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Less strict uniforms for jobs that don’t require them is good actually is my take.
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Submitted 1 day ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Damage@feddit.it 22 hours ago
In Star Trek they wore pajamas
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
Or slinky catsuits. I bet they’re comfy, if perhaps stinky with the polyester/elastane combo. I remember reading that the TNG outfits were not at all comfortable, but that was 1980s tech. We have lululemon now.
WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 22 hours ago
IT’S A SPEEEED SUIT
Carl@hexbear.net 21 hours ago
hel yea this is unironically fash shit
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
In the 80s McDonald’s both didn’t pay minimum wage and required employees to purchase uniforms from the company.
Companies can still require employees to purchase uniforms in the US as long as the deduction for the uniform doesn’t reduce their wages below the pittance that federal minimum wage is.
pixelmeow@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I worked at McDonald’s in high school in 1983. Neither of those happened where I was, I made $3.35/hr and was given a uniform (polyester, bleh!) that I had to return in good condition when I left.
Of course my experience doesn’t mean it never happened, it just wasn’t overall what you described.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
1987 here, I think. Started at c$3.65 , but minimums moved to $3.80 the next week and so did I.
Red poly tie, red striped button-down poly shirt, black heavy cotton-poly pants. The company supplied them, but I had to replace any pieces I wrecked.
People bitched about the button shirt vs a sloppy pullover jersey, but it was easier to clean. Ultimately I saw a preference for the dumb button-downs.
Liz@midwest.social 21 hours ago
The first check I got from my first job was for $0.00 because I hadn’t worked enough to pay off my uniform. I still have it framed. I was also being paid a sub-minimum training-period wage. America’s labor laws are fucked.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Oh boy, one of my favorite hyperfixations, Roman coin debasement & inflation! TLDR: the parallels of today and back then are much more than just similar. We’re essentially repeating what happened in the fourth century but on a global scale.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
My special interest is what happened similarly with silver dirhams in the late Viking Age. You can see the silver got increasingly less pure from the source (Middle East) which reverberated into Scandinavia and early fortified towns. I reposted this recently in !archaeology@mander.xyz, but this is from one of my old lecturers and it gives an overview of the relationships between Scandinavia and the Middle East during this time which is not well understood by the general public: aeon.co/…/the-viking-age-is-undergoing-a-revision…
Auntievenim@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
This might be the funniest tweet in history
Satanic_Mills@hexbear.net 22 hours ago
In the late American Burgerreich, financial troubles in maintaining the empire led to holy vestments being adulterated with lower and lower grades of polyester - annotated history of the world, CE 2500
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Whatever this humor is, it hit me like a snipers bullet. Lmfao.
Reminds me of…
Wobble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
mmddmm@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
I’d be wary about learning history from a professional gold bug.
Somehow, all the civil wars, popular unrest, and separatist movements aren’t even mentioned. And Spain did learn a lesson about that “less gold and silver entering Rome is the real problem” thing a thousand years later.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 23 hours ago
Like, seriously my friend and I at 15/16 went out get a FF job, I went to McDs because the pants were gray, the shirt white with gray stripes…BK (where he worked) was a variation of ass brown colors in small checks shirt with brown corduroy pants…horrible!
riskable@programming.dev 23 hours ago
So… You were lovin’ it and they were having it their way.
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 22 hours ago
And so the Western Roman Empire would cease to exist by 476 A.D.
And Byzantium, which survived for another thousand years, always therefore free from issues around currency debasement?
Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 21 hours ago
Fascist “retvrn” shit but for burger
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
I feel like this happened well before 1998. The 90s is where everything went all turquoise and purple in fast food restaurants.
sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 22 hours ago
the 2000s is really when people stopped looking healthy due to all the PFAS and plastics, just to name a few
niktemadur@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Imagine a sci-fi world, far in the future, where there are enough old unearthed pennies to be used as currency, but they are scarce enough to acquire great relative value.
“Hey, that must have cost a small fortune!”
“A hundred and twenty five pennies, to be exact.”
“Damn!”Sunsofold@lemmings.world 22 hours ago
Seeing as the US mint is planning to discontinue pennies and the general outlook on the future of the world, that could be not that far off.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
What a dumb take.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Americans explaining the downfall of the roman empire: “Imagine a McDonald’s…”
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Supersize Downfall.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
How many football fields is that?
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 22 hours ago
Seriously what is with Americans and McDonalds? Every time I see this shit it’s like Americans all get together and decided they were going to advertise en mass for McDonalds. I hate being reminded constantly that McDonalds exists but they love it for some reason.
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 22 hours ago
They’re everywhere over here. It’s an inescapable aspect of life at least visually. Unless you never leave your home. Constant commercials too if you allow ads into your life. Which most people do unless they’re above average with tech. I’ll admit I’ll get an egg sandwich and a black coffee from there every once in a while. Their dinner menu is disgusting tho and completely overpriced these days.