KinglyWeevil @ KinglyWeevil @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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It's an older meme sir, but it checks out

He's an adult Beavis if Beavis was raised with too much money and a powerful dad.

I have a feeling he's the kind of guy who doesn't eat fried chicken because it's "messy"

The executive branch should play hardball with this and order the immediate reassignment of every soldier at the FIVE ACTIVE MILITARY BASES in Alabama, to other bases and make it clear that the collapse of the local economy is Tubervilles fault.

I'm pretty sure that's within the wide latitude granted to the executive in terms of military control.

Make Alabama hurt and I bet this bullshit stops.

When there's no refunds in x period but no penalty to reschedule, so you reschedule and then cancel.

Right. Only squeaky wheels get greased. If you don't actively bitch and moan or threaten to leave, your company will never give you more because they assume you're happy.

Mine gave me what appeared to be a fairly sizeable performance bump, percentage-wise, at the beginning of the calendar year.

But when I calculated it out in comparison to all the other increases they'd given me, accounted for inflation as measured by CPI, and excluded the amounts given in "class-wide" salary adjustments, the dollar amount was really put into perspective.

Per their own HR policy, an individuals position within their defined salary band is determined by their skill/merit achievements relative to the job position. Because a class wide salary adjustment also redefines the salary band, and I have a habit of snapshotting the salary bands every few months, I was able to prove with numbers that A) they'd only ever actually given me one "merit increase" that matched the words they use in my review to an actual, measurable, "skill increase" as measured by an individual's position in the salary band.

And because the others had been so poor, using their own HR policy, they were effectively stating that I was only 2-3% better at my job than when they hired me 4+ years ago. Which was impossible, because if it were true, why would they have me actively mentoring individuals more highly paid but in the same band as myself?

It was compelling enough that they offered me an in-department "promotion" to the next grade and it came with one of two new roles, which I was allowed to trial and choose between. HR had previously squashed the grade increase two times over the previous two years, saying I didn't have enough experience, despite pushback from the three levels of management over me. (Our HR is like comic book villain levels of sanctimonious overpowered karens left to their own devices, and are actively holding the whole company back.)

Because I was able to use their own language to state, "either I'm good enough to do the X,Y,Z you currently have me doing and therefore deserve more; or I'm not and therefore should not be responsible for the things I do for the team and will essentially 'behave my class' and stop doing them," I forced their hand.

Maybe we get lucky and he has a cheeseburger embolism between now and then and then Walter Reed docs just choose to try a little less hard that day.

A friendly reminder that the US celebrates labor Day in September because celebrating it in May with the rest of the world would encourage solidarity with the global working class, and that's "SoCiAlIsM"

Your comment specifically said, "you're telling us there's an even more deadly aspect than the radiation" so I'm not sure what you're on about my guy.

Depleted Uranium isn't radioactive, really. U-238, stripped of all the U-235 (hence, depleted) is incredibly stable. While it is technically radioactive, it barely registers. So maybe learn what you're talking about?

When you're too stupid to be a cop, despite the absurdly low bar: corrections officers.

It's like if the people who worked at the animal shelter got off on abusing the animals.

This will basically force balkanization of the US. There are a large number of US states in both the northeast and west coast of sufficient size and economic power to just "say no" and sort of opt out of participating in the nation further. Then it's basically, "are you willing to use the military to enforce this" and the answer is either no, or civil war.

This is us. We operate perfectly as a team and we each function as an extension of the others body. We just synchronize so flawlessly that we're basically dancing around each other in the kitchen.

I feel so fortunate to have finally found someone I mesh with this thoroughly, but I live in perpetual terror that she'll be taken from me suddenly or unexpectedly by accident or sickness.

She's great, actually. Love her content.

This is what happens when the population integrates politics into their individual identities.

Our government has just become the largest, most expensive game of football and there are only two teams.

Quickly, someone notify Gura!

I agree with the sentiment but there is a bit more to the argument than property values. You can simultaneously hold the positions of, "I think society should do more to solve this problem," and, "I would really prefer to not have needles in my front yard."

It's a difficult problem to solve, and we don't dedicate the resources or effort to solving it that are required.

I'd highly recommend Patrick's Parabox. It's an incredible little puzzle game that revolves around paradoxical movements of pieces in each puzzle. I don't know how to adequately describe it, but it was incredibly unique.

I never managed to beat this but it has by far the highest play time of any mobile game for me.