That headline is giving them too much credit. They merely let kids fight and essentially yelled "CRIPPLE FIGHT! KICK HIM IN THE BALLS!" like Cartman would instead of stopping it when they saw it.

A "ringleader of a child fight club" would need to organize fights and betting, make sure everyone keeps their mouth shut. You know, the basics. You gotta train your champs a bit so you get a good show going. I'm not saying I'm sad about it but as far as child fight clubs go they didn't really have anything going. If there was a child fight club union they wouldn't qualify is all I'm saying.

Seriously though fuck those kinds of people.

Damn, that's not fair. Boeing were doing their best to make their planes unbuyable with their absolute trash company culture resulting in tons of safety issues. They almost had it on their own and now the trade war madness is stealing their thunder.

It's like shooting a man that is about to jump off a cliff. Just let them cook. They got this.

To be fair if you make an AI and ask it to be an authentic catholic priest you'd essentially have to reward it for such actions because it understood the assignment. Now why you'd make such an abomination in the first place that I don't know. The ways of the lord and all that...

Many people who have been in abusive work situations know that there's a point when you should leave but the constant drain from the abuse keeps you in a state of exhaustion that prevents any action. It's often only once this makes you so physically sick that you have to take the time off and realize this can't go on any longer.

I believe this is the zone where Amazon wants to keep their employees. Fully exhausted, given up on any possible improvement.

If you find yourself in a situation like this, run like fuck.

I actually know people who operate like this. My old neighbor was a paycheck to paycheck kind of guy who'd always instantly spend all of his money on any trash you can think of. One day he came home with 3(!) Michael Bay Turtle movie collectors editions because they were on sale ("fantastic value!") and by the end of the month he didn't have money for food. That's how bad his financial decisions were.

Anyway instead of proper budgeting he'd come up with these horrible ways to make sure he'd have money "stashed away". E.g. he'd prepay 100 bucks per month for his electricity and then get half of it back after a year. That was his way of saving up money. Funniest thing about this was him calling the utility company and explaining to them why he wanted the highest possible monthly payment despite using so little power. They had some trouble understanding his investment strategy. Another classic was buying expensive things and selling them for half of what he payed. That's pretty much what the picture implies. If you buy a $200 android phone and spend $1000 on useless crap then you won't be able to sell your phone to pay the bills. The $1200 iphone on the other hand will get you $600 in an emergency. It's the idiot's piggy bank.

But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks

I think the proper term is enshittification sharts

It's a bit misleading to phrase it as they did. Germany didn't trial this. A few companies in Germany did. How many? Well fuck me if I know because the author does their best to keep any absolute numbers out of the article. I'm all for reducing work time since our productivity has easily risen enough to allow for that (once we eat the rich) but don't try to sugarcoat it.

Even used the lever to do so.

Ah, the "if we don't do it someone else will"-defense. A classic.

I for one appreciate that ubisoft chose the top down view of poop as their logo. it's the perfect symbol for everything they represent and they're incredibly brave for wearing it proudly on their chest.

High availability and security are the bane of IT infrastructure jobs. It makes me anxious to think about my MSP days when I'd sit on my couch on a Saturday fully aware that I'm one phone call away from having my day, weekend or even the next two weeks ruined because some customer CEO has full domain admin rights and would give them to anyone who'd ask on the phone or via email.

Same as oil companies claiming they care about going green now after denying the mere existence of climate change tooth and nail for decades. Apple even already confirmed that they'll weasle their way out of the EU law for replacable phone batteries with the waterproof loophole.