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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2019-12-09

POW! RIGHT IN THE FEELS!


Binro the Heretic - 2019-12-09

How bad does it have to get before enough people have had enough to make things change?

Will it really take a massive die-off of the boomers before we can go forward?


Meerkat - 2019-12-09

There will always be someones to takes their places.


SolRo - 2019-12-10

It will never get bad enough for the completely brainwashed and subdued masses in America to rise up.

Meanwhile the French riot en mass just over the announcement of possible changes to retirement plans.


Meerkat - 2019-12-10

Whenever I used to travel to the US for work I would step off the plane and be immediately assaulted by flags and AMERICA!

Everyone has to chant USA #1 at the top of their lungs 24/7 lest they be labelled anti-American by their peers. Or at least that's the general feel of the place.

It's constantly drilled into Americans' heads that America is the greatest country on the face of the earth, period. Get away with that data you.

Why try to change perfection? Just eat your Big Mac and shut the fuck up you pinko commie.


casualcollapse - 2019-12-10

Me


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2019-12-10

I'd be willing to bet that many, perhaps most, of these stories aren't written to make you feel good, and that the reporters, who may have actually had contact with the subjects, are trying to tell important stories about people who are struggling before the text is edited, and formatted for maximum ad-friendliness.

And, of course, the story does come out. To be fair, how much critical thinking does it really take to infer that "Homeless boy gives backback to man sleeping on sidewalk" isn't a straight-up happy ending?


Rosebeekee - 2019-12-10

I can’t help wonder how many people would rather not donate their sick days, but are bullied into it because their workplace keeps guilting and shaming them for being “selfish” and they give in so they don’t get ostracized or fired.


SolRo - 2019-12-10

The CFO of my former employer, at a corporate pep rally, tried to browbeat the whole west coast for not doing enough volunteer work through the company. His yearly salary is 4 million.


Rosebeekee - 2019-12-10

Wow, and here I got pissy when I felt forced to go to the birthday party of my boss on a 4 month project who was always rude to me. The birthday party was keeping me from the wrap party, that I actually wanted to go to, on a night when I wouldn't' be able to stay late or drink. Say goodbye to co-workers I liked and would probably never see again? Nah, it's much more fun to watch morbidly obese women shovel hundreds of dollars of food in their mouths at a restaurant that serves food I don't like and my boyfriend physically couldn't eat. But you're not a "team player" if you don't join them.


Nominal - 2019-12-13

I went to interview at a company, and their entire lobby was taken up by large plaque displays, bragging about how much the company donates to charities. I look closer, and it's EMPLOYEE contributions to charity. I read one printout describing the weekly donations, and it was a system of "allowing" employees to partake in casual Friday and wear jeans...IF they deducted $5 from their paycheck for charity.

I ask the receptionist about it. "Oh yeah. You can always tell who the non-givers are by their pants on Fridays!" she chuckled.

So, rather than brag about how much corporate donated to charity like most companies would do, this was bragging how much it coerced employees to deduct from their pay under the implicit threat of walking around wearing a scarlet letter on Fridays in the form of dress pants and slacks.

I was interviewed by 20 something MBA prick type with the exact speech and mannerisms as the Nathan For You host, a character designed as a parody of soulless douche business majors. The 2nd question he asked me after going over my resume was what I thought of the "Casual Giving Friday" policy. "Would this be something you could get on board with?" *douchey head tilt*

I mentally checked out at that point and can't even remember what I said. Just the shortest answers possible to get the hell out of there. Never bothered to follow up.

(before I could even walk into the interview, they made you sign a drug test waiver...for a desk job)


Nominal - 2019-12-13

^reply to Rosebeekee


discodracula - 2019-12-15

My shitty minimum wage job had the same policy. We could wear jeans instead of uniform pants on Friday if we donated $5 to a certain charity. You still had to wear the uniform top, because ~professionalism~


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