably cost a pretty penny. Scruff makes a drastically better product at similar sca…

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Post by [deleted] »

supertimor wrote: post #187
vuln wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That has absolutely nothing to do with the number of staff. It is directly related to the ADL’s campaign of convincing advertisers to pull out. It appears there will be a lawsuit. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/05/tech/elon-musk-adl-lawsui...

I mean, Elon is also blaming the CCDH for his loss in advertising. He’s not exactly an unbiased source here. Just because he says it, doesn’t make it true.

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