Because of my job I see a lot of factories from the tech industry and most, if not all, are trying to reduce their impact. Some of them are doing it out of virtue, other because at the end of the day it’s cheaper for them to produce and some are doing it because it looks good on paper and attracts investors.
Now, the factories that I work with sell in countries where standards and regulations are tight, so take this with a grain of salt.
I wanted to change my last name to the one of my maternal grandfather’s, but at this point it would be a buerocratic shitshow to change all my papers, contacts, insurence, mortgage and what not.
How can you be a democracy if you have only two political parties?
Bring back the Blackberry.
A real man wears longjohns, ideally tucked into his boots.
I keep saying that Trump will try to do with Canada or Mexico something similar as Russia din with Ukraine. And the pretext will be either the 51st state bullshit or invading Mexico because of cartels.
“Agitators” gives me Romania pre 1989 vibes.
Not strictly a company secret, but I had to sign an NDA for it, because… reasons.
I used to work for a massive conglomerate, these guys are making from components for satellites and tank to rubber gloves for hospitals, and everything in between. My job was to help the company implement regulations, work with auditors and generally follow product specific rules.
So I was on these 2 New Product Development teams and because the products needed some very specific testing equipment, we started working with local authorities and some contractors to build the testing station in the future factory. We drafted plans, prepare documents, we had an auditor come and see the place, the contractor came and checked what he needed to do, everything was going according to plan.
While all of this was happening, I was on a separate project where we were working on closing down the above mentioned factory.
We do this with my work colleagues.