On: Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

[kortilla]

> Sure, but the company's interests are almost completely opposed to yours in most ways.

You do know that your employment depends on the success of the business, right?

The relationship with an employee is no more adversarial than your relationship with the local grocery store when you buy a bag of potatoes.

[hiptobecubic → kortilla]

Yeah, except that switching grocery stores is practically zero cost, so any store that does silly shenanigans gets spanked almost immediately.

Also, grocery stores are about a million billion gazillion times more transparent about trading with you relative to trading with other shoppers.

[WWLink → hiptobecubic]

The trading with a grocery store is heavily regulated as well. They have requirements for storage and handling, their scales have to be calibrated, and there can be very strict fines for things like screwing around with sale prices.

[kortilla → hiptobecubic]

Switching jobs has a very low cost now as well. It’s not 2009 anymore.

[hiptobecubic → kortilla]

Switching jobs is not "very low cost" at all. It's a huge pain in the ass, even if you don't count interview prep.

[deterministic → kortilla]

The behaviour, motivation, and goals of individuals (including your boss and CEO) working for a business very rarely has anything to do with the goals of the business itself. There is a lot of pretend going on, but that is mostly just surface BS. Why do you think CEO’s spend billions buying back shares instead of using that money to invest in new products and other innovations that will make the business more successful long term? Could it perhaps be (gasp! horror!) that they care more about personal enrichment than making the business successful long term?