Since this bonus is now in relation to the Trump tax cuts, bonuses will be paid every year going forward. Right???

If the union negotiates it every year.

This was in the local print media too, not mentioning unions.

Um... The unions not being mentioned was in the local media or the bonuses were in the local media without mentioning the unions? :D

Latter iirc

Wells Fargo says raises were not linked to tax bill passage — then backtracks - LA Times
There's been a bunch of them blowing smoke up people's asses. I do wonder the end game though. Are they all going to abandon ship once they bleed the stone dry or do they honestly not get how badly they're screwing the pooch right now?

I don't see how the layoffs are an issue. I mean, sure, give it a month or so, but what are they supposed to do? Keep people on that they no longer need? For how long?

ATT and other companies are lobbying for and supporting tax cut legislation that are paid for by massively cutting social safety nets all while they're cutting jobs. How do you not see that as an issue?

Are they even cutting jobs on the whole, though? Is it really that unreasonable that a certain division might at some point have surplus employees?

What Steele said, but you could clarify something for me, foobar? Why were you so against Clinton if you never seem to have a problem with the people pulling her strings? So far I've seen you call for punching and killing Nazi's, ignoring the plight of poor racists in middle America, but when it comes to the billionaire corporatists lobbying for tax cuts and cutting our social safety nets it's, "Let's not be too hasty!"

These are the people tearing America apart. Your average nazi shithead isn't rewriting the tax code to take healthcare away from millions people, causing more to go hungry, and end up on the street. They're just footsoldiers, suckers being taken advantage of. You're making excuses here for the assholes pulling the strings. And I'm specifically asking because I've seen you dodge the corporate responsibility line before and I would like to understand where you're coming from. It seems very at odds with the rest of the values you share.

Hey, I'm all for taxing them and redistributing their wealth, but forcing them to employ 700 people to sit on their thumbs seems like a pretty weird and inefficient way to do it.

Even if AT&T were a non-profit there would still occasionally be shifts in staffing needs.

I agree. With increases in efficiency you're going to need less people. The answer to that is not the Donald trump promise of coal jobs. The concern though is what happens to the surplus labor. Idle hands are the devils plaything.

I agree with that, but they're also lying about creating jobs and where bonuses are coming from in order to get these tax cuts. Saying they're going to create 500 jobs because of a tax cut while not mentioning the 30% of their workforce they're looking to cut over the next few years is reason enough to be concerned and need to be informed over layoffs, don't you think? If you're going to tell your wife you want a baby it seems only reasonable for her to know whether or not it's going to be with her.

From Jan. 31, 2016 to Jan. 31, 2017 AT&T employment fell by 5 percent from 281,000 to 268,000, according to public filings.

A New York Times profile of Stephenson in February 2016 said senior executives believed eliminating 30 percent of AT&T’s workforce by 2020 was not out of the question.

https://nypost.com/2017/12/22/att-boss-touts-big-employee-bonuses-amid-job-cuts/

Because the big lie people buy into is that tax cuts create jobs and that never works out positive for the lower classes.

I'm sure that anyone working for one of these companies that gets a bonus and is anti-union will refuse the money.

Right?

They won't because they'll need that money to pay for increased premiums and other payments affected by the tax bill.

1) What does it mean when a comment is filtered under my threshold?

2) About a month ago, I tried for a long time to change my password using my computer and my iPhone. Can't, from either.

3) Also, their voice transcription thingie for voice mails doesn't work for me.

4) You can't pick up ATT a mere two blocks from their downtown San Rafael office, and they're mighty defensive about that.

1) It means it has been downmod below the threshold set up in your profile.

2) On SE or ATT?

3) I don't think I an help with that.

4) I bet they are.

Reagan then had to raise taxes 11 times.

During Reagan's presidency, the national debt grew from $997 billion to $2.85 trillion. This led to the U.S. moving from the world's largest international creditor to the world's largest debtor nation. Reagan described the new debt as the "greatest disappointment" of his presidency.

Enjoy your table scraps.

He's not trying to make a point. He's trolling. Ignore him.

When I get around to it, I'm going to write a Greasemonkey script to turn all his comments into the utterances of Ralph Wiggum. Then I'll enjoy SE even more.

Or, ya know.... Moderate the site. Stop them from hijacking posts with their inane distractions.

Once it reaches -5 or whatever, can it then be unviewable by anyone ever? The comment filtered thing is too tempting, enragement a devilish pleasure, toxic to health and site.

filtered comments tempt
enragement is a pleasure
toxic to health and sight

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I enjoy haiku
But this one moreso because
It's a palindrome

Should we also delete their pictures from the What Do You Look Like threads, Stalin?

boo

No, but most people don't bother with looking at moderated comments. I've noticed its the troll feeders who are the most likely to look at comments once they've been hidden. In the grand scheme of things they're the ones who give trolls the most exposure. 9 times out of 10, everybody else can't be bothered most of the time. If they just downmodded and ignored it would be a much different atmosphere, all those silly threads comparing epeens would disappear.

How about have comments start modded at their karma score if it's negative? Then maybe there'd be a point to modding.

I'm considering that, also leaning towards a captcha tho. In my head these guys are little more than spammers so I'm trying for something that will handle both disruptive behavior and bots and advertisers.

ahem.

Alright! I'm moving on! 😁

That one was for Christmas though.

Yes, it mostly works with most people not bothering. Respecting the current system, and wishing to contribute, I sometimes click through to judge for myself. If found again worthless or too often vile, my added downmod adds no benefit. Once a strong enough majority decides the site better without it... shouldn't it best be removed? Filtering as misdemeanor, removal as felony.

But if everyone does their part, the toxicity can spread out amongst the masses in small harmless doses. As it stands now there's like 4 or 5 of us vs them and the people feeding them.

Regarding edit. :)
Removal would be too easy to abuse. Despite my detractors claims, I am trying to build a fair system here, but there's only so much that can be done with people who ignore facts and are looking only for arguments. Downmodding and ignoring them isn't perfect, but to me, it's the most merciful and safest of options.

There is also karma to consider, added downmods do contribute to karma which controls posting and moderation abilities.

To be sure, I suggested fully unreadable removal of a heavily and universally downmodded comment, not of the regularly downmodded commenter. It's like neighbors together cleaning their street of graffiti and litter, repairing damage of vandals. The system now feels more like a sheet thrown over we must still live with as reminder of man's falling. If you still disagree, I'll try not to pursue it further.

I don't disagree that it would be nice, but I'll never create removal of comments as part of the automated process. It'd be too easy to abuse and i would never hear the end of it.

Authoritarian regimes are trending

You make a good point.

-1 Trollfood

There could be some practical use to it, rather than your ahem or similar which may continue to feed, or the -1 Unworthy Self link seen forced to fit.

Yeah, been thinking about that. Been thinking about cycling out the mods as well and just going with a plus or minus with the ability to add tags to posts...

We all appreciate your highly effective leadership, and applaud your many huge successes!

It would also cost you a subscriber.

Sure, but if I ran the site based purely on that things would be much different. Money can't be the be all, end all. I'm going to run the site the best way I think it should be.

Until I sell it to facebook.

And what about those jerks that upmod unpopular comments? What's the best way to punish them for their incorrect opinions?

Those upmodding an unpopular opinion support it as that less unpopular.