The only reason employers still do shit like this is because individuals either don’t realize that they can sue for it, or don’t realize that lawyers will take their case.
Is this one of those instances where the corporation can/will do stuff like deploy their lawyer army to tie up the victim and wait them out with expensive and time-wasting legal process…before offering them a $50 gift card to shut up and hold the company eternally blameless forevermore?
Yo. That’s pretty extreme!
That’s another human being just like yourself, posting their likely well-intentioned observations on a situation to a public discussion forum. They’re not being actively hostile to anybody. Please try to have a little grace.
If the idea presented is wrong, attack the idea, not the individual.
The internet is savage enough as it is and we can make it better.
I sincerely hope you have a good day. <3
I hope it was at least satirically entertaining and perhaps a touch cathartic! XD
I’m sure you’ve also shared that same experience I have, where you ended up scrolling and scrolling those stupid websites to see what their deal was, even though you knew it was 100% nonsense lol.
Edit: Oh gosh, I had too much fun with it and now it’s 7x as unhinged lmao…
I’m pretty sure…
You’re not gonna believe this but…
I think it all came from web marketing guru funnel-builder-ebook-masterclass-mentor-course types.
And it circlejerked with business types to capitalize on shorter and shorter attention spans.
I was like you. I was a normal guy. And one day I decided to take a guess at where this irritating “writing style” came from…and why it was EVERYWHERE…
…and you won’t believe what I came up with (Or maybe you will, because you’re ultra smart , I can tell just by the way you’re reading this, you’re not like everyone else, you’re special, click the button at the end of this really long pointless babbling)…I think it’s because…
People scroll, and short little paragraphs keep you reading.
In bite-sized little chunks. So you keep scrolling and scrolling waiting for it to get to the point…
…so what are you waiting for? Lame call to action by clicking the button below to get added to my email spam list and an empty ghost town “Master Life Changer” Discord / web forum! Filled to the gills with…
…obvious filler nonsense…for 900 days absolutely risk free…
…I wouldn’t bet my couch and my sister’s angry little chihuahua, Señor Gordito Cabrón if I wasn’t 100% serious about the value in these stupid paragraphs…
If you don’t get any value from this offer, I’ll personally ship that little jerk to Cesar Milan. Just so he learns some respect after stealing my tacos
You can even keep the couch and any change you find in its depths as mygift to you.
I’ll even finally get the sister to therapy, as an Internet marketing family we’ve neglected all the signs and cries for help for far too long.
Absolutely free. All you gotta do is keep scrolling until the wheel on your mouse pops out…
…and one day you too can have a Lambo. You deserve it.
Normally, my grift is valued by myself (and nobody else) at an obnoxiously high number that ends in a 7 for some reason…but today is special.
Still here? I knew you were The Chosen One Destined for Greatness .
Time is running out, even though this special offer has been sitting on this static page for months. It’s only like $1234.57 $667.97 now. Just for you. (I’m practically giving it away because you’re so cool. I have to sell one of my boats now just to make ends meet. My wife is so upset she’s taking the kids to her mom’s for a few days, but I believe in you THAT MUCH.)
Still not convinced?? That’s understandable. This can continue saying the same gibberish 18 different ways…
…until you’ve read so far clicking the button is basically sunk cost fallacy at this point…
…Ugh that made me physically sick writing like that even as a joke LOL.
EDIT: And in some sick way I’m so proud of it I keep editing it when I think of a way to make it even stupider lol. I’m gonna touch grass soon I swear…
EDIT EDIT: Oh no, it has formatting now. And got increasingly unhinged. What have I done?!
Hehe, that’s how pathetic things are here.
Retirement accounts? Since we’re talking minimum wage workers here, most of them have probably never even heard of those. I know I don’t have one, because I’ve only held part time employment while self-studying a bunch of other skills. I have just a savings that gets cleaned out whenever the car makes an expensive noise I can’t fix myself.
We pay into “Social Security” that you’re supposed to be able to pull from when you retire, but that’s been an iffy thing for years now and it’s definitely not something that can be lived off of anymore.
Over here by default if we hurt ourselves at work we get workers comp and outside of work we have salary continuance insurance
Yeah I didn’t even mean at work, just y’know, life happening can absolutely tank your finances with medical bills. Insurance is an absolute scam here, where the affordable ones can have a “deductible” in the thousands you need to pay before the company even pays out a dime.
At work? Yeah, “workers comp” is a thing, but to your job that’s like declaring war on your employer, the way I understand it. Often you’ll need a lawyer and they’ll send private investigators to stalk you trying to catch you being “not disabled” so they can kick you to the gutter.
(Allegedly lots of people to try to scam the system, like anything else, but dystopian employer paranoia is comically ridiculous.)
This “salary continuance insurance” sounds interesting but I don’t think we have anything like that here. You either use up your paid sick / vacation leave, or if it’s dire you can use “FMLA” (Family Medical Leave Act) to take time away from work, except that doesn’t support your pay, it only protects your job so they don’t outright fire you for having a serious situation come up.
If you’re curious about the situation here, there’s a book called “On the Clock, what low wage labor did to me and how it drives america insane” or something like that. Super eye opening.
Screw amazon but this is the first link I found because I’m literally rushing out of the house lol.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42779084-on-the-clock
Hope this illuminates things a little. Pray for us plz. :)
Wow, such a powerful quote.
It touches on something I’m worried about in our time: How we’ve started to monetize hobbies as “hustles” and watch other people enjoy them in our place because we’re too busy to do them ourselves.
It feels like enjoying “the sun and music and art” is now the job of an entertainer, who the audience lives vicariously through, between their shifts. Whether it’s all these shows about celebrities who get to travel, or so simple as streamers getting to sit down and play games…
Uh. One? Then if two people had basic jobs…Maybe two?
Maybe someone is able to claw their way above minimum wage and the other can quit entirely, whatever.
Nobody’s demanding McMansions for McDoubles. They just want the concept of a job to be more than an endless void that arbitrarily takes exponentially more than it gives.
Working two jobs and being one major illness or injury away from losing it all is a sick insult to humanity, for all it has achieved up to this point.
Not even smart , in a genius-like sense. I’d settle for merely cooperative.
Like if people could drop the petty “movement purity” squabbles and just rustle up that meme energy “apes together strong” for each other as the working class, instead of individualizing their struggles and settling for misery, we could really get somewhere!
This is even my problem with the system when it comes to “the little guy.” Say you make a coffee shop, or release art, or a videogame, or an invention… There’s always this looming pressure to scale . No matter how much of a home run, that success is almost designed to “dry up.”
Wow, one in a million success! You can chill now right? No, it’s gotta be bigger, better, repeated, infinitely! Franchises, chains, out of place sequels nobody asked for! Overly enthusiastic merch destined for the Pacific Garbage Patch!
It feels like the system forces greed upon people as the state religion because they are not naturally greedy themselves if they’re otherwise taken care of. Savvy business of the modern age has the mentality of cancer.
Even the wealthy need to be imbued with the pathological fear that all they have might get taken from them, so they must amass more and more. It doesn’t even end with their own lives! They must aim for generational private wealth now.
It’s feels like it’s such an outlier mentality to want to find “just enough success to support my people and do some good.”
And you’re right about the adversarial relationship between employers and workers. “Honest work” is almost an oxymoron anymore, because it doesn’t matter how nice a person sits in the manager’s chair. Their win condition to provide for themselves is to screw you as much as possible and get away with it.
This sounds like a fascinating read lol. I’ve never heard of that before!
Regardless of ideology, I do find those “let’s start our own society” accounts very educational, because everybody thinks they can do it better, but there’s a lot of pitfalls and footguns to learn from.
We should put the psychopaths that can’t care about others in a reserve, where they can make their own hellscape, away from normal people.
Digitally, we’ve already done this, and called it LinkdIn!
But somehow we got pulled into having to play their stupid games. :(
It’s like getting “Lord of the RIngs” movie, but about some gang war in a village southeast of Umbar.
Hey, War of the Rohirim was actually pretty alright! :p
Look I’m a simple man, I can’t get enough of Optimus Prime’s stellar voice work. :D
It’s not an incredible franchise. But hey I think they had some fun with a series that was basically designed to sell 80’s toys lol.
Luke casually tossing away an item that had been set up as important in the previous film were not the right changes.
Agreed big time. This felt less like “cleverly unexpected” and more just a total disrespect for the source material.
“Hey remember the symbol of hopeful optimism you followed through trials and tribulations for 3 movies a long time ago? He’s now a cynical burnout drunk uncle lol. Isn’t that sooo unexpected but relatable and grim? SUBVERTED! I’ll take my Oscar now…”
It felt like if some grimdark-TV-bros got ahold of a sequel to the LOTR trilogy, and we were to suddenly find Aragorn a heartless wannabe totalitarian ruler in the middle of a bitter divorce with Arwen. There would also be silly gags where he drunkenly shatters Andúril trying to cut a melon or something, and the kids absolutely loathe him because dysfunctional interpersonal drama is trendy. “Didn’t expect that, did you?? Lol!”
…Then being told your expectations were childish and stupid when you find yourself upset by this. Lol
I really hate what they did to Luke’s character. It felt like they deliberately trashed him and everything he stood for so some random nobody gimmick character doesn’t look as 2-dimensional. :(
The Ben Swolo memes were hilarious though.
Andor is an incredible espionage thriller and I do absolutely love it.
This is also why I liked Rogue One and also the series “Rebels.”
It made the Empire believable, and the Rebels really are an insurgency, the galactic situation is dire and against overwhelming odds. It doesn’t just feel like a hero fantasy.
(Rebels can sometimes, it’s geared to a younger audience, but it takes itself surprisingly seriously in a great way.)
The “subverting expectations” thing is was ruined it for me.
You could feel the “Too-clever TV writers” at work here. It felt like later-GoT and LOST where stuff randomly “just happens” and has zero payoff because it was written without any kind of grounding or plan, but it sure was surprising and subverted expectations!!! …and then you catch on that there never was a plan, it was just a moment to get an emotional rise out of you, and nothing makes any sense outside of a very limited 5-minute window.
But it’s a self contained story and doesn’t get potentially-numerous “seasons” to come up with a reason “This totally makes sense, you guys. I had it planned all along!”
So yeah, what we’re left with is a “deconstruction”…as in:
“Someone kept loosening bolts and pulling off panels until the hangar was a total mess, but they still don’t understand how an X-Wing works…annnd CREDITS ROLL!”
Also, the way they completely dumped Finn’s character and relegated him to “Guy who shouts ‘RAAAAAAAAAY’ every 10 minutes.” is an absolute insult to competent acting and what could’ve been a beloved and deep character.
why haven’t both sides been doing that all the time?
I feel like this can at least be backed up. It should be ridiculously costly in terms of sheer resources and personnel, and therefore utterly foolish in 99% of scenarios.
We can posit that hyperspace generators should be expensive in terms of resources and credits, and should get exponentially more expensive as the ship size increases, so making “hyperspace warheads” should also be foolish…
But on the other hand, to take down something like the Death Star, I imagine such a maneuver would have seemed worth it!
I think that sums up why the last two sequel films bothered me so much: They went for emotional "woah!"s by pulling things out of nowhere unexpectedly…But then you think about it for 5 seconds and it all falls apart quick.
They really took original Star Wars’ “WWII in Space” battles to the ridiculous extreme there, for sure lol.
As evidenced by his preposterously plagiarized company naming schemes that obnoxiously demonstrate to the world how profoundly he missed the point of Lord of the Rings, by going team Mordor and thinking he’s the hero. . .
When above all else, he desires power.