mrgoosmoos
@mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Fafo 4 days ago:
so this is another thing that can be traced back to Reagan? lol
- Comment on tell your homie that you love them 4 days ago:
what cards are those? it’s familiar
I haven’t kept up with card games at all
- Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out" 5 days ago:
but this conversation is about me, because tipping is still expected here
- Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out" 5 days ago:
it’s not the system we got, tho. wait staff make the same minimum as retail and fast food etc. they’re not special.
- Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out" 1 week ago:
yeah I still tip (in Ontario, where servers make at least the same minimum as everybody else) but it’s just a rounded up value to even out my bill, and it’s a reasonable amount (a few bucks at most). as always, if whoever is providing a service for me did a truly above and beyond job, I will tip that. but I am rarely in that scenario when eating out, or anywhere else.
there’s just no reason that wait staff should be making an extra $30+ an hour when retail staff etc don’t make any tips. pay them all more. that’s my contribution.
- Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out" 1 week ago:
but I didn’t seek good service. I sought a basic level of service expected of someone doing their job.
I don’t need service good enough to justify a $20 tip when I go out for wings and two beers and take up literally five minutes of the server’s time
fuck tipping culture, pay your employees. wait staff aren’t special. you better be tipping retail associates at least 10% of your purchases, too
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
I thought you were saying that the other way around, and was hoping to hear why you like 5x8 more
because yeah, I like 4x10 more. actually, I like having the flexibility to do either one based on how I feel that week and the needs of the company. I like knowing that I can get my 40 hours in and fuck off whenever I want Thursday afternoon for a 3-day weekend, or I can bleed into Friday as much as I want if there are meetings that need to have happen or other work I want to get done by end of week.
I get that some people would prefer 5x8 because they have before or after work obligations, but that’s not me so I would rather have a proper weekend.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
I worked 6-6 M-F for a year, and 6-3 M-F for a few years
social life existed because of having no kids and getting little sleep. I didn’t waste time with doctors appointments or important stuff like that. I’d pop out “early” at 2 or 3 pm if I needed to for appointments.
now, I’m an office worker, but with a flexible schedule that lets me get that “business hours” stuff done when I need to. it’s wonderful and benefits both me and my employer.
- Comment on Not Over Yet ☝️🤓 2 weeks ago:
while I agree with it, there’s also another side to it
I’ve been on too many calls where the meeting leader / management says some bullshit that’s incredibly unclear and unactionable, and they need to admit that in front of everybody before they start blaming teams for underperforming
- Comment on Not Over Yet ☝️🤓 2 weeks ago:
you know what, I’m kind of on their side. don’t fucking book meetings on Fridays, let alone Friday afternoon. make it painful so they learn their lesson. short term pain, long term gain.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
it’s not a valid point because you can clearly see in the video that you don’t actually need to go out into the oncoming lane, they showed a pickup making the turn unnecessarily wide
- Comment on Oh what a name 2 weeks ago:
I have professional contact with a guy named Richard Butt. not what he goes by, I’m assuming that’s his full name though.
I’m not joking. I still can’t get over it. the shit that guy must have had to deal with
- Comment on Amazon Just ERASED Your Library. You Have 90 Days. 2 weeks ago:
not to mention a video with such an offensive thumbnail
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 weeks ago:
yep. I’ve come across some super cool young bands that sound exactly like the albums I love from 40 years ago!
- Comment on Hail power! 3 weeks ago:
Live Wire would also fall into that category, I would think. explicit mention of live wires setting things on fire
- Comment on Even the worst among us sacrifice 3 weeks ago:
idk. I still got coal rolled on a bike trip last weekend
- Comment on lol 3 weeks ago:
lol yeah this is very accurate lol
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m so happy to see this posted in the wild
I’ve got a whole collection of dank songs saved on soundcloud. it really was a great soundclown scene 5-10 years ago, there’s some truly great stuff in there
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 5 weeks ago:
I just upgrade one or two parts every 2-4 years. seems to have worked fine for over a decade. dreading when I need to do a mobo update which will include ram
- Comment on It's about the *option* 5 weeks ago:
I’d be a lot more tolerant of people buying whatever they wanted if what they bought wasn’t so goddamn offensive and dangerous
huge, loud, blinding headlights, blocks my view of the road, they always fucking pull up past the stop line so you can’t see if it’s safe to turn right on red, they have to hammer the gas to accelerate decently because they’re massive, they can’t fucking see anything around them because of blind spots and so they are always trying to back into people walking in parking lots, etc
- Comment on It's about the *option* 5 weeks ago:
my 08 outback with no lift and my old 99 tercel base model have been more off-road than 80% of vehicles that people bought because they might need to drive down a maintained gravel road to a parking lot to start a hike
- Comment on iHave a Lovesick Teacher 5 weeks ago:
thats what the unannounced bonus points are for
- Comment on Just animal noises 5 weeks ago:
you mean listening to my tinnitus?
- Comment on Don't fuck them 5 weeks ago:
sure, but the point is if they don’t have any books at all
the former person would and should have books
- Comment on Your grammar lesson for today 1 month ago:
yeah some of these aren’t accurate
- Comment on Its a circus and we're the clowns 1 month ago:
why do they need all three formats of video
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 1 month ago:
I’m in Ontario, but a lot of our customers are plants in the US or Mexico and some of our suppliers are in the US.
WFH seems quite common. all of our meetings are done over MS Teams anyways (which is a very effective format for technical reviews with multiple people presenting and sharing info). a lot of our suppliers clearly have salespeople or technical experts that are working from home (or in the case of sales people, probably travelling). it’s actually maybe slightly more rare than not that somebody turns their camera on and it’s of a meeting room with multiple people. we have customer meetings weekly for active projects and there’s anywhere from 4-20 people from the customer’s end in the call. some of them are clearly in the plant or office judging from background noise, but the office staff are sometimes WFH. it’s less common for staff at manufacturing plants though, given the nature of the job, including the office staff.
within my role (automated machine design), WFH is not super common. older managers are reluctant to hire staff who ask about remote work options, in my experience, despite themselves making use of that flexibility as appropriate (i.e. “not feeling great today and will be working from home”).
within my circle of friends family and acquaintances, I’d say maybe 25% are work from home? and the majority of those are in tech (software, IT, etc) or “boring office jobs” like non-customer facing bank staff. most of the people in a similar role to me actually work in the office, I’m the exception among my friends. obvs everyone in trades or customer service is on site, call that 60% of my circle. and then maybe the last 15% is hybrid
- Comment on Anon goes back to Windows 10 1 month ago:
fresh installed win11 is still ass in my experience. better now than a year ago, but still shitty.
like why the fuck does right clicking a file or double clicking a folder lag so much
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 1 month ago:
automation industry is a bit different when not in a recession. over time is almost always available. every project could get done sooner, especially with automotive customers
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 1 month ago:
it hasn’t been doubled my whole working career. though to be fair I’m only in my 30s. I am aware of a couple companies that did double time on Sundays, which predictably resulted in employees gaming the system to sit in the office on Sundays and watch Netflix.
“good” companies around here will pay overtime over your base hours, which is typically 40 hours. the legal minimum is to pay 1.5x regular rate after 44 hours. pretty much every company does the legal minimum of 1.5 times regular rate for overtime