ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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Current company was just bought by a bigger company.

This is exactly what happened to me.

They will spend as little money on you as possible to make you go away.

I actually got a severance from my big company, first time I ever got anything for being let go. TBF it totaled about $100 less than what I would have gotten for unemployment benefits; this prevented me from qualifying for unemployment, but it did mean I didn't have to pretend to be looking for work for six months to get the money.

I knew my layoff was coming because they let me do absolutely fucking nothing for six months.

A toaster oven can do most things that a full-sized oven can do.

And then imagine paying another $10 for Uber Eats to deliver it to you cold.

I do recommend drugs, at least weed and the hallucinogens.

Their Shakes are pretty good.

my parents also wanted me to stop listening to it because my dad found one article about a guy who beat up his girlfriend and he apparently liked Metallica

My dad once picked me up from a party when I was in high school in the 1980s; he noticed a video that was playing on MTV and was highly disturbed by the imagery in it, as he told me later (many times).

The video was "Cuts Like a Knife" by Bryan Adams. My dad thought he was losing me to Satan because of fucking Bryan Adams!

Yes, it will take him some time to sift through all the secret intel that only popes get to see lol.

LOL

extra power under load to the rear wheels

Lol like there's enough room back there to add a load.

"Shoot the bad guys before they shoot you."

It might be even more entertaining if I said who this famous author was. But on the other hand, it might punctuate your equilibrium!

Nice to see the phrase "global heating" instead of the wimpy "global warming" or the even more milquetoasty "climate change". I prefer the phrase "anthropogenic runaway global heating" because it makes clear the scale and severity of the problem as well as its origin, and also for the handy acronym.

Remember, the Constitution allows slavery! Plus, it only bans punishments that are cruel and unusual - punishments that are just cruel or just unusual are fine!

It should be DUH rather than MBA. Maybe "Doctorate of Unabashed Hyperbole".

Desperately. And it's a decent gig, or at least it will be until they decide AI can do it, at which point we're going to get a bunch of flattened children.

LOL "Leading from the Middle". AKA "Sucking Up and Punching Down".

I had a 25-year career as a programmer. Not once did I ever have a company I worked for verify my academic or employment histories or even contact my references. I could have put down anything I wanted and it wouldn't have made the slightest difference - my continuing employment was based on my ability to actually do shit.

I'm now a school bus driver and they checked out everything. And of course threw in drug testing and a criminal background check for good measure.

I remember once borrowing a friend's MBA textbook to see what it was all about. I opened to a random page which turned out to be in a chapter on negotiating strategies. There was an offset bit of text that read "your skill at negotiating will affect the outcome of the negotiations."

My college had a professor of communications with a degree from a supposedly ancient (like, 13th century) Italian university. He only got exposed because we had a big ceremony for the newly-hired President of the college, with a procession that featured faculty and alumni walking in an order determined by the age of the oldest institution they were associated with. One of our alumni was a very famous author who was on the faculty at Harvard, and he was like "why am I not the first in line?" He looked up this comm prof's "university" which turned out to be basically a prep school that wasn't even close to being 700 years old. Comm prof was promptly fired, which was kind of a shame because he was actually a really good teacher.