If you're disadvantaged because of your race, then it's racism.
It's important to be clear: the outcome is racist even when no individual is being racist. You can't be reductionist about this, you can't decompose the company into its individual employees and give any of them individually the blame for racist hiring outcomes. It's an emergent phenomenon: it is the company as a whole that is racist and the company as a whole that is at fault.
There is relevant data, but I don't know where it is, sorry.
I am under the impression that this sort of under-the-radar hiring occurs enough to be a significant cause of institutional racism in hiring. (If your existing employees are disproportionately white, and their friends and acquaintances are disproportionately white, then new employees who fill a position before it is publicly advertised will be disproportionately white; and this is without anyone being overtly or consciously racist, and without non-whites being discouraged in any way from applying.)
If I am paid annually in arrears, I must live off savings or credit for the first year. I pay off the loans and rebuild my savings at the end of the first year, but must dip into them again to get me through the second year. And so on.
And I run the risk that my employer goes bust just before paying my salary and I lose out on a year's wages (if paid monthly, I only risk a month's wages).
Meanwhile, if I'm paid annually in advance, this will surely cause my employer cashflow issues, leading them to only be able to afford paying a lower salary; but I can't effectively use a paid-annually income, because most of my expenses are monthly. And if/when I move jobs, I will probably have to repay salary.
I am paid monthly in arrears. If I was paid annually in arrears, I would have cashflow issues, would have a greater need of short term loans, and would want a larger salary to compensate me for this.
Most of my expenses (credit card, utility bills, mortgage, ...) are monthly; annual and ad hoc expenses combined are less than this. So it makes sense for my salary to come in monthly as well.
Personally, I find tv and radio ads extremely annoying. But everyone who's experienced it finds my habit of muting the tv during ad breaks to be very strange.
So I can easily believe that I am in a small minority on this.
On the other hand, I generally don't object to adverts in newspapers and magazines.
Windows/MS-DOS had file extensions (which it inherited from CP/M) before it had directories and directory separators.
Did CP/M and Unix independently come up with file extensions with a dot separator, or did they acquire it from the same source? I'm dimly aware of other operating systems that use(d) a different character (AS/400?), but it's outside my ken.
Credit card, ideally in GBP, with the caveat that I don't want to be forced to care who is processing the payment. e.g. I prefer not to pay by credit card via Paypal, because then I have to go through the hassle of resetting my Paypal password before I am allowed to pay.
It reminds me of websites that insert live stock quotes into their stories.
- generally the information / buy it now link isn't of interest to readers
- more useful generally would be a link to an internal encyclopaedia page: give the reader more information about the company/book, and include stock quotes / buy it now links on that page
- if it's truly useful enough to include inline in the article, the journalist will put it there manually
- a middle ground would be to pull stock quotes / buy it now links out of the main text into the margin
If a comment really is factually incorrect then a downvote is appropriate, but some comments that at first glance appear to be factually incorrect are really just opinions.
This is about organisations exhibiting qualities that none of the individuals who make up those organisations exhibit.