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Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Do HR departments still think group job interviews are a good idea? Back in the early 2010s I went to multiple where they had 10 or so people in a room and we were all interviewing for the same minimum wage positions

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Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

Len posted:

Do HR departments still think group job interviews are a good idea? Back in the early 2010s I went to multiple where they had 10 or so people in a room and we were all interviewing for the same minimum wage positions

:wtc: . Feels like some Burger King middle manager watched Men In Black and was inspired

Elman
Oct 26, 2009

https://twitter.com/Shitty_Future/status/1385569345716244481?s=20

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

smdh ruining the alphabits/cheerios my cereal is talking to me joke for future generations

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Failed Imagineer posted:

:wtc: . Feels like some Burger King middle manager watched Men In Black and was inspired

It's going to be fun! We're going to play games and laugh!

I understand that the point is pain but it was quite possibly the worst most dehumanizing moment of my life.

FIGHT FOR OUR ENJOYMENT

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007



my local kroger megastore has fake cameras and motion detectors that bleep at you as you walk down the aisles with exclusive luxury goods such as deoderant and shampoo. i want to rip them off the stands but instead i just quit shopping there

boar guy
Jan 25, 2007

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

my local kroger megastore has fake cameras and motion detectors that bleep at you as you walk down the aisles with exclusive luxury goods such as deoderant and shampoo. i want to rip them off the stands but instead i just quit shopping there

christ, does retail suck rear end in every way

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Harder each day

human garbage bag
Jan 8, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
I want a grocery store with an adult version of those carts with baby seats so I can sit like a baby and be pushed around by a worker and yell for things I want.

Marenghi
Oct 16, 2008

Don't trust the liberals,
they will betray you

I wonder if the series will take the view many in Hollywood and upper echelons of society had that the point of the movie was how hard it is to find help you can trust.

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006


Platystemon posted:

Jevons: “Am I a joke to you?”

what the gently caress, this isn't even a paradox, this is just an obvious logical consequence. economists are loving worthless

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


I hope Cere-Ale is beer flavored

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

World War Mammories posted:

what the gently caress, this isn't even a paradox, this is just an obvious logical consequence. economists are loving worthless

Economists: Efficiency gained by economies of scale and competition in the free market means we can have more products faster!
Also Economists: Wait what the gently caress, why is resource utilization going up? Things got more efficient!!!

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

Marenghi posted:

I wonder if the series will take the view many in Hollywood and upper echelons of society had that the point of the movie was how hard it is to find help you can trust.

Lmao, did anyone really say that?

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Paladinus posted:

Lmao, did anyone really say that?

I've only ever seen joke articles make that exact argument, but while checking to see if I could find anything else I found this idiot medium post:

https://medium.com/@chaerinkwon/post-parasite-analysis-6d9e5049ab18

quote:

This bothered me, because the movie is called Parasite, and such a title alludes to the strong presence of an antagonist. Since I could not identify one, a central question lingered in my mind: who is the Parasite in this movie?

:thunk:

quote:

Considering the insect’s physical relationship with its host, initially I was certain that the Kim family was the parasite to the Park family. After all, the Kims were infiltrating the Park family’s mansion through duplicitous means. Halfway into the movie, another family was introduced — the Park family’s ex-housekeeper Moon-gwang and her husband Geun-sae —revealed to be living in the Park family’s bunker, even stealing from the Park family’s food supply. Both the Kim family and the Moon-gwang and Geun-sae couple were literally leeching off the Parks.

:thunk: :thunk: :thunk: :thunk:

*thinking real loving hard*:

quote:

From this standpoint, it could even be argued that families like the Park are parasitic to those of lower social classes, as the Park family benefits from the labour of the lesser class to save their own physical and mental energy as well as their reputation.

But then:

quote:

This is not to say that the Park family should be isolated as the “real” parasite, or that the Kims or the bunker couple are not parasites at all. Rather, the parasitic relationships develop in various directions, and each family demonstrates full ability to be parasitic to each other.

:thumbsup:

e: Spoilered a little thing but I'm not sure it's that much of a spoiler really

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
Amazing stuff.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

And a couple bonuses:

quote:

In this society, it seems that goodwill is a luxury.

quote:

Nobody in that world— which happens to reflect the world many of us live in— comes even close to being a pure protagonist, nor a pure antagonist. Few are selfish, but everybody is complicit.

Many of us, lmao

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
It reads like a school assignment, and the student is padding it with empty platitudes copied from random online reviews.

inferis
Dec 30, 2003

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004


where is this frm and how hard did they get owned in the comments

inferis
Dec 30, 2003

https://tropicsofmeta.com/2020/02/23/parasite-is-the-first-sexual-critique-of-capitalism/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

What the hell

quote:

And what, exactly, does this threat consist of? The reveal of a sexual secret: that the set of people employed in the Park family is not just a set of people without a sexual relation, as is assumed, but with the mightiest sexual relation of all – the familial.

Why, exactly, is this a problem? Leaving aside the obvious issue that the Kims lied to the Parks, we may ask the more fundamental question: why did KiWoo have to pretend that KiJung wasn’t his sister? Why did KiJung have to pretend that KiTaek wasn’t her father? Why did KiTaek have to pretend that ChungSook wasn’t his wife? Because that’s just… weird. KiJung would never have been hired if KiWoo introduced her as his sister. Capitalism would forbid it. For capitalism is the prohibition of incest, and the incestual undercurrent flowing beneath the Park family cannot, as a rule, be recognized.

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
Finally on page 1050 we get to the heart of it:

quote:

For capitalism is the prohibition of incest,

The only ethical product under capitalism is stepdad porn

inferis
Dec 30, 2003

I’m a dummy smoothbrain that never went to college. is writing like that universally as dumb and meaningless as it sounds?

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

inferis posted:

I’m a dummy smoothbrain that never went to college. is writing like that universally as dumb and meaningless as it sounds?

depends on what you mean by "That way"

just regurgitating a thesaurus and adding a shitload of punctuation doesn't magically give you something to say

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

inferis posted:

I’m a dummy smoothbrain that never went to college. is writing like that universally as dumb and meaningless as it sounds?

No, but you can get away with writing a lot of gibberish because nobody reads most of the stuff that is published in academia (quite often that is a literal "nobody").

inferis
Dec 30, 2003

would they get worse grades if they wrote it so that normal people could understand?

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

inferis posted:

would they get worse grades if they wrote it so that normal people could understand?

The main issue is that the author usually doesn't have a firm grasp on anything or they wouldn't write that way, if you are talking about lovely student works

There are definitely some academic works that cannot be written in layman terms, it would be like you learning an entire language or discipline to read that one text

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

inferis posted:

I’m a dummy smoothbrain that never went to college. is writing like that universally as dumb and meaningless as it sounds?

Not universally, but it's a pretty strong indicator.

On one end of the spectrum, you have Jordan Peterson who writes in perfect elliptical obfuscation about the stupidest poo poo ever, and morons love him. On the other end, you have Noam Chomsky dropping non-stop truth in easily-parsed sentences, each one building logically on its prior, with extensive footnotes providing further clarify, and morons hate him.

Somewhere in the middle are your Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, that kinda poo poo, which is a matter of interpretation and your personal tolerance for fart-huffing.

All grad school writing is bad

Failed Imagineer has issued a correction as of 20:58 on Apr 23, 2021

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

inferis posted:

I’m a dummy smoothbrain that never went to college.

You're a dummy smoothbrain WHO never went to college

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

LastInLine posted:

You're a dummy smoothbrain WHO never went to college

whom'st :smugjones:

inferis
Dec 30, 2003

LastInLine posted:

You're a dummy smoothbrain WHO never went to college

you use who to refer to brains?

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Len posted:

It's going to be fun! We're going to play games and laugh!

I understand that the point is pain but it was quite possibly the worst most dehumanizing moment of my life.

FIGHT FOR OUR ENJOYMENT

BOAR ON THE FLOOR

BOAR ON THE FLOOR

https://youtu.be/dYqqW3c2mBU

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

inferis posted:

you use who to refer to brains?

what other measure is there of personhood?

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

money

Eat This Glob
Jan 14, 2008

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?

i write for a living and my primary audience is well-educated stemlord types. im not a stemlord, but my boss has been in the industry for over 30 years so he knows the subject matter inside and out. my first week there he told me to keep the language plain and don't assume anyone knows what im talking about even if you think it is common knowledge. he relayed a story where some dude said he liked a story but didn't know what NASA was, so every time I write about NASA or any other acronym I spell it out first, even poo poo like scuba. basically the inverse of artsy grad school writing

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan
here's a free marketing tip if anyone who works at a pharmaceutical company is reading this

stop putting yeast infection medication in tubes that look like toothpaste

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

The Nastier Nate posted:

here's a free marketing tip if anyone who works at a pharmaceutical company is reading this

stop putting yeast infection medication in tubes that look like toothpaste

Time for an instagram post

Gorilla glue girl 2.0

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


The Nastier Nate posted:

here's a free marketing tip if anyone who works at a pharmaceutical company is reading this

stop putting yeast infection medication in tubes that look like toothpaste

Is this a life lesson you learned?

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Remulak
Jun 8, 2001
I can't count to four.
Yams Fan
Also, stop putting Bean-o in bottles that look like eye-droppers.

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