thought Fluff was the resident footmaster??

He's my Bebop, and I'm his Rocksteady

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After all these years... I think I now understand the reasoning behind the ThighMaster.

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I too am a professional foot user.

real good friend of mine that I work with got let go yesterday. she'd been with the company for 14 years but my guess is she became too expensive to keep. they hired a new guy out of the blue a week ago and were cagey about why (our team certainly didn't need another person). guess that's it

As a worker, I encourage you not to use the language of ownership unless you’re certain it accurately depicts what happened. Was keeping your friend in their employ actually going to sink the company? Was it a decision made out of absolute necessity or out of greed and selfishness? And I’m sure this last one hasn’t missed you but is this what waits in store for you?

Ninetales sounded pretty clearly bitter and angry about this so "she became too expensive to keep" doesn't sound like a neutral statement.

It still serves to justify the decision.

it's been something that's been quietly happening here over the past year or so. there haven't been "layoffs", but long term employees have been disappearing into the night at a faster rate. My director (accidentally, I think) mentioned to me that it was specifically a cost cut. And I mean im not sure there's any other inference with it not being a "firing for cause".

The thing is, looking at it in a vacuum it makes sense. Someone makes 75% of another in the same position it's an easy call. But the company is very linear and already worries about employee retention so this is, from my pov, a bad precedent to be setting. you just work long enough here to be replaceable and even if you're good, moving up is difficult due to the current structure. I've recommended changes in that regard, but it's died with my director

As for me, I'll likely be fine. Unrelated to all this going down, I have an interview next week, and have been slowly job hunting elsewhere anyways. The job itself has just been a placeholder until I find something better

not happy about it but not surprised. it's unfortunate because in my eyes these types of decisions are more optics than actual problem solving.

Shockingly bean counting is common sense and treating people like human beings is unthinkable.

had the first advanced manufacturing class today. its the same stuff for homework and online assignment but just a whole semester long project we are producing and writing up.its so much i dont want to explain it :o: gotta present it in a fancy binder.


we are using the same book though, just the chapters we skipped on the last class for the book.

once again, i didnt go to the store and buy mac n cheese. i thinking im going to start doing some really strict intermittent fasting rather than the 5/4 hour window ive been doing. might just try the one meal a day and then thats it :cool: subway, its subway or baked chicken again :o:


have a good day musicbanter

Dont you have any good fastfood sub shops near you, like WaWa or QuikChek?

I did fuck-all at work today, like I do every day.

Bants > work

Getting paid to banter >>>>>>

i wish there was a WaWa here, ive heard many great things about that place. we have some places but i mainly go to subway. the gas station near me doesnt have much of a food selection. never heard of QuikChek.

Barely been able to keep myself motivated to get out of bed. With my grandpa passing away and my anxiety being worse than it's been in a while, this has not been an easy week and I feel worse every day. I almost called in today because I feel absolutely horrible. Gonna be hard to keep a happy face today.

With my grandmother it took me out of commission when I learned she was dying and then again when she passed. I think taking some time off work when something like that happens should be viewed like football players stepping out of the game after a concussion. You’re not meant to “jump back into it” you’re supposed to take some time and feel it and come to grips with it. Let the new reality settle into you and then get back to the routine.

Still wishing you the best brother

Appreciate it man. It may have to come to that but I'm needed at the store. I'm horrible about asking for time off. That's my anxiety. Its gonna be hard I know that. I just wasnt fully prepared for it. I guess you can't really be I suppose.

Walking home from work I stepped into a bike shop. Little sign out front about supporting local business instead of corporate greed. ****ers want $500 for a simple beach cruiser. If “local” means overpriced gentrified bull**** like that then **** local.

When I was looking for a relatively cheap bike, I tried a local shop and the cheapest one they had was $1200. That shop has since closed it's overpriced doors, but that's not a decent gauge for local business since the entire bike industry is overpriced bull****.

$500 for a one speed cruiser is ****ing retarded. The owner of that shop has 1% written all over him and so do his bull**** customers. People who attach their bikes to their $30,000 jeeps and ride them down the beach boardwalk twice a year and post it on Facebook

What the ****ing ****???

The thing about “local” is local business owners are also greedy ****s.

And they appropriate and gentrify everything

I’m getting a Huffy Cruiser at Walmart $133

$500 yuppie **** can suck my dick

It's the same deal here, nothing less than $800 even used.

Fortunately I've been lucky with craigslist.

Fight the system!

That’s retarded af

I’ll admit you got me but Jesus Christ man they’re not giving me any middle ground

I think my bike was like $300 and that was about as low as the shop went but it's a decent bike and the shop is on my way to work so I always have a place nearby to go when I pop a tire. Shrug.

That’s too ****ing expensive

Property is robbery, no ethical consumption under late capitalism, eat the rich, etc.

Is it bad that I paid $900 for my bike?

is it a quality bike? do you use it often?

are you able to afford spending $900 on a ****ty bike?

i think even if you have disposable income it just makes sense to be frugal/shop around for the best deal/most bang for your buck.

It's quality. I cycle 24 km to and from work every day. Work paid for my bike.

not bad at all.

i know it was a rhetorical question but that's dope. i cannot wait to dig in to my new job's wellness incentives - I think they pay like $25/week if you bike in? and they'll split the cost of your gym membership.

this is why i went to community college for 8 years.

*checks conversion*

Why don't you live closer, you twit?! Thirty minutes round trip for me is still tedious as ****!

Cycling really changes your outlook on a working day. Driving or public transportation commutes can suck ass if there's traffic (which there usually is).

Yeah, my school gives me $200 a month for transportation, so the bike paid for itself in less than five months. Everything else is gravy.

9 miles is pretty close, idiot.

Ok, so it's even shorter. 7 and a half miles. The 24km is round trip.