Bonehead @ Bonehead @kbin.social

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The excuse might be "performance", but they are being fired without cause officially. They can still apply for employment insurance. This is just standard procedure. Being fired with cause opens them up to lawsuits, so most companies avoid that whenever possible. Especially when they are firing multiple people like this.

Ok, I understand the point of recording this but...she is very young, and likely this is her first time being laid off. I know, it's shocking. Except for me, who had to console the person that came to get me to be laid off who was much more upset than I was, but I digress.

Here's the thing. You're being laid off. There is nothing you can say or do to change that. The people doing the firing were likely brought in specifically for that job, and they know nothing more than what management has told them. Your manager had absolutely no say in the matter, this decision was made 3 levels higher than them. Your manager likely didn't even know until about an hour before you are let go. I know you're upset, I know you're frustrated, I know you're likely not thinking straight. But it's happening, whether you like it or not. You can ask why you're being let go, but they can't tell you what they don't know. And even worse, they've had this exact same conversation at least 50 times that day. The first instinct is to make it awkward and difficult for them, but this is their job and they are use to it.

Confirm your information. Make sure you can follow up on next steps and get your employment insurance claim started immediately. If you can, make sure you can still contact your actual manager for a reference afterwards. Usually you can find out more about what really happened at the same time. Just get as much information as you can about what they will provide you for the aftermath. Then once you get off the call....scream. Cry. Jump up and down with joy, if that's how you feel. Just let it out. You're going to be feeling a lot of emotion, so just let it out. Go home, explain what happened to your family of you have one. Let them scream and cry if they have to. And then try to sleep.

The next morning will feel weird not having to get up to go to work. Enjoy it. Take the first week to yourself. Get your employment insurance claim going and all the paperwork for that. But take time to decompress so you can be ready for the next move. Work on some of those home projects you've been putting off because you were too busy with your job. Take time to spend with family. Just don't worry about finding a job yet. The emotions from the last job will still be raw, so you don't want to bring that to an interview. Let yourself adjust to the new routine before you dive headfirst into a job search. When you're ready to start your job search, you don't want those emotions clouding your judgement and avoiding jobs that you think are too close to your old job. A little distance will help to put things into perspective.

And remember, it's not the end of the world. You'll find another job. You just need to be open to the possibilities. But you can't do that of you're still pissed off to the eyeballs. Take the time to let it go and truly move on.

I'm pretty sure this is how Moclan society became what it is.

Nonsense...real linux users use Slackware. Why bother with all these fancy new distros when the original is still going strong?

Bumper? Try just replacing the tail light...

Like me, she's probably immunocompromised and/or on medication that causes it, so she can't take live vaccines like MMR.

Cannabis doesn't cause schizophrenia. It merely brings out symptoms earlier than normal in individuals that already have schizophrenia but haven't had a major episode yet.

Repeat after me: Correlation Does Not Equal Causation.

To be fair, Tamagotchi provided more value than NFTs ever could.

The upside to this is that you can still make good money as a legacy programmer. Just look at COBOL job listings.

They bought $16 billion worth of legal weed. There's still a huge black market that likely makes more than the legal stuff. I still buy off the same guy I've been seeing for 25 years, and that won't change until he stops growing. But he's training some younger growers that can fill the void. I'm just waiting for the craft weed market to become legal so these guys can stop hiding.

The difference here is that the car in the picture is a concept car, which very very rarely ever makes it to production as is. The Cybertruck is the exception to that rule...

You're projecting. I weld because I'm a nerd. This job is just helping out a buddy, but before that I was welding a new mount for my trailer hitch snow plow that I built a few years ago. And this summer I want to build a remote control lawnmower which is going to involve a lot of welding, plus some code to reprogram the hoverboards that I bought for that project. The real challenge there will be adding basic intelligence with a Raspberry Pi so that it will mow the lawn itself. But that's a few years away, since I still need to build it first. And that starts with welding the frame.

It's not really possible to be both, since one is merely a tool that satisfies the needs of the other. Nerd always takes precedence...

So you're just going to accept the story from some dude that wrote it years later?

Everything is fine. I was welding in the outer rocker when it ignited. It was a brief flash and then it went out. I only used the fire extinguisher because I saw smoke coming from the seatbelt hole near the top of the door. I figured better safe than sorry. Of course now the inside of the rocker that I can't get to anymore is covered in white powder, but at least it's kinda fireproof now.

Technically, but remember that Mary didn't consent or even know what was happening. Jesus was a rape baby...

I have 3. 2 are still pressurized. One was used last night.

A note to everyone...do your welding before you paint and undercoat, or at least wait for it to dry fully first.

What? Don't you know that Ontario has hired 60,000 nurses and has 30,000 nurses in school? There is no health crisis, none at all. Or at least that's what the government sponsored radio ads keep telling me...

You forgot option C: Supreme Court rules that Colorado's decision must be overturned, and Republicans spend the year roadblocking everything with extreme prejudice until the election. That's how they got 3 Supreme Court Judge picks while blocking Democrats from picking.

The rockets are fine. SpaceX has a team specifically designed to distract Musk and keep him away from the actual work on the rockets. Tesla didn't have that though. That's how we ended up with that lame presentation with the weird "S3XY" acromin. That was really the point I realized that he was just an idiot frat boy with too much money. He really is his own worst enemy.