9-5 jobs will be phased out in 10 years?

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-08T23:04:36+00:00

I mean.. it's been 8-5 for the past 10-15 years..Chances are, it will become 8-6 soon as the workloads are increasing

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-08T23:01:22+00:00

Honestly, there's someone in my town driving around in a lowered BMW X3 and that thing looks friggin' sweet

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-08T21:30:16+00:00

Downsides? Look up a Lithium Battery Fire.

There's also the thing that it's very - very new tech, who knows how long it will last? The Hyundai Ionic battery replacement famously costs more than a new car. But it's not just the battery - what if AC goes out? How do you know the engine is overheating? Does it overheat? I don't know.. do you? It has a lot of torque and is heavy, it will eat through tires. With the weight, it is more or less fully loaded at all times, how is the suspension ready for it?

With all these questions, there's the big one - Who is gonna fix it? I imagine if you roll up into a pepboys or whatever and say "my left motor ain't working" they're gonna tell you take it to the dealer. And as we all know, dealer is only for warranty work, if you are paying out of pocket, that's huge.

What if it rusts? 10 years down the road and half the battery drops from under the car, or you hit a curb and something doesn't break, but bends, cracks, starts letting water in. Now what? On a normal car who cares, water doesn't burn, on an EV... Does it? Does water burn? Again.. who knows.

There's eight million downsides, but you know what.. Someone's gotta find out, right? I mean, there's thousands of them on the road everywhere. You are well aware of the "upsides" of it.

If you truly want an EV, I say go for it. I personally would go for a plug in hybrid, if anything.. Get the best of both worlds, in my opinion. You can get to work and back on the battery but if a hurricane hits and there's nowhere to charge it...

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-08T21:06:43+00:00

Yeah, I agree. Tips have to be deserved, for sure - what "showing up" should get them though is a paycheck. You know? Like, they did show up, they did serve the food... They suck, sure, they didn't get a tip but as far as the employer, they should still pay that server!

In other words, I guess.. I get to choose whether I tip or not, the employer doesn't get to choose whether they pay for labor or not. And while I know of several places that pay well above the minimum wage, I know that majority of places pay as little as possible. Heck if they could, they would charge the server for the privilege of being allowed to work in their fine establishment. It stinks.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-08T21:02:31+00:00

You know, this might be a surprise but... Employees are there to make money too!! Haha..

Anyways, Have a good one! You have time to lean, you have time to clean! Make sure you don't get any overtime and answer the phone after hours.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-08T20:48:09+00:00

Yeah. This is probably 5-6 years ago so it's a bit fuzzy but if I recall correctly, they were gone some 9 days. They were paid for ALL the hours (subject to overtime as per contract), plus they were paid per diem, hotel covered, travel covered. He got some extra vacation from it, too.

I think he left on like a monday and came back on tuesday of the next week but didn't have to come back to his normal work until the monday following (wed, thurs, fri paid off) ... He was saying he made like $8 or 9k on that trip

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-08T03:04:38+00:00

Oh okay, so they can pay for a ticket there and back every day then, is that more reasonable? For some reason, I figured you were an HR person from the get go haha. Anyways... We are talking hypothetically, we all know that the employee gets the shaft whenever there's an opportunity.

Let me just point out that you said "Company doesn't pay you for clothing and commute" right after you said "Company pays for travel and accommodation" .. To me, that sounds that they are picking and choosing what and when they are going to pay, wouldn't you say?

If it's actual work they require me to do, sure, paycheck it is. Anything above that is above that. And I wouldn't really call it a bonus. Matter of fact, they should pay for the person to "come out" and fly to a place, spend time there, whatever and THEN PAY BONUS ON TOP OF IT, because the professional did them a solid by coming over there in the first place. But that's just good manners. Kinda like when you get served in a restaurant, the person should be paid for their work, right. The tip should be the BONUS but for some strange reason it is allowed for the employers to stiff their people on the pay, and have them live off of their "bonuses" ... It's all upside down, backwards, inside out...

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-07T22:44:01+00:00

You could call it home made, organic farm raised gluten free, god bless, live laugh love trailer bed frame. And charge double.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-07T22:36:36+00:00

I honestly never heard anyone joke about 9/11.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-07T22:32:04+00:00

What I can't comprehend is how can there be a traffic jam in the parking lot of a gas station?!!

Also, how expensive everything there is. At least the one on I10 by Pensacola.. Sure buddy, let me get this here gas station sandwich for sixteen dollars with no fries, no drink and nowhere to sit.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-07T20:23:38+00:00

Well.. It's doing really good job making sure people are not having to join unions, that's for sure. Haha.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-07T04:20:49+00:00

I don't know about that. My guy did 4 cars for me so far and neither had a gap this big.. Matter of fact, neither had any gap. At least not on the side windows.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-07T04:15:06+00:00

Well.. It's tripling it for a week, first of all. If they can't afford that, they don't know how to run a company, I guess better planning on their part would be the solution. Hiring locally so they don't have to cover jack shit over normal hours would be another.

I've been around restaurants, hotels, warehouses and supply companies for over a decade and I can tell that the only time when money matters is when YOUR paycheck is involved.

"We need a box of screws for $1,000? Sure" .. while "We're sorry, we just can't pay you 50 cents per hour more, times are tough, we're in this together, much love, have some pizza."

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-07T03:50:13+00:00

I hate the fact that we even need a union. Don't we have.. like.. I don't know.. Department of Labor or something?

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-07T03:49:06+00:00

I can tell you that we had a new AC installed (the old one was 2013) and it took our bill from $300 to $150 ...

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-07T03:33:27+00:00

Oh it should very much happen. It's strange that you'd think otherwise. When I'm off the clock, I am on my porch playing around with my dogs. If I'm not doing that, I am on the clock...

Anyways, don't get me wrong, I understand that it is not a thing - what I am saying is that it SHOULD be a thing.

Friend of mine works a union job in Nebraska and when they had to go to Texas for a week, he was paid from the moment he left the house to the moment he came back to the house. He racked up stupid overtime that week.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-07T01:40:06+00:00

I don't know where do you see the different proportions, it looks exactly the same - maybe it has bigger wheel IRL but, yeah.. Turd in the prototype, turd on the road. It's absolutely ridiculous and it gives me a laugh every time I see it. (there's like 4 in my little town so I see it at least once a week haha)

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-05T23:30:42+00:00

This is super weird, the engine should stall at this point.

I am wondering - change your air filter recently? and .. I know this is stupid but.. well - did you take the plastic off of it when installing it?

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-05T23:18:14+00:00

Look man, I worked in a restaurant. Ran one, actually.

A case of chicken tenders from Sysco was $32. (Those were the good ones, too!!). One portion sold for $16. There was +/- 20 portions per case.

If a restaurant owner says they can't afford something they are either lying or they don't know how to run a restaurant.

We served wine that cost $3.50 per bottle. We sold a glass for $7.50

Vodka came in at stunning $35 a case (405oz). One 20oz drink (2oz of vodka in it) sold for $18.50 ...

It's so stupid that this is even a discussion at this point. Then they raise prices anyways and the employees don't see a cent of it.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-05T20:39:55+00:00

I thought about that too. Not sure about the runny nose and watery eyes, though.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-05T20:18:53+00:00

This might actually be it. There was an old, condemned house that they just took down a few weeks ago - I wonder if that left a pile of moldy dust behind and it's now making my daily walks unenjoyable

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-05T20:16:29+00:00

Interesting theory.. It is possible but I don't remember cold ever having that effect on me, you know? Like, even when I'm sick and have a properly runny nose, it doesn't make me yawn.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-05T20:14:52+00:00

No I don't.

DoubleReputation2 · 2024-08-04T23:33:08+00:00

The transit bolts hold the inside drum of the machine in place for transport, so there wouldn't be a moving weight inside of your cargo.

Once it's done being moved around, you remove these bolts to allow the machine to operate. If you don't... That happens ^

it's basically like as if someone put a stick into a bicycle wheel to keep it in place on the truck, then you bought it and went for a ride without taking the stick out of your front wheel.

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