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this is what apple does. they use their clout, then they turn their back and play ignorant whilst placing unrealistic demands on the subcontractors While makin
by snozolli 4y ago
this is what apple does. they use their clout, then they turn their back and play ignorant whilst placing unrealistic demands on the subcontractors
While making $30 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2023. Apparently, this disappointed Wall Street, because they made $34.6 billion in Q1 2022.
So, time to squeeze the vise on the little people.
Also, they have $165 billion in cash and securities. Maybe they could just physically crush underperforming workers using gold bars.
- lostlogin 4y ago> vise Alternative spelling of vice. News to me.
- georgebcrawford 4y agoIt's the American spelling.
- deafpiano 4y agoAs a American, I write it as vice.
- vondur 4y agoA vice is a bad habit, a vise is a tool that clamps things together.
- lostlogin 4y ago*in American English. Both are ‘vice’ in English English (UK/NZ/AU) as far as I’m aware. ‘Vice’ in American English, still has alternative meanings, like ‘vice president’.
- glogla 4y ago> ‘Vice’ in American English, still has alternative meanings, like ‘vice president’. Does that count as English? I though it is borrowed Latin, like de facto, et cetera or per se.
- lostlogin 4y agoNo idea - it may have come to English via French too. English is a mongrel of a language.
- defrost 4y agoFrom a brief dip in the multi volume full OED it looks like "Vice Chairman" (etc) came about via vyse | visage | "face" .. as in "This person is a substitute | deputy | "the face" of another person or role" It's a usage going back to at least 1597 and lost in the fog of time before.
- glogla 4y agoInteresting. It works the same in a most European languages (Vicepresidente, Vice-président, Vizepräsident, Wiceprezydent, Viceprezident, Віцепрезидент, Вице-президент, ...).
- hulitu 4y ago> ‘Vice’ in American English, still has alternative meanings, like ‘vice president’. Why do you think it has "alternative'' meaning ? /s
- 1-more 4y agoYou had me curious so that's about 3k short tons of gold. Could crush a lot of people. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=165+billion+USD+%2F+%28value+of+1+ton+of+gold%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=165+billion+USD+%2F+%28...
- redleggedfrog 4y agoShould be fine as long as the put the nets on the outside of the buildings to catch the jumpers. /s