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Dr. Arbitrary posted:And that's kind of the problem with "do your own research" You are overthinking it. When these people say "your own research", they mean "watch youtube videos".
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Antigravitas posted:You are overthinking it. Well yeah, that's the problem, they don't know what research is. It's worse than a cargo cult. At least cargo cultists are going through the motions without understanding.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I've come to the realization that I'm woefully unqualified to research things outside a very narrow range of personal expertise. As an aside, in basically all of the English speaking world, the actual microwave oven part of a microwave unit that you'd buy from just about every retailer comes from the same Midea factory. So if you're trying to pick a microwave, you just need to focus on the soft features and build quality for the outer shell.
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StealthArcher posted:Biden offhandedly calling someone flatlander woman checks out. but Ana Navarro is still alive??
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CuddleCryptid posted:If someone worked in management at a fast food place they can correct me but my understanding was that it was what percentage of the total revenue for the hour went to labor. It was constantly tracked because if things were slow and it crept up then someone had to leave. However there were definitely fixed costs and some total averages associated with it because you could have a completely dead hour and labor wouldn't be 100%. The "ideal" was 10-12% for a sustainable hour so that means one dollar of revenue for every ten went to workers. I worked a lot of years and McDonald's, most of them management, but in Sweden. Might be slight differences. Labor percentage/hour was only counted against sales. 1 worker earning 10 bucks/h, 100 bucks in sales for that hour. Labor cost is 10%. Did not include rent, electricity, other utilities, food cost or even the tax on labor that went directly to the government, at least I don't think so. (in Sweden, if you make 100 sek you pay maybe 25 sek tax, but your employer pays 33 sek in taxes before you see that 100 sek. That tax is for your pension and some other stuff) Labor cost is not the biggest cost, but the easiest to manage and control, for every hour. You gotta squeeze labor cost during rush hour, so you don't get chewed out by your boss when it's like 400% at night when you are cleaning the kitchen. It is also deceptive, as 400% labor cost on 50 bucks is far, far less than rush hour where its maybe 11% on 1500 bucks.
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nagel posted:
Unless I'm doing this wrong, 200>165?
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nagel posted:I worked a lot of years and McDonald's, most of them management, but in Sweden. Might be slight differences. Thank you for the clarification, I was only seeing it from the other side so I wasn't sure. I would imagine that the math works the same everywhere within the same corporation, so I don't see why it would change between Sweden and USA.
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I feel like I'm at risk of underestimating the approach that's used in food service for labor costs, but it seems like it's a very simplified set of maxims/rules-of-thumb to make it accessible to people who would be overwhelmed by a more sophisticated approach. I remember talking to someone who used to work in that stuff and he was really stuck on the idea that labor costs should be a certain percentage, rather than just being a variable expense like rent, materials, insurance, etc.
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Every single manager, business owner, CEO, etc is obsessed with the idea that labor costs too much. Every single one of them. No exceptions. They will pay crazy markups on all sorts of things, allow endless inefficiencies, but labor, labor they always fixate on. Every single person with more than $50 in their wallet wants to own slaves.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Every single manager, business owner, CEO, etc is obsessed with the idea that labor costs too much. Every single one of them. No exceptions. They will pay crazy markups on all sorts of things, allow endless inefficiencies, but labor, labor they always fixate on. Every single person with more than $50 in their wallet wants to own slaves.
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Of course -- they aren't "labor", they're management. As far as they're concerned, the entire business would crumble without them
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It's infuriating in my work. Every one of my employees is responsible for about 5x their salary (minimum) in revenue. I could add 10 new employees and they'd each more than pay for themselves. But no, numbers aren't where they want so upper management not only won't let us hire more, but won't let us backfill an employee that left.
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One common argument is that the minimum wage should be low so small business owners have fewer barriers to breaking even. But they don't make those arguments for other business expenses. Shouldn't real estate agencies and landlords give small business owners a discount on their rentals and purchases of commercial buildings? Shouldn't wholesalers supply small businesses at a lower cost? Shouldn't ad buys be cheaper for small businesses? It would be so much easier for these mom and pop operations if every expense involved in running a business was discounted for them! So why is labor singled out as the one unjust expense?
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Hell, universal health care would be HUGE for small businesses. One of the big things that gives multinationals a competitive advantage in hiring is that they can give their employees better insurance packages. They also have the resources to have an HR department to handle these things, where a small business owner has to navigate the market themselves.
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Pththya-lyi posted:One common argument is that the minimum wage should be low so small business owners have fewer barriers to breaking even. But they don't make those arguments for other business expenses. Shouldn't real estate agencies and landlords give small business owners a discount on their rentals and purchases of commercial buildings? Shouldn't wholesalers supply small businesses at a lower cost? Shouldn't ad buys be cheaper for small businesses? It would be so much easier for these mom and pop operations if every expense involved in running a business was discounted for them! So why is labor singled out as the one unjust expense? It's just not a big deal because who cares
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Pththya-lyi posted:One common argument is that the minimum wage should be low so small business owners have fewer barriers to breaking even. But they don't make those arguments for other business expenses. Shouldn't real estate agencies and landlords give small business owners a discount on their rentals and purchases of commercial buildings? Shouldn't wholesalers supply small businesses at a lower cost? Shouldn't ad buys be cheaper for small businesses? It would be so much easier for these mom and pop operations if every expense involved in running a business was discounted for them! So why is labor singled out as the one unjust expense? I don't often encounter arguments against minimum wage but am stealing these questions to ask the next person who tries to make them 
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ah so you mean like how the wild west told people to disarm at town entrances or bars? oh and that real cow boys were farm hands that did daily farm work and not some traveling yahoo that kept traveling all over the country for "reasons" , oh and also maybe a white minority occupation.
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PhazonLink posted:ah so you mean like how the wild west told people to disarm at town entrances or bars? And also that they hosed each other a lot.
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I hate it because it just has the itsy bitsy enough of a truth to it, but in the complete wrong direction. Let's talk about it! Let's talk about how the US Govt. disarmed native tribes before backpedaling on treaties, which was one of the leading causes of the Lakota rebellion that led to Wounded Knee. Let's talk about how the Black Panthers were at a level of social acceptance through community action and self-policing that Ronnie Reagan signed anti-gun laws to disarm them so they could be abused by police. We can talk about how most of the mass disarmament movements actually used in history were against vulnerable populations in service to right-wing authoritarians. We know exactly what kind of control this poster would support if you showed him gun clubs providing security outside of a drag show and the fact that he wants to 'educate' is insulting.
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MAH SECOND AMENDMENT types should really get it through their heads that their favourite leader didn't disarm the population, he heavily encouraged everyone to learn shooting from a young age except for specific bits of the population
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I hope people tap this sign when chuds complain about drag queen Story hour. https://twitter.com/TeriBull2/status/1614576150126239751?t=I4W3QzrPPv6f03FMDSFCkw&s=19
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Panfilo posted:I hope people tap this sign when chuds complain about drag queen Story hour. Yeah that's been the rule for a while, that's how the missed trigger gambit works.
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Panfilo posted:I hope people tap this sign when chuds complain about drag queen Story hour. Why? There's always an exception to that when THEY'RE the upset ones.
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the_steve posted:Why? 2nd amendment has a way of making their triggers your problem.
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You know, like black union veterans in the reconstruction south.
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Proust Malone posted:You know, like black union veterans in the reconstruction south. Those don't count. And don't look too hard at most of those other cited incidents
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quote:George Phillips, an elderly man from Walled Lake, Michigan, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turnoff the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.
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i know I'm arguing with a "true story", but yes, theft of property should be a far less an urgent concern then dead/dying people
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World Famous W posted:i know I'm arguing with a "true story", but yes, theft of property should be a far less an urgent concern then dead/dying people edit: autocorrect caused a shameful error cat botherer fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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I was doubtful of that post until I saw (True story), why would that be there if it wasn’t true?
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Red Oktober posted:I was doubtful of that post until I saw (True story), why would that be there if it wasn’t true? They actually got it backwards, it's story = true. They also missed a semicolon. Very sloppy coding.
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cat botherer posted:Ah, you say that, but you are forgetting that the thief’s were young and brown, and trying to steal the white boomer’s precious law equipment. He didn't actually shoot them.
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I used to work on the emergency line for the police in the UK. There were a couple of times that people said exactly this to try and get a quicker response. Only it would massively backfire, because now instead of getting the regular unit on the way, we now had to arrange the firearms unit to go instead, which would mean it would take longer. Also it could mean the prison making the call would get arrested for making a false report to the police. When explaining the above to the caller, they would go back on what they had just said.
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PerniciousKnid posted:He didn't actually shoot them.
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Tsietisin posted:When explaining the above to the caller, they would go back on what they had just said. That's way funnier
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This one has been around for more than twenty years: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tired-of-waiting-for-you/
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so what we have proven is that bigger budgets don't improve response time, ergo police don't need more money.
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I love that Walled Lake, MI is where this is set because I can guarantee the writer lives there since absolutely no one knows or gives a poo poo about it unless they live there. It's like three random suburban blocks in the middle of metro detroit that contain two overpriced dispensaries and a bunch of million dollar houses facing part of a lake with the rest of the "city" being just 70's single story homes. Who cares. You only know it even exists if you live or work there. I only know it because I went to one of those misbegotten dispensaries once. Self insert much?
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CuddleCryptid posted:I love that Walled Lake, MI is where this is set because I can guarantee the writer lives there since absolutely no one knows or gives a poo poo about it unless they live there. I canvassed Walled Lake during the last midterm and it loving sucked.
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