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All I ever get are texts about refunds from the Bureau of Vehicles and fake walmart delivery notices. Lately I've been getting "we sent you the first bitcoin" emails, too.
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i watched this and it was boring disney type stuff, apparently the source material comic is really hardcore so i guess it’s capitalism working as intended bringing everything down to the lowest common denominator
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Jun 9, 2021 00:07
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I have yet to met a single person that doesn't have some horror story of how lovely their cell phone company is. Why would anyone trust them with anything more than they have to?
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Jun 9, 2021 00:18
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Literally the only thing that generates "acceptable" return rates is banking.
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Jun 9, 2021 01:19
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They give you 4% interest in your first $3000 deposit.
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Jun 9, 2021 01:36
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Shwqa posted:I have yet to met a single person that doesn't have some horror story of how lovely their cell phone company is. Why would anyone trust them with anything more than they have to? I have Verizon and I'll be honest I basically forget they exist 99% of the time which is the nicest thing I can say about a telecom
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Jun 9, 2021 02:46
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that’s how I feel about Sprint. I used to have AT&T but there are three dead spots within a quarter mile of my house and they kept jacking up the price so I bounced and never really think about it
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Jun 9, 2021 04:12
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I have sprint. When I made my account I used a plan that lets me pay off my phone over 2 year at the cost of like $20 a month. Otherwise I had to pay like $500. When my phone was just about to be paid off they switched me to paying off the phone to renting the phone. It cost the exact same amount and I didn't noticed for a few months. I had to tell them I want to pay off the phone and pay less overall by calling a representative who tried to upsell me. No you can't do that via any of their apps or website. Sure it was only like $80 in the end, but it did leave a bad taste in my mouth. It sure as hell didn't make me want to use more of their services.
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Jun 9, 2021 04:36
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I have Verizon and our house is a dead zone. I literally can’t use my phone for anything if the wifi or power goes out
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Jun 9, 2021 05:05
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Sprint has been part of Tmobile for like, a year now? Had Sprint for years, gently caress them.
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Jun 9, 2021 05:24
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every telecom company is poo poo
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Jun 9, 2021 08:02
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Especially in Canada. There was a CBC news story about a guy who recorded all his calls with Bell (?) and he was promised payment plans that didn't exist three times. The company still tried the "confused employee" excuse, but it was pretty clear that they encourage straight up lying to the customer with the intention of loving them over in the end. Also the Telecoms flexed on our former PM when he tried to bring even a semblance of competition in and told him to gently caress off.
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Jun 9, 2021 10:14
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Zamujasa posted:every telecom company is poo poo Spectrum keeps sending me emails to use their cell phone service and like, when I had their cable package my On Demand just didn't work. They sent a tech out who replaced the box and did the activation signal but it still wouldn't go, he calls them up "hey this still doesn't work can I go up a tech support level?" And the lady hung up on him Calling back the next person said "oh well if that didn't fix it it just won't work and there's nothing we can do" So the tech left and then I returned their tv poo poo and went to internet only But if they can't guarantee their tv service will work why would I get on their cell phone plan?
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Jun 9, 2021 10:37
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Your monthly Vancouver real estate update
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Jun 9, 2021 10:38
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detached housing is satanic
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Jun 9, 2021 11:56
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i was buying a few groceries at walmart the other day and as I'm bagging my own groceries the cashier was going hard loving sell on trying to get me to sign up for some credit card even though the first thing I said when she brought it up was "I already have an awesome cash back card". just the entire loving time mumbling through her pitch about how i'll get $15 back instantly. it's pathetic and I hate that capitalism has reduced my interactions with a cashier to this instead of us being able to bullshit about the weather or something. i know on the 'crimes of capitalism' scale it's barely a blip but it's little things like this that wear us all down. as annoyed as i was i'm sure the cashier absolutely hates it more. i always liked that this walmart isn't trash like most of them (clean, good produce, etc) but i think i'll start going to the more expensive grocery store to avoid that awkward stuff (not that they don't try to upsell me on poo poo at loblaws but at least the upseller is a separate dude i can just breeze by)
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Jun 9, 2021 14:01
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I argue with the gas station clerks that try to get me to sign up for their discount cards when I'm trying to buy cigarettes. Cigarettes do not receive a discount with any of their cards. Like, motherfucker, I'm not giving your company my phone number, email and address so they can send me coupons for roller hot dogs and fountain drinks and sell my information to another corp so they can do the same. I use my exwifes' number for everything like that anyhow. Let her deal with the junk mail.
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Jun 9, 2021 14:11
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I argue with the gas station clerks that try to get me to sign up for their discount cards when I'm trying to buy cigarettes. Cigarettes do not receive a discount with any of their cards. Like, motherfucker, I'm not giving your company my phone number, email and address so they can send me coupons for roller hot dogs and fountain drinks and sell my information to another corp so they can do the same. If it's speedway you don't need to give the card any information until you go to redeem points and the register jockey gets bitched at if their scan rate is below a certain rate. It doesn't even matter if you immediately throw the card out immediately after they scan it, just take the card.
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Jun 9, 2021 14:24
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Yeah, it's not like they're asking you because they want to. It's literally bullshit they've been told to do, or else.
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Jun 9, 2021 14:27
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It's pointless to take the card for cigarettes, there are never discounts associated with cigarettes, that's largely a price fixed market in this state. I go to gas stations that charge about 7 cents more than state minimum for a carton. I tell them to scan their own cards if they want the purchase points. Anything I have to give my number or other info up for to redeem, no. Yeah, I could give fakes or the exwifes' or whatever, but it's a matter of principle when the argument starts. gently caress them for trying to buy my information with 25¢ off a fountain drink. The fact that there are policies that force employees to meet quotas on this bullshit makes me want to call and yell at Kroger for a while. Then Kum&Go.
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Jun 9, 2021 14:30
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I tell them to scan their own cards if they want the purchase points. Anything I have to give my number or other info up for to redeem, no. Yeah, I could give fakes or the exwifes' or whatever, but it's a matter of principle when the argument starts. gently caress them for trying to buy my information with 25¢ off a fountain drink. This will get you fired and sued for theft.
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Hollandia posted:As someone who is currently sorta trying to buy a house, these are both cathartic (wow, at least I'm not living there) and scary (our current bubble could just keep growing to Vancouver levels!). Keep posting the updates! I appreciate them. Vancouver is special becaus a lot of wealthy Hong Kong capitalists are fleeing there to escape the imminent communist takeover.
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Jun 9, 2021 14:31
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The person you're arguing with isn't the person who's buying your information with coupons You and the cashier have a common enemy
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Jun 9, 2021 14:32
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I realize the clerk isn't the enemy. I just like to be left alone on that bullshit.Len posted:This will get you fired and sued for theft. Oh gently caress that. I'd rather dig ditches.
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Jun 9, 2021 14:33
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I realize the clerk isn't the enemy. I just like to be left alone on that bullshit. When I worked at speedway you had to save every receipt. Because if they thought you used your speedway card too much on one shift you had to be able to prove it was all your transactions
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Jun 9, 2021 14:38
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They moved around store managers at one point and I went from being able to get free hot water for my self provided tea bags to being told if I didn't pay 25 cents I would get fired
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Jun 9, 2021 14:49
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Thanks for sharing, I'll be sure to avoid Speedway in the future. My last retail counter job was in an adult store. They always had us push extras like batteries, lube, etc, but it wasn't like they'd fire us over it, they didn't want anyone under their employ to get hit with pandering charges (in the South, specifically). Just offer the convenience of overpriced stuff for your new vibrator so you don't have to hit walmart on the way home.
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Jun 9, 2021 15:04
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BonHair posted:I mean, it depends on your degree. If you take something that will get replaced by computers in ten years like law, you end up conservative. If you go STEM it's libertarianism. Social sciences, especially polsci or economics turns you into a liberal. Humanities is where you get your communism. You say this, but every mathematics major ive met has been a hardcore communist edit: this is what happens when I dont reload a tab for ages
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Jun 9, 2021 17:08
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Len posted:When I worked at speedway you had to save every receipt. Because if they thought you used your speedway card too much on one shift you had to be able to prove it was all your transactions about 25 years ago I'd go pick my gf up from whatever high end boutique clothing store she was working at in the mall. At the end of every shift the manager had to walk you from the counter to the store entrance to make sure the employee didn't steal on the way out. It was incredible.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:16
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every logician i know is the most extreme version of their political whatever possible. posadists, juche, turbo-lanyards, turbofascists, seasteaders, etc. but very variegated wrt actual content
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Jun 9, 2021 17:17
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Blockade posted:You say this, but every mathematics major ive met has been a hardcore communist math of the type done by actual mathematicians is a deeply creative and non-automatable type of labor so this checks out
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Jun 9, 2021 17:22
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There is a hidden number between 3 and 4. Mathematicians don't want you to know this.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:39
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Gorson posted:about 25 years ago I'd go pick my gf up from whatever high end boutique clothing store she was working at in the mall. At the end of every shift the manager had to walk you from the counter to the store entrance to make sure the employee didn't steal on the way out. It was incredible. I think Sephora only lets you have see through purses? Going back to Speedway you couldn't wear cargo pants, the cited reason from management was a fear of theft They also paid someone to watch the cameras to make sure you paid for fountain drinks. I saw more than one person fired for stealing fountain drinks or roller grill items
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Jun 9, 2021 17:40
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Len posted:They also paid someone to watch the cameras to make sure you paid for fountain drinks. I saw more than one person fired for stealing fountain drinks or roller grill items Jesus loving Christ, I worked at an arcade in high school, and was told by the owner I could eat whatever the gently caress I wanted and drink all the fountain drinks I wanted as long as I was working, because the marginal cost of a fountain drink is literally loving nothing.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:48
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It's not that nobody wants to work, it's that nobody wants to work for minimum wage where they're treated like a thief. If you don't trust your employees to the point you've put them in a panopticon there's a problem.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:55
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Len posted:I think Sephora only lets you have see through purses? Going back to Speedway you couldn't wear cargo pants, the cited reason from management was a fear of theft Don't even think about buying something on company time. It's a fireable offense for you and the cashier.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:57
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Len posted:If you don't trust your employees to the point you've put them in a panopticon there's a problem. Yeah. But I have a feeling it's less about loss prevention and more about public humiliation to assert dominance
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Jun 9, 2021 18:00
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I once got fired from a produce department for eating a banana that was marked for disposal. One banana out of a ln actual ton "len it's our job to ensure that makes it to the compost company"
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Jun 9, 2021 18:03
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Marx Headroom posted:Yeah. But I have a feeling it's less about loss prevention and more about public humiliation to assert dominance Depends on who's doing it tbh, like if it's a big chain and the rules come down from corporate it's probably because some MBA middle-management gently caress thought he could score points with the board by showing how much money they're losing from "employee-related theft" or w/e.
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Accretionist posted:There is a hidden number between 3 and 4. there are more numbers between 3 and 4 than atoms in the universe
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