Devils_Avocado

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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
...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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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
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 EVERYONE assumes to be true when they start but EVERYONE
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
+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 looking elsewhere for an environment more in sync with your o
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
Who pays the salary & bonuses? Who owns the entity that pays the salary & bonuses?
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
Read a S&P500/FTSE100's Directors' contract, then get back to me...
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
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 it pretty hilarious that ppl took my initial comment as bei
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
...and who owns the corporate entity? The "owners of shares"?
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
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. It's literally the only reason the company pays them a s
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
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 shareholders to maximise returns on invested cap
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
Nope. They already tried that, the troika rushed in to stop even the suggestion of that being a possibility.
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
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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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
> 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 worse than usual in the EU, since it's an unacc
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
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 publicly traded companies. They announce their year
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by Devils_Avocado 8y ago
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.