Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Jeff
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Jan 30 2022 18:29:44

  Re: Re: Computer Kits
  By: Jeff to Arelor on Sun Jan 30 2022 05:05 pm

 >  Ar> Nosolorol is also a leftist propaganda machine, for the record. All the
 >  Ar> non-license, in-house created products, use diversity checklists. They
 >  Ar> invariably portray cuts in government spending as the root of problems
 >  Ar> in their settings and published adventures. When they got hit so hard b
 >  Ar> the cancel campaign that they lost a number of stores, they released an
 >  Ar> apology statement (which was ignored by the lynch mob) and added that
 >  Ar> they are not a capitalist firm.
 > 
 > I am not familiar with Nosolorol beyond what you have told me here. My
 > understanding from you was that the economic pressure campaign against them
 > was due to shady business practices, not political ideology. Sometimes an
 > apology is not enough to atone for past sins. Perhaps they needed to
 > transparently implement control measures to insure that the situation which
 > sparked the boycott never recurred. They needed to regain trust, and failed.
 > Perhaps this was not just a result of the shady business practices, but also
 > of a refusal to rectify those things until they were sued. Perhaps it was no
 > just one bad decision but a series of bad decisions, and there was no way
 > possible to come back from that. Whatever the case, the people boycotting
 > them did nothing wrong.
 > 

Honestly, I don't know what Nosolorol could have done to regain trust thay they
didn't attempt. The Union that took the case to court pretty much said the
issues were solved for good (and took a lot of pride in it).

Besides, I suspect a lot of employees were taking black money under the table,
which is very common in Spain. A lot of professionals prefer to work with no
legal contract and be paid in illegal money because then they can apply for
government handouts and unamployment funds. I have the strong suspicion that
this was the case with Nosolorol, that some employee got angry at them for some
reason and got some Union to sue them, and that there was no way Nosolorol
could demonstrate any payment because all transactions had been off-the-record.

This is speculation, though.

In any case, if the Union which took the case said the problem had been
cleared, and knowing how extremely bitchy this particular union was, I find it
hard to understand which issue the lynching mob was trying to solve by
campaigning. I guess this people thinks that if you catch a thief stealing
bread in the market, you should hang him in the public square, because
rehabilitation is not possible and no amount of penance imposed by court will
clear his debt to society :-(

On the other hand, it was delicious to see the firm decimated by the very
audience of politically active people they had been pandering to for decades.
Guilty pleasure of mine. I don't think it was right but I do think it was fun.

The bad news is the friendly local game store I used to buy games from had to
remove his RPG section due to the pressure. He had lots of orders cancelled,
which was specially bad for this guy because he owns the sort of local business
that struggles to pay its own costs every single month. But well, I guess the
lynching mob does not care for collateral damages :-P




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