I was hoping to get a new superpower today, but when I was young I was cross eyed. I got this corrected through surgery and can no longer cross my eyes.
RTO was a way for companies to encourage employees to quit without the need to pay severance. Once those people left then additional downsizing happened. For the most part this has already taken place. Companies that were going to play that game are done and companies that didn't need to downsize never played.
I doubt any of this posturing was about effectiveness of remote, hybrid, or in office work.
Likely, though for companies w very skilled (expensive to replace) labor there is much sensitivity re hybrid or WFH. A lot of Bay Area companies are simple downsizing and moving closer to those employees who will be in office. Win win
I think they are Grannies. Taste pretty good. But there is an option for fries and apples or double fries. So pretty much it's almost always double fries.
My wife had a decent chunk of medical debt when we got married which was long before COVID. Even at that time medical debt didn't count terribly against her. Maybe a 10 pt drop in her score. And eventually the debt fell off her credit.
This is one of many reasons why hospitals charge so much. Medical debt is extremely difficult to actually collect because refusing to pay has basically no consequences. Hospitals have to eat those costs and make up for it by squeezing patients who do pay for as much as possible.
I did the same thing with an ER bill I couldn't afford a while back. I just never paid it and suffered virtually no consequences.
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The same paper also states that they calculated the number above earlier, but only about 1/12th of those are valid so the real number of valid combinations is 4x10^19
Not only this, but they state "'thousands' of bogus SolarCity accounts may have been created". The average install is $15K-29K [0]. So even is there was 1000 fake accounts at $15k that's $15 million in missing sales?
Add to that even though SolarCity's revenues were about $480M it looks like almost half of that was from leases and incentives [1]. So on the lowest end we are saying 5% of all revenue was faked?
I'm not sure if this is really the case. There was already an effort underway to repeal this through a vote by the citizens. This seems more like the city council heading off the vote to save face.
Amazon might be the loudest employer, but they are not the only employer impacted by the tax. The person leading up the signature drive isn't even an Amazon employee:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-maiocco-a9520
This would be a vote by all Seattle residents to determine the need for the tax. Are you saying that Amazon is going to somehow rig the election?
I'm just pointing out that it's interesting that the day after articles started coming out that the signature effort was way over their goal of getting this tax on the ballot for November election the city council decides to vote on a repeal.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/head-tax-repeal-...
More of the same from government promising Mars in X years. This will just be killed off by the next president. If this was serious it would have been announced at the beginning of his 8 years. We could have even put some of the ~550 billion spent on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. We probably would have gotten more bang for our buck.
I also wonder how much of this was brought about just to point out that the US will not be supporting SpaceX's hopes of a Mars mission.
SpaceNews.com said that this announcement "largely reiterated the space policy [Obama] announced in an April 2010 speech at NASA's Kennedy Space Center..."
