People run around with nike logos
And pay for it. People are walking ads
Sure, but good luck finding a decent quality running shoe without conspicuous branding at a local shop though.
Can’t wear it, if they don’t make it.
Thanks for mentioning that. I have no idea how to judge a shoe’s quality. I have to do some research
brb, gonna run a marathon in a pair of Oxfords
Same with shopping bags with supermarket logos
Yeah, they did the branding thing to people too.
Yes, with the backpacks.
Didn’t you read the screenshot?He’s not talking about backpacks
Yes, he is.
Didn’t you read the screenshot?I’m talking about the commenter in this thread, not the post OP
Yes, you are.
Didn’t you read the screenshot?
Hats?
Tattoos
Yeah I’ll take the free backpack over the actual “Yellowstone brand” to be part of the gang.
I work for Microsoft. When I had a kid they sent a “care package” with some items. But literally every item had “Microsoft” or “Met Life” (our employee life insurance I think) all over everything.
I ripped the “met life” shirt off of the snoopy plush and trashed everything else.
It’s not just limited to backpacks. They try to turn everything, even a kids blanket, into a fucking ad. It’s so gross.
You can’t send some cheap items to your employee without branding it with an ad.
I don’t work for MetLife. Why the fuck would that even be on there? I guess they want to keep reminding me to get life insurance because I’m a kid. Like, holy fuck, I hate this shit.
Fuck Microsoft. Fuck their support of genocide. I didn’t even choose to work here. They bought my startup company for pennies on the dollar during Covid.
Fuck Microsoft. Fuck their support of genocide.
I’ve been avoiding Microsoft like the plague because of other reasons for a long time, so I didn’t know about this.
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I ripped the “met life” shirt off of the snoopy plush and trashed everything else.
Trashing was maybe unnecessary? Could’ve donated it to those in need.
However I do support the sentiment. Fuck Microsoft. Hopefully you’ll be able to find employment that is more fulfilling and less genocidal. (This is not a stab at you, I get working for an evil company and wanting to get away from it).
Linard! Why Isn’t your GPS tracking device working.
I’ll fix it right away
One year later
Linard, I need to commend you, you’ve been in office 24/7 365.
Just buy a seam ripper, and sanitize your branded sweater/blanket/jacket/etc from their embroidered trademark.
Isopropyl alcohol or xylene can take off most printed/transfer logos on plastic or metal objects.
Worst case scenario you give it to someone else/homeless so it doesn’t end up in a landfill or wastefully recycling an otherwise usable product.
I like the look of the stencil/shape left behind by a removed logo.
Feels rebellious.
You still get company swag? In the 2010’s, I got a ton of it, but not anymore. Maybe it is just that the company I was working at got too cheap to give out swag and when I switched jobs, I joined another cheapskate, but I assumed that it was the same everywhere.
I have enough company and recruiter swag collected during the good years that I have not needed to buy t-shirts, especially because I generally wear a collared shirt over them, so I don’t care what logos and slogans they have.
Meh I don’t like wearing the logo outside but we get a decent number of hoodies and sweatpants which are great for WFH/indoors days. Usually a decent brand and comfy.
I’d always assumed they gave them a salary as well. Thats what I have at my job.
Is it a fair agreement if the only salaries you can find only pay subsistence wages?
At what point does it cross into slavery?
Most of the time we spend alive we have little to no control over how we spend it, sure we could do “anything”, but only until you run out of money.
Well I think a big issue with that is monetary policy. Which bids up the price of goods using debt, as everything becomes financialized. It used to be a mortgage had a real physical cost as a lump of gold moved around, now its just numbers in a computer created out of the ether, and this bids up the cost of living in order to derive what we call economic growth. A transfer from the young to the old essentially.
The 2% inflation we attempt to achieve is after hedonic adjustments, substitutions, and investments are taken out, and so the money supply grows at 10% a year as people are clinging by the skin of their teeth to eek out more aggregate demand to attempt to infinitely grow an economy.
The 2% inflation was decided in the 90s with no real logic put forth as to where it would lead, and its obviously lead to huge bubbles and asset inequality as people try to profit off the first mover advantage of their debt being debased, as the CPI was progressively modified to loosen the money supply to promote more economic growth over time.
In the late 80’s they removed housing appreciation from the CPI for instance, and what do you expect that did to home prices? They did that to fix another problem with the CPI, which was that raising interest rates raised inflation during Volcker, making it a feedback loop that lead to the double digit increase in rates. So it was already broken and it was then patched like it was a car held together with duct tape.
Amateurs!
At Thermo Fischer, you had to work for 5 years before you got the branded Tshirt! And a base all cap.
