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This was designed for a concept aircraft but the creator says it can be modified to fit into a modern widebody.

Not that it matters. Shit like this will never see the light of day owing to egress issues.

The 787 and 380 would like a word. Fuckin' Dreamliner is already wider than most houses, with more headroom.

Yay! More bearers of shit and misery news! There are dozens of us! Actually, probably way more given the size of the industries...

I got out a while back. Inherited a bit of money, took some time off. Unfortunately getting back in is proving impossible, so joy all around I guess.

He didn't have to deal with it. The firm I worked for was quite large and covered various specializations. I was a paralegal in estate planning. He was in... corporate contracts? Something like that. Even if he was the EP attorney he wouldn't have to make the calls I did. You ever have to tell a 90 year old woman that her husband died without a will because your firm is incompetent? I have, among many more great hits of COVID. Yay trauma dumping!

The problem with that is it applies throughout the year. Those weren't the only unattainable metrics.

To give you an idea of what this place was like, I was shitcanned because I spent too much time in "UNAVAILABLE" status. For two whole days I was "UNAVAILABLE." It was on the last day of one month and the first day of the following month. When the next review came up I was auto-termed because I missed my "AVAILABLE" numbers two months in a row.

I was "UNAVAILABLE" because I had been promoted and was in training for two days. My trainer told me to be "UNAVAILABLE."

Apparently that wasn't a good enough reason for being "UNAVAILABLE." Rather than correcting it or even trying to stick up for me my manager gave me a "Sorry, nothing I can do."

Nordstrom, by the way. Garbage company. Do not work for them.

I lost all respect for an attorney I worked with when I saw that his LinkedIn was just covered with DeSantis/Abbott praise during COVID. The firm I was with did estate planning. We were so swamped in estate planning and probate (meaning a client had died) we had to bring on multiple new people to handle the caseload.

And this motherfucker was totally onboard with anti-mask garbage.

So I guess LinkedIn KIND OF works in that it tells you who the idiots are.

Someone I know online had a coworker that offered to fluff up my resume. First thing she asked "What's your LinkedIn?" I don't have one and don't intend to have one. "Well there's nothing I can really do if you don't have a LinkedIn. Nobody will hire you without one."

I'll work for Nobody in that case. Probably a better employer than one that is so lazy they can't even hire without a bullshit website telling them exactly what's already on my resume.

If you give people good metrics to hit, they'll hit them. If you don't have good metrics then you rely on seeing asses in seats to know if people are working.

By the same token, if you give them stupid-ass metrics you create your own turnover.

I worked for a call center that had metrics based on prior month performance. If you didn't match, you were out. Okay, fine, except this was retail. Oh, you didn't take as many calls in January as you did in December? You're out.

Welcome to corporate reality. It's all run by idiots.

It's not a billionaire problem. It's a SOCIOPATH problem. The kind of people that come up with terms like "human capital" aren't the ones sitting on the board of directors or in the C-suite. They're the "consultant" types whose entire job consists of selling other people their opinions. Take for example Irving Fisher, who is credited with the term "human capital." Know what else he was into? Motherfucking eugenics, because of course he was.

That's the real problem, and it's one that exists across every socioeconomic class. The asshole will always win because everyone just wants to shuffle them off to be Someone Else's Problem. Eventually said asshole will attain a position well above their actual capacity for value and their lack of mental acuity will appeal to similarly ill-tempered douchebags, creating a cultlike following.

Figure out how to solve the sociopath problem.

The billionaire problem is easy. Bring back the 90% margin and add another 99% one to those earning over, say, a billion in a year.

This, of course, for a given value of "easy."

By being smart enough to get their OS packaged with new retail PCs in the 90's while the market for them was just warming up. They kept their stranglehold going by not caring too hard about piracy. Just enough to keep from losing any trademark considerations.