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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

An office is usually divided in different departments that have different functions.

In no particular order, not exhaustive, and skipping management and IT, typical functions could be:

Customer service. Pick up the main phone line and check the official mail box, talk to customers, redirect calls to other departments.

Sales coordinators. Receive orders from customers, through sales representatives or by web etc. They basically ensure that all incoming orders have the proper data to be processed. Keeps track of order confirmations and maybe send data back to the customers.

Logistics. Arrange shipments from suppliers, to customers and between stock locations. Files all documents for toll and tariffs.

Debtor controllers. Keeps track of customer payments, outgoing invoices, payment plans, sending reminders and debt collection.

Creditor controllers. Register incoming invoices. Get approvals from whoever ordered it and pays the bills on time or whenever it makes most sense for discounts and such.

Finance controllers. Keeps track of the entire balance sheet. Bank reconciliations, cash flow, investments, files and pays taxes. General bookkeeping that doesn't fit in the other departments. Does the financial statements, reporting, monthly, quarterly or annually.

Purchasing, HR/Payroll and PR/marketing are self-explanatory I think.

All of these administrative functions are necessary in most companies, but in smaller companies it all could very well be done by a single person, while in large companies they might have several people in each department.

Many companies have several subsidiaries or other constructions, so tasks or functions can also be spread out like that. For instance, I can be the creditor department in one company while also doing finance in another or payroll in a third. So while the functions are somewhat strictly defined by the tasks, it's only in very large companies that someone does just one function.

All office functions are constantly being made more efficient. A lot of it is truly boring, so it's in everyone's interest to automate as much as possible. I don't feel sorry for someone losing their office job to an algorithm, no, I'm happy for them not having to do it anymore.

It's not a stupid question. When I was interviewing for my first office job back in 2001, I literally asked if they could show me what I had to do.

Seing someone who entered data into a program, I asked if that's it? You really want me to just enter data into that program? OK, I can do that. And so I was hired to put numbers into boxes on the screen and have been doing that ever since. Not the same program of course. I've been around all departments by now and spend most of my work time working on avoiding typing numbers into boxes.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 6 days ago

The relevant video on poison pilling audio: https://youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA

For text, I suppose it's similar to writring nonsense in background color instead of spaces or by using an invisible font. AI could probably figure it out and filter it.

The reason it works for music is that AI doesn't really understand the "grammar" of music, so it just treats it like an image.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Assembly is not enough.

It's not just a tariff, and it's also not just a single row list of tariffs on countries or products or whatever.

The tariff tables are multi dimensional. Each product has it's own table of rates. Besides country and product type, there's a dimension of how it's assembled/manufactorered and potentially if it's part of some sort of special agreements etc.

"The tariff" is basically a worldwide database of product information.

There are actually very few products that are fully produced in any one country. This is mostly agricultural or raw ressources. All other products are said to be manufactorered from different countries. The country of origin in that case is the last country in which the product significantly changed value from being manufactorered locally and it requires a facility to do so. Slapping a sticker on something is not enough.

Anyway, the tariff tables take all that into account. It's very naive to think you can legally bypass this system simply by leaving a product in your neighbors garden before bringing it home.

You don't have to waste your time doing that for fun. Plenty of people in logistics get paid well for doing just that, and if they can't find the loophole, there is very little chance that you'll find it described online.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 16 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Country of origin.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago

Put them in self drive mode towards Moscow.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Let's just look at some facts about beans.

Soybeans is the largest export from USA to China. USA is China's second largest source of soybean imports. China has officially decided to put fingers in both ears in regards to Trump's flip flopping on tariffs. Trump has no power over China's domestic tariffs

Well. I don't know what soybean farmers want from Trump, because there's nothing he can do to fix the thing he broke.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Eggs would be really handy right there.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 3 weeks ago

Imagine if it's a live stream, changing the plot as you watch dependent on your reaction.

At first it might be fun to see what happens if Frodo doesn't throw the ring in the lava, but eventually you gotta ask yourself why you're wasting your time in front of a screen watching weird cat videos.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 3 weeks ago

The people who pay taxes don't have extra money to pay extra taxes, so they will not be able to pay extra taxes and no extra tax will be collected.

Nobody benefits.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Oh yes it'll go on for a long time and might never return to the previous state.

American products got world wide recognition in a time when USA was the peak of western culture, technology and quality.

With or without tariffs and boycotts, people everywhere in the world will once again have to question if they even want America products. This doesn't go well with the increased consumer awareness that is happening everywhere else but in USA.

UK turning down clorinated American chickens is the funniest thing today, like eew brother, eew what's that?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe Americans should consider not paying taxes in the first place.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 46 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Never mind the money. Think about this: Is the American lifestyle self-sustainable?

No? Why not?

Because they use more than they produce? Yes, and where do those things come from?

Imports? Yes.

Trump litteraly put a stop to the American lifestyle.

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