Google’s response sure is some vile corporate doublespeak:
As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead. To best position us for these opportunities, throughout the second half of 2023 and into 2024, a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better, remove layers and align their resources to their biggest product priorities. Through this, we’re simplifying our structures to give employees more opportunity to work on our most innovative and important advances and our biggest company priorities, while reducing bureaucracy and layers.
Ok so supposedly Google fired the team maintaining its own version of Python, which was about two dozen people.
“coherence” aside, is there any other evidence for this? It seems pretty straightforward. If there is, google is looking seriously off-the-rails. If not, then ok it’s a bad article. I guess we shouldn’t try to google it.
Blather is defined as talk long-windedly without making very much sense. Not making very much sense to me is incoherence. Your logic knife is so sharp your cutting yourself.
That one is true, though. It’s like when we learned squirrels violate all known laws of physics and are actually part of an elaborate conspiracy to collect acorns and corner the market on oak saplings.
In a major development, according to reports emerging online
and
According to reports from sources that produce news on such matters
These just scream AI-written to me. Especially the second one. Nobody talks or writes like that. If you don’t have sources to mention, you don’t mention sources.
It sort of makes sense. A stronger EU safety net means less burden of future proofing lands on each employee. That’s bound to make those employees more competitive.
In the US, I have to consider the possibility of an uncovered black swan medical event in my family’s future, since our medical safety nets are poor. As someone who can demand more money, you bet your ass that my employer gets to pay for ways to reduce that risk to me.
If I were a EU citizen, I suspect I wouldn’t be worrying about it, or carrying so much insurance.
But you would be, you’d just be paying for it in taxes instead of your pocket. If you’re middle class, you’re paying for it either way. I don’t know how those are funded in the EU, but you’re either paying for it through corporate taxes (i.e. lower salary), income taxes, consumption taxes, etc.
Comparing apples to apples here is quite difficult because of the complexity of such systems, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes out to a similar number.
No, you don’t have to have a large amount of reserves, because it’s paid as part of the salary regardless. If you’re fired, you don’t have to pay it any more, even though you can still benefit from it.
It’s not dead cash sitting in an account on the bank, it’s in constant flow.
The same is true in the US, I invest my HSA funds, and I can sell if there’s a major medical emergency or something. The main issue is having to pay for insurance regardless of employment, but ACA subsidies are pretty good for that (I was unemployed for the better part of a year and paid very little).
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