elephantium @ elephantium @lemmy.world

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I think I see where you're coming from. I don't hear grifters in that phrase, personally. I'd almost say the opposite; workaholics are more likely to invoke the phrase. Or, to put it another way, victims of upper management gaslighting.

working hard is not a virtue

I have to disagree here. Well, probably. I figure, if you're not lazy/half-assing your job, you're pretty much working hard, right? I see it as being diligent about your job, and yes, I do see some virtue in that.

But you also wrote "indicator of poor management" which makes me think you're using "working hard" as a label for something like "unpaid overtime". That would be a whole different ballgame.

I don't think this post is a good fit. The name of the community is "mildly infuriating", not "absolutely enraging"!

I knew a girl in high school who would say "Don't do anything I would do."

Duck duck go does the same thing, sadly.

printSF

If Captain Picard can read physical books in his ready room in the 24th century, I can quite well read them in the 21st, thank you very much!

(I don't actually begrudge people who prefer reading on Kindles, but I like the feel of real books)

Recently, I've been reading the Interdependency series by John Scalzi. It starts with The Collapsing Empire, featuring an unlikely heir to the throne, a time of trouble and strife, and the likely impending doom of all mankind. A lot of the story focuses on the unlikely heir grappling with how to hold things together against the catastrophe that most people don't really believe is coming.

Oh, whoosh :(

I don't have an option to accept/reject alternative spellings -- what I see is a message along the lines of "showing results for FUBAR; do you really want to search only for FooBar?"

One of my favorites!

Your tinyurl redirects me to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35465607 ... not very illuminating

When I search for 'Herscithem', the first link is https://herschel.com/

Sigrid ain't here

... When you tell the receptionist to smile

Ugh, infuriating. All I can imagine now is that you were mad that he made you what you asked for. Guess I'll just be clueless 'til I forget about this thread.

it takes labor to collect the carts

It's not about that. I was making a reference to the Shopping Cart Theory as a way of responding to the post.

potentially reduce price hikes on food

I admire your boundless optimism! I rather think we'd simply see richer grocery store owners if there were a sudden outbreak of common decency and everyone consistently returned the cart.

We got the high-range boozimeter from the safe, but it burned out instantly.

You get it

no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.

This has me envisioning a literature community filled with stories like "Random House and Penguin merging" (I know, old news), "Layoffs at PRH", etc.

Star Trek for me, I think (though oddly, I've played in a Star Wars tabletop RPG but never a Star Trek RPG). My wife and I started watching Deep Space 9 from the beginning about a month ago. I had seen some of it a while back (not everything, busy with school at the time). She had never seen it. We just finished season 1.

I don't think it qualifies as "old school", but I do like the Vorkosigan books.

Lately I've been on kind of a Scalzi kick. I'm partway through the Interdependency series.

Why should we return the shopping cart when no one else does?

Edit: /s for people that took this too earnestly. I was alluding to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart_theory.

spreads the jelly on top of the peanut butter

Um. I mean, what did you expect him to do differently? A PBnJ is peanut butter and jelly on bread, so I don't understand why the dude adding the jelly was upsetting.

Was there some particular way your mom usually made them that was different from what this dude did?

I'm really struggling to picture what was disturbing in this picture :(