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I wish it were easier to find Elgin sticks where I live, because those fat ones suck to work with (especially cold). It's one of the very few things I miss about the midwest.
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bike tory posted:cleaners $7.50/hour Fire the cleaners, TAs, maintenance staff, and IT techs, then add "Infection Mitigation", "Academic Mentoring", "Basic Engineering", and "Computer Operation" as mandatory courses for all majors, with associated course fees for materials. Give the chancellor a raise for saving money in these difficult times.
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May 14, 2020 23:01
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Sekenr posted:What I don't get about the elite of this world, is how don't they understand that people like Corbyn or Sanders are actually their only hope? Because even if they make their life more difficult they will not put them against the wall. Othwerwise when the wagon crashes down and new bolshevik revolution happens, there will be no discrimination, everybody with money dies, revenge, just like it happened in Russia. They've never had to deal with consequences for anything whatsoever in their entire lives, so they don't believe anything bad can really happen to them.
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May 16, 2020 19:27
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Blockade posted:My high school staged a boycott of the school lunches for being awful, people even brought in food for the less well off kids, it was a beautiful act of solidarity. School lunches: the new protection racket.
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May 21, 2020 20:15
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Shame Boy posted:Old-Timey Capitalism quote:👉Erink Cronk and be happy.
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Jun 22, 2020 17:55
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Zenithe posted:That is implying that it is normal to charge for rental application. For real? Is there a place where it's not?
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Jun 27, 2020 02:08
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Zenithe posted:Australia, the only place I have rented. Sounds like heaven (except for the part where landlords still exist). Here in the good ol' US of A, on the other hand, we believe in a thing called "personal responsibility", which means that if you weren't responsible enough to personally be born into a rich family, you'd better get used to paying out the rear end for everything.
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Ask them what they'll do if (when) the agent does none of that.
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Jun 30, 2020 20:32
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AKA, "reasons why the US will never get UBI".
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Jul 7, 2020 20:27
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The Bloop posted:Job fairs are 98% cattle calls for terrible high turnover jobs that nobody actually wants to do I miss working for a less lovely company. The positions we went to job fairs for were pretty good entry level ones, at a place that was big on promoting from within, so there was decent advancement potential. A ton of people got their careers started there. Then, back in May, the company that owned us decided that, even though we were profitable (and our profitability continuing to increase), we weren't profitable enough, so they shut the company down, fired almost everybody, and moved all the jobs overseas. Meanwhile, they increased their dividends. 
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Sep 10, 2020 18:51
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Paradoxish posted:legit do not understand the kind of brain damage that makes someone think this way, especially because it is absolutely, 100%, beyond a shadow of a doubt certain that this person believes in the concept of "meritocracy" Same. It's not like the value produced by their work is any less. Why should the company steal more of it just because of where they happen to live?
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Sep 12, 2020 07:50
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Zamujasa posted:No, they're resources. Human resources. Much of corporate lingo as dropped the "human" part of that. Now they're just resources to be exploited like any other.
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Oct 7, 2020 01:16
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Antonymous posted:what are points in the computer toucher world Bullshit. They're pure, unadulterated bullshit. Capital wants to know how to most efficiently exploit labor, so they latch onto any psuedo-scientific sounding crap that promises to give them numbers to look at. Agile methodology is that. The idea is that you have sprints (defined chunks of time like two weeks or whatever) that your team does stuff in, and the team has a certain amount it's possible to do in that time. Theoretically, that's measured in points, so you estimate how much stuff you'll be able to fit in the sprint by how many points your team has available, and how many each thing will be to do. However, you get into a few problems here. First, nobody knows what a point is. Is it a measurement of time? If so, how much time per point? Or is it a measure of difficulty or effort? Who knows? But you'd better get the number right. Which brings me to the second problem: everybody sucks at estimating. Sometimes you get things right, based on whichever definition of a "point" you're using (which is hopefully in the same universe as the definitions used by other people where you are). But sometimes you're laughably off, like the three-days-turning-into-three-months thing (or the opposite). And then you have people making timelines off of what are effectively guesses pulled out of somebody's rear end that get set in stone as The Delivery Date Which Shall Be Met. In case you can't tell, I'm not much of a fan. Maybe it works somewhere, but I've never seen it.
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Oct 8, 2020 03:53
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What the gently caress is it with food companies tilting their logos to the left? Pepsi did it (for Mountain Dew, too), Yum did it for Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, Burger King did it, etc. I'm guessing it's some sort of "brand engagement" bullshit, but, like, what's the deal?
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Oct 22, 2020 07:47
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Sure, let's disincentivize something that actually reduces our carbon emissions, and use it to make it easier for companies to pay poverty wages.
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Nov 11, 2020 18:32
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Crazycryodude posted:They don't want grandma's condiments either, the little shits Good. Mayo is loving gross.
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Nov 14, 2020 18:02
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Marx Was A Lib posted:"NOOO YOU CAN'T PUT SWEET ON PIZZA!" I cry as I slather the raw dough with a sweet tomato sauce So don't sweeten your sauce when you make it? It doesn't need it anyway. Just throw in some garlic and basil, and you're golden. Maybe oregano if you want. Kitfox88 posted:I just sprinkle
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Nov 15, 2020 11:38
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Elman posted:The full article is amazing. All they need to do is dip into their 6+ months of expenses that they've obviously saved up, like any responsible person would.
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Dec 18, 2020 01:05
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Shame Boy posted:I mean I've done this a few times just cuz I'm a big dope, that's not so bad... I think I've heard somebody their horn like, twice, ever, around Seattle. It's just not a thing that anybody does. I'm pretty sure you could disconnect people's horns and they wouldn't ever notice. The one time I was in the northeast, I found driving extremely stressful because of how aggressive people are there. But they're at least competent. On the other hand, people around here are idiots. The DOT has, on at least one occasion, told people to stop parking and lining up in front of the express lane entrances on the highway waiting for them to open. Basically, if you take the stereotypical NYC driver and do the exact opposite, you'd have a pretty good approximation of what drivers are like around here. Which includes not knowing how to parallel park any closer than three feet from the curb.
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Feb 12, 2021 22:38
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Sininu posted:This is incredibly blessed and warms my heart. Hopefully Jiang will get some form of compensation for that nightmare other than a busted megacorp. I wonder if ABC could sue the megacorp for libel since they took out ads basically saying that ABC was making poo poo up.
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Feb 23, 2021 05:26
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NZAmoeba posted:Heeeeyyyy you what now? Yep, leasing application fees can be hundreds of dollars in some places. And it creates zero obligation for the landlord to actually rent to you. It's just another way to fleece people for money who don't have any better options.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:41
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Failed Imagineer posted:america is by far the most armed citizenry in the world On a guns-per-capita basis, sure, but those guns are not at all evenly distributed. The vast majority of people in the US own exactly zero guns, and then you have the occasional nutjob or whatever who owns thousands because that's all they spend their money on outside of shelter and food, which pushes the average way up.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:28
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thehoodie posted:i literally had this exact conversation with my friend last night because he is dumb and spent way too much money on NFTs So, wait, some rando generated some tokens, says they represent public domain art, and is selling them to people?
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Mar 14, 2021 08:28
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That insane screed posted:pay your mortgage I really wonder who that rear end in a top hat thinks they'd hand this to who has a mortgage instead of renting.
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Mar 28, 2021 04:26
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Goldman Sachs is worried that curing people isn't good for long-term revenue streams from chronic illnesses.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Conspiracy realities. Yuuuuup. I got called a conspiracy theorist in a healthcare thread a while back for pointing out that companies are actively disincentivized from researching actual cures for things in favor of stringing people along.
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Apr 19, 2021 16:44
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Orange Devil posted:The reasonable sounding part is that if we accept that the purpose of a company is maximizing shareholder value (we shouldn't accept this in the first place, but bear with me here), then obviously making sure the CEO has skin in that game is a good way to tackle the principal-agent problem and align the interests of the manager with the shareholders through the one weird trick of making the manager a shareholder. For anybody who hasn't seen Silicon Valley, this is absolutely worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo Russ Hanneman is basically the embodiment of people who tune their poo poo to scam as much money out of Silicon Valley investors as possible. Also, here's a thing: https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1387849329390542849 The screen's only purpose is to play ads.
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May 5, 2021 04:27
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It gets better. If there's a kernel panic, it looks like it displays an ad for the faucet itself, complete with a phone number to call.
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May 5, 2021 04:54
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Mirthless posted:$12/hr before deductions, definitely not rich even in 1980s dollars That's like $81k/year in 2021 dollars. He's not HENRY-level (income-wise, anyway; owning a house kinda puts him there on its own), but he's not exactly poor.
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Jun 30, 2021 04:51
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GotLag posted:Walmart to offer own low-cost brand of insulin And they're still charging $73/vial. Doesn't that poo poo cost like $5 to make?
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Professor Shark posted:I should find that derail. My partner wants me to buy an SUV and I have been putting it off because I hate car dealerships so much. The entire car buying process is the stupidest thing and I have no idea why it exists the way it does. Dunno about the derail, but if I were going to buy a car from a dealer, I'd do something like this (I loving hate dealers, though, and I can't really see myself willingly setting foot inside of one). I'm assuming this is a new vehicle, because if not, a dealer's like your worst option. If possible, do this towards the end of a fiscal quarter (late March, late June, late September, or late December) in order to find somebody who's are desperate to get their numbers up. Basically, figure out what you want, exactly, before you ever go to a dealer, and then (unless you're paying cash) find out what the best financing rate is and get preapproved. The exception to this is if there's a manufacturer financing incentive you want to use like 0% interest, and you're absolutely sure you'll qualify for it. Even then, though, sometimes some of the cash back or other incentives can be better in the long run, depending on what interest rate you can get elsewhere. From there, contact every dealer even vaguely within how far you're willing to travel. Do this via e-mail, because you don't want to waste time actually talking to each of them. When you contact them, tell them exactly what you're looking for, and that you're getting quotes from a bunch of other dealers as well, and that you're looking for the best price rather than haggling. If you're financing, let them know that, but don't tell them you already have financing preapproved (and don't let them run your credit); just say that you can get to details for it later if it becomes necessary. This is important for a few reasons. First, you'll flush out the fuckers who want to string you along until you get emotionally invested in the process with them, at which point, they know they can jack the price way up because you're less likely to walk. Second, you'll probably find the dealer in the area that's trying really hard to be able to say that they're the dealership that sells the most of whatever brand you're looking for (and, IIRC, might get a kickback from the manufacturer, but I don't recall offhand), even if they have to kill their margin on it. Third, if you're financing and let them know that, they'll price the vehicle lower because they'll be assuming they'll gently caress you on the loan instead. So, once you get a formal proposal from them on the vehicle price and they want to move over to running your credit to talk loan terms, that's when you pull out your preapproval. If you really want to, you can use the price you got from the dealer in point #2 to try to haggle down somebody else, but I can't really see it being worth it unless you happen to find somebody who's really, truly desperate to unload another car, or you need to walk. Related: be ready to walk at the drop of a hat. They need your business more than you need the car, probably (doubly so if it's at the end of a fiscal quarter). Basically, the whole process is adversarial bullshit based around who rips off who. AKA, capitalism in a nutshell.
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:this is probably the most important point of all this. up until you give them money/sign paperwork, you can just leave and that’s their problem. they being slow and taking their sweet time drawing up the paperwork? walk out. does the salesman need the managers approval to give you the car with the pin stripe for the same price as without? okay goodbye. Yup. It's also important to keep in mind that no matter how friendly any of the sales staff is, they're not your friend, and they absolutely do not have your best interests in mind. Their job is to get you to sign on the dotted line. Just like everything before then is their problem, everything after that is yours unless they really gently caress up delivery. So make absolutely loving sure that you're getting a deal you can live with. I didn't know about Costco, though. That's really good info. I hired somebody local to do the locating/negotiating last time I bought a car, but I think she retired. I might have to give them a shot next time.
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I think I've only met one doctor I can for-sure say was a good person. He was my old doctor who retired about a year ago, and he was basically a loving unicorn. He was an incredibly competent general practitioner, spent a shitload of time with his patients to make sure he understood what they had going on, didn't dismiss women's health concerns (dunno about POC, but it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't dismiss theirs, either), was very much in favor of socialized medicine, explicitly wasn't in it for the money (among other things, he kept his rates low, left a much higher-paying position as a private doctor for rich people because he wasn't helping people who needed it, and he gave people free appointments and free medical supplies when they had financial trouble/lost their insurance), etc. I really can't say the same about my new doctor or any other I've ever seen.Muscle Wizard posted:i think doctors are good personally. Cool story, bro.
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Shame Boy posted:Since y'all brought dildo capitalism up, I stumbled on a very weird corner of twitter a while ago that I think was basically just the fuckin' nike shoe collecting weirdos but for novelty dildos. Like it was full of multiple bad-dragon-like companies talking about how they're doing limited-edition "drops", and people talking about how they're "really excited to get the latest drop" but they were worried because they "haven't even sold the last ones they bought yet" which makes me think it's some kinda lululemon pyramid scheme but for dildos maybe? They're probably talking about this poo poo, which is . . . kind of a meta-issue with the Nike situation, and has been expanding past the realm of sneakers and into anything that has a limited release or a limited supply. Basically, people pay money for bots to spam the gently caress out of vendors' sites the moment something goes on sale in order to buy as many as possible so that they can resell them to the people who actually want them at a 1000% markup or whatever. Most retailers will take returns, so they're generally protected against softening demand, but I'd be pretty surprised if there were any returns on dildos, so  at the dumbasses doing that for those.
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Shwqa posted:Nah that isn't true. The American way is to offer bonus if a certain quota is met. Just make sure that quota is just out of reach. If the qouta is ever met then raise it some more. Also bitch super hard whenever it isn't met. Bonus points if you make it feels like a moral failure on your employees part. The real pro move is to give a sob story when bonus time comes 'round about how times are tough and we all need to tighten our belts, so that's why there aren't going to be bonuses this year, and then immediately hop on the quarterly earnings report call and start bragging about the company's record profits.
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's obviously a first world problem, but a lot of people factor bonus expectations into their job decisions - even for fairly modestly-paying jobs - so it does kinda suck that they can be arbitrarily rescinded like that That's why you always negotiate on base pay, not any "bonus" crap they try to throw at you to take a lower rate. They'll yank that poo poo away ASAP, whereas it's a lot more taboo (though certainly not unheard of) to cut somebody's pay.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I was with one job where we got a piddly cash bonus for Christmas, then the next year we got an even piddlier cash bonus, then the next year we got a Target gift card, then the next year we got nothing. What pisses me off even more is that a lot of companies have policies where you don't qualify for certain types of bonuses if your pay is below a certain level. The place I work for does that with stock and options grants. If your annual pay is under . . . I want to say $75k/year, you get none, whereas the folks who do get 'em get a minimum of around $25k worth a year.
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petit choux posted:this here is a good one for the thread: As funny as that would be, it's unfortunately fake. https://twitter.com/dylanwelch/status/1427097998295588866
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The Nastier Nate posted:edit: unless you are super loving ballsy and are just trying to bluff your way into a raise in which case good luck I've done this. Negotiated a $10k out-of-cycle raise for myself that way.
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The person who wrote a letter for Tuesday's Ask a Manager is capitalism.txt incarnate.A sociopath posted:I’m not comfortable with one of my new staff members and how overconfident she is. Her work is great and she needed very little training but she’s got very big britches.
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