Ham Equity posted:

I'm not in the UK, but I'm looking at buying a house now, and I desperately want a tap that dispenses cold, sparkling water, and am willing to pay some fairly unreasonable prices for it, even if I have to import it.

Shame Boy posted:

Okay nevermind dude's just a dick

bedpan posted:

lmao @ the fight for 15 approaching 15 years old

8923_4 posted:

the fight for $15 fizzling out ....[retail prices double].....[5 years later]... we'll rehire you for $12.75 an hour.

StealthArcher posted:

I'm pretty sure the only way to kill Lichhinder prematurely is with that airplane sword the Vietnamese made.

Shame Boy posted:

I was thinking about that recently, how there was a point within living memory where the whole world came together to vaccinate so many people we literally eradicated a disease from the entire global population, and how comically unthinkable something like that would be today

Coolness Averted posted:

I'm currently dealing with a national head of a sales division for a chemical line who can't read an SDS and has no concept of what is or is not a hazardous chemical.

This man is managing products that if not properly handled will create chlorine gas clouds, or lead to people drinking contaminated water and he's subliterate at best.

Shame Boy posted:

My favorite example of this is their fuckin' like, Ethics 101 understanding of utilitarianism, where the answer to the thought experiment "is it better to have [some impossibly huge but finite number of people] get briefly inconvenienced by dust in their eyes, or to torture one man horribly for 50 years straight", which they think is so obviously the second one that if you don't agree you must just be stupid.

Also they originally phrased the part I put in brackets as like, "3↑↑↑3 people" or something similar using Knuth's up-arrow notation for describing very large numbers, because making sure everyone knows they are Very Smart Boys that read a wikipedia article on Knuth's up-arrow notation once is far more important than having a clear and well-defined premise for your thought experiment.

Palladium posted:

im pretty sure those on or off doesn't matter on the "spying on you" part

SniperWoreConverse posted:

Similar thing as water. they sell by bracketed amounts, not gallons, unless you also have your sewer metered. i think you gotta pay to have that retrofitted which is not cheap. They also got sued for some situation iirc. Because it's technically a city you technically must be connected.

You're not allowed to collect rainwater either, corrupt as gently caress. Hypothetically this is to prevent people from drinking untreated water when I have only ever known people to water plants with it. I think you can get a permit? Dunno been a while since I had to deal with any off it tbh

Shame Boy posted:

I literally cannot imagine having customers that don't come with their own set of far more important-to-them problems that they are already screaming at you about before you can "offer" to fix anything you think needs fixing.

Coolness Averted posted:

I wish

Evilreaver posted:

Cases typically revolve (in my experience) around the testimony of the vocational expert, or VE. If the VE can find 10,000 or more jobs in the nation that a claimant could potentially work with their impairments and disabilities, the judge can find them not disabled. Some judges jump at this opportunity, and some VE wield this power despotically.

Evilreaver posted:

One of the common stipulations is that it's a job easy enough to do with only one to two days of training, so programming jobs are out

But surveillance system monitor? That job can be done with no training and sitting on your butt all day, so as long as the judge can convince himself that you are capable of sitting for six straight hours you're not disabled

jetz0r posted:

or it's so horrible that the turn over is insane because the job pays $7.50/hr in a non-climate controlled warehouse in texas with 6 tiers of idiot nepo baby bosses harassing everyone to quit so that only the most desperate stick around.

cash crab posted:

i love rules lawyering especially when the entire point is just to make people suffer harder with more steps

PostNouveau posted:

Applying for jobs for unemployment is easy. Get on LinkedIn and do the "InApply" option where the application is just your LinkedIn-generated resume gets sent to the employer. You will never get a callback from an InApply application, so you don't have to worry about losing benefits because you turned down an offer, and LinkedIn keeps a record of what you applied for so re-certifying for benefits is simple.

Coolness Averted posted:

Yeah, I once got a 3 day pay-or-quit because the management company made a whoopsie and forgot to log my rent payment in quickbooks or whatever and the actual owners meanwhile also couldn't be bothered to keep track of who they cashed checks from or their account balances.
Of course the onus was on me, first to provide the canceled check/bank record that showed I had paid rent thst month, then "Oh we assumed that check was for the previous month, since you missed that one!"
I then had to produce the proof that they had indeed cashed that check as well, and again for the month before. Naturally there was no penalty for their mistake, but if I hadn't responded and taken care of the whole thing in 3 days (and only during the business hours they were available) they would have been able to start evicting me -and the management company did mention the owners had authorized that.

For the record, I had never been late, let alone missed a rent payment when I was there. Though they did fail to properly update their records for 3 months after a roommate moved out/I stopped needing an extra parking space, so they issued another pay or quit over shortpaying for that parking spot.

Car Hater posted:

Some friends of mine actually started and run a small telehealth company that manages to pay the therapists well and treat them as full employees without subjecting them to the insane "productivity" bullshit.



The secret is that they focus exclusively on schools and suckling at the teat of government contracts.

DACK FAYDEN posted:

wow imagine working a job you're overqualified for that doesn't look particularly good on your resume

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Jezza of OZPOS posted:

My work (independent liquor store) has an app now under the branding of our supplier and it's a lot less weighed down with poo poo than a lot of other things like it, there's no loyalty program, no keeping track of what you buy each visit, it's just basically a digital voucher redemption system that you have to give your name, phone number and suburb to and people still try to scan it in every time even when they aren't buying anything on special and it doesn't do anything and I'm getting sick of explaining it to people

Ditocoaf posted:

People really need to internalize that when a cashier asks you for something, they aren't personally making the decision to ask you for that. If you really want to fight a store policy, do so with the knowledge that the person you're talking to has absolutely no say in that policy. Your odds of success will increase very slightly, and your odds of not being an rear end in a top hat to a teenager will increase dramatically.

Biplane posted:

Yeah the end of human civilization is just a bonus.