jovi.tiatia

Anonymous airdrop can also be used to harass with unwelcome non-sexual materials of any subject, for example: religion, pyramid schemes and other scams, leaked personal identifying info, a digital virus, anything Android, incorrectly loaded dishwashers, or the smart case for the Airpods Max.

Why are so many people automatically tapping accept on anonymous AirDrops?

We already have some common sense surrounding spam phone calls, texts, emails, and postal mail. Don't open/answer them.

If youre on a plane and you click accept out of curiosity, then don't be surprised when you find out whatever is inside that AirDrop!

If your child has a smart device and accidentally (or non-accidentally) accesses porn, there are many ways that can happen besides AirDrop, and maybe you should figure that all out before deciding to give a smart device to your child for whatever educational or tracking or life-saving reasons. What is most important to you as a parent?

If you're really worried about security/privacy, then yes, keep your AirDrop disabled or set to contacts only, among many other things you should be doing.

As far as censorship in China, yes, def a thing, not just a theory, given so many concrete examples so far, such as Taiwan labeling requirements or the most recent Hong Kong protests. But let's not be ignorant hypocrites of the censorship and propoganda happening right here in the U.S. Yes, it's different that what happens in China, but still happens here. I'm sure many people in power here would like the 10 min rule applied here to discourage protestors as well. Even better if China gets blamed but people in power here get to benefit.

proline said:

jovi.tiatia said:

If a company is purely vertical, top-down, do-as-your-told, then be that publicly and practice it consistently. Own it, and don't apologize for demanding top performance and obedience. Stop wasting your time and energy pretending to care and putting on a fake fluffy facade.

Apple is a top down company. You go there to work for Steve, and when he's dead you work for Tim. Apple never pretended to be something its not. These 0.01% of employees think it should be something it's not. They should go work for Twitter or whatever.

Ahhhhh, the good old "If you don't like it, then leave" argument.

And yet, the people who argue that, they do things all the time to stay where they are. They say it's because they rightfully belong there. They've earned it.
Sometimes, they leave a situation they don't like. They call it integrity and self-respect.
Sometimes, they demand and drive change to make a place somewhere they want to be. They call it leadership and courage.
Sometimes, they leave situations they like in search of more. They call it drive and ambition.

I have personally had to promise myself never to work in call centers ever again. It took me several years to realize that line of work requires skills I do not possess. My brain does not work that way. I am very good at some important things there, but overall I am better off elsewhere, and call centers are better off with better-fitting people than myself. One of the call centers I worked for went as far as telling me to undergo sugery in order to keep my job, demands I did not follow through with, and have not needed at all since leaving that place. So yes, I did leave, and I'm never going back.

But I can telll you this, that company is not being public and honest about making demands like that. They always butter it up for the media because image is important. There are other examples of that same company in the news with related fiascos. In many ways that company was and still is amazing. However, they had no right to make such invasive demands of me, especially when the alternative would have been a simple flexibility on their part, something I've enjoyed at almost all my other employers without issue, it's just a given for everyone.

Perhaps this example with Apple and WFH is not so extreme, but I will say that as a publicly traded company with press releases and an HR department, they are not brutally honest about being top-down. They also butter up the power dynamic when speaking publicly, because they wanna look and sound like the good guys, maybe not all warm and fuzzy, but they don't want to sound completely cold-hearted either. If they really wanted to be unapologetic, they could immediately fire this 0.01% of employees and blacklist them across industry allies. If they are so small and whiney a minority, if they are so replaceable, if so many talented and more obedient resources are lined up, then what is Apple waiting for? Apple has a $2.6 trillion market cap. Figure it out. Fire and hire them. What are they afraid of?

This is more than just Apple and WFH.

Companies need to be more honest/transparent about power structure and culture. Too many try to have it both ways: egalitarian and authoritarian. People in the workplace or seeking work would benefit from being intentional on how a workplace aligns with one's values. Just like companies and customers demand and drive change, so can employees also demand and drive change. We are all pieces of this puzzle.

If a company is purely vertical, top-down, do-as-your-told, then be that publicly and practice it consistently. Own it, and don't apologize for demanding top performance and obedience. Stop wasting your time and energy pretending to care and putting on a fake fluffy facade.

If a company is all feel good, your-voice-actually-makes-a-difference-here, we-are-all-on-the-same-team, then be that in private and practice it consistently. Own it, and don't apologize for climbing Jane Jacob's ladder of participation. Stop wasting time on people who don't and might never appreciate what you do.

It's like when people say it's only human nature for the strong to survive, the weak to fail, stop whining that life isn't fair, but then those same people whip around and say everyone has to follow the rules or suffer punishment, then also go on to say forgive everyone and be kind. But in a world of strong-survive/weak-fail, being kind and forgiving is weakness and failure, whereas being aggressively Type A is what earns respect and power.

It seems a lot of people don't realize this contradiction. If that sounds 500,000% condescending, I am okay with that. After all, you're either strong or you're weak. Either in charge, or you do what I tell you to. Isn't that how this works?

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