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circuitfarmer, in Google is offering an on-campus hotel 'special' to help lure workers back to the office
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

They’re soooo close to understanding.

Having people stay at this hotel eliminates the commute.

Remote work eliminates the commute.

Now, if the company would simply get with it, they could save money both by not having this asinine hotel idea and by not having all the office space.

Delphia,

I mean its not an absolutely terrible middleground IF EXECUTED PROPERLY.

If I had a job that could be done remotely but they want us in the office for a few days here and there unless my commute was under an hour each way Id be cool with coming in, working, going and grabbing some food with my coworkers, head back to the on campus FREE hotel have an early night and do my second day with no commute the next morning. It doesnt sound that bad provided that were talking like 1 overnight a fortnight max.

circuitfarmer,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I do agree with this – but somehow I don’t believe that’s Google’s goal here.

Delphia,

Its one of those things thats purely in the execution. They could absolutely nail the idea where people look forward to being asked to come into the office.

But big companies dont like dollars going out for difficult to quantify returns, they will always try to screw down the spend and ratchet up the measurable returns.

So they fuck it up.

new_acct_who_dis,

Hell no I’m not working 2 straight days like that. I need my downtime, I just can’t produce that many hours in a row.

And I don’t want to have to be social that long in a row.

If those 2 days were my entire work week and I made fat cash? Maybe

AA5B, in Giant space umbrella tethered to asteroid could protect Earth from climate crisis, study says

I also created lots of solutions to the worlds problems sitting around getting high

intensely_human,

I know man. We’ll just accelerate the planet and move it into a higher orbit!

ArugulaZ, in Major 'Sound of Freedom' Financier Arrested And Charged With Child Kidnapping
@ArugulaZ@kbin.social avatar

Every accusation yadda yadda yadda.

feedum_sneedson, in Google is offering an on-campus hotel 'special' to help lure workers back to the office

He’s doing British politician thumbs!

intensely_human, in Giant space umbrella tethered to asteroid could protect Earth from climate crisis, study says

Giant space umbrella tethered to asteroids could also be a super weapon capable of melting enormous swathes of enemy territory.

In fact, any technology capable of stopping global warming can be turned into a super weapon. Including whatever techniques might be used to alter human behavior to reduce footprint.

aksdb, in Man accused of conning Home Depot of $300,000 by taking a bunch of doors without buying them

Costa-Mota would take the doors and load them onto a lumber cart, said the Secret Service agent who investigated the case.

Wow, he messed with the wrong guys there. I can already see a movie about this in front of my inner eye. Gerard Butler plays the agent.

(Did they maybe want to say “a service agent who doesn’t want to be named” or something?)

Anticorp,

This may be a silly question, but why would the Secret Service, which is tasked with protecting the President of the United States, be investigating door theft at Home Depot?

DelnitaCrane,

The Secret Service was originally created to investigate counterfeiting currency, they only started Presidential protection after McKinley was assassinated. Combating financial fraud remains part of their mission today.

aksdb,

TIL.

I actually thought this must have been a “typo” in the article.

Zalack,
@Zalack@startrek.website avatar

Its original mandate was investigating financial fraud. Presidential protection came later and has always been in addition to their original mandate.

CapraObscura,

He was charged was wire fraud. That’s basically the Secret Service’s THING.

Don’t do wire fraud. Anything else is pretty fine. The moment the fraud goes over wires, you’re ultrafucked.

burrito, in Man accused of conning Home Depot of $300,000 by taking a bunch of doors without buying them

I had to check I thought I was in a Trailer Park Boys community.

Bobbinapples, in Man accused of conning Home Depot of $300,000 by taking a bunch of doors without buying them

In a past life I watched people do this with lumber. A con as old as big box stores return desks.

Falmarri, in Man accused of conning Home Depot of $300,000 by taking a bunch of doors without buying them
@Falmarri@lemmy.world avatar

People at my school used to do this all the time with electronics

ciberConas3000, in Google is offering an on-campus hotel 'special' to help lure workers back to the office

Don’t live where you work. Everyone is going to start feeling so much more annoying.

Ilovethebomb, in Man accused of conning Home Depot of $300,000 by taking a bunch of doors without buying them

The sheer brass balls it would take to try this is impressive, I see why “con” is short for “confidence”

Ilikepornaddict, in Man accused of conning Home Depot of $300,000 by taking a bunch of doors without buying them

I mean, at some point you’ve gotta put the blame on the store. Why tf are they consistently letting a dude walk out with product he never paid for. And then why tf are they consistently returning them without receipt. Seriously, they should just let this guy go.

Telecaster615,

I believe most of the time he never took product out of the store. He just grabbed a door and went straight to returns with it. Only if they denied the return would he then leave with it.

Ilikepornaddict,

That’s even worse lol

spacedancer,

Lol that’s pretty clever.

Radium, in Man accused of conning Home Depot of $300,000 by taking a bunch of doors without buying them

So 30% of Home Depot’s yearly wage theft? Oh no!

Son_of_dad, in Man accused of conning Home Depot of $300,000 by taking a bunch of doors without buying them

I’m glad we’re so diligent about thefts towards corporations and the rich. Anytime I’ve been robbed, stolen from or assaulted, the cops couldn’t even be bothered to pretend to care.

AngryCommieKender,

Corporations make up the vast amount of theft in the US with wage theft. Cops make up the second largest amount of theft with Civil Forfeiture laws. They only care if you steal from the big boy thieves.

steve228uk, in Joe Pasquale impaled in freak moose antler incident in Skegness
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

At least someone was in stitches.

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