ped_xing

At what cost?

My surplus labor value at my first job, my second job, a few jobs in between and my current job.

I find np a worse message when taken literally. If I even have to write an email, it's at least a little problem. yw allows for a problem you solved for somebody without suggesting that it doesn't come at the expense of other priorities. Both will be interpreted the same way by almost everyone, of course.

You're welcome to ask things like that of me. This is within the realm of stuff I will gladly do for you.

"Locally made" makes it sounds like they're bringing them home from the farmer's market in a canvas bag.

Yeah, I'm not running goatse linux.

It seems like a company that would require employee-purchased headsets would already require employee-purchased laptops. Do you know of any? Honest question; I don't, but my bubble is pretty small.

It's a square root of negative one. A sneaky way to get two answers with one question.

The number of times I walked out of the shower without using soap plus i times the number of times I soaped at least twice to avoid that scenario.

because otherwise the shareholders eat you alive for not chasing infinite profits.

I think that while the threat is real, the threat being a major motivator for upper management is largely illusory. It's absolutely there, but it's not making them do stuff they're not already keen on doing. Nobody weasels their way up the ladder to do non-profit-maximizing things, occasionally getting reprimanded for not maximizing profit and always one stray "the old phone's fine" tweet away from getting canned. They're willing and enthusiastic profit-maximizers.