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Civil Construction programs.

Basically military-like program for infrastructure. Sign up for 4 years, we'll train you in an in demand trade, put you through the apprenticeship and pay you the whole time. Then send you to build infrastructure and work in construction around the country. Any out of region jobs would include housing.

Cities, counties, states, and federal government would be required that x% of all government construction projects are to be done by this civilian construction program.

Fucking tech solutions to a manager problem. The manager should care about the metrics of wait time and client satisfaction.

If waits are low and satisfaction is high. Then who gives fuck all about what techs do in between calls.

Metrics like calls per tech or average length of calls could be used to better understand tech efficiency. Or even rings before pickup. A good pbx can help ensure calls are relatively equally spread between techs. This helps keep one tech from over working for another slacking off. You can have utilization goals so that you aren't under or over staffed (I'm of the opinion that a techs utilization should be roughly 75-80% and they should have downtime in their shifts to prevent burnout.)

It's stupid, inhumane, and impossible to expect an employee to track, bill, and work 100% of their shift.

Going to a rave, taking ecstacy, and seeing above and beyond performing a Group Therapy set.

I was depressed and had suicidal ideation. That night made me feel more connected to the people around me than anything else I've experienced. It was maybe a decade ago and I still think it started my journey of healing.

They focus on the 'historic' raise and don't mention any other part of the negotiations or contract. They don't mention that it's a pittance more than starting wages at McDonald's. Not that it likely screws over long term employees, once again.

While this is a good start. I think they could have fought for more. There is a lot of old numbers on those contracts that need to be reevaluated like specialty position rates. (25 cents/hr more)

They could have fought for the bullshit attendance policies that were recently enacted and for the eroding cast perks.

Arbitrary surcharges and fees. Like "5% to offset the rising minimum wage" bullshit restaurants are doing.

From my industry: Perhaps the purchase of chemicals for the manufacture of fireworks. It's surprisingly easy to order pounds and pounds of different oxidizers and fuels.

Forced arbitration clauses.

I learned nginx when I was hosting websites. I had it set up and running when it was time to add reverse proxies into my setup. It didn't take much more from the virtual hosts I was already using.

Now, I don't host many individual sites anymore and haproxy has a plugin on my firewall for the handful of services I run now.

The cop literally noticed the pot and told her to go move it because he didn't want to deal with a fire when he was there.

She didn't go to it until she was told to go move it off the flame.

Rebuking is not a threat. You and the cop do not know what rebuke means.

He overreacted to a word which means "I'm disapproving strongly."

You can still spend the required money even if the product isn't delivered.

Buy a/some 737 and start an airline. It's easy to spend $100m.

Start a company.

Create a product.

Price it at $100m.

Buy said product from my own company.

We can't reverse. It's too dangerous. We have to slow down first!!

Bullshit! Just reverse this thing! I order you! Reverse!

Not everyone who goes is rich. And yes, they like making people happy regardless of the audiences social status. Many are simply entertainers and they like putting a show on.

Why make fun of people who are trying to bring a little joy to the world?

That's part of it, and the way it would sit on the shoulders. Lots of neck and spine issues. Then the hands would lead to repetitive stress injuries for some of their motions.

As a former Disney cast member, I wholly support this protest and I truly hope they strike.

In worked from 2008-2016 and started at $9.05/hr. We got 2% a year in raises, but in that time new hires would start at higher wages and they wouldn't match the employees who had been there to the new employees wage. Brand new employees would make more than those that had been there years.

When Anaheim had a ballet measure to raise the minimum wage they raised a ton of cast members wages to $3 less than the measure in hopes they could discourage people to vote for it. Fortunately, the measure passed. However, during this period they didn't retain the yearly raises, everyone was raised to the exact same wage. Those who had been there 30 years (no exaggeration) made exactly the same as new hires.

They've gotten hostile to their employees and the "perks" that employees for have been slowly stripped away. Each year getting slightly worse. Which is a problem because new hires don't know how much better it used to be so they don't know what to demand anymore.

I knew cast members that used to live 6 or 8 people to a two bedroom apartment. Most worked multiple jobs. Many of the entertainers who play as the characters ended up injured from wearing the Mickey and other character costumes. Multiple who had to have surgery to treat those injuries.

They have let standards fall, hard. The parks aren't what they used to be and literally the only thing keeping them together is the cast. They try so fucking hard to bring the magic to guests each and every day. They have been kneecapped by management though. IMO, of all "attractions" at the parks, the cast are the best. And the one that management should be investing in the most. They are the differentiator between Disney and Knott's Berry Farm, Universal Studios, and Six Flags. However leadership has constantly worked to move interactions from Cast Members to their half baked app.

Understand that all these cast members do it because they love bringing the magic to the guests. They endure shitty pay, shitty management, and injury for the guests. They care so much about making the public and tourists happy. They deserve so much more.

The last line was the least surprising after hearing all that.

What industry are you in. This could be compliance for different reasons. Retention is a very specific thing that should be documented in policies.

I know financial institutions that specifically do not want data just hanging around. This limits liability and exposure if there is a breach, and makes any litigation much easier if the data doesn't exist by policy.

Should they be more choosy on what gets deleted, yea probably. But I understand why it's there.

The temple specifically fights for $1 only. It's not about the money and the lawyer fees aren't a percentage in this case.