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Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs (www.404media.co)
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[–] [email protected] 183 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Heads up, the headline is kind of misleading. “Going sleeper” is just their internal slang for getting laid off. It doesn’t mean some kind of protest or activism.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The headline is stupid ... It basically says Geek Squad is laid off after getting laid off

Journalism is basically beyond saving at this point...

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Journalism is basically beyond saving at this point...

I mean, it's basically a no name website. It's not like this is a NYTimes, AP, or The Atlantic headline.

Edit: I guess what I'm really asking is, it's a bad headline from a small publisher (it's surely happened many many times for decades), can't we leave it at that without the dramatization?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Overreacting and dramatization is what social media trained us to do, so I’ll go ahead and answer that question with… no, probably not. Or as social media taught me; I SLAM your comment DOWN!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I clap back at your slamming of the previous poster's comment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

If I'm not mistaken 404media is where a lot of the VICE crew ended up, so I am a bit underwhelmed/disappointed by the headline

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess what I'm really asking is, it's a bad headline from a small publisher (it's surely happened many many times for decades), can't we leave it at that without the dramatization?

If this were an isolated example, sure.... But go to all those sources you mentioned and tell me how many times some "slammed" someone else...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But go to all those sources you mentioned and tell me how many times some “slammed” someone else

Okay ... Let's google it ... I'm open to be being bias checked; The Atlantic and NY Times.

Some "The Atlantic" examples:

  • "Boston Fire Chief Slammed Over His Response to Marathon Bombing"
  • "Northeast Slammed by Blizzard"
  • "The Storm Heard Round the World: How Sandy Slammed Global Aviation"
  • "This is What 400 Pounds of Sumo Wrestler Getting Body-Slammed Looks Like"
  • "HuffPo's Sex Strategy Slammed"
  • "Republicans Slammed for Recruiting 'Hicky' Actors for West Virginia Ad"
  • "Everyone's Getting 'Slammed' This Week"

Some "NYTimes" examples:

  • "A Window Into Chinese Government Has Now Slammed Shut"
  • "Trump Slammed the W.H.O. Over Coronavirus. He’s Not Alone."
  • "Regional Banks Slammed by Fear of a Broader Financial Crisis"
  • "How Mink, Like Humans, Were Slammed by the Coronavirus"

What's your point exactly? These aren't (IMO) atrocious headlines; I suppose a few could be more informative for sure but also these are like ~1 per year.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. They wanted to highlight the dumb “sleeper” line for some reason, even though it’s probably the least newsworthy part of the message. “Geek Squad faces huge layoffs, members call it ‘going sleeper’” is much clearer but still a waste of time and space.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

By today's journalism standards, you are ready for Chief Editor!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m very good at wasting time and space effectively.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey I just downed a big bag of sour gummies and popcorn watching movies at home... If I keep this up I'll challenge anyone for more wasted space!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Shine on, lazy diamond.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It says that in the article

Edit: not really sure why I got downvoted. The whole article is like 20 sentences. This isn't some kind of high brow journalism. The whole thing takes less than a minute to read.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

And we all know everybody’s great at reading the article.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Headlines aren't supposed to be deep cuts to geeksquad lingo that's only explained in the body.