Elon Musk
Having a long career at a single company (that tended to treat you well).
I’d argue it’s not not respected, but it is considered foolish.
This coming from someone who’s been at one company for almost 7 years trying to get a new job.
I work at a company that pays for all of the education it would take for me to run my own insurance brokerage, I’d be foolish not to stay. They also have pretty low turn over, there are dozens of people who have been there for 15-40 years.
It really depends on the situation. It’s not foolish to be content in a good situation.
Hiring manager here. It depends on the company doing the hiring. If they have a culture of hanging on to people by treating them well, you tend to look for people who like to stick around when considering candidates. I know it’s not as common these days, but these companies do exist. It’s not uncommon to run into people at my company who have been around for 15 or even 20+ years
I was at my last company for 15 years. Went from cubical minion to VP in that time, still got a lot of raised eyebrows when I was looking for something new a couple years ago.
The Supreme Court.
Reddit
Was Reddit really ever well respected? From what I’ve seen even before the current drama it was recognized as “the neck beard platform” or something along those lines.
It was well respected by me as the only social platform that wasn’t a form of self torture that countless people inexplicably partake in daily.
Now I consider Lemmy to have that singular position.
Check out Kbin then, pretty similiar in spirit (also, it’s federated!)
You’re right. I generally consider kbin and Lemmy to be part of the same thing.
The fediverse?
Yeah, there was always some stigma involved, even when it became mainstream
especially when it became mainstream
Being the President.
Americans
I’m American and for as long as I’ve been alive I always got the sense that Americans are not respected but just tolerated. Mostly because of our military.
I don’t know how old you are, but I feel the same way. However, I suspect that immediately after WWII ended and before it became common knowledge that the US was in the game of empire, there was a brief period where the US was seen as a place where people could seriously upgrade their station in life through hard work and a bit of luck.
But that might be the same propaganda that taught us that we were special when I was in school. I honestly can’t tell and I don’t have anyone that I can ask of the right age that wasn’t born here.
I was born in the early 80’s and I remember a lot more pro America propaganda when I was a kid compared to now. I had some friends from Albania and Poland in high school and I think when their families moved to the US they bought into the pro American media stuff a few moved back pretty quickly. I’ve been to Europe a few times and some people I met told me to not tell people I’m American they will treat you different. Some straight up said they hated all Americans to me.
Ow… My feelings…
Thats kinda just terminally online folk. That and western europe, but those guys suck any way.
Rudy Giuliani - from taker down of the mob, via America’s mayor, to talking nonsense outside a sex shop, to… whatever he is now…
Quite a fall.
Did he take down THE mob or ONE mob? https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/fbi-tracked-alleged-russian-mob-ties-of-giuliani-campaign-supporter/
Bank managers used to be very well paid and respected on par with doctors and lawyers and now are just clerks
clerics
Unsure if intended? You probably meant clerks
But then again clerics also works since they probably do worship capitalism as if it were a religion
You right lol I must be playing too many RPGs lately
By bank manager, do you mean like the manager of a specific location? Or do you mean higher up than that?
Like the manager of a bank location, the physical building and its operations. Mostly because before credit scores they were the final word on all credit offers through the bank so it was a much more relationship driven process
The Branch Manager (of the bank) used to be very respected within the community at large.
Catholic priest
The Catholic Church in general is less respected because they covered up for those pedophilic Catholic priests.
They head a healthy dose of fear to go with their respect.
Reddit
lol, lmao even
I liked reddit but I’m not sure I would’ve ever described it as “well respected”.
The post office.
You can send a letter to anywhere in the US for less than a dollar and it gets there quickly. You don’t even need to leave your house to do it. Now people complain about lines and that it isn’t profitable.
The only reason why it isn’t currently profitable is that Republicans forced them to fund their retirement plan decades in advance and all within a few years time. They were having to save for future employees that hadn’t even been born yet.
There’s also this weird discussion trap that damn near everybody falls into regarding the post office - why does it need to be profitable at all? It’s a government service - nobody expects schools, police departments, fire departments, NASA, public works departments, health departments, departments of transportation, the military, or basically anything else to be profitable.
Yeah I think that comes from it being one of the few government services that has private competitors. I’m sure a few campaign contributions helped sway a certain party’s membership to hammer profitability. We saw what they did when Trumps lackey was appointed to the post office and began gutting sorting centers and anything else that would help efficiency and profitability.
Blizzard
Game of Thrones
Business Leaders. Before the CEO salary explosion, the opinions of business leaders were respected. Now everything they do and say is suspect as gaming the system for short term stock gain.
Chain restaurants. All of them eventually turn to shit. Buffalo Wild Wings was LEGIT when they first started. They had .50 wing nights. Now they have tiny ass overpriced wings. Same with Chipotle. They used to have amazing burritos the size of your head, and now they are tiny and take an hour to get.
- Sell cheap, good food
- Develop a national brand/reputation
- Now that you have a differentiated product that has a good reputation and a brand people are loyal to, raise prices
- ???
- Profit
- Switch to the cheapest ingredients you can find.
This describes so many companies. Samsung is a perfect example of this.
Buffalo Wild Wings and Taco Bell could stop acting as restaurants and just sell their sauces in grocery stores and turn mad profit. That’s the only way I consume either of those brands.
Buffalo wild wings does sell their sauces in the grocery. We go mad over Asain Zing
for taco bell you can just get a few bucks worth of food and ask for a ton of sauce and they don’t give a fuck they’ll just dump handfuls in there for you
I got a head sized burrito at chipotle yesterday that took two minutes. For me the issue is the peice. Total was $11 for a chicken burrito and chips and salsa. Not terrible imo but I miss $6.90 burritos. Buffalo wild wings is rough though.
