MystikIncarnate

Does it really matter? It's a shit looking vehicle that can't drive in the rain if you don't switch to carwash? Mode? I think?

The vehicle has so many design oddities, so many manufacturing problems, and it's associated to one of the least liked billionaires in recent memory, so much so that people in the general public go out of their way to vandalize the vehicle whenever the opportunity presents itself.

What's to like about it? Even if you don't hate Elon, and don't hate the look/design, the"truck" is a meme at best and a gigantic waste of resources.

This is exactly right. They're worthless if nobody is willing to pay what's being asked.

So what they're "worth" is nothing.

That's essentially what I did. As far as I could tell, I was the only one who took issue with it.

I looked my manager square in the face and told them I would not, under any circumstances, be stocking grapes unless the proper safety equipment was available.

That's a job I never had to do again. Because they never got the safety equipment.

Right to refuse unsafe working conditions is a right where I live. If they tried to retaliate against me it would become a very short lawsuit.

IT support here, my employer makes about 2-3x what I do for an hour of my time. So at best it's a 50/50 split.

Fact is, many companies have been going towards the image that op posted. Many may not be there yet, but, they're all trying to get there.

You become the thing you hate. Start a business.

Edit: I just want to clarify that this is supposed to be mostly an outrageous thing to be said. I did that on purpose. I may have forgotten a "/s" to make that clear. Not everyone has the aptitude, willingness, or care to create their own business. Depending on your line of work, it may be a near impossibility to do so, as others have articulated already.

I'm trying to make a social comment on the absurdity of our current capitalistic systems. While it's true that you can keep 100% of what you produce as profit for yourself if you are independent, that doesn't make the prospect any more viable as a course of action. However, having the "opportunity" to start a business and keep 100% of the profits is the excuse any capitalist would provide in this situation.

I suppose, saying "become the thing you hate" didn't make it clear enough to everyone that this is supposed to be a mockery of capitalists.

They're capitalists.

You don't get to be the size of Metro without being a selfish, greedy, asshole. Aka, a capitalist.

This can't get said enough. HR is not there to help you. HR is there to keep you from being able to sue the company if something happens.

If you have, or someone gives you a cause to sue the company, before hiring a lawyer and possibly (likely) losing your job because you're suing your employer, you can instead take the complaint up with HR. They should recognize the liability for the company in your situation and take steps to minimize or eliminate any possibly perception of blame that could be cast upon the company.

Here, I'll give you an example of something that actually happened to me. I used to work at a grocery store and to say the "left hand doesn't know what the right is doing" .... Would be an understatement. It was a fairly large place in a national chain of stores. I was working in the produce department at the time.... So, the supplier for grapes informed us that the location where the grapes are grown has black widow spiders in the habitat. Though every effort is made to prevent it, there is still the possibility that the grapes may contain traces of venomous spiders.

Corporate HR appeared, like a fart you didn't hear, but you can definitely smell. They tasked my manager to get everyone in the department to sign a paper that said, and I shit you not: we've been made aware of the possibility of black widow spiders in the grapes, and that we understand that we should use specialty gloves that are bite resistant/bite proof when handling the grapes.... As soon as I read that I turned to my manager and said what fucking gloves? Where are these gloves?

We, of course, didn't have any such thing. I asked the manager if they could get some for us and they didn't even know how to do that.

Simply: after everyone has signed the statement, and if anyone is bitten by a black widow, the HR dickwads that work at the company can hold up the form you signed saying "we tooky them to use the gloves for safety, and they were not using those gloves at the time of the incident" .... Because nobody ever got the gloves. Regardless, it lets the company throw you under the bus for getting injured, while management won't help you in staying safe on the job, often encouraging the behaviour that HR says you should not be doing.

HR is not your friend, they're actively protecting the enemy (the business owners) from you, the worker.

Herd immunity is pretty important.

The first of the crazy parents who went anti-vax benefitted greatly from Herd immunity. Now enough of them are not vaccinating that the herd immunity is basically non-existent. So we get things like measles outbreaks.

There are people who are medically incapable of getting vaccinated, like those with compromised immune systems (some might be in treatment for cancer)... And their best defense is if all of us, who can be immunized, are immunized.

Cancer treatments are not the only immunocompromising thing that can happen and not all immunocompromised people have cancer specifically.... For the record.

Anyone who is anti-vax should be aware that they are actively and intentionally putting other people at risk and that should be strongly and thoroughly documented; so when they bring in a cold/flu/COVID/measles/whatever preventable disease to the school and someone else's kid dies as a result the grieving family has the ability to sue them into poverty.

They deserve worse, but legally, I can't condone that.... But if someone wanted to take a page from a particular person named Luigi, I would be hard pressed to find a good reason to pursue any charges against them.

Interestingly, I have some nurses in the family and the rate at which people who are educated in healthcare, are anti-vax, is too damned high.

Which isn't to imply its a lot of people, but any nonzero amount of people, working in healthcare, who buy into anti-vax propaganda, is too many. You've been formally taught about this stuff. Yet, you're anti-vax because some person on Facebook/Twitter/whatever, fed you some bullshit about the "dangers"?? Wow. What the actual fuck.

My recommendation is to maybe get some electrical safe tools, possibly some gloves that insulate against shocks, but definitely a good non-contact voltage detector, or NCV.

Check the circuit with your NCV before turning off the power, before working on the things on the circuit, and after turning on the power when you're done (before you switch anything on). It helps keep you and your house from halting or catching fire.

.... And always connect ground wires first.

Good luck.

Fair enough.

If you're not an EE or a nerd (like me), then it might as well be black magic.

Powerline adapters are fun here tho. They work great if you're not crossing the split phase, otherwise they suck.... A lot.

I'm not an EE. I apologize if I gave that impression. I just have an obsession with understanding anything I use on a regular basis, whether computers, smartphones, electricity, vehicles.... Anything that does stuff, and I use it, I want to know how it does the thing that it does.

I'm weird like that.

I learned a lot from "Electrician U" on YouTube, along with a few others. Maybe worth a look. The scientific/physics side of things was more from watching other YouTubers (as to why it behaves the way it does), along with a fundamental knowledge that I learned from doing amateur radio stuff. Working in IT and having to deal with the power requirements of systems and making sure that we won't blow a breaker under load.... That helped motivate me to learn.

It all came to a head when we were deploying a network and server for a business that was still in construction of the facility. The electrician was going to run a temp line for our stuff so we could set up and be ready for opening day, and he asked how many amps we needed.... I did a bit of a deep dive to figure out an answer for him, and I've been learning more and more since then.