Elderbean posted:

I love it when dudes force back bland and lovely beer because anything else is for effeminate hipsters.

hackbunny posted:

and wine is for females

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

hackbunny posted:

and wine is for females

The Bloop posted:

This is now a cursed item in my D&D game

Danaru posted:

https://twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1034314525309263872?s=19

Accretionist posted:

Yeah, like, at most, I got through to three people and it wasn't worth the aggravation. I am god damned terrible at persuasion.


Though I will always fondly recall the guy who had a thousand yard stare when the light bulb went off.

Quick Version: We're machinists and he's assembling brass fixtures for a major manufacturer. Critical parts.

I ask how much we're charging. He says about $50,000 each, sounds proud.

I ask what we'd charge for the parts loose. He guesses about $10,000 per set.

I ask how long it takes to assemble a fixture. He says about 45 minutes.

In a suggestive tone, while laughing a little, I ask how much he's getting paid per hour?

He immediately freezes with this thousand yard stare. After a few seconds, his head droops a bit and he goes back to work without saying a thing. Body language switches to looking defeated.

Kazak posted:

Oscar Wild posted:

https://twitter.com/eddiepepitone/status/1034510685613346816?s=19

mycomancy posted:

I would be all for this product if it had no nose or mouth holes and couldn't be removed once worn.

quote:

That’s a turn-around from the past decade, when executives often bemoaned their inability to lift prices because of their fear of sacrificing sales. The shift will help them pad profits that are already surging thanks to lower taxes.

It might not be so welcome to workers, who’ve had trouble winning bigger wage gains in spite of unemployment near a multi-decade low. Faster price rises already are eroding what purchasing power they have -- a point that some Democratic opponents of Trump have made as November congressional elections approach.

Average hourly earnings adjusted for inflation fell 0.2 percent in July from a year earlier, notching the weakest reading since 2012.

MRC48B posted:

The ONLY reason these guys got away with this is because they are skilled labor. Welders, Millwrights, installers. All high-demand work, with a low supply of peeps who can do it.

If they were fast food or retail, they would have gotten stomped.

Kazak posted:

Love that George Carlin bit 👆


Are they cutting off my head? Or Netflix??

Colonel Cancer posted:

Imagine how nasty their shits must have been and how constipated they were all the time from all that cheese! No wonder they murderered all those people.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

Anyway

SniperWoreConverse posted:

No way you eat that diet you will be rocketing on to conquest just based on the jet coming out your rear end. How you think horse archers outmaneuvered the entire world for centuries?

Attila found a rusted rear end sword, said it was Mars's, and drat near made it to the ocean. Temujin pulled the same poo poo. A thousand other randos went the same way. These guys come from nothing, see an opening, and hammer it.

If some hick with a filthy carbine and the right gleam in their eye shows up at the right time poo poo will go nuts.

Anyway

Colonel Cancer posted:

Imagine how nasty their shits must have been and how constipated they were all the time from all that cheese! No wonder they murderered all those people.

hackbunny posted:

Florida was the state with the lowest share of workers who have multiple jobs with only 3.5% of residents pulling double duty.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

True. It's the unity threshold. Those guys had enough of a unified front for it to work. Scrub tiers with no skill need more people on board not because there might be just more of them, but because there're more people capable of doing the job.

Any action like this has to beat the scabs before it can beat the bosses

hackbunny posted:

These Are the Laziest States in America, New Study Says

In general, Americans work an average of almost 1,800 hours per year, but not every state has the same level of work ethic. In a new study from personal-finance website WalletHub, metrics such as average workweek hours, employment rate and average leisure time per day were used to determine the hardest-working states in the country. While Alaska took the top spot as the hardest-working state, states in the tri-state area left a bit to be desired. Here are the 26 laziest states in reverse order, according to the study.

Maine had the highest share of workers actually using their vacation time rather than leaving it unused, with only 38% not taking advantage of their days off.

Mississippi had the 5th lowest employment rate and the 4th lowest annual volunteer hours per resident.

Florida was the state with the lowest share of workers who have multiple jobs with only 3.5% of residents pulling double duty.

Scary! posted:

“Laziest”

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The Bloop posted:

I assume you are just mad at the issue and not at me as you appear to be?

Because, yeah we seem to be on the same side. Raise minimum wage to $25 right now and also give me a BI

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