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Moridin920 posted:Is there anything at all that isn't hosed up? This is how I feel every day. All the little deferred maintenance both in our infrastructure and our society over the last 20-30 years is starting to show. I'm not sure we'll be able to fix all of it.
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speaking of infrastructure here's my fav subway ad recently
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Subjunctive posted:people with mobility issues did that? more so than people without injury or other disability? He is, I assume, referring to them simply being old. Because... mycomancy posted:This is how I feel every day. All the little deferred maintenance both in our infrastructure and our society over the last 20-30 years is starting to show. I'm not sure we'll be able to fix all of it. Boomers have spent the *entirety* of their political lives building all this up, and now they're screamingly enraged that their children aren't able to pay off their bill on top of taking care of them and doing everything else. An entire generation of locusts.
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mycomancy posted:This is how I feel every day. All the little deferred maintenance both in our infrastructure and our society over the last 20-30 years is starting to show. I'm not sure we'll be able to fix all of it. the "modern" water and sewerage systems of every major city in america were most recently built in the 50s at the latest with a 50 year design life in case you were wondering when everything needed to be switched from repairs to replacement and who was in charge for those decisions and still is in charge for where the money gets spent, today
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Moridin920 posted:Is there anything at all that isn't hosed up? No.
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In order to save on office costs the old office manager never hired replacements when people left. She instead chose to cut their accounts up and divvy them out through the office and did not plan ahead for when the pregnant woman gave birth and went on leave. So yesterday when I have a fever of 102 F I debate calling off but there is literally nobody there who knows how to do my job. I handle the outbound portion of either the first or second biggest account (it varies based on who you ask) so not something that can go unmanned for a day. I hope everyone enjoys being sick.
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Mar 6, 2019 10:31
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they'll fire you in a second if the one line crosses another on a graph you'll never see.
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ScrubLeague posted:they'll fire you in a second if the one line crosses another on a graph you'll never see. My account had two CSRs I hadn't heard from last week. When I called on Friday I was told they were "working on a special project" Monday turns out they were fired. #capitalism
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Mar 6, 2019 10:35
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Unemployment is my favorite special project.
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Len posted:In order to save on office costs the old office manager never hired replacements when people left. She instead chose to cut their accounts up and divvy them out through the office and did not plan ahead for when the pregnant woman gave birth and went on leave. If that's really true preempt it and give them the two week notice, along with your rates as a private consultant/your asking wage as a new hire.
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Mar 6, 2019 14:10
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Lol I was just talking to a maintainace guy at a metal plant that was talking about how they laid a guy off, realized no one else could do his job, and had to hire him back paying his full salary for 6 months of work while they got someone else to train. Then they fired everyone who worked on ordering parts and haven't replaced them at all.
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Mar 6, 2019 14:19
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ProfessorCirno posted:He is, I assume, referring to them simply being old. Because... gently caress that, don't give boomers credit for this. Their parents came back from World War II, squirted out some kids, and decided to make their society not suck like it did in the 20s and 30s. When Boomers took power in the 70s-90s they decided that this "society" thing was for pussies and started dismantling it piece by piece for profit. I hope they all starve in the cold.
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Outrail posted:If that's really true preempt it and give them the two week notice, along with your rates as a private consultant/your asking wage as a new hire. I did call off today. They put someone on my desk who covered it early last year before the system change. She had to call me and ask "how do I print orders?" Also she was forced off the desk by the account because of how bad she did at it. So not only do I lose the days pay and get the attendance point but I'm going to be cleaning up her mess for days.
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Mar 6, 2019 14:42
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Time to renegotiate your contract
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https://rentafriend.com/
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Outrail posted:Time to renegotiate your contract Haha contract. Ohio is an at will employment state
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Is this prostitutes?
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spacetoaster posted:Is this prostitutes? All wage labor is prostitution.
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Boksi posted:All wage labor is prostitution. Don't insult prostitutes.
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Subjunctive posted:people with mobility issues did that? more so than people without injury or other disability? Sorry my bad. I was raging against Boomers. Sometimes I feel kinda bad for my roommate when I bring home abundant cleaning supplies and delicious food from my job and sleep in while she has to get up to drive for Uber lafmoldo but i guess that's the job you have to get when you have a bunch of facial tattoos Sjs00 has issued a correction as of 15:46 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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spacetoaster posted:Is this prostitutes? It's like those Japanese rent a family services except it's been around for a while. I was listening to a podcast that mentioned them and got curious. I did like their "what is" page: quote:RentAFriend.com is strictly a platonic Friendship website. RentAFriend.com is NOT a dating website, and NOT an Escort agency. Services on RentAFriend.com are strictly for FRIENDSHIP purposes only.
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Mar 6, 2019 15:41
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spacetoaster posted:Is this prostitutes? You can also rent people to nonsexually cuddle with, figure that one out
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mycomancy posted:gently caress that, don't give boomers credit for this. Their parents came back from World War II, squirted out some kids, and decided to make their society not suck like it did in the 20s and 30s. When Boomers took power in the 70s-90s they decided that this "society" thing was for pussies and started dismantling it piece by piece for profit. Ah yes notable boomer Ronald Reagan
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I hate to be A Fishmech here but boomers didn't "take power" until at least the late 80's and into the 90's, because people do not give a gently caress about politics in any significant way until they're sufficiently old. All that dismantling poo poo was initiated and built up steam due to the WWII generation (hence Reagan and wanting to return to the idyllic 1950's when you could beat up all the blacks you wanted) and all the "making stuff not suck like it did in the 20's and 30's" was done by the generation previous to the WWII generation, who actually remember the 20's and 30's and were old enough to care about politics in the 50's and 60's. Boomers still perpetuated this and built it into the monster it is today, don't get me wrong, but it's not like the people before them were forward-thinking progressives.
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Shame Boy posted:You can also rent people to nonsexually cuddle with, figure that one out Touch starvation really sucks
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Shame Boy posted:I hate to be A Fishmech here but boomers didn't "take power" until at least the late 80's and into the 90's, because people do not give a gently caress about politics in any significant way until they're sufficiently old. All that dismantling poo poo was initiated and built up steam due to the WWII generation (hence Reagan and wanting to return to the idyllic 1950's when you could beat up all the blacks you wanted) and all the "making stuff not suck like it did in the 20's and 30's" was done by the generation previous to the WWII generation, who actually remember the 20's and 30's and were old enough to care about politics in the 50's and 60's. fake news! make the greatest generation great again!
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Shame Boy posted:I hate to be A Fishmech here but boomers didn't "take power" until at least the late 80's and into the 90's, because people do not give a gently caress about politics in any significant way until they're sufficiently old. All that dismantling poo poo was initiated and built up steam due to the WWII generation (hence Reagan and wanting to return to the idyllic 1950's when you could beat up all the blacks you wanted) and all the "making stuff not suck like it did in the 20's and 30's" was done by the generation previous to the WWII generation, who actually remember the 20's and 30's and were old enough to care about politics in the 50's and 60's. my soon to be 90 year old grandma blames herself for the boomers because they made things "too good" for them lol
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Shame Boy posted:
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https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/03/06/billionaire-sam-zell-ocasio-cortez-wealth-redistribution-wont-work.html Another billionaire who knows what the common man wants. Dealing with income inequality just leads to more income inequality, if you think about it. Americans want to work hard to earn their
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Food Boner posted:my soon to be 90 year old grandma blames herself for the boomers because they made things "too good" for them lol the boomers' parents also warned their kids that too much tv would rot their brains given that your average cable news devotee is 70-ish, they weren't wrong
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Coxswain Balls posted:https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/03/06/billionaire-sam-zell-ocasio-cortez-wealth-redistribution-wont-work.html Oh that reminds me, Tampa's mayoral election ended in a run-off between two candidates, so now I get to pick between: - A former police chief who started republican but switched to democrat to get more votes and who loves red light cameras and racial profiling, or - A billionaire who claims he realized the American dream rags to riches story by saving up his pocket money from his job where he did lots of hard work mopping floors and at age 25 had enough to buy a loving bank. Also he started out with rich parents but I'm sure that had nothing to do with it. His wonderful policy idea is "public-private partnerships for low income housing"  Thanks America 
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Sjs00 posted:Sorry my bad. I was raging against Boomers. dont side with the boomers, it doesnt have to be that way
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I'd think having a bunch of facial tattoos and driving for uber would be a great way to get every middle-aged white person you pick up to leave horrible reviews about how you're probably a convict, thus tanking your rating below the magic number where they just stop giving you work.
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Shame Boy posted:who loves red light cameras Red light cameras are a good thing. Just don't run the lights and you'll be golden.
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Lambert posted:Red light cameras are a good thing. Just don't run the lights and you'll be golden. They've been shown to increase crashes rather than decrease them and incentivize cities to tune light timing to optimize ticketing income rather than safety but I assume you already know all this and just feel like arguing
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So, less cars on the road because more of them have crashed? I'm getting more and more impressed with these cameras.
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Lambert posted:Red light cameras are a good thing. Just don't run the lights and you'll be golden. This is the kind of thing you say when you think about an issue for two seconds and no longer. Red light cameras are bad. This is because, overwhelmingly, nobody runs a run light on purpose. It is an extreme rarity, to the point of statistical irrelevance, that someone thinks "that light is red but I don't give a gently caress, I'm going through". So what red light cameras punish is usually an error on the driver's part anyway, and punishing unintentional errors is not a good way to change behavior. What they do cause however, is driver's to overreact when they know a camera is present. When they see a yellow light either they speed way up trying to get through the intersection before the camera activates, or they slam on their brakes because they're afraid of a ticket. Both of these things lead to more accidents. So it's a case where something that sounds reasonable (to moron fucksticks like yourself who never ponder anything for more than five seconds) like "don't run red lights", not only doesn't accomplish the goal, but actually creates problems of it's own. And this is clear to anyone willing to hold judgements until they have at least a cursory understanding of the facts (people who aren't idiots).
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