If Jeff Bezos was looking for a way to destroy the Washington Post, mission accomplished. Within three days of his decision to quash the paper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for president, more than 200,000 people have cancelled their subscriptions, about 8% of the customer base. His lame op ed defending his decision isn’t helping, either. It’s as if all the country’s rich fucks decided together to demonstrate that having had one money-making idea does not make them geniuses, and that the money has turned them into toadies.
I’m taking this as a sign that the Grand Old Fascists know they’re losing: They’re setting ballot drop boxes afire in Democratic areas. Proto-humans harnessed fire 2 million years ago; Republicans have not progressed since.
Slovenly shitheap Steve Bannon was released from prison after serving four months for contempt of Congress. Now he faces 15 years in prison for bilking morons out of money that was supposedly going to build a border wall; the trial starts Dec. 9, which gives them plenty of time to air out his cell.
Once again, a more enlightened nation than ours has shown that working longer hours is a drain on productivity. Oh, they don’t present it that way, but when Iceland ran a trial cutting workers’ hours from 40 to 35 or 36 per week, that’s what they found.
The trials involved 2,500 people — more than 1% of Iceland’s working population at the time — and were aimed at maintaining or increasing productivity while improving work-life balance. Researchers found that productivity stayed the same or improved in most workplaces, while workers’ wellbeing increased “dramatically” on a range of measures, from perceived stress and burnout to health and work-life balance.
I await the study that shows eliminating middle management increases productivity.
The floor’s yours.