One for unionizing, two to cover for closing the store that unionized.
I can live with most of the other stuff, since the quality is good and they are hassle-free devices with Unix-like conventions, they last long, feel fantastic to use; Despite the price, despite the ring-kissing of Trump, despite being a mega corporate spreading its capitalistic cancer across the globe… all because the alternatives have been even worse.
Union busting is where I draw the line though, no matter if it’s in the sale or manufacturing or design side or whatever. This is the first one I hear about, I’ve not been aware of any earlier instances, mostly because I don’t follow stuff so tightly, I am almost certain it has happened before, but now that I have it in front of my eyes I can no longer abide it in my blissful ignorance.
This marks the day they lost me as a long-term customer. Perhaps ought to have happened earlier, but for me, it happened today.
I encourage others to consider the same.
Not really sure what I’ll do after these current devices die on me, but now it’s clear to me it can’t be apple. Google’s been dead to me a long time, same for Sony, Samsung, most other big players.
I guess we’ll see what the landscape is like in 5 years.
Fuck this. Fuck apple. Fuck me.
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My industry has a lot of Apple laptop users for the reasons you mention. Every time I pull out my Zenbook Duo, I hear converts in the making. Sure, it’s a bit thick, but it runs Linux great and has two monitors in a portable platform with a good battery.
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Android is Google, not MS. Not much better.
Rich pedophiles really will close entire stores, losing 100% of profits from them, rather than let them unionize, losing potentially 5% of profits short-term.
100% of profits from 3 stores vs the risk of all their employees in the entire company having leverage for all future compensation negotiations.
Unions have proven to increase productivity and overall profits.
Unions Strong!! Fuck corporations and the dirtbags that run them!!
I, for one, am shocked!
Can we get rid of all the stores we don’t like this way?
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Sort of person that says “and a half” after their age.
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“For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” wasn’t a crime. They wouldn’t start the name of a crime with “for”. You’d have stuff like “for murder”.
Initialisms weren’t even common back then when that word was first attested
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