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Companies Think President Trump's Withdrawal From the Paris Accord Is Fucking Stupid. President Donald Trump stood up in front of the world yesterday and withdrew the United States from the Paris Accord, a global agreement to combat climate change. The agreement had nearly universal support, but Trump said withdrawing is good for American business.
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But American business leaders disagree. CEOs from companies in practically every sector of American life issued statements yesterday denouncing Trump’s decision. Business leaders like Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Disney CEO Robert Iger even signaled that this was the last straw, and announced that they’d no longer act as advisors to the president. Even before Trump’s decision yesterday, the Paris Accord had broad support in the business community. On April 2. 6, 2. Companies as diverse as Walmart and Du. Pont and Intel all signed the letter.
Even energy companies like Exxon. Mobil, Shell, and Chevron also implored Trump not to drop the Paris Accord in the lead up to yesterday’s announcement from the White House Rose Garden. But he didn’t listen. Below we have a list of the companies that have thus far reacted directly to Trump’s decision. We can only imagine that this list will continue to grow in the coming weeks.
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Twenty years from now, we have no idea what the defining moment of Trump’s shameful presidency will be. But with climate change already impacting the world in disastrous ways, his decision to needlessly shun the environment should at least crack the top ten. But who knows? Trump still has so much time to inflict very real damage on both the United States and the rest of the world—a world that increasingly sees America as a joke that elected a neo- fascist reality TV star as its president. Apple“We power nearly all of our operations with renewable energy, which we believe is an example of something that’s good for our planet and makes good business sense as well,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement. Of course, we’re going to keep working with our suppliers to help them do more to power their businesses with clean energy. And we will keep challenging ourselves to do even more.”Box“Trump believes everything is a negotiation. But America’s reputation and trust around the world can’t be negotiated, it’s earned.
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Or lost,” tweeted Box CEO Aaron Levie. Cargill“Signing the accord means being a champion for US economic growth and job creation,” Cargill CEO David Mac. Lennan told the Financial Times.
Last week, I answered a question from a reader wondering how to list her job as a receptionist at a brothel (which is legal in her state) on her resume. Perhaps no vehicle embodies the myth of the American ideal more so than does the original luxury SUV, the Jeep Grand Wagoneer, and today, you could live that dream. The global horror that Obama left behind. East of Eden (1955) is director Elia Kazan's updated re-telling of the Biblical story of rival brothers, Cain and Abel and a paradise lost.
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It hurts to see this coming from a foreign leader and not our @potus. Stopping climate change is something we can only do as a global community, and we have to act together before it’s too late.”General Electric“Disappointed with today’s decision on the Paris Agreement.
Climate change is real. Industry must now lead and not depend on government,” tweeted General Electric CEO James Immelt. Goldman Sachs“Today’s decision is a setback for the environment and for the U. S.’s leadership position in the world. Google will keep working hard for a cleaner, more prosperous future for all,” tweeted Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
IBM“IBM today is reaffirming its support for the Paris Climate Agreement and stating clearly how we will continue our decades- long work to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Our call for an international agreement on this issue is more than a decade old, and we first voiced our support for the Paris Agreement in 2. IBM in a statement.
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Intel“We operate in a global economy, and if we’re not part of the global agreement on climate we are susceptible to retaliation through border taxes and other . Microsoft remains committed to doing our part to achieve its goals,” tweeted Microsoft president Brad Smith. Nike“We are deeply disappointed by the recent shift in climate policy. Nike believes that climate change is a serious global threat and that the world will need to radically redesign industrial systems and economies in order to enable a low- carbon growth economy,” Nike said in a statement.“We will continue to honor the core commitments of the American Business Act on Climate Change Pledge, including reaching 1.
Nike- owned or - operated facilities around the world by 2. U. S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Challenge and advancing materials innovation globally.”Salesforce“Deeply disappointed by President’s decision to withdraw from Paris Agreement. We will double our efforts to fight climate change,” tweeted Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Tesla“Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” tweeted Tesla and Space. X founder Elon Musk.
Twitter“This is an incredibly shortsighted move backwards by the federal government. We’re all on this planet together and we need to work together,” tweeted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Since that’s an industry not typically discussed in the context of workplace advice, I thought it would be interesting to talk to her about how she fielded some of the work situations that came up there, and she graciously agreed to let me interview her for a post here. Here’s our Q& A.
Warning: Given the subject matter, there’s some mild discussion of the existence of sex. What was the interview process for the job like? I had heard about the open position through an acquaintance, so I think that my interview was a bit more low key than it would have been for others. Generally, though, it’s not the kind of job that you put a resume in for. Does that mean that it’s typically filled through people the business knows (or someone connected to the business knows)? Why do you think that is? In my state, brothels aren’t allowed to advertise for any kind of position, so if you’re a sex worker or a licensed brothel manager (read: receptionist) and you’re looking for a job, you’re relying on either word of mouth or just calling around to find somewhere.
There’s enough turnover that it’s not that hard to find something. I think that there’s a lot of competition and a bit of animosity between businesses, so I don’t think that business managers call each other to get references about receptionists, hence not really bothering with a resume. There’s still so much stigma around the industry, which I think leads to prejudice like thinking that everyone else in the industry is not to be trusted, so I think that’s why business managers like recommendations from people they trust. And I trained some unsuitable people while I was there, so I totally understand that line of thinking.
Not everyone is has the right personality for reception work and some people are just batshit crazy no matter where they work. What were your basic responsibilities?
Answering the telephone (the most common question was “Who’s on today?”), making sure that the rooms were tidy and that laundry was being done by the ladies throughout the shift, buzzing the rooms to let the lady and the client know that their time was almost up, letting ladies know when their “Doctor’s Certificate” was due (they are required to be tested for all STIs every three months and then to give their workplace a certificate to show that they have been tested). Note: I don’t generally like to refer to adult woman as “girls” and I’m not much of a fan of the word “lady” either, but these seem to be common industry- speak.
They’re short for “working girl” and “working lady.” The official term is apparently “Service Provider,” but that sounds pretty clinical. What did you find most challenging about the work? There was a period of time where I was switching between day and night shifts and that was hard on my body and mind.
I eventually switched to night shift and embraced my unusual hours, but night shift comes with it’s own challenges. If you work day shift, you can build up a rapport with lots of the regulars, but the clients who came in during night shift were a wild card. Some of them really lovely, but some of them very drunk or on drugs, or otherwise difficult. Sometimes the girls were difficult too, and that was hard to deal with at 3 am.
Difficult in what sense? And what was your role / how did you handle it when that happened? For the most part, what society tells you about sex workers (at least here, in a legalised industry) is completely wrong. Most of the girls are normal and trustworthy and a joy to work with.
But this means that the rare few who were on drugs were so much more difficult to work with in comparison. There are very strict laws against having drugs or alcohol on premises, so when there were ladies on drugs on shift, I wasn’t just worried about their safety (in terms of potentially overdosing, or not being in the best state of mind to be working) but I was also worried about the business potentially losing its licence if the police happened to stop by. Businesses will generally have some processes in place like random bag and locker checks (we had to mention this when a lady started at the business) and the owner and business manager were supportive of me and trusted that I would manage my shift how I had to. I wanted to be on great terms with the ladies I worked with, but I also had to be assertive and stick to my word. I sent a lady home once because she was drunk and she refused a locker check. When she realised that I was going to send her home, she agreed to the locker check. After she had hidden her vodka elsewhere.
What did you like best about the job? I learned some really excellent ways of communicating with people about difficult topics. I’ve had to tell clients that their regular lady doesn’t want to stay with them anymore and I’ve also had to tell a guy that he had terrible B.
O, and that’s why no one would stay with him. He kept coming in and actually dealt with the B. O! I’m completely impressed that you told someone about his terrible B. O. That’s hard to do! And it was a successful outcome too. On behalf of all the managers who are uncomfortable dealing with this, what did you say?
Any advice for doing it well? The whole story is that he had already tried to book a couple of girls and they both said no. A third lady, who was very experienced and said that she could deal with anything, took him upstairs and then sent him down again because she could absolutely not deal with it. So, he knew something was up. I said to him, “Hey, this is really hard to tell someone, but the reason that the ladies don’t want to stay with you is because you have very strong body odour.
Please make sure you wash really well and use deodorant and we’ll see you again soon, okay?”Let’s talk management. In some ways, I’d think that good management would be even more important in this type of business, because sex is so fraught with the opportunity for people to behave weirdly. Comparing it to other jobs you’ve had or jobs people you’re close to have had, would you say the management practices/systems were pretty similar, or did you see things done differently from a management perspective than what you’ve seen in other sectors? Just wondering if anything stood out to you as different/unusual/notable.)I think compared to other industries, there is a lot more importance on getting to know the girls on your shift and how they tick, so that you can work with them best. I’m sure this happens everywhere, but not quite to the same extent. As a receptionist, you have to keep the girls, the clients, and management happy. That might mean making sure that you ring the pizza place on behalf of one of the girls, to make sure that she can have lunch on time, so that she doesn’t keep her regular client waiting, because if you upset him he’ll only book for two hours and not three!
It might mean co- ordinating everything around letting a girl who is having a really busy day have cigarette breaks. The nature of the work does add an extra element to it, I would try to always check in with the girls to make sure that they were comfortable and that they knew they could talk to me and we would find ways to work around issues. I think one time I told a client that his regular lady was running late because I was a “hard ass” and had made her fold some towels.
He laughed and waited the five minutes. She was probably actually still with another client, and I never liked telling a client that. With most jobs, no matter how exotic or unusual, at some point they start feeling mundane. For instance, I used to work on marijuana policy, but was focused the administrative work of running the organization, not thinking “hey, this is about WEED.” Did you have a similar experience, where after a point you stopped thinking “hey, sex is happening!” and were exclusively focused on just ensuring things were running like they were supposed to?
If so, how long did that take to happen? I don’t know if I ever thought “sex is happening!” I think that as a straight woman in a brothel, from the start I was just shown the business side of things and I just either never thought that much about what was going on upstairs or I could never really think of what was happening as sexual. My only concern was that the ladies were safe and had been paid by the client.