> How you move on from a bad situation is your decision. Wallowing in self-pity because the world has done you wrong is a good way to never succeed.
I agree with this but it doesn't have to do with luck. You could pick yourself up and keep going after a stint of bad luck but if you continue to have bad luck then you will still have a hard time succeeding.
You are then voting by decreasing your waiter/waitress's salaray for the night. We shouldn't punish the people who depend on the money to live, we should protest the politicians too worried about corporate money.
Have you had experience with a driving forcing you to rate 5 stars? That seems incredibly crazy to me. That just throws the reasoning behind having a rating system out the window. If a driver has 5 stars merely because they uncomfortably made passengers rate them that way then the system is pointless.
This is a very good point. To just stop tipping wouldn't teach the restaurants anything. They still get their money from the food you ordered and can always churn out more wait staff willing to work for those low tips because it is better than nothing. Regulation that takes away the need to tip would be extremely helpful, else this probably won't change.
It has been in my experience that people who are usually for the same ideology as the parent comment are also the same people who have never had a steep medical bill thrown at them after a hospital/doctor visit. It is unfortunate that it usually takes this awful circumstance for people to see the other side but I can imagine it being hard for people to relate until it happens to them.
It has quite a few things I am currently really interested in. I've never been to Atlantic City but it always seemed like an extremely fascinating place with a lot of history. The pressure of the fading desire to gamble and climate change has serious impacts and this article was a great overview of the problems they are facing.
Cops won't always give you a ticket for "driving over the speed limit" either. Sometimes, if a cop is letting you off easy, they will give you a smaller fine like "disobeying traffic signs" or something similar. Each has a different minimum. I think they may also vary from state to state.
I remember seeing this account forever ago and thinking nothing of it. It seemed like another stupid meme account that posted some funny occasionally but mostly seemed pointless/harmless. I had no idea that they were rolling in the money/followers. It is just crazy to me that these advertisers are paying this meme account money for adspace.
Sorry to be nosy, but did you end up staying? I feel like being screwed over like that would leave a bad taste in my mouth. Every single topic involving pay from then on would just be awkward in my opinion. I may be a bad example because I have a hard time letting stuff like that go, it was very similar to a reason I left my first job in college.
> How is a reddit thread considered the source of truth? ... The forced attrition is no surprise.
I believe because people do not see forced attrition as a surprise, they also believe this post. I agree that we shouldn't take every Reddit post as truth but it makes sense in the culture Amazon portrays. Also there hasn't been anybody that offers a counter perspective into the inner workings (that I have seen). True or not, it would be interesting to see the companies that do practice this and what kind of workplace culture they put forward.
How so? They are changing how recommendations work, they aren't removing videos based on agenda. I am also wondering how the brainwashing comment comes into play here, just because people do not believe in a conspiracy theory doesn't mean they are brainwashed. I also do not remember ever asking to be censored.
It is sad to see all the ramifications of these large operations. Between environmental and economical impacts of the area around them, how do we let these get so big? I wonder how many other families are being hurt by the CAFO near your family's farm. I feel for the people who are just trying to run a sustainable business with these huge farms constantly looming in the background.
Food availability is important, and productive farms help realize that but it comes at a cost. As a society, we are pushing the boundaries in so many areas with respect to the environment and we are really starting to see the consequences for these actions. I feel like there are many possible solutions to these problems but very few are actually viable and widely accepted. Big farms aren't going to accept the limitations we want to place on them and people aren't going to let them continue to destroy the environment around them. In my own opinion, money means nothing if we can't live long enough to use it.
So I think I have a few questions from this. Is it legal for a tech firm to do this? It is just a poll after all, but couldn't this count as some form of tampering with electronic devices? If this just happened, how many times before has this company done it? They said it was unsuccessful, does that mean they failed to do it or failed to do it enough to sway the polls? It just is a very weird incident and I don't know how I feel about it all.
I think it is very interesting that many people see the dollar per hour ratio and think easy money. Sometimes the pay is high because you are sacrificing your health to earn that money and to do your job. Safety is important but it doesn't make the job any easier, you are just reducing the risk of sacrificing even more of your health. There are some seriously tough jobs out there and I applaud those who have the willpower to do them.
I think it is very interesting to see all of this come down and the criticism it receives. Back in the day, it felt like many people (I have no hard numbers here nor would it be easy to find them) wanted their cable provider to offer channels a la carte. They wanted to select and choose what they watch and only pay for the things they need. Now these big services (Netflix, HBO, Disney...) which helped bring the downfall of cable are doing what everybody originally wanted by breaking up into a multitude of services for you to pick and choose what you want. People are once again upset but now for them having to subscribe to so many different services. I think it mostly has to do with price, but I still imagine paying less for a handful of services than the cable packages we were all forced into.
The TSA is a federal agency so there are plenty of proper channels to complain through. My argument covers anybody that doesn't actively revel in these terrible things that the TSA does. There are TSA employees who never have to do or deal with these types of things. I can't give you a number, I don't even want to guess because that would be silly. You can complain to the woman/man at the desk who takes your ID all day long, but if they have never kept up with the latest TSA news then they are just showing up for a paycheck. I am saying it is extremely unfair to lump everybody into one category just because they work at a particular company/agency that you actively dislike. You don't know their thought process.
People are allowed to leave a company they do not morally stand beside. I never said they couldn't. I am saying do not blame the people who live paycheck to paycheck and who can't skip a single paycheck to go job hunting for the company's misdeeds. Not everyone has the financial security to disrupt their career.
I never said that anywhere in my statement above, if it was implied, please tell me where. I am saying people can disagree with the policies of their employer and still stay at their job. Sometimes this forced through financial, geographic, maybe social reason. If the worker is actively disregarding human rights, then that is a single issue with that worker. If you think it is TSA enacting these human rights violations, then blame them, not the people just following what their bosses say.
I can't think of any job in the US currently that would fall under that category. If you don't like the company, you have every right to quit, but if you do not have mobility like that, then some people just tend to endure it.
I am not familiar. From a quick search it seems like the longer a discussion happens, the probability increase. Other than just commenting again, I do not see how this relates to the discussion at all.
Now I am unsure of what field you are in, but not everybody has the same flexibility in terms of job availability. I agree with you in saying that I would never choose such a job but when it may be one of the few options available, with good pay, how could you say no? If you have a family to provide for, then you need to do it. What if these workers don't agree with the policies and joined the TSA to try and change it for the better? You are talking down to an entire workforce as if they all are actively behind its policies and actions.
To see it all laid out like this, one has to think why so many people (many here being any number more than one) do not want to at least let the investigation finish and to see the results. Our country was built on checks and balances and this is one of the greatest examples of how not one man or woman has too much power. We should be fully behind preserving these checks of power. It doesn't matter what side of the aisle you are on, corruption should have no home in the US.
But isn't this a problem with the actual TSA and its policies instead of the workers who just follow them? These are still real people who have to rely on their paychecks to live.
I really enjoy these write-ups. They offer such a great inside look into a business that many do not get to see. Also, being able to step back and look at your victories and defeats over the year takes a lot of self reflection but can be so helpful moving forward. Awesome write-up!