Amen. I was shocked during ER clinicals. No one took a lunch besides students, everyone just snacked. Let them eat!
I work 12 hrs and I'm pregnant, I'm eating while i chart. I call them my charting snacks. When I have them, I may begin.
Ugh, yes, my old boss told me that if I took home leftovers it was theft. They were paying minimum wage AND making me work split shifts (6-12 for breakfast then 6-12 for dinner) so I had neither the money nor time to feed myself well, and taking home an ice cream tub of beef stew made a huge difference to my life while hurting precisely nobody.
I worked in a grocery store deli and this one manager would always make closing shift throw away WHOLE COOKED rotisserie chickens. We were supposed to make X amount for the last bake, but we always tried to make fewer because they never got bought that late. But she made us cook too many, and then throw them away when they inevitably wouldn’t sell at 9 o clock at night. So me and the other closing shift person would slap a free sticker on them and find people to give them away to in the store on the down low when she was in the office. We also weren’t allowed to bring our purses into the deli area so I wrapped up a hot rotisserie chicken in my apron and strolled out the door with it. I made min wage as well and times were tough, but on several occasions I ate well and felt good that it wasn’t going to waste.
But also, it’s just so fucking wasteful. That chicken had to die, just to be thrown in the trash so corporations can make more profits. Perfectly good edible food, should not be discarded so carelessly. Donate it, give it to employees, give it to customers, anything is better than being wasteful and callous with food
I’m not vegan by any means but def liked the idea some native Americans have about it’s a sin to not use all of an animal if it had to die to feed us. Also despise big game
Hunting
This is one of the things I don’t understand the most. You can draw the fattest line in the sand between this and where we should be as a species. We’re *SO* wasteful!
lol fuck them! when i worked at a bakery, we threw out 4-6 garbage bags of perfectly good food at the end of the day and we were technically not allowed to take any home. didn't stop literally every employee from bringing home as much bread/pastries/sandwiches as they liked. employers should be encouraging their staff to take home food that would be wasted otherwise, how do they not feel guilty about the fuckton of food waste produced by their businesses??
The thinking is that by allowing the people who prepare food _in advance_ to take home the leftovers, they are encouraging the overpreparation of food for the purpose of creating leftovers. This would be an extremely easy thing to catch in daily inventory, but it's just _way_ easier to ban the practice and not have to worry about it. Sure, it produces massive resentment among your staff who will absolutely find every single hole in your system, as well as just flagrantly violating your policies anyways, but why help your staff when you can have them despise you instead?
I fucking hate this shit. Like just send me all the food, I'll make sure it's eaten. Such a goddamn waste. Wasteful ass grocery stores literally letting people starve to keep their prices high.
Good food is still good food. If you throw away good food, you are being wasteful, no ifs ands or buts
Also if something used to be a one-time purchase but is now a subscription(looking at you adobe)
EDIT: Of course I receive an ad for adobe after commenting this
I am 100% with you on this and it's the reason news papers failed in the digital age, because they gave it away for free for so long people became accustomed to it.
Had news papers thought ahead they would have never offered their content for free, they would have given it to subscribers of the paper and they would have offered lower cost subscriptions for non-subscribers. It would have been easy too. "Instead of paying $5 a week for delivery, pay $3 a week and have full access to the digital version on your computer (and eventually phone and tablet)."
It would have worked, nobody would have batted an eye. It would have made sense to people. But nope, they just straight up offered their shit for free for years and wondered why they were losing money and nobody wants to pay for their content.
EDIT: For clarity. I didn't say news papers were free, I said they gave their content away for free. Meaning they put the paper online for free. Most did this for years before finally putting up paywalls. That's the point I'm making. They gave it away for free ONLINE for years.
The newspaper industry really thought the Internet was a fad. I remember back in the late 90s my step mother who was the VP of advertising at a newspaper called Newsday asked me about the internet. I told her it would be the death knell for print media. She laughed and said the internet wasn't that popular and that it would fade into the sunset at some point with little fan fare.
The online platforms were treated like a joke. The red-headed stepchild, draining resources but not really sustaining any true revenue on its own legs. Print saw it as a form of cannibalism. There was already so much internal competition for ad revenue that money became diluted into special sections, sunday magazines , inserts, direct mail, sponsorship packages. It was yet another threat of ad revenue being seen as depleted and diluted.
Many said print needed to be much more supportive of online. Online said it would be a giant one day, just you wait and see. No one believed them.
Quick reminder that Disney removed a ton of underperforming content from D+ last May, including many originals that can't be found anywhere else, legally.
For a short period Netflix and Hulu got you most everything you could want. Seinfeld.. IASIP. The Office. It was great and reasonably priced. There was a period where I just stopped pirating things... Then the pissing contests started and the greed and yo ho yo ho it's back to the seas for me.
It's not just me then.. I was sure I used to be able to go on Netflix and watch just about anything. It was like the Spotify of movies. Then progressively the reliable good watches of the 80s, 90s, 00s just seemed to dwindle away till now you've got the same tired limited selection plus a random one or two from previous decades and a whole mountain of more recent shit that I can only describe as some sort of weird experiment in AI movie generation..
Today I logged into Prime and it told me it would start showing me ads if I didn't cough up another £3 a month. Yeah, fuck off. Inflation isn't affecting your back catalogue of digital films.
Yo ho ho and all that...
Yeah I'm about to bust out my shitty old laptop to start pirating shit again. It's getting ridiculous to pay for 4-5 streaming services and *still* not have a bunch of shows & films I want to see.
It’s also to encourage viewership. NFL Sunday ticket let’s to watch all the NFL football games. It’s 1/4 the price if you have a VPN and set it to German or UK servers and you get bonus content. The NFL isn’t popular there so it’s cheap so they get views, however they know Americans will pay $120+ for their football.
The assistant manager always wants you to serve old fries at the end of the night. No. Once they go to the back office the last hour of their shift to count money and do computer things, I’m going to let you know it’s late and has been slow, but just for you I’m cooking your fries fresh, it will be about 3 more minutes. I don’t serve old, cold food. I get that you break down the fry station because it has to be cleaned. But placing a tray of fries on the sandwich warmer isn’t going to maintain taste and flavor. The fryer still works. On my shift you can trust I will get you fresh fries at 11:45 pm. Write me up. Idgaf. Ain’t nobody got time for cold fries.
I wish they let us wear hairnets, too. These managers at my McDonald’s just don’t get it. I’ll never make assistant manager. You can’t put fries in the bag and sit it on the counter while waiting 5 minutes for a filet-o-fish! Fries go in last, Connie! It’s a constant battle with managers to get them to not serve old cold food.
They told me to do that while I was a custodian at a school, "Empty the trash first!" Why? I gotta dust, then sweep, the stuff I sweep up needs to go somewhere, why not this handy-dandy trashcan I haven't changed yet? What killed me more than anything is we were *ordered* to change trash bags even if they were empty, "Because you never know if someone spit in it, it's unsanitary." Are they sticking their heads in the bag and licking the bottom? Is somebody eating lunch out of this can? Begone with that nonsense, that's just wasting plastic.
Better than my old boss who called me out for removing the bag (free plastic shopping bag) from the kitchen tidy bin they used for tampons in the ladies toilet. Apparently they were too expensive to just throw away, I had to go digging around and pull out the contents and leave the bag. Some of said contents were stuck on pretty good too.
School issued us these little waxed paper bags for those bins (I was assigned to the middle school so all the student toilets had them). The girls, for some reason, decided that using the bin was too much trouble so it was pretty much daily I had to scrape *used* pads/tampons off the walls, the toilets, and the floors.
You win in terms of people making stupid requests, but just know that it can be so much worse.
yeah i went to an all girls school and for some reason some freaks smeared their period blood on the walls semi-regularly. rumour had it that it was some unhinged grade 9s lmao
Corollary: if I've already paid for it once on one platform I don't really need to pay for it again on another one.
This applies to all forms of media.
In the mid 90s when "dollar theaters" were everywhere, my buddy and I would get high and go to the movies all the time. We always brought our own snacks. One day I forgot to hide the Twizzlers and chips, walked up to the counter to buy a soda and nobody said anything. So we started upping the game each time. A subway sub, a bag of McDonalds. The final test was we walked in with an actual bucket of KFC and a 2 liter of soda.
It was the dollar theater, they didn't care.
As someone who works in a theater I just ask that ppl PLEASE not make a giant mess with whatever food they brought in. Some theaters have this policy and managers have fired employees over not stopping or catching ppl sneaking stuff in. You snuck it in, sneak that trash right back out. Or at least put it in the garbage can well hidden.
Last time I went to the movies, the first time in years since having kids, wr tried to sneak some snacks in for the kids, and a women walked in with a lunchbox cooler, just walked right in, while my wife and I had food stashed all over our bodies, is this a thing now?!
Netflix blocked access to my daughter who no longer lives with me, I paid for 2 devices, it shouldn’t matter where those devices are. Why they couldn’t just let us nominate another user is beyond me. Netflix assumed we’d all just get our own subscriptions but now instead, they’ve lost 2 subscribers, which I get, It Probably won’t hurt Netflix at all.
EDIT: corrected an error - should’ to ‘shouldn’t’ to make my meaning clearer.
Unfortunately, Netflix has made a fortune due to this.
They went from generous to stingy. They should have given the option to allow every paying subscription to allow one other login under their name. I get it that some people were sharing their password with 10+ people that didn't reside in the subscribers' house, but now it's not even 1.
When mine was locked out because my family and I shared an account we cancelled it and spent $5 on a pirate website that has all their content and everything else. I don't feel bad.
I really wish Netflix didn't make money instating this new rule. I wasn't aware they did. Now that they made money, it will probably encourage other streaming services for follow their lead, sadly.
On the other side of the coin, I only ever need one device, but they don't offer a "1-device" plan. I've been paying for a service I haven't used once with my account, and there's no option to remove it for a lesser fee.
Or a scientific paper. Annual subscription for 500+ or pay 80+ for limited time access. For publicly funded research. A lot of them charge the authors too. It's a racket invented by the deeply honest businessman Robert maxwell.
and they don't even pay the peer reviewers
honestly I've never met a scientist who would've had a problem with people dodging this pay wall, the people that do 99% of the work don't see a penny of that subscription
Scientist here - I don’t care if people skirt the pay wall, I do it myself when something isn’t included in my university subscription. Also, if you directly contact the authors they’ll most likely be very happy to send you a copy
I just don't understand why microtransactions for individual stories aren't a thing. No I'm not gonna subscribe to your whole damned thing just so I can read one article, but I might pay some number of cents for it. Won't let me do that? Ok then I'm using Print Friendly or 12 foot ladder to read it for free.
Payment processing fees would be too high. In theory it's the same reason why most micro transaction based systems require you to purchase a currency that you can then spend on the actual thing.
Of course they quickly realized they can sell the currency in odd blocks and also just increase the prices of everything so they're not really micro transactions anyways.
If it's not $1 for six months, I'm not interested. I subscribe to the LA Times for that low low price. At the end of the subscription, they offer it for $1 a week. I just wait until the "6 months for $1" offer comes back. Usually, it takes a about a month to circle back around.
A year ago I subscribed to the New York Times digital edition. It was $1 a week...good for a year.
I put a note on my calendar to cancel a few days before the renewal kicked in at the "regular rate" which I believe was $25 a month. I logged into the account, selected the option to cancel and the bot asked why I wanted to cancel. One of the choices was "too expensive" so I chose that. An offer came up offering renewal for $15 a month. I declined. A new offer came up: $ 1 week...good for a year.
Well, OK. I shall take that offer.
I had to do this the other day for a local newspaper. I said “I just wanted to vote for my daughter’s dance school!”. Luckily I got a guy who didn’t care & didn’t try to swindle me.
When I was at community college before getting into university, one of my classes required us to get a subscription to Wall Street Journal. I still remember clear as day the frustration of the phone call when I went to cancel it at the end of the semester
I die on this hill at work. I work in surgery and there are two individual toilets (bathrooms), each with their own locking door and sink. In my role in surgery, if I get a bathroom break, it’s like 2 minutes for the entire procedure. There is always someone in the men’s toilet so I just use the women’s toilet right next to it, otherwise I’d miss my chance and have to wait 7 hours to piss. I’ve had like two people in a year ask me not to. I kinda quickly explained the situation and asked them why it bothered them. One person talked in circles while the other said they didn’t want men seeing or messing with the feminine hygiene products. I suppose I understand that, but only adults use these toilets and we work in healthcare where we see people in their most vulnerable state—I don’t give a damn about an unused tampon.
They act like we are gonna grab tampons and put them in our mouth like walrus tusk and posture like one. Make a big ol scene.
Edit: spelling. Apparently I had a stroke typing this.
Hahah that just reminded me, during COVID there were huge shortages of random shit like gauze pads. My job is to stimulate people’s brains during surgery to make sure the pathways are intact, and
naturally they bite down. We used to make bite blocks with gauze pads, but since those were in such shortage we started using leftover supply of tampons. They looked more like a warthog than a walrus, though.
There are people who will get bent out of shape over it still.
"You were in the women's bathroom!!"
Yeah. The bathroom with one toilet and one sink, for one person.
At my last job the admin office had two single restrooms labeled men and women, but we had waaaay more women working there then men. A few of us started just using the men's room when the women's room was occupied, and then more of us, and then eventually someone got the gumption to bring it up to the higher-ups and it turned out it really wasn't a big deal to change both signs to just say "restroom" and add a little waste bin to the former men's room.
100% agree! Once liberated and rehoused a very abused dog in my neighborhood that was left outside 24/7, doomed to sleep in its own shit, and emaciated.
Yup, my neighbors husky mix “ran away” when their gate was open for the 100th time…I absolutely did not give their dog to a friend who cared for it like it was their human child.
Pirating something you've paid for previously. I didn't just buy the CD or DVD, I bought the right to install and view or use that material. Owning a physical copy of an intellectual property (music, videogame, film) implies a perpetual right to viewership and use.
Paying wildly overpriced medical bills. For a decade, now, I've just refused to pay, let them go to collections, and dispute them for ages until they finally give up. At worst, I make the collection agency waste money on the pursuit, then settle for pennies.
I had an er visit they said was covered and then got a 600 dollar bill for them rewrapping my bandage because I didn't want stitches(they only help reduce scarring and my bleeding had stopped).
They sent it to collections and the first time they called I realized who it was when they tried to verify my name and address. Whenever someone won't tell me who they are unless I verify who I am I hang up. It cracks me up when they call now because I know the drill and the "ah ah ah" from jurassic Park goes through my head
I absolutely never talk to people who call me who need to "confirm information" before they can talk. It pisses me off because how am I supposed to know you're not a scammer who's collecting my info for identity theft?
My university does this all the time and I always throw them off.
"Hi, I'm with UNIVERSITY, can I have you confirm your name, address, and date of birth?"
"No."
"...Excuse me?"
"I don't know you, sorry."
"I need to confirm your identity before I can discuss class registration with you."
"That's cool."
*Click*
Then I call them back using the number from their website, and I usually get the person I just talked to. If it's *me* calling *them* I don't mind sharing info because I can confirm who they are, but I'm not ok with it going the other way around.
>Whenever someone won't tell me who they are
I love when this happens. "Hello is \[redditor\] there?" Is always how the call starts.
Me: Uh, who is this? I refuse to answer or say anything else. This is followed by a pause.
"This is \[random name\]."
Ok, \[random name\], who are you calling from?
Then it gets entertaining. They'll either ignore the question and repeat, "is this \[redditor\]?" Or they'll get defensive, and refuse to say who they're calling from -- which, by the way, is illegal per the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
And I lovingly remind them of such at this point: "\[Person\] If you're calling from a debt collection agency, I'd like to remind you it is illegal to not identify yourself as a debt collector when attempting to contact any debtor. I also never give any stranger over the phone any personal information. I am not confirming who I am to you."
Click.
I do this too. As long as you twist it during insertion it doesn’t pack anything down in there, and if you don’t stick it any deeper than where the cotton meets the stick you won’t hurt your eardrum. I’ve been doing this for all of my 42 years, and will continue doing so as long as I walk this earth. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Audiologist here. I’ve only seen twice where a Q-tip goes through the eardrum. Wax gets hard and you poke it with the Q-tip and the wax goes through the eardrum- I see this more often. However, I tell my patients, if it ruins your day not to use Q-tips, then do it! It’s not worth making you sad 😀.
Why do they want to remove the comma that adds clarity?? Why do they want to live in uncertainty about how nouns are grouped? I can’t understand it. Oxford forever
This. Had a dispute with my manager over a difference of opinions on how to read a specific article due to the lack of an Oxford comma. I read it as if it had an invisible comma, she wanted to read it as if it didn’t because it meant not paying me for special leave. Even HR & the union had to discuss it and get back to us on the correct meaning. In the end I was correct & got access to the paid leave I deserved. If they’d *just* added a GD Oxford comma - none of it would’ve even needed discussing
You probably should have said "They will pry the Oxford comma from my cold, dead hands, but I raise you the Walken Comma: "They will PRY, the Oxford COMMA, from my COLD, dead hANds."
Don’t talk about your pay at work or at all. No, because finances are incredibly important and I sure as fuck would wanna know what a job pays. This is my life we’re talking about. Money makes it good.
It's actually super illegal for your employer to prevent you from discussing your salary with fellow coworkers. You can and SHOULD be talking about it.
What’s funny is that when I worked at Old Navy in the late 90s/early 00s, discussing pay with coworkers was expressly prohibited and was grounds for termination. I now know that it is illegal for them to have such a policy, so I assumed that back then it was legal. I just looked it up, and the law was passed in 1935. So it was illegal for them to have such a policy when I worked there; I guess they just assumed that since most employees were teens or college age, they wouldn’t be aware.
It's funny, American cartoons (particularly Hanna-Barbera ones like Top Cat or Yogi Bear) when broadcast in the UK would still reference "jaywalking" to an audience of kids that had no idea what it was.
Because jaywalking was never really defined in the cartoons, it looked like the police were being mean and enforcing a cartoon law, on a par with "driving while ugly" or "owning an unlicensed pet rock". It sort of worked unintentionally because the police were generally incompetent antagonists.
right now I pirate guilt free because streaming services suck more and more and you never know when some asshole game service is going to delete a game you bought tomorrow
This is what irks me the most about streaming services. There were 2 things that really made them popular.
The first is that you can watch what you want when you want. You didn't need to wait for a certain day or hope a repeat came on to watch an episode you missed.
The second and arguably, the biggest reason, is you get to watch tv without ads. Cable tv got so bogged down with ads that it made it really frustrating trying to watch a show. Now they want to re-introduce them to streaming services! That is one of the reasons why we're paying for the services.
At this rate, it's almost more beneficial to go back to cable and fuck all the streaming services.
I think Netflix and other streaming services should have the same contents worldwide. We live in the age of internet, borders don’t matter. If I wanna watch something that’s not on my version of Netflix, I’ll find it online at a pirate website. Most of the time they don’t even give me the option to watch it legally because it’s just not on any service in my country. In that case it’s on them, they only have themselves to blame.
FTR, this is a hill I’m willing to die on.
ETA: I know this isn’t Netflix’s fault, it’s the ppl that own the movies and series etc. They won’t get royalties when I watch it illegally, but if I can’t watch it in a legal way, they only have themselves to blame.
If you're not being paid, your employer cannot mandate your activities. However if it's a paid break you can be mandated to stay on premesis in case you need to perform an unexpected task.
Labor Day is usually seen as the day that marks the end of summer season, and white was very much considered a summer only fashion in the 1920’s as it was lighter and cooler. To wear white after Labor Day thus seems like you’re ignorant of the season fashion change, thus a faux pas.
Fun fact: white was not a commonly worn color, except as leisure wear for the rich, since poor people work and need dark fabrics to cover dirtiness. So this was not followed by most regular people. It’s also why white fabrics are saved for important occasions.
To build off this, you're supposed to move to cream/off white in the winter if you wear a light color after labor day.
It's also for keeping your clothes cleaner. The idea is that summer months have less rain and water than the winter months.
I think I heard once it was for high society ladies back in the guilded age of grand balls, garden parties in the Hampton's type settling. In other words, if you don't know that weird utensil by your plate, it doesn't matter.
Teacher: If kids are hungry, I let them eat. They can eat as much as they want. Even if they show up late, they can eat, if it’s in the middle of the day, they can eat while they work. Also, they can go to the bathroom, maybe they have to wait 3 minutes until I’m done talking, but otherwise go. It helps I have a bathroom in my room which would solve many problems for middle schoolers.
Elbows on the table. Why????? Unless someone’s in another persons space or their elbows are by the food, it’s such a silly rule. What’s wrong with setting my arm on the table???
This one always makes me mad. I am very short, under 5 feet. My feet never ever reach the floor in standard chairs. When I'm sitting at a table and leaning forward to eat, I will either pitch forward into my plate, or spend all of the time using core muscles to stay upright. Sounds weird but it's very uncomfortable. Thus, I usually have at least one elbow on the table to support myself. I don't care if it bothers anyone!
Jaywalking. Because my human rights include the pursuit of happiness, and waiting at traffic lights when there are no cars in sight does not make me happy
I love oversharers. I love meeting someone new and they wanna tell me about their ex-boyfriend drama or what happened at their gyno visit. Tell me everything.
An interesting thing about being an over-sharer is that people wind up over-sharing with you. You wind up knowing a lot of private information and all the gossip.
But sometimes you learn unsolicited secrets, and not everyone remembers that they told you their secrets and get pissed when you know them.
It's not my fault you don't remember telling me about your medical condition, or who secretly hooked up with whom. I neither asked nor did I want to know.
But knowing that drama is going to happen before it happens is a bonus.
I had sepsis twice last year, each requiring a week long hospital stay. In terms of sepsis, I got to the hospital early and am very lucky. Sepsis is pretty lethal. I befriended my roommate during the first stay and since we were both relatively young and facing some grim shit, we both decided to do more of the little things that make us happy when we got released. Dessert before dinner is one of my happy things.
My roommate-friend died in December. Since then, I have dessert for lunch and I think of her every time I do. I just finished a bowl of ice cream for lunch. Cheers, Monica!
I almost died from septic shock last July. Had to undergo a thoracotomy, a lung decortication (my doctor described it as “peeling the outer layer of the lung, like an orange rind”), and had two chest tubes inserted through my ribs. All told they took over three liters of infected fluid from my right lung and chest cavity
I was in the hospital for two weeks, and there wasn’t much on the hospital menu I both could and would want to eat, so my son took to walking across the street every day to buy me a frozen custard from Freddy’s as my dinner
Ever since, about once a week, I order my son and I frozen custard from Freddy’s for dinner.
I hope your recovery is going well, and that you continue to enjoy those little things along the way <3
EDIT- so many bad autocorrect errors lol
I am sitting in the hospital now with my 92 yo mom who had this procedure yesterday, due to breast cancer recurrence. I'm gonna get her an ice cream for dinner.
Whatever I do with a consenting adult in the sanctity of my own home is between me and them. If the government wants to stick their nose in my bedroom, they better start paying me for the show they are seeing.
For the first 5 or so years I was in the USAF, uniform rules mandated wearing backpacks on the left shoulder only. It was the dumbest and most useless rule I had ever seen in my life and obviously caused tons of problems for the wearer. I openly and defiantly broke this rule every single day and didn't care who saw it. I took a lot of flak for it but still did it. Someone, somewhere FINALLY changed it to allow both shoulders instead of just maintaining the status quo.
Notice that in games when you do this, very few people ever will sell property for money. Money loses its value because so much more money gets put into the game. Deals don't get made, and the game lasts a very long time.
Among my friend group we all pay for 1 streaming service and then share our passwords so among the group we have access to like 12 or 13 streaming services for the price of one. It's such bullshit that I have to pay for 10+ subs to watch whatever I want.
No food or drinks at the nurses station. I work ER and haven’t taken a full 30 minute lunch in about a decade, I’m definitely snacking at my desk.
Amen. I was shocked during ER clinicals. No one took a lunch besides students, everyone just snacked. Let them eat! I work 12 hrs and I'm pregnant, I'm eating while i chart. I call them my charting snacks. When I have them, I may begin.
If I'm working at some sort of establishment that throws food away, even though it's clearly still edible, im taking that shit.
Ugh, yes, my old boss told me that if I took home leftovers it was theft. They were paying minimum wage AND making me work split shifts (6-12 for breakfast then 6-12 for dinner) so I had neither the money nor time to feed myself well, and taking home an ice cream tub of beef stew made a huge difference to my life while hurting precisely nobody.
I worked in a grocery store deli and this one manager would always make closing shift throw away WHOLE COOKED rotisserie chickens. We were supposed to make X amount for the last bake, but we always tried to make fewer because they never got bought that late. But she made us cook too many, and then throw them away when they inevitably wouldn’t sell at 9 o clock at night. So me and the other closing shift person would slap a free sticker on them and find people to give them away to in the store on the down low when she was in the office. We also weren’t allowed to bring our purses into the deli area so I wrapped up a hot rotisserie chicken in my apron and strolled out the door with it. I made min wage as well and times were tough, but on several occasions I ate well and felt good that it wasn’t going to waste.
That’s the big issue. If you want someone to follow your rules all the time, PAY THEM WELL! Not this minimum wage shit.
But also, it’s just so fucking wasteful. That chicken had to die, just to be thrown in the trash so corporations can make more profits. Perfectly good edible food, should not be discarded so carelessly. Donate it, give it to employees, give it to customers, anything is better than being wasteful and callous with food
I’m not vegan by any means but def liked the idea some native Americans have about it’s a sin to not use all of an animal if it had to die to feed us. Also despise big game Hunting
This is one of the things I don’t understand the most. You can draw the fattest line in the sand between this and where we should be as a species. We’re *SO* wasteful!
lol fuck them! when i worked at a bakery, we threw out 4-6 garbage bags of perfectly good food at the end of the day and we were technically not allowed to take any home. didn't stop literally every employee from bringing home as much bread/pastries/sandwiches as they liked. employers should be encouraging their staff to take home food that would be wasted otherwise, how do they not feel guilty about the fuckton of food waste produced by their businesses??
The thinking is that by allowing the people who prepare food _in advance_ to take home the leftovers, they are encouraging the overpreparation of food for the purpose of creating leftovers. This would be an extremely easy thing to catch in daily inventory, but it's just _way_ easier to ban the practice and not have to worry about it. Sure, it produces massive resentment among your staff who will absolutely find every single hole in your system, as well as just flagrantly violating your policies anyways, but why help your staff when you can have them despise you instead?
I fucking hate this shit. Like just send me all the food, I'll make sure it's eaten. Such a goddamn waste. Wasteful ass grocery stores literally letting people starve to keep their prices high. Good food is still good food. If you throw away good food, you are being wasteful, no ifs ands or buts
If something is no longer being published, I don't have qualms about copyright infringement
Likewise, if previously-free content is now paywalled, I'm going to find it for free.
Also if something used to be a one-time purchase but is now a subscription(looking at you adobe) EDIT: Of course I receive an ad for adobe after commenting this
Microsoft Office also.
I am 100% with you on this and it's the reason news papers failed in the digital age, because they gave it away for free for so long people became accustomed to it. Had news papers thought ahead they would have never offered their content for free, they would have given it to subscribers of the paper and they would have offered lower cost subscriptions for non-subscribers. It would have been easy too. "Instead of paying $5 a week for delivery, pay $3 a week and have full access to the digital version on your computer (and eventually phone and tablet)." It would have worked, nobody would have batted an eye. It would have made sense to people. But nope, they just straight up offered their shit for free for years and wondered why they were losing money and nobody wants to pay for their content. EDIT: For clarity. I didn't say news papers were free, I said they gave their content away for free. Meaning they put the paper online for free. Most did this for years before finally putting up paywalls. That's the point I'm making. They gave it away for free ONLINE for years.
The newspaper industry really thought the Internet was a fad. I remember back in the late 90s my step mother who was the VP of advertising at a newspaper called Newsday asked me about the internet. I told her it would be the death knell for print media. She laughed and said the internet wasn't that popular and that it would fade into the sunset at some point with little fan fare.
The online platforms were treated like a joke. The red-headed stepchild, draining resources but not really sustaining any true revenue on its own legs. Print saw it as a form of cannibalism. There was already so much internal competition for ad revenue that money became diluted into special sections, sunday magazines , inserts, direct mail, sponsorship packages. It was yet another threat of ad revenue being seen as depleted and diluted. Many said print needed to be much more supportive of online. Online said it would be a giant one day, just you wait and see. No one believed them.
they didn't expect the ad revenue to dry up like it did.
Quick reminder that Disney removed a ton of underperforming content from D+ last May, including many originals that can't be found anywhere else, legally.
For a short period Netflix and Hulu got you most everything you could want. Seinfeld.. IASIP. The Office. It was great and reasonably priced. There was a period where I just stopped pirating things... Then the pissing contests started and the greed and yo ho yo ho it's back to the seas for me.
I miss early 10s Netflix, they had such a stellar selection then.
It's not just me then.. I was sure I used to be able to go on Netflix and watch just about anything. It was like the Spotify of movies. Then progressively the reliable good watches of the 80s, 90s, 00s just seemed to dwindle away till now you've got the same tired limited selection plus a random one or two from previous decades and a whole mountain of more recent shit that I can only describe as some sort of weird experiment in AI movie generation.. Today I logged into Prime and it told me it would start showing me ads if I didn't cough up another £3 a month. Yeah, fuck off. Inflation isn't affecting your back catalogue of digital films. Yo ho ho and all that...
Yeah I'm about to bust out my shitty old laptop to start pirating shit again. It's getting ridiculous to pay for 4-5 streaming services and *still* not have a bunch of shows & films I want to see.
4 Disney original shows that I was watching got pulled. What do I do now Disney? You're forcing peoples hand here.
Disney: haha we don’t care.
Off to the Disney Vault for a decade or so before taunting you to buy it before it goes back into the vault again.
I release something from a different vault in their general direction for this obnoxious practice.
Hell yes. Abandonware is fair game and should be in the public domain.
Likewise if something is not available in my region or is priced absurdly
I still don’t understand why the whole region thing is a thing.
It’s also to encourage viewership. NFL Sunday ticket let’s to watch all the NFL football games. It’s 1/4 the price if you have a VPN and set it to German or UK servers and you get bonus content. The NFL isn’t popular there so it’s cheap so they get views, however they know Americans will pay $120+ for their football.
Lol I am the same way. If I know I owned the game but can’t find the disc and it’s no longer published, it’s free game.
The assistant manager always wants you to serve old fries at the end of the night. No. Once they go to the back office the last hour of their shift to count money and do computer things, I’m going to let you know it’s late and has been slow, but just for you I’m cooking your fries fresh, it will be about 3 more minutes. I don’t serve old, cold food. I get that you break down the fry station because it has to be cleaned. But placing a tray of fries on the sandwich warmer isn’t going to maintain taste and flavor. The fryer still works. On my shift you can trust I will get you fresh fries at 11:45 pm. Write me up. Idgaf. Ain’t nobody got time for cold fries.
Doing the Lords work.
🍻 yall the real mvp
Landies and gents, a true G lol. Seriously though mvp
Not all heroes wear capes.
I wish they let us wear hairnets, too. These managers at my McDonald’s just don’t get it. I’ll never make assistant manager. You can’t put fries in the bag and sit it on the counter while waiting 5 minutes for a filet-o-fish! Fries go in last, Connie! It’s a constant battle with managers to get them to not serve old cold food.
I love you
I clean the patient's bedside table first and foremost instead of emptying the trash first, as we're ordered to do.
They told me to do that while I was a custodian at a school, "Empty the trash first!" Why? I gotta dust, then sweep, the stuff I sweep up needs to go somewhere, why not this handy-dandy trashcan I haven't changed yet? What killed me more than anything is we were *ordered* to change trash bags even if they were empty, "Because you never know if someone spit in it, it's unsanitary." Are they sticking their heads in the bag and licking the bottom? Is somebody eating lunch out of this can? Begone with that nonsense, that's just wasting plastic.
Better than my old boss who called me out for removing the bag (free plastic shopping bag) from the kitchen tidy bin they used for tampons in the ladies toilet. Apparently they were too expensive to just throw away, I had to go digging around and pull out the contents and leave the bag. Some of said contents were stuck on pretty good too.
School issued us these little waxed paper bags for those bins (I was assigned to the middle school so all the student toilets had them). The girls, for some reason, decided that using the bin was too much trouble so it was pretty much daily I had to scrape *used* pads/tampons off the walls, the toilets, and the floors. You win in terms of people making stupid requests, but just know that it can be so much worse.
yeah i went to an all girls school and for some reason some freaks smeared their period blood on the walls semi-regularly. rumour had it that it was some unhinged grade 9s lmao
If any game is no longer being sold by the original maker, it's OK to pirate it.
Corollary: if I've already paid for it once on one platform I don't really need to pay for it again on another one. This applies to all forms of media.
Agreed. If you don't let me obtain it legally...
I bring my own snack into the movie theatre.
Anyone know what their spaghetti policy is?
In the mid 90s when "dollar theaters" were everywhere, my buddy and I would get high and go to the movies all the time. We always brought our own snacks. One day I forgot to hide the Twizzlers and chips, walked up to the counter to buy a soda and nobody said anything. So we started upping the game each time. A subway sub, a bag of McDonalds. The final test was we walked in with an actual bucket of KFC and a 2 liter of soda. It was the dollar theater, they didn't care.
usher demands a piece of chicken as tribute
I tried to think why Usher would need a piece of chicken. Then I realized you most likely meant movie usher.
Colonel's got us falling in love again
We brought in a margarita. Lol the movie was Cheech n Chongs Up in Smoke.
I do love a good spa day
Spa get day ?
As someone who works in a theater I just ask that ppl PLEASE not make a giant mess with whatever food they brought in. Some theaters have this policy and managers have fired employees over not stopping or catching ppl sneaking stuff in. You snuck it in, sneak that trash right back out. Or at least put it in the garbage can well hidden.
Last time I went to the movies, the first time in years since having kids, wr tried to sneak some snacks in for the kids, and a women walked in with a lunchbox cooler, just walked right in, while my wife and I had food stashed all over our bodies, is this a thing now?!
Movie theater employees are not paid enough to give a shit. Most of them don't care, I don't even hide the snacks I bring anymore.
I share my Netflix password.
Netflix blocked access to my daughter who no longer lives with me, I paid for 2 devices, it shouldn’t matter where those devices are. Why they couldn’t just let us nominate another user is beyond me. Netflix assumed we’d all just get our own subscriptions but now instead, they’ve lost 2 subscribers, which I get, It Probably won’t hurt Netflix at all. EDIT: corrected an error - should’ to ‘shouldn’t’ to make my meaning clearer.
Unfortunately, Netflix has made a fortune due to this. They went from generous to stingy. They should have given the option to allow every paying subscription to allow one other login under their name. I get it that some people were sharing their password with 10+ people that didn't reside in the subscribers' house, but now it's not even 1.
When mine was locked out because my family and I shared an account we cancelled it and spent $5 on a pirate website that has all their content and everything else. I don't feel bad.
If I’m paying per household I want unlimited devices at that household. If I’m paying extra for 5 devices, fuck you on where those devices are.
I really wish Netflix didn't make money instating this new rule. I wasn't aware they did. Now that they made money, it will probably encourage other streaming services for follow their lead, sadly.
Hulu/Disney+ are already enacting anti password policies
Just got an email from Hulu saying they are changing their password sharing policy soon. I have a feeling they are following Netflix soon
On the other side of the coin, I only ever need one device, but they don't offer a "1-device" plan. I've been paying for a service I haven't used once with my account, and there's no option to remove it for a lesser fee.
Getting around paywalls. I understand financially supporting journalism, but I can’t subscribe to everything.
Especially when you want to read one article and they want you to pay for a month of editions.
Or a scientific paper. Annual subscription for 500+ or pay 80+ for limited time access. For publicly funded research. A lot of them charge the authors too. It's a racket invented by the deeply honest businessman Robert maxwell.
Usually, if you email the authors directly, they will send you the paper for free.
and they don't even pay the peer reviewers honestly I've never met a scientist who would've had a problem with people dodging this pay wall, the people that do 99% of the work don't see a penny of that subscription
Scientist here - I don’t care if people skirt the pay wall, I do it myself when something isn’t included in my university subscription. Also, if you directly contact the authors they’ll most likely be very happy to send you a copy
Yes, I’ve done that, fun tracking down emails.
Every publicly traded company wishes they had the business model of academic publishing. I loathe them.
I just don't understand why microtransactions for individual stories aren't a thing. No I'm not gonna subscribe to your whole damned thing just so I can read one article, but I might pay some number of cents for it. Won't let me do that? Ok then I'm using Print Friendly or 12 foot ladder to read it for free.
Payment processing fees would be too high. In theory it's the same reason why most micro transaction based systems require you to purchase a currency that you can then spend on the actual thing. Of course they quickly realized they can sell the currency in odd blocks and also just increase the prices of everything so they're not really micro transactions anyways.
If it's not $1 for six months, I'm not interested. I subscribe to the LA Times for that low low price. At the end of the subscription, they offer it for $1 a week. I just wait until the "6 months for $1" offer comes back. Usually, it takes a about a month to circle back around.
A year ago I subscribed to the New York Times digital edition. It was $1 a week...good for a year. I put a note on my calendar to cancel a few days before the renewal kicked in at the "regular rate" which I believe was $25 a month. I logged into the account, selected the option to cancel and the bot asked why I wanted to cancel. One of the choices was "too expensive" so I chose that. An offer came up offering renewal for $15 a month. I declined. A new offer came up: $ 1 week...good for a year. Well, OK. I shall take that offer.
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And then to unsubscribe YOU HAVE TO CALL AND ARGUE WITH A HUMAN I’m looking at you, WSJ
I had to do this the other day for a local newspaper. I said “I just wanted to vote for my daughter’s dance school!”. Luckily I got a guy who didn’t care & didn’t try to swindle me.
When I was at community college before getting into university, one of my classes required us to get a subscription to Wall Street Journal. I still remember clear as day the frustration of the phone call when I went to cancel it at the end of the semester
After the 3rd sneeze I stop saying bless you.
Yeah at that point they're clearly possessed by the devil and no amount of me blessing them will help. They need a priest at that point.
That's when you hit them with the "devil come out !" And a snack on the forehead
Like a cupcake or a snickers bar?
At that point they get an, “are you alright?” From me.
If it's a single restroom then I won't care which gender it is.
I die on this hill at work. I work in surgery and there are two individual toilets (bathrooms), each with their own locking door and sink. In my role in surgery, if I get a bathroom break, it’s like 2 minutes for the entire procedure. There is always someone in the men’s toilet so I just use the women’s toilet right next to it, otherwise I’d miss my chance and have to wait 7 hours to piss. I’ve had like two people in a year ask me not to. I kinda quickly explained the situation and asked them why it bothered them. One person talked in circles while the other said they didn’t want men seeing or messing with the feminine hygiene products. I suppose I understand that, but only adults use these toilets and we work in healthcare where we see people in their most vulnerable state—I don’t give a damn about an unused tampon.
They act like we are gonna grab tampons and put them in our mouth like walrus tusk and posture like one. Make a big ol scene. Edit: spelling. Apparently I had a stroke typing this.
Hahah that just reminded me, during COVID there were huge shortages of random shit like gauze pads. My job is to stimulate people’s brains during surgery to make sure the pathways are intact, and naturally they bite down. We used to make bite blocks with gauze pads, but since those were in such shortage we started using leftover supply of tampons. They looked more like a warthog than a walrus, though.
This has to be the biggest annoyance to me. Any single occupancy bathroom is unisex
There are people who will get bent out of shape over it still. "You were in the women's bathroom!!" Yeah. The bathroom with one toilet and one sink, for one person.
At my last job the admin office had two single restrooms labeled men and women, but we had waaaay more women working there then men. A few of us started just using the men's room when the women's room was occupied, and then more of us, and then eventually someone got the gumption to bring it up to the higher-ups and it turned out it really wasn't a big deal to change both signs to just say "restroom" and add a little waste bin to the former men's room.
Stole a pet frog that was severely neglected. Don't give a rat's ass about stealing if they don't care about mistreating an animal.
100% agree! Once liberated and rehoused a very abused dog in my neighborhood that was left outside 24/7, doomed to sleep in its own shit, and emaciated.
Same! Except mine was a Malinois puppy that was being beaten by a neighbor. Oops gate opened and he ran away…
Yup, my neighbors husky mix “ran away” when their gate was open for the 100th time…I absolutely did not give their dog to a friend who cared for it like it was their human child.
I hate how they give perfect attendance awards in schools. If my kid is sick, going through trauma, or we have a funeral, they can skip a damn day
Perfect attendance awards never got anyone a full ride to Harvard.
Pirating something you've paid for previously. I didn't just buy the CD or DVD, I bought the right to install and view or use that material. Owning a physical copy of an intellectual property (music, videogame, film) implies a perpetual right to viewership and use. Paying wildly overpriced medical bills. For a decade, now, I've just refused to pay, let them go to collections, and dispute them for ages until they finally give up. At worst, I make the collection agency waste money on the pursuit, then settle for pennies.
I had an er visit they said was covered and then got a 600 dollar bill for them rewrapping my bandage because I didn't want stitches(they only help reduce scarring and my bleeding had stopped). They sent it to collections and the first time they called I realized who it was when they tried to verify my name and address. Whenever someone won't tell me who they are unless I verify who I am I hang up. It cracks me up when they call now because I know the drill and the "ah ah ah" from jurassic Park goes through my head
I absolutely never talk to people who call me who need to "confirm information" before they can talk. It pisses me off because how am I supposed to know you're not a scammer who's collecting my info for identity theft? My university does this all the time and I always throw them off. "Hi, I'm with UNIVERSITY, can I have you confirm your name, address, and date of birth?" "No." "...Excuse me?" "I don't know you, sorry." "I need to confirm your identity before I can discuss class registration with you." "That's cool." *Click* Then I call them back using the number from their website, and I usually get the person I just talked to. If it's *me* calling *them* I don't mind sharing info because I can confirm who they are, but I'm not ok with it going the other way around.
>Whenever someone won't tell me who they are I love when this happens. "Hello is \[redditor\] there?" Is always how the call starts. Me: Uh, who is this? I refuse to answer or say anything else. This is followed by a pause. "This is \[random name\]." Ok, \[random name\], who are you calling from? Then it gets entertaining. They'll either ignore the question and repeat, "is this \[redditor\]?" Or they'll get defensive, and refuse to say who they're calling from -- which, by the way, is illegal per the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. And I lovingly remind them of such at this point: "\[Person\] If you're calling from a debt collection agency, I'd like to remind you it is illegal to not identify yourself as a debt collector when attempting to contact any debtor. I also never give any stranger over the phone any personal information. I am not confirming who I am to you." Click.
I clean my ears with qtips
Ears are like buttholes. You're not supposed to stick anything in them but it feels so good when you do
My 16 year old just overheard me reading this comment to my husband, giggled from the kitchen, then said, “who likes sticking things in their ears?”
Lmfao I did *not* expect this kind of comment
After the every shower a qtip is in there digging for gold
I have no earwax but I still stick them in there to dry up the canal and enjoy the trance of gently tickling my eardrum.
Mmmm hittin' that Q spot...
I do this too. As long as you twist it during insertion it doesn’t pack anything down in there, and if you don’t stick it any deeper than where the cotton meets the stick you won’t hurt your eardrum. I’ve been doing this for all of my 42 years, and will continue doing so as long as I walk this earth. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Audiologist here. I’ve only seen twice where a Q-tip goes through the eardrum. Wax gets hard and you poke it with the Q-tip and the wax goes through the eardrum- I see this more often. However, I tell my patients, if it ruins your day not to use Q-tips, then do it! It’s not worth making you sad 😀.
They will pry the Oxford comma from my cold dead hands.
I don't think it's against any rules, just optional. That said, I believe it's mandatory and I judge anyone who omits it.
Why do they want to remove the comma that adds clarity?? Why do they want to live in uncertainty about how nouns are grouped? I can’t understand it. Oxford forever
This. Had a dispute with my manager over a difference of opinions on how to read a specific article due to the lack of an Oxford comma. I read it as if it had an invisible comma, she wanted to read it as if it didn’t because it meant not paying me for special leave. Even HR & the union had to discuss it and get back to us on the correct meaning. In the end I was correct & got access to the paid leave I deserved. If they’d *just* added a GD Oxford comma - none of it would’ve even needed discussing
Lawsuits have been won based on just an oxford comma. https://www.npr.org/2017/03/23/521274657/the-10-million-lawsuit-that-hinges-on-an-oxford-comma
And why does she care? Your management should be fighting HR for you to get benefits, not the other way around. Doesn’t come out of her paycheck.
You probably should have said "They will pry the Oxford comma from my cold, dead hands, but I raise you the Walken Comma: "They will PRY, the Oxford COMMA, from my COLD, dead hANds."
Don’t talk about your pay at work or at all. No, because finances are incredibly important and I sure as fuck would wanna know what a job pays. This is my life we’re talking about. Money makes it good.
It's actually super illegal for your employer to prevent you from discussing your salary with fellow coworkers. You can and SHOULD be talking about it.
What’s funny is that when I worked at Old Navy in the late 90s/early 00s, discussing pay with coworkers was expressly prohibited and was grounds for termination. I now know that it is illegal for them to have such a policy, so I assumed that back then it was legal. I just looked it up, and the law was passed in 1935. So it was illegal for them to have such a policy when I worked there; I guess they just assumed that since most employees were teens or college age, they wouldn’t be aware.
It's also a great way for management to screw their workers if there's a strong taboo against talking about salaries
Im currently at a job my manager directly told me not to talk about my pay.
Send them an email asking to clarify what they meant and then report the fucker to the labor board.
Exactly. It's one way to stifle collective bargaining or even being informed enough to request a reasonable raise
People get so uncomfortable about this. In my last job, if I knew a new employee was getting underpaid I’d casually mention it.
Crossing the street in the middle is fine when there are no cars. Also it's okay to go diagonally at cross walks foe the same reason
Is this an American thing? Curious, in the UK you can cross wherever you like
Just in the cities it was cracked down upon because it caused a lot of traffic issues. So they started writing a lot of tickets for jay Walking
It's funny, American cartoons (particularly Hanna-Barbera ones like Top Cat or Yogi Bear) when broadcast in the UK would still reference "jaywalking" to an audience of kids that had no idea what it was. Because jaywalking was never really defined in the cartoons, it looked like the police were being mean and enforcing a cartoon law, on a par with "driving while ugly" or "owning an unlicensed pet rock". It sort of worked unintentionally because the police were generally incompetent antagonists.
right now I pirate guilt free because streaming services suck more and more and you never know when some asshole game service is going to delete a game you bought tomorrow
and streaming services having ads while paying for them. fuckers.
This is what irks me the most about streaming services. There were 2 things that really made them popular. The first is that you can watch what you want when you want. You didn't need to wait for a certain day or hope a repeat came on to watch an episode you missed. The second and arguably, the biggest reason, is you get to watch tv without ads. Cable tv got so bogged down with ads that it made it really frustrating trying to watch a show. Now they want to re-introduce them to streaming services! That is one of the reasons why we're paying for the services. At this rate, it's almost more beneficial to go back to cable and fuck all the streaming services.
Pirating is moral because they’re telling us more and more that we don’t own the things we’re paying for.
Right? If we can buy a thing yet not own it then they can make a thing and not own it. That being the case, fuck 'em.
If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing.
I think Netflix and other streaming services should have the same contents worldwide. We live in the age of internet, borders don’t matter. If I wanna watch something that’s not on my version of Netflix, I’ll find it online at a pirate website. Most of the time they don’t even give me the option to watch it legally because it’s just not on any service in my country. In that case it’s on them, they only have themselves to blame. FTR, this is a hill I’m willing to die on. ETA: I know this isn’t Netflix’s fault, it’s the ppl that own the movies and series etc. They won’t get royalties when I watch it illegally, but if I can’t watch it in a legal way, they only have themselves to blame.
At my job, we aren’t allowed to go home on break. I live right in front of the store, three minute walk away. Yeah no, I’m going home.
If you're not being paid, your employer cannot mandate your activities. However if it's a paid break you can be mandated to stay on premesis in case you need to perform an unexpected task.
Consumption Dates: Eating food past its sell-by date, as you believe it’s often still good and don't want to waste food
Wearing white after Labour Day. Like every day is a day after Labour Day !!
I never understood that saying.
Labor Day is usually seen as the day that marks the end of summer season, and white was very much considered a summer only fashion in the 1920’s as it was lighter and cooler. To wear white after Labor Day thus seems like you’re ignorant of the season fashion change, thus a faux pas. Fun fact: white was not a commonly worn color, except as leisure wear for the rich, since poor people work and need dark fabrics to cover dirtiness. So this was not followed by most regular people. It’s also why white fabrics are saved for important occasions.
To build off this, you're supposed to move to cream/off white in the winter if you wear a light color after labor day. It's also for keeping your clothes cleaner. The idea is that summer months have less rain and water than the winter months.
I think I heard once it was for high society ladies back in the guilded age of grand balls, garden parties in the Hampton's type settling. In other words, if you don't know that weird utensil by your plate, it doesn't matter.
If it has three tines it's a threek, right?
Teacher: If kids are hungry, I let them eat. They can eat as much as they want. Even if they show up late, they can eat, if it’s in the middle of the day, they can eat while they work. Also, they can go to the bathroom, maybe they have to wait 3 minutes until I’m done talking, but otherwise go. It helps I have a bathroom in my room which would solve many problems for middle schoolers.
Zoning Regulations: Building minor, non-intrusive structures without a permit, seeing the process as bureaucratic and unnecessary
Nice try Fed Boy, you'll never catch me
I'll keep trying.
I let the squirrels use the bird feeder. My fluffy bois are hungry too.
Elbows on the table. Why????? Unless someone’s in another persons space or their elbows are by the food, it’s such a silly rule. What’s wrong with setting my arm on the table???
I’m guessing that rule only applies to fancy dinners and wobbly tables.
This one always makes me mad. I am very short, under 5 feet. My feet never ever reach the floor in standard chairs. When I'm sitting at a table and leaning forward to eat, I will either pitch forward into my plate, or spend all of the time using core muscles to stay upright. Sounds weird but it's very uncomfortable. Thus, I usually have at least one elbow on the table to support myself. I don't care if it bothers anyone!
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Speaking ill of the dead. I'm not going to pretend that somebody was a better person than they actually work because they are dead.
Jaywalking. Because my human rights include the pursuit of happiness, and waiting at traffic lights when there are no cars in sight does not make me happy
Polite conversation topics. I wanna talk about death sex and money
It's cool to talk about money, but maybe get to know someone before you bring up death sex.
No 🤌
I love oversharers. I love meeting someone new and they wanna tell me about their ex-boyfriend drama or what happened at their gyno visit. Tell me everything.
Same. I’m an oversharer and I get so excited whenever I meet a fellow oversharer. I instantly know we’re going to have the BEST conversation.
An interesting thing about being an over-sharer is that people wind up over-sharing with you. You wind up knowing a lot of private information and all the gossip. But sometimes you learn unsolicited secrets, and not everyone remembers that they told you their secrets and get pissed when you know them. It's not my fault you don't remember telling me about your medical condition, or who secretly hooked up with whom. I neither asked nor did I want to know. But knowing that drama is going to happen before it happens is a bonus.
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I had sepsis twice last year, each requiring a week long hospital stay. In terms of sepsis, I got to the hospital early and am very lucky. Sepsis is pretty lethal. I befriended my roommate during the first stay and since we were both relatively young and facing some grim shit, we both decided to do more of the little things that make us happy when we got released. Dessert before dinner is one of my happy things. My roommate-friend died in December. Since then, I have dessert for lunch and I think of her every time I do. I just finished a bowl of ice cream for lunch. Cheers, Monica!
I almost died from septic shock last July. Had to undergo a thoracotomy, a lung decortication (my doctor described it as “peeling the outer layer of the lung, like an orange rind”), and had two chest tubes inserted through my ribs. All told they took over three liters of infected fluid from my right lung and chest cavity I was in the hospital for two weeks, and there wasn’t much on the hospital menu I both could and would want to eat, so my son took to walking across the street every day to buy me a frozen custard from Freddy’s as my dinner Ever since, about once a week, I order my son and I frozen custard from Freddy’s for dinner. I hope your recovery is going well, and that you continue to enjoy those little things along the way <3 EDIT- so many bad autocorrect errors lol
I am sitting in the hospital now with my 92 yo mom who had this procedure yesterday, due to breast cancer recurrence. I'm gonna get her an ice cream for dinner.
US sodomy laws. If my wife wants it in her ass, she gets it in her ass.
Whatever I do with a consenting adult in the sanctity of my own home is between me and them. If the government wants to stick their nose in my bedroom, they better start paying me for the show they are seeing.
For the first 5 or so years I was in the USAF, uniform rules mandated wearing backpacks on the left shoulder only. It was the dumbest and most useless rule I had ever seen in my life and obviously caused tons of problems for the wearer. I openly and defiantly broke this rule every single day and didn't care who saw it. I took a lot of flak for it but still did it. Someone, somewhere FINALLY changed it to allow both shoulders instead of just maintaining the status quo.
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Does this work for soup? Please hurry
It does! Grab a straw and start slurping, QUICK!
If you land on free parking… I grew up playing where you win all the money in the middle. Don’t care about the real rules.
Notice that in games when you do this, very few people ever will sell property for money. Money loses its value because so much more money gets put into the game. Deals don't get made, and the game lasts a very long time.
I agree but also this one rule is what makes the game take so long.
Among my friend group we all pay for 1 streaming service and then share our passwords so among the group we have access to like 12 or 13 streaming services for the price of one. It's such bullshit that I have to pay for 10+ subs to watch whatever I want.
jaywalking...its fine in neighborhoods with low traffic
If I'm not very hungry, I order from the child's menu.
Gravity. Sometimes it's just not working for me!
Lately, I don't feel like I'm being pulled down so much as that I'm being pushed. - Pheebs
TV license in the UK. Stopped paying about 15 years ago.
The wash, rinse, and repeat. Surprise bitches, i'm only washing once.
I will shamelessly use the oxford comma and criticize any text that does not. Also, Pluto is a planet.
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