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How come when individuals are faced with a loss of income, the response is always a mix of "tighten your belts and learn to live on gruel instead of soy lattes and avocado toast you loving ungrateful softies", but when it's a business or organisation in the same situation, it's "all you people need to work for free now so that we can avoid making any cuts to the top, also quit your loving whining"?
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May 14, 2020 21:01
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What school is this?
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May 14, 2020 21:29
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Please work for free so we can pocket the money
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May 14, 2020 21:34
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cleaners $7.50/hour TAs $12/hour maintenance staff $10/hour Chancellor $3,600/hour IT techs $50/hour someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my TAs are having to work for free
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May 14, 2020 21:43
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bike tory posted:cleaners $7.50/hour Make the cleaners also do IT work. Then you can pay your TAs their $12/hr wage and bring up Chancellor wages to a more-competitive $3638/hr. Good leadership is expensive.
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May 14, 2020 22:00
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bike tory posted:cleaners $7.50/hour Outsource IT, cleaners, and maintenance. Freeze staff wages. Profit!
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May 14, 2020 22:48
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pentyne posted:Outsource IT, cleaners, and maintenance. yes
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May 14, 2020 22:50
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Heated Gaming Moment posted:What school is this? Not sure exactly what school but it's in Australia where the government has stripped a tonne of money from uni's so they stay afloat by charging a lot for international students who, for obvious reasons, aren't really travelling to go to school right now. They also won't be coming back in great numbers because half our countries leadership are going full Chinese Bioweapon and that's causing a bit of poo poo to say the least.
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May 14, 2020 22:52
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bike tory posted:cleaners $7.50/hour Fire the cleaners, TAs, maintenance staff, and IT techs, then add "Infection Mitigation", "Academic Mentoring", "Basic Engineering", and "Computer Operation" as mandatory courses for all majors, with associated course fees for materials. Give the chancellor a raise for saving money in these difficult times.
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May 14, 2020 23:01
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universities are losing a fortune not being able to sell $60 hoodies at the bookstore
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May 15, 2020 01:32
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The bookstore at my uni closed down because it wasn't making a profit
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May 15, 2020 02:52
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Shame Boy posted:Ok but Neil Patrick Harris survives by being a very smart boy and therefore not having to be in any sort of danger at all ever so clearly they live in a meritocracy and the grunts who died should have done better in school and learned how to be psychic better I'm pretty sure he dies in the book. But he was also just an R&D mook, and Pluto got taken out or some such thing. Also companies should all fire their CEOs en masse and then make their seconds or whatever the new CEOs to save money. It's pretty much how the federal government has been running for the last few years. AvesPKS has issued a correction as of 03:10 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 03:06
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bike tory posted:cleaners $7.50/hour -Fire the cleaners. Roni 19 is clearly a myth. I'll still be working from home because of "reasons", but those cleaners have nothing to be afraid of and deserve to lose their jobs for being such pussies. -Fire the maintenance staff. Why the gently caress do we even have maintenance staff? We provide the students the privilege of "work experience" by doing any/all maintenance via paying us tuition. - Eye.....tee.....techs? Do they help with my golf swing or something? If you're referring to computer toucher servants, get rid of em as our computer servers will never ever go dow..... Tee Aids? Get rid of this pestilence unless they'll help improve my golf game. gently caress having to bend over to put the ball on the tee at the beginning of every hole. I feel bad for the Chancellor. Always puts in so much hard work looking at the emails all day. Heard his 7 year old boy wants a golf cart for Christmas but the tuitions not going BURR might interfere with that. Think we gotta do something to make that poor boy's dream come true.
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May 15, 2020 04:49
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Inceltown posted:Not sure exactly what school but it's in Australia where the government has stripped a tonne of money from uni's so they stay afloat by charging a lot for international students who, for obvious reasons, aren't really travelling to go to school right now. They also won't be coming back in great numbers because half our countries leadership are going full Chinese Bioweapon and that's causing a bit of poo poo to say the least. As someone who quit a full time permanent government job to take a contract uni job ~6 months ago...  I also really want to know what uni that is. CQU? Tassie?
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May 15, 2020 05:27
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Hollandia posted:As someone who quit a full time permanent government job to take a contract uni job ~6 months ago... Turns out it's RMIT. Hope you're not working there because  if so.
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May 15, 2020 05:32
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lmao, the guy who first started talking about action to stop the volunteer work was a front for SAlt donations. Donations coming through them and being used to fight it may well have been how it played out but telling people to donate for this specific cause and then getting a receipt from the SAlties is not how to do it.
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May 15, 2020 08:44
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Inceltown posted:Not sure exactly what school but it's in Australia where the government has stripped a tonne of money from uni's so they stay afloat by charging a lot for international students who, for obvious reasons, aren't really travelling to go to school right now. They also won't be coming back in great numbers because half our countries leadership are going full Chinese Bioweapon and that's causing a bit of poo poo to say the least. I don't agree with the causality - The universities got themselves heavily addicted to the amount of $ they could bring in from full fee-paying international students and pivoted to cater heavily towards them, I think it'd be wrong to say they were driven to it. The cuts just happened during the same period, and leave them extra hosed with the limitless-International-$ hose dried up.
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May 15, 2020 08:58
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Doggles posted:^^^ I bet Jeff Bezos signed up for those emails. Every day I wonder more and more why nobody's
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May 15, 2020 11:29
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Peanut Butter posted:Every day I wonder more and more why nobody's Fun fact it takes 100psi to break the human skin and the bite of a large wolf is 1200psi. Not sure why I felt the need to post that in reply to yours but it's there now.
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May 15, 2020 12:05
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Inceltown posted:Fun fact it takes 100psi to break the human skin and the bite of a large wolf is 1200psi. how much does it take to crack ping
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May 15, 2020 15:57
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Shame Boy posted:Ok but Neil Patrick Harris survives by being a very smart boy and therefore not having to be in any sort of danger at all ever so clearly they live in a meritocracy and the grunts who died should have done better in school and learned how to be psychic better I haven't read the book and I haven't watched the movie in like 80 years but was his character actually psychic or was the entire psychic division of the space army just a grift because I feel like you don't need a mind reader to tell you that the giant nearly-immobile all-brain bug surrounded by gun dudes and the corpses of his buddies is scared
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May 15, 2020 16:55
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blatman posted:I haven't read the book and I haven't watched the movie in like 80 years but was his character actually psychic or was the entire psychic division of the space army just a grift because I feel like you don't need a mind reader to tell you that the giant nearly-immobile all-brain bug surrounded by gun dudes and the corpses of his buddies is scared He told his ferret to "go get mom" and it did
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May 15, 2020 17:02
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Len posted:He told his ferret to "go get mom" and it did Yeah at the beginning of the movie it's clearly shown that he's some kind of special smart psychic wonder boy, though whether or not that's actually what he's useful for is up to interpretation I guess.
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May 15, 2020 17:03
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I hope he's actually just really good at psychically convincing people that he'd be a good army psychic but his talents only extend far enough to convince his superiors to promote him over and over
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May 15, 2020 17:06
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He's an intelligence officer in a gestapo coat, the whole mindpowers thing might just be a psyops propaganda effort. I believe it as much as I believe that the bugs bombed Buenos Aeris.
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May 15, 2020 17:52
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Krowley posted:He's an intelligence officer in a gestapo coat, the whole mindpowers thing might just be a psyops propaganda effort. I believe it as much as I believe that the bugs bombed Buenos Aeris. That sounds like traitor talk to me
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May 15, 2020 18:29
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blatman posted:I haven't read the book and I haven't watched the movie in like 80 years but was his character actually psychic or was the entire psychic division of the space army just a grift because I feel like you don't need a mind reader to tell you that the giant nearly-immobile all-brain bug surrounded by gun dudes and the corpses of his buddies is scared There's kind of an implication he was sending psychic orders to Rico
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May 15, 2020 18:43
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Krowley posted:He's an intelligence officer in a gestapo coat, the whole mindpowers thing might just be a psyops propaganda effort. I believe it as much as I believe that the bugs bombed Buenos Aeris.
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May 15, 2020 18:52
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Doesn't one of the characters say the asteroid should have been seen by their solar system perimeter bases, which strongly indicates an inside job?
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May 15, 2020 19:13
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bush had the goddamn bugs whack us johnny
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May 15, 2020 19:23
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Krowley posted:He's an intelligence officer in a gestapo coat, the whole mindpowers thing might just be a psyops propaganda effort. I believe it as much as I believe that the bugs bombed Buenos Aeris. Actually it was Buenos Aerith in the original
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May 15, 2020 19:28
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I always saw him as this Ender Wiggins type dude who Game Theoried himself up to being a colonel in just a year of training. That universe definitely had psychic people though. The third movie had Job from Arrested Development as this Singing Psychic Sky Marshal and Johnny Rico is stuck doing Batman voice the whole time.
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May 15, 2020 19:37
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Panfilo posted:I always saw him as this Ender Wiggins type dude who Game Theoried himself up to being a colonel in just a year of training.
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May 15, 2020 19:42
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Thanatosian posted:In the book, the skinnies were definitely psychic. One of the first bits of the book is Rico's unit bodyguarding a psychic. Rico wonders if there might be some other explanation for the psychic's abilities, like some kind of hypersensitive senses, before deciding it doesn't matter.
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May 15, 2020 19:59
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Thanatosian posted:In the book, the skinnies were definitely psychic. The book, the Verhoeven movies and the sequels are three different things. Iirc, no one on the Verhoeven movie production team actually read the book
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May 15, 2020 20:32
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Krowley posted:He's an intelligence officer in a gestapo coat, the whole mindpowers thing might just be a psyops propaganda effort. I believe it as much as I believe that the bugs bombed Buenos Aeris. I think you mean Buenos Aerit- Weatherman posted:Actually it was Buenos Aerith in the original gently caress 
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May 15, 2020 20:41
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Krowley posted:The book, the Verhoeven movies and the sequels are three different things. Iirc, no one on the Verhoeven movie production team actually read the book The story I heard was that Verhoeven read the book and was like "haha wow that's fash as heck" and then made a movie that made fun of it.
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May 15, 2020 20:46
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i like matt christman's take, that the film starship troopers is intended to be viewed as an example of a film produced within that fascist society
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May 15, 2020 21:13
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i like matt christman's take, that the film starship troopers is intended to be viewed as an example of a film produced within that fascist society Yeah that's always how I took it. It's their propagandized version of the events on Klendathu
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May 15, 2020 21:20
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PostNouveau posted:Doesn't one of the characters say the asteroid should have been seen by their solar system perimeter bases, which strongly indicates an inside job? I think it's supposed to be more like Pearl Harbor where they knew it was coming and just let it happen so they'd have an excuse to go into full war mode iirc they basically say at the beginning that the bugs are attacking us because we're taking their planets from them
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