They can't do that any more than a restaurant can ignore food safety laws because their food is 'meant to be like that' or a driver can ignore speed laws because their car was made to go fast.
But this got me thinking, why couldn’t Apple just tell them to fuck off by saying that iOS is meant to be that way cause we are the ones who designed it and the ones who own it. And if you want a change, go make your own products.
Most large companies have different implementations in different countries to comply with their laws. Apple opening up iOS in Japan doesn't mean they have to open it up everywhere. Same with how some games have to tone down blood and gore for certain countries, but that is localized and not worldwide.
On the other hand, car laws in California don't apply to the rest of the country but manufacturers usually implement the laws everywhere because it is cheaper for them to do so.
In both cases, the reason they comply is because laws are laws and if they want to do business in a certain location they must comply.
From the renters perspective they have the risk of paying money to find out that the rental post was misleading, the location is crappy, etc. on top of their wasted time.
Charging for an application that involves paying a third party to process? Sketchy, but understandable.
Charging for them to even look at the property? Ridiculous.
I know the early ones started that way, but many modern SUVs are closer to minivans with additional clearance and worse aerodynamics/feul economy.
Of course vans and minivans started off as the equivalent of enclosed trucks, so maybe I'm putting more meaning into the intermediary step than it deserves.
They thought having an AI-generated character, a sidekick called Bit, might be a “buzzy marketing strategy”.
Please, please be a sidekick for Leto's character. Please Disney, just do it. You don't even need to have Leto react to it, just have it bouncing around and making lame jokes!
We know that there are use cases but with the massive prevalence of LLMs and image generators being forced into everything we don't need to list the exclusions every single time.
First, it is ok to be bored. Yes, people will blather about stuff you don't care about. At least you are getting paid to listen in a workplace?
And engaging EVERY topic?
Based on context they were referring to the refusal to engage when they said every. Aka not engaging with any topic.
You should engage with some topics instead of zero topics if you want to get along with people. Yes, it can be a lot of work, but less work as you get more practice.
Also this comment is a big warning that your behavior really is the problem. The managers were not saying you need to be best buds with anyone, just that you need to play along with social dynamics sometimes instead of never.
Yeah, although sometimes it is beneficial to do extra work if they promote from within. Fairly rare in my experience, but when they do it is worth it as the farther up the chain the less anyone pays attention to how busy you look as long as the work gets done!
But I’d just like to pause here to confirm whether maybe anti-AI is just our shorthand for anti-the-way-AI-is-right-now. Anti-the-companies-that-run-AI. I do not want noisy server farms taking up all the water of rural communities.
Yes and also all the pressure to conform to AI being jammed into everything and running the internet into the ground while they are doing it. Training data sets on stolen or collected data against people's wishes.
I'm completely against those things and while it is true that there are many machine learning and other technologies under the AI umbrella. It is the actions of the companies that are doing AI for profits AND the people who shill for them because they ignore all of the negatives and only focus on the positives.
I think you are reading the situation accurately and are probably on the spectrum. I also find small talk to be pointless the vast, vast majority of the time and that a lot of people need it to actually see others as people.
Being a blank slate results in people putting their assumptions on you. If you don't do small talk, or put on a face of enjoyment occasionally, a significant number of people will assume you hate them or are upset about something. Many people find not sharing something to be hiding something, because they were taught by society to not trust people who aren't open, which isn't really reliable but that is what it is.
So while I think you are absolutely right, you can either stick to your current approach or fake it like I do. It took a good solid decade of practice to get reasonably good at smalltalk, and I have to fake it most of the time, but occasionally and interesting tidbit comes out and I use those to keep myself going. It also helped with being more expressive with the people I was happy to see, and whike there is a chance that someone will assume that means playing favorites it is still better than when I was extremely formal and kept entirely to myself.
Managers tend to be extroverts because extroverts like working with multiple people. So figuring out how to navigate social settings like work in a way that kind of fits in will absolutely improve your experience in the social setting, like any other work related skill. Some of us just have to work at it harder than others if we want to be socially successful.
Side note: A lot of people are extremely indirect in their communication for a variety of reasons, from trauma to just really wanting to see if the other person can infer what they are implying. This is extremely frustrating when one needs a clear answer, and people that can't be clear and direct when the situation requires it are the absolute worst.
The people OP are talking about see direct communication and clarity as abrasive. It is absolutely extroversion vs introversion.
I have worked with plenty of people who all react differently to the same interactions and have the opposite takeaways on whether someone was polite or abrasive. Like one guy I worked with always gave clear answers to things that were asked clearly, but when someone was indirect and wanted the person to infer something any follow up questions (asked directly and without any real emotion) was seen as them refusing to 'just get it'. That is what these managers sound like. Extroverts who don't understand that introverts aren't asshokes for not playing the small talk routine and pretending to be happy about everything.
When I was a kid we had one with the captains chair in the middle row and a table and it was fucking awesome for road trips. We could play cards or something else that didn't get messed up from road bumps on the interstate. Worked well for eating lunch on the road if it was raining outside too.
I'm sure the reason they went away is failing crash test ratings, but those spinning seats were so damn fun.
Hard pass