10 July - A Doll A Day 2024:
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I'm just goin' thru the motions today. The weather's too hot and I'm too busy (or lazy) to put much effort in to A Doll A Day right now.
Meanwhile, in other curmudgeonly grumbling...
... I'm getting kinda tired of Flickr constantly reminding me how "progressive" they are and how "tolerant" they are and how "diverse" they are and how "green" they are and how "friggin-*ss wonderful" they are because they're contributing some percent or other to this cause or that cause. And now Flickr is part of an umbrella company called Awesome (yes, for realz) that owns both Flickr and SmugMug. And Flickr has accounts on X and on Facebook and on Instagram, and Awesome feels compelled to constantly remind me how awesome they are.
Does Instagram have a Flickr account? Does X have a Flickr account? No? So why, then, is Flickr wasting time on Instagram and X and freakin' Facebook?
Also, Flickr is part of something called The Conservation Alliance, and they are Certified Evergreen, and they earned, bought, or otherwise qualified for some kind of Climate Neutral certification (how th' hell? Servers burn up a LOT of power, and there's no way to prove all the electricity comes from wind farms, never mind the dead birds), and Flickr has even earned certification as A Great Place to Work.
That's all well and good, except... they've almost DOUBLED the annual fee for "Pro" accounts over the past couple or three years. I guess Great Place to Work means stick it to the paying customers so you can take long afternoon latte breaks while reveling in your green-ness. Not to mention PAYING some twenty-something punk to "manage" Flickr's "social media presence."
I wonder how much Flickr's social media manager gets paid? A helluva lot more than I do, I bet'cha!
It'd all be cool if what they were doing didn't entail jacking up the user fees. They're charging me more so they can brag about their yuppie progressivism while surfing Facebook.
I wish these tech companies would hire old people who cared about customers and service instead of young people who care about causes. Let the young people donate their own dime rather than stroking their own egos by spending mine.
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Army Guy discovers that his camouflage is less effective during flower season.
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I'm just goin' thru the motions today. The weather's too hot and I'm too busy (or lazy) to put much effort in to A Doll A Day right now.
Meanwhile, in other curmudgeonly grumbling...
... I'm getting kinda tired of Flickr constantly reminding me how "progressive" they are and how "tolerant" they are and how "diverse" they are and how "green" they are and how "friggin-*ss wonderful" they are because they're contributing some percent or other to this cause or that cause. And now Flickr is part of an umbrella company called Awesome (yes, for realz) that owns both Flickr and SmugMug. And Flickr has accounts on X and on Facebook and on Instagram, and Awesome feels compelled to constantly remind me how awesome they are.
Does Instagram have a Flickr account? Does X have a Flickr account? No? So why, then, is Flickr wasting time on Instagram and X and freakin' Facebook?
Also, Flickr is part of something called The Conservation Alliance, and they are Certified Evergreen, and they earned, bought, or otherwise qualified for some kind of Climate Neutral certification (how th' hell? Servers burn up a LOT of power, and there's no way to prove all the electricity comes from wind farms, never mind the dead birds), and Flickr has even earned certification as A Great Place to Work.
That's all well and good, except... they've almost DOUBLED the annual fee for "Pro" accounts over the past couple or three years. I guess Great Place to Work means stick it to the paying customers so you can take long afternoon latte breaks while reveling in your green-ness. Not to mention PAYING some twenty-something punk to "manage" Flickr's "social media presence."
I wonder how much Flickr's social media manager gets paid? A helluva lot more than I do, I bet'cha!
It'd all be cool if what they were doing didn't entail jacking up the user fees. They're charging me more so they can brag about their yuppie progressivism while surfing Facebook.
I wish these tech companies would hire old people who cared about customers and service instead of young people who care about causes. Let the young people donate their own dime rather than stroking their own egos by spending mine.
They're not dolls, they're action figures!