Nothing is funnier than a company telling a friend of mine that they are launching a diversity guide next week after firing the only black guy there (him).
How you gonna be diverse when you're letting all the diversity go. You can't even make this shit up.
Corporate support centers are remote locations to isolate the customer from the corporation. That way the management doesn’t have to deal with customers or be held liable for what the customer center says…
#ISDS#PoliticalEconomy#Capitalism#Neoliberalism#Globalization: "ISDS settlements are truly grotesque: they're not just a matter of buying out existing investments made by foreign companies and refunding them money spent on them. ISDS tribunals routinely order governments to pay foreign corporations all the profits they might have made from those investments.
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Governments, both left and right, grew steadily more outraged that ISDSes tied the hands of democratically elected lawmakers and subordinated their national sovereignty to corporate sovereignty. By 2023, nine EU countries were ready to pull out of the ECT.
But the ECT had another trick up its sleeve: a 20-year "sunset" clause that bound countries to go on enforcing the ECT's provisions – including ISDS rulings – for two decades after pulling out of the treaty. This prompted European governments to hit on the strategy of a simultaneous, mass withdrawal from the ECT, which would prevent companies registered in any of the ex-ECT countries from suing under the ECT.
It will not surprise you to learn that the UK did not join this pan-European coalition to wriggle out of the ECT. On the one hand, there's the Tories' commitment to markets above all else (as the Trashfuture podcast often points out, the UK government is the only neoliberal state so committed to austerity that it's actually dismantling its own police force). On the other hand, there's Rishi Sunak's planet-immolating promise to "max out North Sea oil."
But as the rest of the world transitions to renewables, different blocs in the UK – from unions to Tory MPs – are realizing that the country's membership in ECT and its fossil fuel commitment is going to make it a world leader in an increasingly irrelevant boondoggle – and so now the UK is also planning to pull out of the ECT."
Back in the 1950s, a new, democratically elected Iranian government nationalized foreign oil interests. The UK and the US then backed a coup, deposing the progressive government with one more hospitable to foreign corporations:
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This nasty piece of geopolitical skullduggery led to the mother-of-all-blowbacks: the Anglo-American puppet was toppled by the Ayatollah and his cronies, who have led Iran ever since.
For the US and the UK, the lesson was clear: they needed a less kinetic way to ensure that sovereign countries around the world steered clear of policies that undermined the profits of their oil companies and other commercial giants. Thus, the "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS) was born.
@pluralistic Cool. Understanding dawns! Or maybe I'm just mentally deficient. So… instead of a foreign state sponsored coup (á la Pinochet's Chile episode) we get ISDS! So that odious agreement didn't just come down in a shower of rain! And that's why democratically elected, if not progressive, governments are happy to agree to such terms and conditions.
"corporate profits account for more than 50% of our current #inflation. Egg & meat producers, dominated by a handful of multibillion-dollar companies, have engaged in or are alleged to have engaged in price fixing..
So if we just say Boeing has problems, but don’t actually work there, are we subject to Boeings not-suicide-whistleblower-policy?
And should we leave our doors unlocked to save our loved ones the repair costs for them being broken down in advance of our non-suicide by Boeing’s “concerned” contractors?
Or can we rely on Boeing’s contractors to be able to get through a locked door without damaging it?
@Osito@davidaugust He revealed what he knew to the FAA and the media back in 2017, though. His personal lawsuit wasn't enough of a threat to kill him over.
@msbellows@Osito I’m sure the whistleblower who told a friend if he died it wouldn’t be suicide who then died during depositions that might have exposed people at boeing personally to both civil and criminal penalties died of wholly natural causes and there is nothing to look into here.
Everything is as it appears, totally normal and above board.
On another front, I am now in the process of setting up our new #thai#company together with my wife. The #lawyer is already at work. 🥰️
The name is set, the #logo and a minimal #corporate design are made (I used an #opensource font and did all the work in #inkscape), the #domain is bought and set up, the #website is in the works (with #grav) and our thai #friends are on board as shareholders as well. 😃️
Unfortunately I can't share the details yet, but I'm still really excited. 🥳️
@ercanbrack I can hardly wait to make it public. 😝️
I can already say this much: we have rented a viewing platform in need of restoration and will be renovating it next. We want to make and offer a whole range of things there, but will start with the smallest item on our list around July. The company should be founded in June.
We are incredibly excited. 😊️
The exquisite skewering of the intersection between #webdevelopment , #antiwork , #corporate bullshit and parody is at the level of The Office (UK) and the IT shop (UK).
Does the US #television industry somehow discourage innovation in this area?