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So not only did my local TRU close, but my nearby Albertsons also. The difference is, the local Albertsons went out of their way to help everyone find new jobs. I feel pretty bad for the one person I know who worked at the local TRU, she was very emotionally attached to the company. She cried after the doors closed for the last time. Worse, she got roped into working at the TRU one town over until that closes in a few weeks and relive the pain.
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Freakazoid_ posted:I feel pretty bad for the one person I know who worked at the local TRU, she was very emotionally attached to the company. She cried after the doors closed for the last time. Worse, she got roped into working at the TRU one town over until that closes in a few weeks and relive the pain. Pretty lovely of them to take advantage of the mentally challenged
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Apr 13, 2018 04:58
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Caganer posted:Pretty lovely of them to take advantage of the mentally challenged Hurr durr retail workers are mentally challenged. Hot take here.
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Apr 13, 2018 18:42
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call to action posted:Hurr durr retail workers are mentally challenged. Hot take here. Not retail workers, but someone dumb enough to have loyalty to a megacorp, to the point of making poor life decisions like accepting a transfer to another closing store instead of burning down the TrU she was at after stealing everything that wasn't nailed down because they refuse to give her a reasonable severance package while giving the execs who cratered the company millions.
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call to action posted:Hurr durr retail workers are mentally challenged. Hot take here. Elizabeth Mills posted:Not retail workers, but someone dumb enough to have loyalty to a megacorp, to the point of making poor life decisions like accepting a transfer to another closing store instead of burning down the TrU she was at after stealing everything that wasn't nailed down because they refuse to give her a reasonable severance package while giving the execs who cratered the company millions.
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Apr 13, 2018 18:56
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Yeah gently caress that lady who was sad when she lost a job she liked that involved making children happy, what a dumbass am I right lmao
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Yeah gently caress that lady who was sad when she lost a job she liked that involved making children happy, what a dumbass am I right lmao if the bourgeois cannot feel happiness without material items they are class enemies and their happiness should not concern her
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Apr 13, 2018 20:51
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Agreed, grey jumpsuits for everyone forever
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Apr 13, 2018 21:38
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Caganer posted:if the bourgeois cannot feel happiness without material items they are class enemies and their happiness should not concern her This but unironically and without the conditional, lmao
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Apr 13, 2018 22:00
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Cicero posted:Agreed, grey jumpsuits for everyone forever Jumpsuits are material goods. Meditate on this naked in a empty field.
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Apr 13, 2018 22:41
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Look at moneybags over here, with access to their own empty field.
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Apr 13, 2018 22:47
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Ya'll can smarm all you want about this poo poo but it's actually really loving gross that we essentially allow giant corporations to target children and instill brand loyalty as soon as they leave the crib, and TRU was a particularly poo poo example of that sort of thing.
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Apr 13, 2018 23:04
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looking forward to arcadian toystore parity
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DrNutt posted:Ya'll can smarm all you want about this poo poo but it's actually really loving gross that we essentially allow giant corporations to target children and instill brand loyalty as soon as they leave the crib, and TRU was a particularly poo poo example of that sort of thing. you'll have to take my nintendo controller from my cold dead hands
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Reveilled posted:I don't think touch screen ATMs ever caught on in the UK, I don't think I've seen one anywhere in the last 15 years in any part of Britain I've visited. You'll see them at some high street banks and basically nowhere else. I hate them since it turns out having a screen that takes literally seconds to respond with no feedback when you select something, with a mis-step meaning you get the wrong amount of cash, is kind of shite
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Apr 14, 2018 12:09
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Cicero posted:Agreed, grey jumpsuits for everyone forever One pieces really suck when you have to take a poo poo.
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DrNutt posted:Ya'll can smarm all you want about this poo poo but it's actually really loving gross that we essentially allow giant corporations to target children and instill brand loyalty as soon as they leave the crib, and TRU was a particularly poo poo example of that sort of thing. kids don't give a poo poo about brand loyalty, only that there are places with toys.
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SimonCat posted:One pieces really suck when you have to take a poo poo. It's 2018, lmao if you still poo poo
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SimonCat posted:One pieces really suck when you have to take a poo poo. Get the kind with a back flap.
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SimonCat posted:One pieces really suck when you have to take a poo poo. take that monkey d luffy
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crazy cloud posted:It's 2018, lmao if you still poo poo that's why rear end eating is so popular with the kids these days, right? no one shits anymore?
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Freakazoid_ posted:kids don't give a poo poo about brand loyalty, only that there are places with toys. nobody ever claimed to be a kb toys kid
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Caganer posted:nobody ever claimed to be a kb toys kid Speaking of, LOL. Maybe they can use the Spirit Halloween model, rent an empty building for the holiday season then gently caress off for the rest of the year.
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Caganer posted:nobody ever claimed to be a kb toys kid No kid ever actually called themselves a Toys R' Us kid either. Freakazoid is right. They only cared about TRU because they knew it had a fuckton of toys.
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there wolf posted:Urban farming! Happens in a lot of cities, even New York, and it's more a network of gardens than a big field full of soybeans. People will buy/rent empty lots, weird patches of green space that can't be built on, peoples yards, or setup container or hydroponic gardens on paved spots.
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Doom Rooster posted:No kid ever actually called themselves a Toys R' Us kid either. Freakazoid is right. They only cared about TRU because they knew it had a fuckton of toys. No parent actually took their kid to Toys 'R' Us more than absolutely necessary either, I'd wager.
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This might be a recent phenomenon but as someone who has kids, it's insane how many toys some kids get these days. Every loving trip to Target or wherever they get toys/candy. New poo poo constantly since grandparents/who ever also buy something for the kid when they go to those stores even without the kids. I don't even have to take my kids to stores to gently caress around with the toys, I just take them to neighbors who have basements with more stock than a store in their basements.
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i am harry posted:This happens throughout England too, due to the shortage of available space. There are websites where you can rent out your front yard patch or offer to plant and tend to the aubergines. Rooftop farming is actually something that I expect to take off. I guess there have been people buying stuff like big, abandoned warehouses, putting soil on top of the roof, farming it, and then turning the warehouse into community space or self-storage or something. Everybody living in a high rise obviously can't have their own farm but that works out because I doubt everybody even wants one. It won't be a huge change in and of itself but a bunch of small changes add up to a big one.
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Yeah that’s why we have a “no presents” rule for birthday parties. Kid is already getting a shitload from his family and extended relatives so I don’t need my friends buying my kid a *squints at pile of stuff on the floor* Mr Bucket.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Rooftop farming is actually something that I expect to take off. I guess there have been people buying stuff like big, abandoned warehouses, putting soil on top of the roof, farming it, and then turning the warehouse into community space or self-storage or something. Everybody living in a high rise obviously can't have their own farm but that works out because I doubt everybody even wants one. It won't be a huge change in and of itself but a bunch of small changes add up to a big one. 1) Flat roofs are pretty rare in residential settings 2) Roofs aren’t designed to handle that type of weight
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Yeah that’s why we have a “no presents” rule for birthday parties. Kid is already getting a shitload from his family and extended relatives so I don’t need my friends buying my kid a *squints at pile of stuff on the floor* Mr Bucket. Let's not even talk about party favor bags and the poo poo ton of candy some parents dump in them.
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FCKGW posted:1) Flat roofs are pretty rare in residential settings 3) regardless, growing a week's meal sides or two of usable vegetables doesn't actually add up to changing anything.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Rooftop farming is actually something that I expect to take off. I guess there have been people buying stuff like big, abandoned warehouses, putting soil on top of the roof, farming it, and then turning the warehouse into community space or self-storage or something. Everybody living in a high rise obviously can't have their own farm but that works out because I doubt everybody even wants one. It won't be a huge change in and of itself but a bunch of small changes add up to a big one. A lot of already-existing rooftops aren't adequate for green roofing but it's more than feasible to make it so new buildings require them, since people are stupid and crabby and greedy and need to be dragged screaming into anything that isn't immediately gratifying.
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I have four kids, and we have way too many toys... it’s insane. My wife, who is otherwise not a person that wants to own a lot of things, cannot handle getting rid of the toys the little kids have outgrown. My oldest is 16, and when she was young she wasn’t really into playing with toys, but people insisted on buying her barbies, ponies, and everything else you can imagine. She eventually stopped opening them and would store them in her closet to give away as gifts or donate when she got the chance. I thought that was pretty cool.
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fishmech posted:3) regardless, growing a week's meal sides or two of usable vegetables doesn't actually add up to changing anything. Urban farming is a most curious delusion.
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eyebeem posted:I have four kids, and we have way too many toys... it’s insane. My wife, who is otherwise not a person that wants to own a lot of things, cannot handle getting rid of the toys the little kids have outgrown. My friends who now have kids, I give them older laptops/ computers/ tablets/ server subscriptions. I'm your lovely internet uncle. Give gifts that last, teach, and are needed.
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Books, art supplies, and painters tape.
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I just wanted k'nex. I still want k'nex.
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Spazzle posted:Urban farming is a most curious delusion. It's a hobby, which is fine. It just happens to be used as a virtue signaling hobby by a lot of people which is annoying. For anyone who actually cooks a few pots of herbs on a windowsill is vastly more useful and requires many times less effort than tending a community garden plot.
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