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“…time is the longest distance between two places.”
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that’s rare…That’s rare and valuable.”
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“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness.”
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Romantic Love is Not the Only Kind of Love That Exists
One day you will sit on a rooftop over a city so full of deepening pink sky that something inside you breaks, and for the first time in your life, you will not think about who you are going to fuck next. Or who will take you out to dinner next, or how they will make you feel when they see your bedroom for the first time. You will forget about the pulse in a man’s throat when he comes beneath your hands and how his sigh sounds like you always imagined it would.
One day, on this day, you will remember the love of your first drink, how the dark emerald of the swallow was so bitter you could have died for it, died for the beauty of firsts. How after several more swallows you lost count, and after losing count you woke up with hurt slicing through your head so gold that it almost tasted sweet. And your mother made pancakes with chocolate chips for breakfast, the secret so hot inside you, the swelling, gorgeous love of knowing something no one else in your family knew. And doing it the next night all over again.
You will delete all your dating apps. You won’t call back the stranger you only sleep with when you’re lonely; you’ll delete his number, and the number of the girl who only wanted to mess around with you when she was so high she had to remove all her lipstick in order to hear your face. You will stand alone in this apartment and wonder whether you made the right choice going to law school, whether you still have time to switch to art school instead. How the limes and blood oranges on the counter are so heavy with light that maybe you should just paint them now, right now, or ask your best friend to come over so you can draw her eyes, or the look on her face when her favorite song comes on the radio and holds her hostage in its deepness. You will rediscover the love of having your whole life ahead of you, with so many decisions in your way that you could die from the beauty of being able to choose who you turn out to be next.
One day you will sit on a rooftop over a city so full of deepening pink sky that something inside you breaks, and for the first time in your life, you will remember who you were before everything became about losing your virginity or sleeping with as many people as you could find, or the overwhelming pressure to go home with someone from a bar. Before everything became about the next lover, the next goodmorning texts, the next boyfriend to meet the parents. That love existed before love did, that you have only ever believed only one kind of love existed, romantic love, when all along there were so many kinds that you never saw, that you should have seen before now. You could have loved yourself so much better, so much earlier.
“Can you take the pain and go somewhere? Can you make it a journey?”
— Lidia Yuknavitch, from “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir,” wr. c. 2011
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Female medical residents and physicians endure bias and a larger burden with home duties. They also face a greater risk of depression.
What’s your sign, doctor?“ "Cancer. Which is something you might get if you keep smoking.” “Damn girl, you vicious for a cutie.” “Sir, I’m your doctor.
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This guy got 8 years for being part of the ferguson protests while the cop that murdered michael brown is still free. hes only 20 years old
That sucks, but I’m also feeling kinda bad for the person whose convenience store joshua williams set fire to... :(
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soshinysochrome replied to your post “If you shoplift don’t reblog posts about respecting retail workers…”
IIRC, it’s super illegal for a company to cover losses by garnishing an employee’s wages. At least, in the US.
@soshinysochrome except they don’t garnish the employees wages…
The store covers the cost by reducing the number of hours they can allocate to employees.
Shoplifting = money the story has to cover = store covers money by reducing the number of hours they can allocate to employees = less money for employees because they could only work 30 hours as opposed to 40 = less money in employee paycheck.
So at the end of the day shoplifters basically stole from employee paychecks because the store covers the loss by reducing the number of hours the employee can work. Retail workers have to survive too.
How on earth is that in the shop’s interest? Aren’t they running on the minimum hours needed anyway? Pretty sure their losses will be bigger from closing a store for a few hours than any money they might gain by not paying staff.
they’re not employing the workers as a favour to the workers - they’re employing them because they need people to do a job.
this shit is why workers rights laws exist.
Shoplifting is a constant. Average loss from shoplifiting will be pretty constant year to year. It should be factored into the budget.
Taking employees pay or cutting hours is a terrible business practice, and it’s really not ethical.
I was confused about the ‘cutting hours’ claim myself - business hours and staffing levels ought to be a product of either corporate fiat or cost-benefit breakdowns. And higher staffing levels actually cut shoplifting, so running with low staff sounds counterproductive. I don’t think people directly cut hours to wipe out shoplifting losses. I think the problem is indirect, though.
Shoplifting actually is a major expense. Department stores lose ~1.5% of sales to theft, and grocery stores lose >3%. Given that retail stores generally run at low margins (and mall department stores lower than most), ‘shrink’ might well move the least-profitable hours of operation from positive to negative value. Shoplifting is roughly constant (at large chains) and factored in, but it’s still a meaningful amount of loss.
(I should note that ‘shrink’ covers not just customers shoplifting but all kinds of employee theft. That doesn’t much affect the “stealing is bad” point, though.)
So I’m guessing hours aren’t being cut as punishment, stores just set their hours based on when they make a profit. I suppose we can label “closing during the hours where you lose money” unethical, but it seems like a strange position to commit to.
There are some shockingly unethical things stores do in response to theft, of course. Walmart in particular is infamous for understaffing horribly, then outsourcing loss prevention to the police because it’s free. In some small towns, Walmart is the single largest source of police calls. And revoking bonuses or otherwise directly tying pay to theft rates is absurd, especially since employees don’t actually have the legal right to stop shoplifters.
But in simple terms, I’m pretty sympathetic to “people stole shit so we have less money”. When 3% of the goods leaving a store are being stolen instead of bought, that’s actually a pretty significant influence on a business, and predicting it doesn’t make the problem go away.
“Cutting hours” can mean multiple things in this context. When I worked retail, there was a hard cap on how many hours I could work, because federal compensation requirements kick in after 28/week (iirc). So it could be profitable to hire more people, but shift workers away from full-time to part-time employment.
At or near minimum wage, those extra hours could make a huge difference in whether an employee can cover their basic expenses. Shoplifting only perpetuates the problem.
