grasshopper_mouse
@grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 week ago:
It would be interesting to see if it’s ever happened in the past, for sure. I too assumed it was due to poor education, but the three people I mentioned (my old boss and the 2 new coworkers) all came from different areas of the U.S. and are each in different generations (1 Boomer, 1 Gen X, 1 Millennial), so they all have very different backgrounds/education experiences, yet they ALL struggle to read anything longer than a single sentence. It’s infuriating. I try to be patient, because hey, we all have our thing we suck at, but it’s honestly a little scary that they and so many other are out there not following directions simply because they can’t read them.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 week ago:
Reading comprehension has gone down the tubes. I dunno if it’s from people watching too many TikToks and their attention span can’t handle reading more than one sentence anymore, or what, but I have definitely noticed a change in people’s ability to read and understand the content of what they just read.
Where I work, my old boss never wrote anything down, did not like to communicate via email, and insisted on phone calls/verbal meetings instead. When they announced they were taking a new job, we begged them to create an SOP of all the things they did with detailed instructions because NONE of it had ever been written down. We were told no, they couldn’t do that. No explanation other than “I can’t.” And I’m convinced that they simply couldn’t read, or could BARELY read.
So I created the SOP instead, detailed as hell, everything in one place. Sections, subsections, hyperlinks, it’s all there. 2 new employees come into the office, I’m supposed to train them. I do, and I show them the SOP, tell them “everything you need to know is in this SOP”, so that AFTER I train them, they can reference it.
They never reference it, ever. They ask me how to do the things they’ve forgotten instead. I just point them to the correct section in the SOP and tell them to read it. BUT THEY DON’T READ. It’s insane! How do they get by in life in general!?
- Comment on am i insane? 1 week ago:
I’ve had the same experience, though only for about the past 10 years, and at 45 now, it’s more like there’s a single day in any given month where the crazy depression/dark thoughts and rage at the simplest stupid shit occurs, and by now I’m able to stop in the moment and recognize that it’s just temporary, and it always resolves itself in an hour or two. I can’t wait for menopause to hit and for all this shit to be over.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Gross
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 2 weeks ago:
I think the supply-chain issue is often forgotten about. Sure, we can open manufacturing businesses here to make whatever, but where do people think the materials will come from? Do they think we’ve had all the materials we need to manufacture goods here in America all along and we just haven’t been because everything is cheaper to make overseas? Just look at this list of major exports by country. Does the US have SOME of this stuff? Sure, but enough to make enough goods for US consumers on a regular, as-needed basis? No way. We will need raw materials, and there won’t be enough to go around.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Take this with a grain of salt, but this is ICE’s (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) definition of human trafficking and is of course open to interpretation:
“Human trafficking is a global crime that trades in people of all genders, ages and backgrounds and exploits them for profit. Human trafficking generally takes two forms: sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.”
https://www.ice.gov/features/human-trafficking
Interpol’s definition: “While there is a clear distinction between human trafficking and migrant smuggling, they can also be linked. Human trafficking occurs for specific purposes, such as sexual exploitation, labour exploitation, forced criminality, and organ removal, among other forms of exploitation. Migrant smugglers take advantage of people who want to leave their home countries to escape poverty, conflict, and crises, or simply want to seek a better life. Even if irregular migrants generally enter into the journey voluntarily, they are often exposed to significant risks, including that of being trafficked, kidnapped or dying in transit to their destinations.”
https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Human-trafficking-and-migrant-smuggling
- Comment on Tried to order a part before the tariffs 1 month ago:
But this will make the cost of eggs go down!/s
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 1 month ago:
Ugh, it would be awful lol
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 1 month ago:
Me too and then I was like, have I been missing out on some sugar-related sexual experience this whole time!?
- Comment on The classic cycle 3 months ago:
:(
- Comment on The classic cycle 3 months ago:
…Zavala, is that you?
- Comment on Sleep well tonight 4 months ago:
One or two pieces, sure. A whole fucking cabinet? No thanks.
- Comment on If you're in this meme, go buy a fibre supplement 5 months ago:
My grandma had these at her house and they were used so often they eventually fell apart. Years later I found a set of 6 at a thrift store and bought them for nostalgia’s sake and now I have all my snacks in them.
- Comment on DING DONG 5 months ago:
Ding fries are done
- Comment on Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election? 5 months ago:
Interesting! Thanks for the link!
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- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 6 months ago:
So I looked into the USSS, and here from their FAQ: “Under Title 18, Section 3056, of the United States Code, agents and officers of the United States Secret Service can:
Carry firearms Execute warrants issued under the laws of the United States Make arrests without warrants for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony recognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed such felony Offer and pay rewards for services and information leading to the apprehension of persons involved in the violation of the law that the Secret Service is authorized to enforce Investigate fraud in connection with identification documents, fraudulent commerce, fictitious instruments and foreign securities and Perform other functions and duties authorized by law”
This leads me to wonder just how many times a SS Agent witnessed Trump committing a felony in their presence but didn’t arrest him.
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- Comment on I have been to jail in the US. How come they always offer a bible instead of offering you different religious books like a quran? 7 months ago:
Yeah, they never gave a shit about that, it was all religious services on Sundays only. If I remember correctly there was Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist services, and I think maybe Wiccan.
- Comment on I have been to jail in the US. How come they always offer a bible instead of offering you different religious books like a quran? 7 months ago:
When I was in basic training in the U.S. Army in the late '90s, we were also offered free bibles and rosary beads and no other religious materials, although there were various services for many religions on Sundays that you were allowed to attend.
- Comment on Where Are You Supposed To Buy Pajama Shirts? 7 months ago:
They often come in sets of pants and a T-shirt, but like others have posted, most of my pajama shirts are old T-shirts that have become too holey to wear in public.
- Comment on every company right now 9 months ago:
My piece of shit phone case says “AI Autofocus” on it near the holes for the camera lenses and it’s ridiculous
- Comment on How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude? 9 months ago:
No she’s not. The water is very unclean, super soapy, and she does it “to save water”. There is often soap residue on the glasses and probably the dishes too, you can just see it easier on the glass. She wonders why she’s had stomach issues most of her adult life.
This is also the woman who once let a turkey thaw in her fridge, which then leaked raw turkey juice (bloody water) onto a half slice of watermelon that was on the shelf below it. She then ate the watermelon after washing it off in the sink “because it was wrapped in plastic and was still ok.” It was not ok, she got food poisoning.
I think she’s just unhygienic and has an “I’m always right” Boomer mentality.
- Comment on How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude? 9 months ago:
This is a tricky one. I think I’d just offer to help them prepare and then specifically ask to be put on vegetable duty. One of my aunts is like this, doesn’t wash veggies, doesn’t rinse the soap off her dishes once she’s scrubbed them (!), so whenever I’m at her house I just offer to help.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
I’m horrific at math, but even I know this shit. I do feel for her though. When you suck at math, even if the answer is easy and you have it right, you constantly second guess yourself because getting the right answer feels too easy, so surely I’m wrong, right? Because it’s math and I’m always wrong.
- Comment on Is the body of Christ gluten free? Asking for a friend. 11 months ago:
My mom us a retired Episcopalian priest. She said there are gluten-free wafers you can get if someone in the congregation needs them. She also said that it doesn’t have to be a wafer, one of her priest buddies once consecrated a pancake to make a point that it doesn’t matter what’s being consecrated, it’s all God’s creation.
Note: I am not religious and do not hold these beliefs myself
- Comment on apex predators 11 months ago:
An oldie but a goody
- Comment on Waffle Squarf 1 year ago:
Sounds like an Interdimensional Cable commercial off Rick and Morty
- Comment on AITA for doing a GoFundMe? (Details within.) 1 year ago:
Just do the Go-Fund Me. If you lose friends over it, those bastards shouldn’t be in your life anyway.
- Comment on AITA for doing a GoFundMe? (Details within.) 1 year ago:
Don’t assume you know anything about me.
OP doesn’t owe their friends any medical information, even when asking for money for medical bills.