No lie. We play this game every 7 years or so. I was training on a Win10 machine at work yesterday. Think they’re updating that? Nah. Hell, it probably could take an 11 upgrade and they haven’t bothered. Why? It’s a locked down machine. And if IT don’t care, home users certainly won’t.
^ Me. EVERY time. “OK. OK. Just got to the bathroom, grab a beer, give it a minute…”
F5, F5, F5, thank god.
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I’m in the South (US) and we’re more casual. I’d be appalled if a shit job required much of a dress code. Now that I think on it, I’m not sure I can name a place that has people dressing like identical robots. OK, the usual suspects like UPS and the USPS.
My first thought as well. Perhaps leadership is flexing? Seeing what they can get away with and showing Starbucks the same?
“We struck over the dress code. Want to push your luck?”
Is the code so restrictive? I work at Lowe’s and can whatever the fuck I want within reason. Nothing with holes, stained to hell, flip-flops (safety related), controversial, etc.
Who you callin’ an aglet, pal?
If they’re the sort of users who find such hoops restrictive, do you really want them installing shit willy-nilly?
Check his avatar and that pic. Money says tough guy here couldn’t hang with my old ass outside at Lowe’s for a single shift. He’d stroke out if I strapped 20lbs. to his back, handed him a rifle and marched him down to the creek with me. LOL, he ain’t gonna cowboy nothing.
And what in the AI is that cowboy supposed to be doing? Running, uh, fence? Creating a lasso out of, uh, ropey stuff?
Good Housekeeping had a small panty ad in the back where you could catch a hint of bush. I beat my meat like it owed me money.
At Lowe’s, Craftsman is bottom of the barrel for power tools we sell.
I’m actually that kinda guy. It would never occur to me that chainsawing the head of a whale corpse I found on the beach would be a no-no. It’s already dead! Not like I killed it. I’m also dumb enough to keep bird feathers I find. Yeah. That could be a problem given the wrong cop.
“SWEET! Giant skull! I’m hanging that shit at camp! (After the ants do their thing.)”
I really do hang skulls I find on the shed door. Got a deer, a small mammal with pointy canines, a box turtle and pieces of something the raptors left (rabbit?). One time the local dogs dropped a deer skull on my tent. Coughed loudly and scared hell out of 'em.
So did Martin Shkreli. (LOL, I Googled “guy who raised drug prices”. First hit from Gemini. Maybe AI ain’t so dumb?)
Shkreli not only bragged about it but had the nerve to be an insufferable little bitch while he was at it. With a punchable face. At least Holmes is cute.
Steal from the poor all ya like, never the rich. Reverse Robin Hood: A-OK.
Oh FFS, don’t be silly. They’re fucking us exactly because it does make sense on paper. They don’t have these cruel, fascist notions. They simply don’t care as long as Excel tells them they’re coming out ahead.
Meh. Lemmy hates me when I point this out, but executive compensation is a drop in the bucket vs. gross or even profit. It’s just not a big deal, but they make a fine target to shoot at. Easy to see and focus on.
Did the math on American Airlines a couple of years ago. If their CEO took a $0 salary, every single employee could get a $.19/hr. raise. (It was worse than that, but I forget, don’t want to exaggerate. Think it worked out to <$250/yr. bonus, if that. Chicken change.)
They’re fucking us by death of a thousand cuts, but CEO pay isn’t it.
Yeah, some employers are stupid like that, but any with the brains of a hamster can see that a revolving door is costly.
Unemployment insurance for example. I can only speak to Florida, but for each new hire the company has to pay in $7,500 (this is old data, haven’t been in the payroll game for 6-years). Once that’s covered for the year, GTG. Replace that employee? Clock starts again.
Again on unemployment, if a company is getting hit with tons of unemployment claims, their rate goes up. And no, the company is not directly paying your claim anymore than they directly pay for a worker’s comp injury. The insurance pays it and their rates go up accordingly.
Anyway, I guess shit employers have figured in these costs and find that shit wages benefit them. On paper. Back to worker’s comp; Isn’t it better to retain experienced employees that know how to work safely?! We can all come up with 1,000 other examples of experienced employee’s labor being worth far more than the new guy’s work.
Every company I’ve known or worked at that paid fair wages was rock and roll in their industry. LOL, you should hear me go off about Quik Trip. Imagine making a career out of a gas station job. People do and those people make bank.
I work at Lowe’s and am stunned at what people buy there. In the garden area, why would you count on Lowe’s to have sod?! Go to a fucking sod place if you want more than a few pieces. People pay stunning amounts of money for bags of various rocks when they can go down the road and pay 1/4 that at, guess what, the fucking rock place.
We’re a big box store for FFS. We’re not the best or cheapest at anything, we just carry it all.
This still has me giggling after 3 months.
We sunk a whole damned aircraft carrier of the coast, and fought for the privilege! I believe it’s one of the largest artificial reefs in the world.
So many use cases! I’m giving an old NUC to a kid at work who’s learning Linux. Jesus, the kid bought a copy of Linux from “the best/most-famous hacker in the world!”. We had a come-to-Jesus talk about that horseshit.