Tag Archives: fighting

Staff Start Fighting Back As More Jobs Are Cut

Staff Start Fighting Back As More Jobs Are Cut

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Google CEO Sundar Pichai. NurPhoto/ Getty Images; Tyler Lee/ BI Googlers are fighting back against the company after years of being treated like “family.” The search giant plans to cut more jobs in 2024 after cutting 12,000 last year. Staffers have taken aim at its “glassy-eyed leaders” and organized protests in response. In 2012, Larry Page stressed how important it was that Google acted like a “family.” The… Source link

Read More »

LeGarrette Blount apologizes after video shows him fighting with adults at youth football game

LeGarrette Blount apologizes after video shows him fighting with adults at youth football game

LeGarrette Blount apologized after video showed the former NFL running back throwing punches during a skirmish among adults at a youth football game. TMZ published video of the incident on Monday showing tensions surface during a postgame handshake line at a 12-and-under football game in Gilbert, Arizona. Two groups of adults were seen arguing after the game before the incident escalated into pushing and shoving. Blount, who was reportedly a coach at the game, lunged at and threw punches at a… Source link

Read More »

Mark Cuban says baby boomers went from ‘fighting the man to being everything that was hated in the 60s and 70s’

Mark Cuban says baby boomers went from ‘fighting the man to being everything that was hated in the 60s and 70s’

Mark Cuban says baby boomers went from “fighting the man” to becoming what they’d hated in the 60s and 70s. Last week, the billionaire said on a podcast that he believes Gen-Z is the “greatest” generation. Cuban said Zoomers have a greater consideration for mental health and are changing the workplace. Billionaire investor and baby boomer Mark Cuban dubbed his generation “disappointing” in a tweet on Sunday. The 64-year-old billionaire made the comment in response to another Twitter user who… Source link

Read More »

Saints rookie Trevor Penning kicked out of practice after 3rd day of fighting

Saints rookie Trevor Penning kicked out of practice after 3rd day of fighting

New Orleans Saints rookie Trevor Penning is having a spirited start to training camp. Penning was kicked out of practice on Wednesday after starting a fight for the third day in a row. The offensive tackle started a fight with defensive lineman Malcolm Roach, who was also kicked out. “We don’t have time for that,” Saints coach Dennis Allen said, via ESPN’s Katherine Terrell. “I sent two guys in today and we’ve got to get our work done. We’ve got to learn as a team how to compete and how to… Source link

Read More »

Tiger Woods keeps fighting, and that’s a victory all its own

Tiger Woods keeps fighting, and that’s a victory all its own

Tiger Woods withdrew from the 2022 PGA Championship on Saturday night. This is not a surprise. The surprise is that he was in the field. The surprise is that he has fought his way back from another would-be career-ending catastrophe. The surprise is that anyone, at this point, is still surprised by Tiger Woods. The 2022 PGA Championship will forever have a “WD” next to Woods’ name. That doesn’t begin to cover the significance of the week. Yes, he stumbled to a +12 finish Saturday after a… Source link

Read More »

Big tech is fighting a new Texas law targeting social media — here’s what happens next

Big tech is fighting a new Texas law targeting social media — here’s what happens next

After a controversial new social media law went into effect Wednesday in Texas, the Supreme Court began weighing Big Tech’s emergency request to put it on hold as the tech industry fights the legislation. Texas statute HB 20 requires large platforms like Twitter (TWTR), Meta’s Facebook and Instagram (FB), TikTok, and YouTube (GOOG, GOOGL) to publish all user posts that express a “viewpoint.” Their industry lobbyists are challenging the statute on First Amendment and other grounds, and… Source link

Read More »

Here’s why the Fed’s inflation fighting is doomed, per one veteran trader

Here’s why the Fed’s inflation fighting is doomed, per one veteran trader

Investors are warming to the fact the Federal Reserve is about to throw ice cold water on the hot U.S. economy where inflation is surging to four-decade highs. But whether the Fed hikes 50 basis points next week — or even a previously-unfathomable 75 points — Jerome Powell and company are unlikely to achieve the proverbial (and rare) soft landing, according to one veteran trader. Bill Smead, chief investment officer at Smead Capital Management, compared the present bout of persistently… Source link

Read More »