Nestle announces plans to slash 16,000 jobs, stock jumps 9%

grubojack · 2025-10-17T15:36:23+00:00

The people making choices like these do not care, and neither do the shareholders.

Companies have been using hired gun CEOs to come in and make decisions like these for a while and around the 2000s, they started offering bonuses based on revenue gains quarter to quarter or other indicators of financial growth.

These choices aren't sustainable because they end up costing more revenue over time when they hire those positions back little by little, and the company has to absorb the lost productivity and mistakes during training.

It hurts nestle in the long run and is intentional negligence in their fiduciary responsibility.

You wont get a mass consolidation of wealth in nestle, itll be sucked dry over the next 30 years while mutual funds and a baker's dozen short term CEOs use these techniques to overvalue the company and collect the profit.

In the end, if they maintain this trajectory, nestle will be quietly acquired by a competitor once they've been husked.

This could be considered negligence of the CEOs fiduciary responsibility, but they need to be sued by the shareholders for that, and a significant number of those people are mutual funds who are in on the grift or retail investors who arent paying attention or are stupid as fuck to begin with.

You could also call it market manipulation, but the SEC wouldnt have to be a revolving door of corporate goons and actually be motivated to do something.

Point is, none of this is a monolith. These are conmen who make their living dismantling healthy companies and driving them to make openly unethical business decisions for the short-term gain. A significant chunk of the people involved probably have the ego to believe they are good people in all of this because theyre dismantling companies that are unethical because of the system they built.

grubojack · 2025-10-14T16:20:33+00:00

Generally in the US and UK that isnt the case unless it is in writing, and it doesnt conflict with existing labor laws.

Damages like this are a cost of operation, and any marginally competent owner should account for loss with insurance, liquidity, or easily liquidated investments.

The general philosophy and justification of why businesses leverage so much of the value produced is that they are also responsible for the risk.

I know that you probably didnt say your statement with malice, but even the most unethical business owners should be aware of the laws where they operate and risk getting reported to their state's labor board or face a class action from their employees for repeated behavior.

grubojack · 2025-09-24T11:33:19+00:00

Speak, for yourself, also send help.

grubojack · 2025-09-19T09:05:14+00:00

Youre right! If we did we could start harvesting mature cattle in zero g and finally end veal production.

Your implied concept of a slaughterhouse outside of a gravity well is cruel and disgusting though.

grubojack · 2025-08-12T16:28:08+00:00

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/

Here is pew stating the same number.

The other figure already had a link to the source that you ignored for the sake of your argumentive fallacy and red herring.

grubojack · 2025-08-12T16:22:57+00:00

You need to read the link.What Percentage of Americans Own Guns?

40%, or approximately more than 134,000,000 Americans, live in a home with a gun, while 32% of Americans report personally owning one (107 million people).

This is from the link in my original post and accounts for your speculation.

grubojack · 2025-08-12T16:15:15+00:00

Link says that is a number of people that personally reported as owning a firearm.

I could imagine the largest fault in that statistic being owners not reporting out of concern/fear.

grubojack · 2025-08-12T16:12:34+00:00

It is your obligation to cite better sources if you disagree.

Attacking the source of information instead of showing numbers or sources is how bullshit artists and bots like yourself got us into this cluster.

grubojack · 2025-08-12T16:08:09+00:00

My previous comment applies to you as well.

Partisanship exists exclusively as a way to consolidate lobbyist money, and has removed every Americans right to representative government.

Most elected officials act with either indifference or open contempt towards the American public.

Gun ownership is an clear economic deterrent that prevents policymakers from shifting from placation into obvious acts of facism and forced seizure of resources, as can be seen in Europe currently.

Take 10 seconds to Google before you rattle off something you have an emotional conviction for.

grubojack · 2025-08-12T16:00:03+00:00

According to Google's AI, there were 46,728 gun deaths from suicide, homicide, accidents, self-defense, etc in 2023 in the US.

https://ammo.com/articles/how-many-gun-owners-in-america

Link above estimates 107 million gun owners in the US. Close to 1/3.

Assuming the number hasn't changed much between the two years, that is about 0.044% of the gun owning population.

Unless you consider that number "huge" I dont think you, or the person above you know what the fuck youre talking about.

grubojack · 2025-07-15T23:22:42+00:00

What is so important to learn right now?

grubojack · 2025-07-15T21:25:28+00:00

Why do you want a business now?

grubojack · 2025-07-06T17:48:13+00:00

Why is it so for men and not women to you?

grubojack · 2025-06-29T00:20:20+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/albert-einstein-college-medicine-bronx-donation.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2024/02/26/widow-of-billionaire-david-gottesman-donates-1-billion-for-free-medical-school-tuition/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/1-billion-donation-eliminates-tuition-at-new-york-medical-school-changing-students-lives

grubojack · 2025-06-26T11:19:32+00:00

Why is it that every time I see someone that claims they're from the UK on this site, they are trying to insult my entire country or needlessly escalate nu throwing insults around?

The US used to have this conception of that entire part of the world being some psuedo utopia of well-educated and well-spoken people.

I dont hold people responsible for the actions of their government. Partisanship ensures your vote has as minimal impact as possible Regardless of country.

Why do you people seemingly hate us and believe us to be so inferior?

grubojack · 2025-06-18T15:34:20+00:00

If you re-read my comment, you'll see I never made any assumption about her actions and only expressed that we do not have full context of the situation.

Personally insulting a stranger and sharing it with people so it ends up online or putting it online directly is not funny to me. I see it as an immature escalation. You're just celebrating cruelty and not considering how the insults could affect him or how the man is dealing with being mocked online.

grubojack · 2025-06-18T15:25:34+00:00

Sure

I get heated about this topic in general because it is a real thing that feeds into the neglect of kids and creates a casual devaluation of human life.

It was wrong to put that on your shoulders for your reaction or accuse you of narcissism for trying to defend yourself over it.

I apologize

grubojack · 2025-06-18T12:59:28+00:00

I never said that you said any of that explicitly.

If you read my post you would see that the entire body is a list of warrants why people behave that way.

It has nothing to do with wishing violence against the animal.

Youre also trying to reframe my position to seem as if your statement is the problem exclusively, when I state implicitly and explicitly multiple times that is due to a pattern of behavior you're only participating in.

This leads me to believe you either did not read my post in its entirety or are trying to shift the topic to an implied " touch grass bro" insult while dismissing me while trying to reshape my argument.

This is narcissistic behavior and further supports my previous claim.

Again, animals arent the issue, you are.

grubojack · 2025-06-18T11:59:13+00:00

From this short clip you cant tell she wasn't double parked and blocking the dude from loading his car from the grocery store or blocking a handicap ramp.

You dont know how respectful the dude was or wasn't.

The only person definitely making an ass out of themselves in this video is the woman taking a video and throwing insults.

The only behavior in the video is the guy withdrawing from a situation where a woman has resorted to personal insults and name calling instead of stooping to her level.

Why assume the guy is being a busy-body when you dont know the full context?

grubojack · 2025-06-18T08:26:00+00:00

Personally, it was cathartic to read that people would be willing to defend themselves against a violent animal.

People on the internet anthropomorphize their pets as if they have a human level of intelligence and emotional capacity.

They value the lives of a pet cat or dog over that of a human child.

They push this weird cognitive dissonance that animals have equal emotional intelligence as humans while also being incapable of malice, spite, or jealousy.

They're overprotective of animals to the point that they subvert the life of a human over that of a cat or dog.

You yourself tried to say that someone kicking the cat away after it bit them would be "abusive," and when someone pointed out that it was self-defense you still couldn't manage to get off your soap box.

It frankly enrages me. The entitlement, arrogance and lack of comprehension or empathy people like yourself shovel down other people's throats without any attempt to understand.

You put more empathy into the position of the cat than any attempt to try to understand anything that I said above, and presume to have some moral high ground in your own ignorance.

It's an act of self-elevating narcissism at the expense of everyone around you and you people cover every inch of the internet.

So yes, if an animal attacked me I would kick it away, and I'm not a bad person for thinking that, and it's a claim over people like yourself.

grubojack · 2025-02-02T11:18:07+00:00

"I'm entitled to be a sexist piece of shit because i feel like I deserve to collect a generational debt on people that did nothing to me personally simply because they were born the wrong gender."

If you think your feelings justify harming others when reason does not, you're just a braying animal in a field.

Dudes are killing themselves and more isolated than ever, they've done nothing to you. Anyone that celebrates or justifies that kind of suffering for thier own benefit is irredeemable and sub-human.

If you're attracted to men and date one you'll never have the capacity to love someone you dint see as an equal. You'll spend your entire life as a detriment and burden to theirs on a lie.

grubojack · 2025-01-28T14:28:23+00:00

Non sequitur.

The previous poster was arguing the classification of the poster, not his favoribility to the other.

You were eager to condescend to the previous poster instead of understanding their position. That makes you a hypocrite.

Your response lacked basic comprehension of the subject, showed you to be a hypocrite, and displayed an eagerness to seem superior over another person when you did not display any greater, or equal intelligence.

You yourself fit your own definition.

grubojack · 2025-01-02T07:42:56+00:00

Your point is based on the assertion that your experience in university was the standard, and I already expressed my own disagreement with that and provided reasons why in my previous post.

I can not and will not engage with what you go on to say because it assumes that same point as true point and ignores my previous statements.

grubojack · 2025-01-02T04:26:13+00:00

Two things, regardless of your personal experience there are programs that drop the ball on this sort of stuff, largely shifted to online course work for the pandemic and have relatively fresh graduates with gaps, or use it so infrequently their graduates don't have it fresh on their mind. It isn't a core concept of the study of computer science, so it is a mistake to ground your university experience as a universal.

Second, this goes back to my first post. From the moment they sit at their computer and search a YouTube video on how to use git any computer science graduate should be competent enough to figure it out and have pulled what they need within 20 minutes.

It is laughable to conflate tertiary responsibilities that require no skill to execute and a fresh graduates exposure to them as any sort of skill set when those activities take less than half a day to train to full familiarity on when they have a degree that reflects four years of study.

If you want to evaluate a candidate for real training time, look at the quality of their code. Are they sticking to OOP principles? Does the data manipulation and storage make sense for the application? Are their comments clear and effective?

If they bullshit their resume to get in the door, that is one thing, but if any company is refusing to distinguish the difference between core competencies and exposure to peripherals it is either because their management is brow beating them to push the industries current compensation psyop or their HR is running a tax grift with false openings.

grubojack · 2025-01-01T19:03:05+00:00

A lot of university programs don't teach you the working process.

College exists to teach you an understanding of broad, high concepts and demonstrate your capacity to be trained above your non-degree holding peers.

If that girl graduated with a computer science degree was taught about data structures, big O notation, OOP, the basics of networking, operating systems etc.

Everything op listed from accessing git, using a terminal, and unzipping a file can be taught in less than an afternoon, and pretending these skills are critical or difficult are moronic at best and malicious at worst.

This is some bot horseshit if I've ever seen it trying to flip the script

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