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| magic:
--- Quote from: daqq on July 03, 2020, 06:22:39 am ---On the whole corporate virtue signalling: Corporations do not care about causes, they are in it for the cheap marketing and good will. That's it. --- End quote --- Depends. Have you not seen the video of Google CFO or something like that crying after the 2016 US election? ;D |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: magic on July 03, 2020, 06:35:16 am --- --- Quote from: daqq on July 03, 2020, 06:22:39 am ---On the whole corporate virtue signalling: Corporations do not care about causes, they are in it for the cheap marketing and good will. That's it. --- End quote --- Depends. Have you not seen the video of Google CFO or something like that crying after the 2016 US election? ;D --- End quote --- Did they cry for George Floyd? thought not! |
| paulca:
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 03, 2020, 12:17:34 am ---Just saw this reading news - --- Quote --- JPMorgan drops terms 'master,' 'slave' from internal tech code and materials --- End quote --- --- End quote --- Great. That's my door step it's on. This could get ugly for me. I refuse. Point blank. I refuse on the grounds that this move is RACIST. So I might end up working elsewhere. |
| bd139:
I'm glad I work at an organisation that has a shallow enough hierarchy so that there isn't anyone idle enough to fuck around with this shit and burn money on it. |
| bitwelder:
Has a replacement term already been chosen for the academic degree between bachelor and doctor? (BTW, degree probably hold by many of those who are proposing this terminology change). |
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