God damnit, Toyota!!
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I have been looking at getting a used FR-S lately. Not so sure how I feel about that now.
Well, technically that would be the “before times,” so… an FRS should be OK used. It’s a badass car.
Saved you a click:
- Meta
- McDonald's
- Walmart
- Molson Coors
- Ford Motor Co
- John Deere
- Lowe's
- Harley Davidson
- Brown-Forman
- Tractor Supply Co
- Toyota
Knowing that Home Depot also sucks ass, my hardware store options are getting pretty limited.
Look at industrial places. I used to go to a bolt warehouse that just sold bolts. Another place sold bearings. There's lumber yards that sell hardware too. Check newegg for tools and stuff too.
I'll let ya in on a little secret...
If it's big, it has like a 99.999% chance of sucking just as bad as any of the bad ones. You just don't see or hear about it.
Ace Hardware. Maybe Menards but they are anti-union.
John Menard is a massive turd by CEO standards.
I feel like Meta (Facebook) didn't cave so much as took the mask off.
Someone should really do something about Meta
more like all of them changed masks and next time a democrat government comes back they will wear the other mask
Yeah. There are plenty of companies keeping their DEI hiring without it being mandated. And it's not like the government can penalize them for using those hiring practices. (Yet)
They want more extreme rhetoric because it drives engagement. They went to a paid creator model and I see accounts that post random shit to get people going in the comment section.
It's not so much that they "caved" to the far right as that they finally can get away with this stuff and focus on profits.
Corporations only care about profits. Their sole legal obligation is to the shareholders. Corporations have no moral values. DEI is an expense line on the balance book for them: they do stuff like DEI when they're forced to by law, as the cost of doing business lawfully, or when they perceive it to be in their interest to appeal to potential buyers who care about DEI.
When the president is openly extreme right and - more importantly - when half the population voted him in, it's evident to all corporations that DEI is not a subject the majority of the population is interested in. Therefore they drop the expense. It's that simple.
What you're witnessing is shameless corporations devoid of any sense of morals doing what they always do: minimizing their expenses. Don't blame them: blame the morons who wanted it to happen. That's your neighbors two doors down the street with that MAGA lawn sign and your annoying creepy uncle who just can't shut the hell up about communist libtards at family dinners.
Gosh, it's like companies in a capitalist economy have absolutely no moral center whatsoever and will do whatever they can get away with to maximize profits!
Surprised that they missed Caterpillar in this list, given it’s significantly larger than John Deere. And yeah, I agree that it wasn’t “caving,” more a convenient excuse to throw their employees under the bus in the quest for short-term profit above all else.
Oh what do you know, it’s the world’s worst companies that won’t ever get any money from me
They're all like that. Good luck buying nothing.
Ethical consumption is impossible under capitalism. We can and should try our best to minimize the amount these shitty companies profit, but completely divesting from them all is impossible.
Molson Coors. From hero to zero.
The very annoying thing about these big conglomerates is that they own dozens and dozens of brands... and even if you go to that brand's site, it won't show an address or contact info of the parent company.
TIL that Granville Island and Hop Valley Brewing is owned by Molson Coors. So if you're in Vancouver looking for craft beer come and get Parallel 49, Steamworks or any of the multitude of other options there are here.
The Coors family started the Heritage Foundation and gave a significant amount of money to dozens of right wing organizations, so I would not consider them "heroes" in any sense. You're losing the plot if you ignore that, for having a perfect score for inclusivity.
https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/the-1970s-coors-beer-boycott/
Coors Family ≠ Molson Coors
The Coors family are indeed pieces of shit, but they own ~10% of the company. The company is mostly owned by institutional investors. Don't get facts mixed. Coors family is shit? Fact. Molson Coors was a champion of inclusivity? Also fact. These are not mutually exclusive.
The company is mostly owned by institutional investors.
This is an (unintentional) euphemism for "the company is mostly owned by regular middle-class folks via the mutual funds in their retirement accounts, but the Vanguard/Blackrock/Fidelity/etc. fund managers have stolen their shareholder voting rights."
Personally I can't abstract the history of it being a fascist beer, just because it merged with a less fascist beer and various grand children sold their shares so they only own a tenth of the company their grandpa was using to fund the modern conservative movement that seeks to dismantle the very inclusivity it was offering to it's own employees.
I just can't square the circle there, maybe they were mitagating some of the damage they were causing by being inclusive, but calling them heroes is a bit rich for me.
What am I missing here, why were they heroes?
If you read the article you'll see it, but it was fairly common knowledge already. Molson Coors used to have a perfect score for inclusivity and was often voted one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ amongst other accolades and accomplishments.
Gotcha, thanks
I'm glad - it is frusterating when you fing a great candidate but can't hire because you didn't get enough qualified minority applicants now you had to waste someone's time on an interview who isn't even qualified. Fortunately we almost always had at least one anyway and they got hired often as the most qualified. But it didn't change anything evcept to waste time once in a while.