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[–] [email protected] 117 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

This isn't even a joke. The article doesn't actually show a list or anything. It's 2 paragraphs and they just say they compiled a list. I dunno if the article itself is an Onion-like satirical joke or just fucking awful.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hard Drive is a satirical site like The Onion but focused on technology.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Bravo to them, in that case. It reads like it was from a real shitty rag of a news site. A graphic of the empty list would have been nice, but also a bit too obvious I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I was wondering what that article was on about!? But knowing that, I will follow that news outlet more closely for the lols...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

All they needed was a colon at the end of the article

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It wasn't this year, but I remember when Satoru Iwata and a bunch of other Nintendo executives took pay cuts when the Wii U was underperforming rather than laying off workers.

So it does happen, just not very often with most companies.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Japan Airlines CEO took a salary of $1 during the downturn..but it's more of a Japan thing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, many US CEOs take a $1 salary, they just get a ton of stocks instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes they do. Here are a few:

  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Jack Dorsey
  • Larry Page

Even those with a "typical" CEO salary usually get far more compensation through stocks (e.g. Costco's CEO). Salary isn't the interesting figure here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It's the alternative to cutting your pinky finger off.

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[–] echo64 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, the layoffs result in the executives (and in the case of giant companies like Microsoft just higher ups in general) getting massive bonuses.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

It also tends to increase the stock price and dividend payout.

[–] obinice 26 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I hate websites like this, I'm reading the article, and as I scroll through reading it, it starts to talk about something closely related but not quite the topic of the article, then it gets further and further from the point.

Then finally you realise it's just feeding a bunch of DIFFERENT articles to you, making them look like they're just subsections of the first article.

Especially as the first article seems to be incredibly short and ends abruptly without including the one bit of content they said they'd include, and there's no reasonable separator or footer or spacer or anything to separate the article from the next one.

Eventually you realise they've wasted your time and duped you and you vow to never look at that website again, but christ, it's annoying.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago

Just in case no one bothered to check: This website is satire. The list is not there, because that's the joke. Not a good one but, oh well.

If you don't believe me: From the About section:

Hard Drive is a very real video games news site that you should not question. Just absorb the information as truth and move on. JK it’s satire don’t ban us.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This article has a comment section, so it's very clear where the article ends. I checked on both mobile and desktop, and it's there on both.

I agree in general, but this page isn't confusing whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Where would that comment section be, exactly?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can confirm the Conversations section is blocked by uBlock Origin on the Android mobile Firefox browser. Is that what you're using, by chance?

Kind of an odd thing for the add-on to target.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do use that, yes.

Really kind of a strange thing to block, might actually be worth reporting to uBlock.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

kind of a strange thing to block

After checking the "conversations", I see several work-from-home scam comments. Maybe it's best to keep it blocked, lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I see a section called "Conversation" between the article text and the Hasbro section. It did take a second or so to load, but it loaded.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Had me at first. Fucking jokes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We should be giving even more respect to the ones that kept their own salary reasonable in the first place so that a pay cut wasn’t necessary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hmm...Costco? And maybe one of those home improvement places like Rona or something? I think there are at least a few...

[–] NOT_RICK 9 points 5 months ago

I miss Iwata-san

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It's a joke! This website tries to be funny/satire.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Truly inspiring. This is what real leadership looks like!

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