TrueStoryBob @ TrueStoryBob @lemmy.world

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I mean, like the OP said, unless it's a worker owned co-op or, at the very least, a small mom-n-pop that treats their workers fairly.

It's similar to the problem AMC had with the Pacer... revolutionary automotive design and in the first year it did amazing! Then, in the next two to three years, demand dropped like a rock. Seemed as though everyone that wanted a car which looked like really nothing else on the road had already bought one in the first year.

Republicans were in power when those planes hit the towers.

Haven't read the article, but I'll bet it was MS Teams.

One time at a TV station I worked for, the manager of our marketing department decided that three $90k pieces of robotic studio camera equipment were actually fun toys with which he could (without training) just mess around. I came into the studio that day to find two of my fellow production department coworkers trying desperately to wrangle the situation. At one point, the manager nearly crashed two of these robots into one another and my co-worker threw himself onto the emergency stop switch halting the imminent collision and, potentially, tens of thousands of dollars of damage.

Knowing we had work to do with these units shortly and having been trained on how to reset everything after an emergency shutdown, I turned to the manager at the control panel. Y'all, as the words "wait let me help you reset it" were coming out of my mouth he shouted directly in my face "I said I fucking got it!" So... I threw up my hands and walked to the break room, which was across the hallway from the chief engineer's office. About two minutes later the marketing manager walked into the chief engineer's office saying "hey [chief engineer], we're having a problem with the studio robotics, can you come take a look?"

My coworkers told me that, the moment the door closed behind me, the manager turned back to the robotic controller and said "I don't think I've got this." An hour later, the GM sent out an email announcing basically "union shop rules" for the incredibly expensive robotic equipment... essentially: if you're not trained on them, don't touch and we weren't training anyone else. Come to find out that when my coworkers explained what happened to the chief engineer (who had fought corporate bean counters for nearly five years to get us these robotic units), he had apparently chewed the marketing manager out to the point of causing an HR situation and nearly succeeded in getting the idiot fired.

Since then, every time I realize that I am doing something that will make the company more money or even just save them money, I always think back to that moment of "I said I've fucking got it" and stop what I'm doing. I'll do a ton of extra work to make my job and my coworkers' jobs easier long term, but I am NEVER going to intentionally contribute to making any place at which I work run more profitably. It's just not worth it.

Sorry.

Louisianan here... I'm working on my French language skills... if y'all want to invade and take it back, not gonna lie we've got some problems (red state).

Right, the best time was yesterday. Today is the second best time but it's better than nothing.

Haven't seen it here yet, but it's one of the greatest and most prolific YouTube channels about science fiction and the future... Science Fiction and Futurism With Isaac Arthur

• How to Colonize Mars
• How to Colonize Venus
• Building Orbital Rings Around Earth
• How to Get to Alpha Centauri
• How and Why to Industrialize the Moon
• Settling the Atmosphere of Jupiter
• Godlike Aliens
• Alien Invasions
• How to Escape the Galaxy

WTYP Pod, the podcast that hates you back!

WTYP Pod, the podcast that hates you back!

Behind the Bastards is fucking great! If you like their stuff, you might also enjoy "Respect The Dead (A Podcast Where We Don't)." It's a kind of queer younger sibling to BTB and a whole lot of fun, but they only cover people who are for sure dead.

I keep seeing this... folks really think we're gonna get to vote again.

[the Three Body Problem series has entered the chat]

[the Expense series has entered the chat]

Oya beltaloada!

Gigastructural Engineering for Stellaris... the megastructures included in the game and DLC are great, but they lack a certain insanity. Plus the mod allows you to terraform any planet (even gas giants).

General Strike, general strike, general strike!

Let's GOOOOOOOO!!!

All your need to do is drop in one card randomly with all the holes punched out to screw up those things... there was a name for doing that to be a dick but I forgot and am drunk right now so I don't feel like looking it up.

Effing preach!!!

Yep. It's been a whole thing on the YouTube political drama channels and in like Dem Leaning progressive spaces.