They are extremely toxic people and they intentionally hire people that have this toxic masculinity crap going on, because "they are traders" and "they are tough men".
They got this libertarian competition going on between departments which is incredibly toxic environment to work in.
Taking vacation (which is required by law there) is considered a show of weakness which will hurt your career, while "grind" is the ideal.
This resulted in our project manager breaking down and crying in the middle of one meeting, our team lead having a mental breakdown and just go missing for 2 months, shouting matches, name calling in the middle of open offices etc.
They make a huge amounts of money and literally give us (underpaid externals) unironical advice to buy ourselves yachts for birthday. We are talking here like $160k + over $200k in bonuses per year...for rookies.
They showed me their Christmas Party video, which is forbidden to share outside of the company. It's like a Hollywood produced ultra-kitschy and expensive party, where the hosts in tuxedos wear animal masks like in the "Squid Game". I am not kidding. The decadence is just off the charts.
Any normal person would absolutely be radicalized by just looking at that party, however, to my dismay, some of my colleagues seem to have been drawn to that despicable show of wealth and superiority.
Otherwise, they would make fun of me for being "politically correct" (I am not really), complain about "cancel-culture", LGBTQ+ people etc.
They also regularly make fun of climate activists. I tried to find a single redeemable person in there and I failed miserably. There's no fixing this, just Minecrafting.
There was a book about these companies called "The world for sale", written by some libs (I think), who admit these companies are terrible, but "necessary" for capitalism to work, and therefore OK. The author called them "The last swashbucklers of capitalism" in what it seems to be even admiration.
I am amused how both these "tough traders" and clueless lib authors of that book seem to be even scared by the Chinese state-employed traders, because they don't care about profit as much as they care about making Chinese productive capacity run without issues. They literally can't process a non-profit motive.
The author of the book talks about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Uod2pE37Y
I think that's about far as I would go explaining that...
I am an immigrant who sends money home, and pretty old, so cant choose between tech jobs much.
I keep little money and basically try to make life of my extended family a little bit more bearable. I send some money to PCRF and such, but that's it.
I absolutely despise 90% of my software engineering colleagues who are either reactionary or infuriatingly idiotic libs.
I am happy I just got off a project for one of the biggest commodity traders in the world and if you think dystopian shows presenting rich capitalists as toxic, despicable scumbag psychos are exaggerated...think again. It's worse than most people imagine.
Pretty old news. This pier has already unceremoniously fallen apart, while doing absolutely nothing to help Gaza relief efforts, for the brief period it was active.
Additionally, I have more and more average Americans online telling me they want to move to Europe, so things are pretty bad over there as well. They just don’t know Europe is worse off.
Europe shot itself in the legs by decoupling from Russian gas, then shot itself in the head by placing tariffs on green technology because it basically has to come from China.
It’s so over for Europe it’s not funny. I am afraid things can only get worse…
Proxy war in Ukraine is an absolute disaster for European economies and the US are not doing so well either.
Kinda hard to be reasonable when fighting for survival
Correction, western-backed Ukronazi regime is fighting for survival.
Regular Ukrainians are fighting for survival by evading forced conscription by Ukronazis.
Oh, and a giant PR failure
So, AFU is fighting for PR, while Russian forces are fighting a war of attrition. Guess who will prevail.
And women are at fault of getting raped?
Those responsible for proxy war in Ukraine are sitting in Washington, not Kremlin.
Citation needed
Ukronazi MoD regularly posting Nazis in AFU should be enough for anyone with more than 2 braincells.
Top ranking Ukronazi official said all civilians in Crimea are considered valid targets, when they recently attacked a beach full of civilians with ATACMS missile.
Why would you support OUN Ukronazi regime is the question here? That's what most Europeans are asking themselves these days, while their economies slowly crumble and they suffer under neoliberal austerity measures.
This so called “Pax Americana” we occasionally hear about, only applies to Western countries, but the author is trying to expand it to entire world, which is obviously ridiculous, given, you know…the reality.
Do we have actual information about these ships? Does Ansar Allah publish the information about why they are targeted? I believe they used to do that.
The libs are salivating because one ship was allegedly carrying vegetable oil from Russia to China and the other one was apparently carrying Russian oil somewhere...
If I remember correctly, they had their communist party split in two, so both the party in power and main opposition are communist.
However, the country is not doing that great, people are leaving for work etc, so what seems to me like liberals are gaining some traction now, at least locally, as my Nepalese colleague tells me.
Serbian monarchists/fascists are the mainstream these days. Croatia officially “observes” anti-fascism, but in reality the parliament sponsors a fascist event in Austria etc.
Both of the countries are not as openly fascists as Ukraine imo. Not even close.
I am very happy that Yanis Varoufakis, who would probably get called a lib here, straight out said “I do NOT condemn Hamas” and got promptly banned in Germany.
So I wonder, what kind of communists are these CPUSA people?
I didn't even add any special commentary. I literally just posted the list and the fact Germany is out of top 5 and Russia is in, and they were all in meltdown mode. It's astounding to me, because I used to live in allegedly "authoritarian" socialist country and we were used to criticising and pointing out failures of our government all the time.
Where do you suggest to donate for people of Gaza?
https://crisisrelief.un.org/opt-crisis?
I’ve got this org in my mailbox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terre_des_hommes ?
Me too, I just hope to see the USD dethroned during my lifetime. If Michael Hudson is right, the entire US military machine that runs on the fact USD is the global reserve currency, would crumble with it.
They are extremely toxic people and they intentionally hire people that have this toxic masculinity crap going on, because "they are traders" and "they are tough men".
They got this libertarian competition going on between departments which is incredibly toxic environment to work in.
Taking vacation (which is required by law there) is considered a show of weakness which will hurt your career, while "grind" is the ideal.
This resulted in our project manager breaking down and crying in the middle of one meeting, our team lead having a mental breakdown and just go missing for 2 months, shouting matches, name calling in the middle of open offices etc.
They make a huge amounts of money and literally give us (underpaid externals) unironical advice to buy ourselves yachts for birthday. We are talking here like $160k + over $200k in bonuses per year...for rookies.
They showed me their Christmas Party video, which is forbidden to share outside of the company. It's like a Hollywood produced ultra-kitschy and expensive party, where the hosts in tuxedos wear animal masks like in the "Squid Game". I am not kidding. The decadence is just off the charts.
Any normal person would absolutely be radicalized by just looking at that party, however, to my dismay, some of my colleagues seem to have been drawn to that despicable show of wealth and superiority.
Otherwise, they would make fun of me for being "politically correct" (I am not really), complain about "cancel-culture", LGBTQ+ people etc.
They also regularly make fun of climate activists. I tried to find a single redeemable person in there and I failed miserably. There's no fixing this, just Minecrafting.
There was a book about these companies called "The world for sale", written by some libs (I think), who admit these companies are terrible, but "necessary" for capitalism to work, and therefore OK. The author called them "The last swashbucklers of capitalism" in what it seems to be even admiration.
I am amused how both these "tough traders" and clueless lib authors of that book seem to be even scared by the Chinese state-employed traders, because they don't care about profit as much as they care about making Chinese productive capacity run without issues. They literally can't process a non-profit motive.
The author of the book talks about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Uod2pE37Y
I think that's about far as I would go explaining that...