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cumshitter posted:This is insane. I don't even work at a large company and when our HR person called the coffee supply people to ask how much they were charging they freaked out and thought we were shopping around, so they gave us a free keurig and started sending us cups for no additional charge. Charging your employees for coffee is absolute horse poo poo, you want them to drink coffee and be more productive. At my last job a dude sent a company site wide email demonstrating, with an extremely back of the envelope calculation, that the company was paying more for an employee making $65k/year to walk to to the cafe on the north side of the site to get the free coffee vs. installing coffee machines in each floor’s break room. We had the same coffee machines in the break rooms next week. I mostly think this was because they wanted to back up his calculations based on the average employee making $65k/year (that dude was waaaaaaaay underpaid if that is what he made).
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Hellblazer187 posted:I'm being accused of "stealing company property" because I brought my own Kuerig cups in instead of buying from the company snack bar. How should I tell my boss to go gently caress herself? lol this reminds me of the job my wife had when I met her. Her boss was decent for being a tech boss in China, but the boss's father, who invested in the company to get it off the ground was tight as gently caress and was always butting in. Some examples I remeber: - They got a coffee maker in the office. Coffee isn't huge in China but was kinda popular in Shanghai, and among tech workers. The day after the coffee machine arrived the boss' dad gave strict orders that only customers who were visiting were allowed to drink coffee from the company machine. - One day the boss's dad came in with a cheap rear end wall clock and told one of the senior engineers to fix it since he didn't want to buy a new one. So this highly paid (by Chinese standards) engineer had to spend like 3 hours fixing this lovely clock so the boss's dad could save the equivalent of 2 usd. - The company offices were rented, and while not exactly city center the offices were close to the subway, a highway and many bus stops. To save money the dad convinced them to buy office space, to make it cheap they bought offices right at the north-east edge of Shanghai, far away from everything, like you had to take the subway to the end stop, and then take a bus for 45min from there, and the bus only left every half hour during rush hour. In addition, since ceiling height was kinda tall, they had put in an extra floor to get more space. If you were slightly above average height you couldn't stand up straight since the ceiling was now so low. My wife quit on the spot when she saw that bullshit.
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AITA? For refusing to pay for my boyfriend's medical bills after he had an accident in my car?quote:I (f32) have been with my boyfriend 'Ramsey M37 for 3 years. His car recently broke down and he can not afford to fix it because he's broke. He's asked to use my Hyundai several times and I let him but only for few times because he tends to drive recklessly, doesn't respect traffic laws and just has so much rage when he's driving. oh he's a keeper
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 10:18 |
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Mx. posted:AITA? For refusing to pay for my boyfriend's medical bills after he had an accident in my car? I stole and wrecked your car. How do you plan to pay for my expenses? I can take venmo.
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 10:27 |
While I know what is meant, I can't help but laugh at "Fortunately no one was hurt but Ramsey had an injured shoulder and a broken finger".
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Mx. posted:because he tends to drive recklessly, doesn't respect traffic laws and just has so much rage when he's driving unironically this is enough to sever, especially if it’s bad enough it makes you not want to lend him your car. He’s 37 and should know how to drive like a big boy and not kill someone.
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Mx. posted:AITA? For refusing to pay for my boyfriend's medical bills after he had an accident in my car?
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 11:15 |
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Cobalt-60 posted:Either the boss cannot stand Being Wrong,or there might be accounting "irregularities" she's worried about. Or it's the return of Guacamole Bob. What is Guacamole Bob?
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 11:59 |
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First hit on google: https://www.askamanager.org/2017/09/update-my-companys-accountant-is-nitpicking-my-pretty-frugal-travel-expenses.html quote:update: my company’s accountant is nitpicking my pretty frugal travel expenses
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 12:06 |
I will never jeopardize the guacamole.
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 12:20 |
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There's something about corporate cheapness that really winds me up, just the mix of idiot bureaucracy, general stupidity, and pig-headed refusal to actually think about what you're asking of employees.
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 12:28 |
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I am pleased that the employee gained free extra guac at all work lunches out of the whole ordeal. That's worth almost as much as a dental plan.
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Mx. posted:AITA? For refusing to pay for my boyfriend's medical bills after he had an accident in my car? ESH Boyfriend is obviously the bigger rear end in a top hat but don’t date road ragers and especially don’t lend them your (uninsured!) car.
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 12:37 |
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Brawnfire posted:[...]dental plan. Lisa needs guac!
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 12:42 |
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:ESH Sounds like OP didn't this time: quote:He asked to borrow my car days ago to attend an event and I refused to let him take it but I found out he took it anyway and left a small note while I was asleep saying he'd be back before my shift started but he never did.
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 12:51 |
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Yeah but they lent it to him on previous occasions per the earlier text, which is still hosed.
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 13:03 |
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Mx. posted:AITA? For refusing to pay for my boyfriend's medical bills after he had an accident in my car? So he was admitted to the hospital and given a bed for for multiple hours for an injured shoulder and broken finger? He has no insurance, no mention of head trauma or other reason to detain for observation - unless that shoulder's insides are on the outside, or they need emergency surgery to save his arm, not likely, and it seems like that's the kind of thing she might have mentioned. If it was outpatient, and he was sitting in an exam room/cubicle for hours upon hours in the ER (could happen), why is she allowed to come and go multiple times into what is a very high risk COVID space, especially after being asked to leave once already? ER nurses don't have time for that poo poo. If I give it the benefit of the (huge) doubt, she's hosed if she doesn't report the car stolen, and might be hosed even if she does. She has no insurance, which means she's paying out of pocket for her car, and the insurance company of the car her BF hit is probably going to come after her for at least some of the costs of the car he hit, and any injuries that may develop as a result of the accident.
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 13:10 |
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:ESH Goons for real have the most stupid takes
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cumshitter posted:This is insane. I don't even work at a large company and when our HR person called the coffee supply people to ask how much they were charging they freaked out and thought we were shopping around, so they gave us a free keurig and started sending us cups for no additional charge. Charging your employees for coffee is absolute horse poo poo, you want them to drink coffee and be more productive. I work in tech. The one place I worked for that stopped giving us free coffee, stopped giving us paychecks on time a few weeks later, and then stopped giving us paychecks at all.
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Olewithmilk posted:There's something about corporate cheapness that really winds me up, just the mix of idiot bureaucracy, general stupidity, and pig-headed refusal to actually think about what you're asking of employees. I really wish I could remember where I read or heard this as trying to retell it is tripping my own bullshit detectors to the point I question if I should even post, but supposedly this is (or was) a pretty well known difference in business culture between European and American organisations. Namely, Americans are much more likely to receive considerably higher compensation than their European counterparts of similar seniority, while having stringent business travel budgets/per diems, while Europeans are more likely to have generous expense and entertainment budgets. Edit: feedmegin posted:I work in tech. The one place I worked for that stopped giving us free coffee, stopped giving us paychecks on time a few weeks later, and then stopped giving us paychecks at all. I used to work for a moderately well known online gambling operator that was taken over by another company at one point and ended up laying most of the old staff less than a year later. First the vending machines appeared, then the coffee became completely unpalatable over the course of a month or two, but it never was not free. Even after it was known that 90% of the staff would be let go. a podcast for cats fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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a podcast for cats posted:Namely, Americans are much more likely to receive considerably higher compensation than their European counterparts of similar seniority, while having stringent business travel budgets/per diems, while Europeans are more likely to have generous expense and entertainment budgets This may be true for, like, Sales, for all I know, but a regular European computer toucher doesn't have an expense account or entertainment budget. Office perks like free coffee and snacks etc are probably about the same between the two, depending on the company of course. Though obviously America in general has inferior biscuit game :p
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Is it ridiculous for me (19f) to break up with my bf (27m) over a stressful Halloween party?quote:This is a long one and I'm on mobile so sorry ahead of time. My bf (27M) and I (19F) have been dating for a little over a year and a half. We have been living together for the past year. I have always been someone who loves to wear costumes. I actually learned how to sew while helping my mom make my Halloween costumes as a kid. As I got older we branched out into making costumes for me to wear to festivals and conventions but Halloween stayed our favorite holiday. My mom passed away two years ago and this year was going to be my first attempt at celebrating Halloween without her. The fact that the boyfriend was deliberately trying to undermine this woman and ruin her night and she's too inexperienced to tell feels like a pretty good example of why this kind of age gap is hosed up. Also lol at his, "oh, wow, hon, your friends are totally gonna think [my actual thoughts]" act.
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AITA for lettingmy child climb on a rock?quote:Hi, I'm a 34 year old woman and my 3 children are a 12 year old boy, a 9 year old boy and a 7 year old girl. My husband is a 35 year old man. Do you want demon possession in your kid? Cause this is how you get demon possession in your kid. Good news, demon possession might make you parent.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:ESH So somehow it's HER fault he's an rear end in a top hat? Or is it her fault that he sucks at driving? Or is it her fault he sole her car?
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Hellblazer187 posted:I'm being accused of "stealing company property" because I brought my own Kuerig cups in instead of buying from the company snack bar. How should I tell my boss to go gently caress herself? I mean, they're all assholes for using Keurigs.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for lettingmy child climb on a rock? So, first - the people who are "it doesn't matter if I'm wrong, only that no one can say I'm wrong" can just gently caress right off. Second, anyone who decides that they can act like poo poo and no one is allowed to call out for it just because they're older can just gently caress right off. Also, don't let your kids mess about on historical, neolithic monuments you gigantic self-centred piece of poo poo. Why is this something you need to be told?
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 14:21 |
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Is she from some east Asian culture where you must always defer to your elders out of etiquette (even if they're just like a day older than you?).
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keep punching joe posted:Is she from some east Asian culture where you must always defer to your elders out of etiquette (even if they're just like a day older than you?). American middle aged folk have been pushing this idea for a long while, they love trying to use this argument now that the boomers are the last large old demographic
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keep punching joe posted:Is she from some east Asian culture where you must always defer to your elders out of etiquette (even if they're just like a day older than you?). I mean plenty of white boomers and chuds of all ages have a hardon for "you must respect your elders" as well.
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 14:48 |
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Soylent Pudding posted:I mean plenty of white boomers and chuds of all ages have a hardon for "you must respect your elders" as well. All useless old assholes love this one secret trick to get free 'respect'.
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Me [23 M] with my Fiance [21 F] I don't know what's going on.quote:Hi Reddit. Excuse my awful formatting. Lately I've been having some issues with my behavior, and I just need to vent.
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deety posted:Is it ridiculous for me (19f) to break up with my bf (27m) over a stressful Halloween party? The phrasing here really stuck out to me quote:I spent the day before the party finishing it and I told my bf how delicate it was when showing it to him for the first time. Immediately, he strummed his finger across several of the wire arches supporting the headpiece's stars which sent two of the stars flying. I was instantly in tears which I understand in hindsight wasn't a reaction proportional to how easy it ended up being to fix the stars. Your reaction isn't proportional to how hard or easy it is to fix, it's proportional to realizing how little your boyfriend respects you, if upon being told "this is fragile" he immediately has to gently caress with it.
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deety posted:Is it ridiculous for me (19f) to break up with my bf (27m) over a stressful Halloween party? Yo girl, time to recreate Proserpine Emerging From the Underworld that is your relationship with this lovely man.
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 15:02 |
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I had a job years back where the owners got us a keurig and put out a little cup to collect coffee money. No set price, just to contribute for coffee pods. This was a place that way perhaps technically a small family business but was also bringing in serious money. Like, the owners had a Filipina immigrant nanny for their kids, pretty sure through the temporary foreign workers program, until they got in trouble for never giving her a day off, so when she managed to quit, they replaced her with two new Filipina immigrants and then bought a house for them to live in so that they didn't have to have them around when they weren't working. I only drink decaf for health reasons so I bought my own pods and never contributed to the coffee fund, but it did not escape my notice that the money in the jar would empty and it absolutely did not line up with the price of the replacement coffee that occasionally showed up. Eventually turned out that the keurig was a commercial-grade machine that was rented from a local company and my bosses just decided to stop paying the rent for it and keep the machine. They were very indignant when it got repossessed, but I'm not sure what they expected to happen. This is in line with the time they made a big deal about a new extended health care plan they were offering, and then cancelled the coverage a few months later without telling anyone because "nobody uses it." They did not seem to understand why I was upset about the surprise $75 bill when I went in to get my monthly prescriptions and my coverage was gone. Buckets of money, but allergic to spending any of it on anything but themselves. Would book you for fifty hours a week and then wave off your concerns with "oh we don't pay overtime here" as though that were a reasonable or legal policy to have. I would just refuse to be booked for six days a week, and it pissed them off so much. I worked there way longer than I should have. The coffee was only a symptom.
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deety posted:Is it ridiculous for me (19f) to break up with my bf (27m) over a stressful Halloween party? "You're just too immature", I scream at my literal teenaged girlfriend
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Fruits of the sea posted:This... isn't actually a thing, is it? Do you mean hoteps in general? Because yes, it is.
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# ? Nov 2, 2021 15:19 |
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why doesn't the legally-not-a-child i'm choosing to date just mature into a young adult woman already, god how disrespectful to me
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spouse posted:What the heck did the kid do last year if carpet poo poo for a week results in a split judgement on trick or treating? ...avoid catching COVID, probably? Lockdowns don't go well with trick-or-treat you know.
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AITA for helping my Brother runaway from his wedding?quote:I have 2 older brothers, this is about the middle one. Our parents divorced when I was very young due to our Mother’s insane jealousy. At first my Dad was able to handle it but when she started making comments about me wanting to be like his wife he had enough. She quickly rebounded with a guy with 2 kids and had shared custody for a while. But when my Dad got remarried she went crazy, calling his new wife every horrible name and claiming he was cheating on her while they were married. I was always closer to my brothers and Dad than my Mom because she was always very mean to me. Long story short, my Stepmom died in a bad car accident and my Dad called her in the middle of the night letting her know he would pick us up earlier so we could attend the funeral and she decided to take us on a fun trip to “celebrate“ something. It was the happiest we've ever seen her and when we realized what happened and started crying she told us only worthless people cry for wh***s.
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Dewgy posted:Was there ever an update from that lady on Twitter who thought she was a kidnapped baby? kimbo305 posted:2 weeks ago, I commented on that post asking if she'd had any updates. Silence. https://imgur.com/user/insnowboardingwetrust/comments Doesn't look like they have updated anything (sorry I know these are old posts)
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