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#companies will continue to produce cheaply in China while passing the import fees on to consumers #their bottom line will not change #unless they make more money by artificially increasing the price and blaming tarrifs like they did with covid

decadent-hag

Where that New England Gothic post

missroserose

Dunkin to the left of me

Dunkin to the right

Here I am

Stuck in New England with you

beardedmrbean

One more in the W column for Japan.

supersoftly

Link for extension :3c

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newtonpermetersquare

So that’s basically how it went down

tricornking

I resent just how fucking accurate this shitpost is, congratulations OP, you effectively illustrated how Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection became accepted by the wider public using a FUCKING MUPPETS MEME, here is your A+, get the hell out of my office

encodedincommotion-deactivated2

it's crazy how plausible all the shit the corporations do in the murderbot diaries is. that one scene when murderbot was talking to those humans who had signed a 20 year corporate work contract and it asked them if the contract specified 20 years by the standard local calendar or by a proprietary calendar created by the company was downright unsettling 😬 if the ceos of modern earth companies read these books they would probably start crying because the government won't let them do most of this in real life.

radioorpheus

hey fun fact this has absolutely happened before. part of the push to standardize time/timezones was because factory employers had clocks set to the pace of their machinery. meaning of the workers were not doing enough, time would run slower until they had reached their goal. there is historical precedent.

duckbunny

twiggy-boy

"what is this BABY doing in space!???"

-Rocky, probably

soberscientistlife

Do Not Let HR do this to you. It is not illegal to talk about wages in the work place. I did and got a 12% raise!

katsdom

True info. Now let me add something: The power of documentation. (I was a long time steward in a nurses union.)

Remember: The "'E" in email stands for evidence.

That cuts both ways. Be careful what you put into an email. It never really goes away and can be used against you.

But can also be a powerful tool for workplace fairness.

Case 1: Your supervisor asks you to do something you know is either illegal or against company policy. A verbal request. If things go wrong, you can count on them denying that they ever told you to do that. You go back to your desk, or wherever and you send them an email: "I just want to make sure that I understood correctly that you want me to do xxxxx" Quite often, once they see it in writing, they will change their mind about having you do it. If not, you have documentation.

Case 2: You have a schedule you like, you've had that schedule for a while, it works for you. Your supervisor comes to you and says "We're really short-handed now and I need you to change your schedule just for a month until we can get someone else hired. It's just temporary and you can have your old schedule back after a month." A month goes by and they forget entirely that they made that promise to you. So, once again, when they make the initial request, you send them an email "I'm happy to help out temporarily, but just want to make sure I understand correctly that I will get my old schedule back after a month as you promised." Documentation.

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[Image ID: Text reading: In the middle of a busy clinic at our practice, I got pulled in by my manager to speak to HR, who must have made a special trip because she lives several states away, and told I was being 'investigated' for discussing wages with my other employees. She told me it was against company policy to discuss wages.

Me; That's illegal.

Them: (start italics) three slow, long seconds of staring at me blankly (end italics) Uh...

Me: That's an illegal policy to have. The right to discuss wages is a right protected by the National Labor Relations board. I used to be in a union. I know this.

HR: Oh, this is news to me! I have been working HR for 18 years and I never knew that. Haha. Well try not do do it anyway, it makes people upset, haha.

Me: people are entitled to their opinions about what their work is worth. Bye.

I then left, and sent her several texts and emails saying I would like a copy of their company policy to see where this wage discussion policy was kept. She quickly called me back in to her office.

HR: You know what, there is no policy like that in the handbook! I double check. Sorry about the confusion, my apologies.

Me: You still haven't given me the paper saying that we had this discussion. I am going to need some protection against retaliation.

HR: Oh haha yes here you go.

I just received a paper with legal letterhead and an apology saying there was no verbal warning or write up. Don't even take their shit you guys. Keep talking about wages. Know your worth. /End ID]

noping-out-deactivated20241117

At one of my old (shit) jobs my boss would continually come have these verbal discussions with me and would never put anything in writing I took to summarizing every discussion we had in email. Like “just to confirm that you asked me to do X by Y date and you understand that means I won’t be able to complete the previous task you gave me until Z date - 2 weeks later than originally scheduled - because you want me to prioritize this new project.

The woman would then storm back into my office screaming at me for putting the discussion in writing and arguing about pushing back the other project or whatever. At which point I would summarize that conversation in email as well. Which would bring her storming back in, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.

Anyway I cannot imagine how badly that job would have gone if I hadn’t put all her wildly unreasonable demands in writing. Bitch still hated me but she could never hang me for “missing deadlines” because I always had in writing that she’d pushed the project back because she wanted something else done first.

Paper your asses babes. Do not let them get away with shit. If they won’t put what they’re asking you to do in writing then write it up yourself and email it to them.

cockbiteindustries

Does anyone have that one story of the lady who worked at a bank or something and management tried to can her, but she had evidence or something that ended up having her win a lawsuit? If I recall that story had both evidence, and the importance of employee communication as a co-worker tipped her off so she made sure she had an evidence papertrail

the-littlest-goblin

technically it's only queerbait if it's leveraged for publicity. otherwise it's just sparkling "your ship didn't happen get over it"

nicolegendary

sometimes you just gotta fuck up your sleep schedule by reading all 100k words of a fic you're not even enjoying, and don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

R.I.P. Office Potluck Coleslaw.

gameraboy2

Keith Haring for Sesame Street

playpause

5 Dancing Men (1993)

delavegaaaaa

“You can’t fix him” I don’t wanna fix him! I wanna FUCK him! I’m a pervert not a psychologist!

vrabia

reviews criticizing the first part of iron lung for being boring are so puzzling because almost all of the writing and acting choices there are made for an audience that doesn't know anything about the original game. i didn't know anything about the original game and within 20 minutes i had all the information i needed so i wouldn't feel confused later. and it wasn't spoon-fed to me.

why's he going around pressing buttons? because the audience needs a basic understanding of how the sub works and, crucially, one of those buttons does an insane amount of heavy lifting in terms of world-building, character dynamics and foreshadowing. i could talk about that button forever.

why's he leafing through old manuals just to throw them away seconds later? because not reading the old manuals is going to cause problems down the line and it also shows that when simon is frustrated and panicky he's not great at giving himself the best chance of survival, i.e. his main goal.

why's he taping things to walls? because once he's calmed down and able to focus it turns out he's clever and quick to figure out how to use the sub's layout and minimal resources to try and complete his mission.

the best technology humanity has left is horribly inefficient and dangerous (and i understand how it works!), the protagonist is smart but anger and frustration make him careless and unable to think several steps ahead. everyone hates him because he unintentionally did something terrible to them. i got all that in 20 seemingly boring minutes, everything paid off later and any ambiguity came from the nature of the genre instead of patchy storytelling.

and that's just it, i get why if you played the game you might think this is dragging, but i haven't and i still felt, idk man, i felt welcome to it. like i just had to pay attention instead of needing to play a game, read a comic book prequel and 3 tie-in novels beforehand for the privilege of enjoying a story. and it was nice. it was nice. i hope more reviewers praising this movie realize the first part isn't boring at all, but a great example of treating your audience with consideration and care.