I'm sure this might be interesting, but the video is letterboxed so aggressively that even on fullscreen my laptop screen is 80% black with a postage-stamp of video in the middle that lasts about 3 seconds.
The usual: in college, desperate for work in a saturated college-city market I worked for Vector Marketing selling Cutco knives--one of the more humilating periods of my life--and interviewed for several other "jobs" that turned out to be MLM sales (e.g., I think a knockoff perfume company called "observe l'essence"?). I also tried to sell cars. Holy shit the people I worked with were horrible humans (except 1.5 of them).
In a slightly less horrible vein I spent a summer (late 90s) in a call center for BellSouth.net, which mostly consisted of telling people to type their passwords in very carefully or reboot their computer. When someone found out I spoke Spanish I was given all Spanish, Portuguese, and even Italian customers, and released from all quotas and average call time metrics. This was good, because trying to work out what a Brazilian customer was saying on the phone was hard enough, but Italian (and maybe one time Romanian)? Took hours.
Oh, the scammy part of that was minor: we were in a faceless warehouse on the outkirts of Columbus, Ohio, but we were instructed to always keep websites open for Atlanta, GA and to talk about the weather, sports, etc. and pretend we were in Atlanta.
The oddest part of that job was that our floor of the warehouse/call center was shared with a brand new and kind of weird company that had just started running TV ads: priceline.com. We had breaks with priceline employees on a regular basis.
This echoes my concerns every time someone (especially under the age of about 40, especially American) praises "communism" (as if it were one thing) with some kind of absolute adoration.
In this case, OP: how did that justice work for the political dissidents sent to gulags?
Assuming this is a reasonable representation of public opinion in the two countries (and I don't yet have reason to assume otherwise, despite the neoliberal position of the founders of the institute commissioning the survey), I now think it would be interesting to see a breakdown, country by country, of the discrepancy between public perception of democracy and independent observers' ratings of democracy in those same countries.
As a man, I've found this applies to almost any traditionally* feminine activity.
"Traditional" is a red herring, quagmire, and propagandum with gender roles. What is "traditional" for men vs women shifts around over time and place, and within cultures and subcultures. I actually mean something like "hegemonic" or "stereotypical within your specific cultural milieu."
This goes a bit deep. Seems like it's going to be about customers being too stupid to figure things out, but it ends up for me a story about engineers not accurately anticipating customers' needs.
10 years ago I wouldn't have imagined this, but this is me every time I have to use Windows (e.g., occasionally for work) or help someone else with it.
If it helps, you're not alone. I've spent decades of my life pursuing a career, and in the past five or so years I've come to realize I will never accomplish the things I used to dream about, like making an impact in my little field, etc. It's a really, really unpleasant realization. The only silver lining I can find for myself (and it is helpful) is that I can let go of the "must excel" and "must go above and beyond" mentalities. It frees up time and mental resources.
I can't say for sure, but it certainly seems like the people believing these things speak in ways reminiscent of people with delusion disorders (e.g., schizophrenia). The patterns of how they use words and concepts just feels very delusiony to me.
I'm sure this might be interesting, but the video is letterboxed so aggressively that even on fullscreen my laptop screen is 80% black with a postage-stamp of video in the middle that lasts about 3 seconds.