Stabitha_Christie

mmatz said:

Pretty simple. Hire the most qualified candidates for the roles. In technical roles, most qualified = most able and willing to do the job most effectively.

Race/gender/sexual preference have nothing to do with being able to do the job effectively.

I’m guessing you lack the self-awareness to realize you are arguing for DEI. 

longfang said:

rob53 said:

Why in Texas? People thought Apple's products were getting too expensive, just wait for products coming out of Texas. They will break everyone's budget. Who in Texas will actually work at this manufacturing facility? Will everything be automated? Where will the people for these 20K come from, India? Who's going to build the facility? Not the hardest workers from south of the border. trump made sure of that.

It’s a server farm. No physical products are gonna be built there. Way to show that you didn’t read the article. 

Quotes form the article:
"The Houston facility will specifically be for the production of servers"
"Opening a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston"
"the company says that it also intends to continue 'expanding data center capacity in North Carolina, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada.'

It sounds whole lot like they are producing servers in Houston for use in data centers elsewhere. You know, because the words "production" and "manufacturing" were used in reference in Houston and Texas wasn't on the list of locations with data centers. 

Way to show that you didn't read the article 

Xed said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

9secondkox2 said:

Recently took a big career jump. Pay went up by 25,000/year. 

Was so excited. Then I got my first paycheck. Was the same as before. All due to my new friend, Mr. New tax bracket. So I’m genuinely happy for anyone and everyone (including wealthy people) who get a tax break. The bracket system needs to disappear. 

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The U.S. used a graduated/progressive tax system and what you are describing, getting a 25k raise but your net pay remains the same, can’t happen unless one of the  following occurred. 

1. Your employer is doing its withholdings incorrectly. 

2. You increased some sort of deduction (maxing out a 401k example.)


I guess the other option is you actually don’t understand how a graduated/progressive tax system works and just made up the story. 

I recall being given that same BS about "I got paid more but took home less because of my new tax bracket" by dumbass shift or store managers at at least one shitty ass job I worked at when I was an adult and probably a young adult, but 1) it never really made sense to me so I looked it up and quickly found out that it wasn't correct true (and that was before the internet), and 2) haven't heard that the OP claims for a very long time.

Do you remember during Obama's presidency when Obama was talking about letting the Bush tax cuts expire for couples whose adjusted income was over $ 250k or singles that were over $ 200k, and people online (it's never a person you meet in real life) were saying they were refusing pay increases past $ 249k and $199k because if they went over they would get paid less? It was the quickest way to identify people that didn't make anything close to $ 250k/$200k and had no idea how taxes actually work. 

9secondkox2 said:

Recently took a big career jump. Pay went up by 25,000/year. 

Was so excited. Then I got my first paycheck. Was the same as before. All due to my new friend, Mr. New tax bracket. So I’m genuinely happy for anyone and everyone (including wealthy people) who get a tax break. The bracket system needs to disappear. 

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The U.S. used a graduated/progressive tax system and what you are describing, getting a 25k raise but your net pay remains the same, can’t happen unless one of the  following occurred. 

kkqd1337 said:

Disappointed in Apple here. They should have stood up to the UK Government and just said no. 

You seem to have missed the part where Apple didn't do what was asked, build in a backdoor, they simply stopped offering a feature. So they did in fact say "No to the request.