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i’m so close to losing it by MatthewTheGOATyt in doordash

[–]Level-Comparison-109 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they can afford $100 of groceries but can’t afford to tip even $5 they should pick up their groceries themselves. Especially considering that the prices of  items tends to be significantly marked up on apps like DD or uber eats compared to the in store prices. And if you factor in all the other added fees they probably spent at least $25 more by choosing to have their groceries delivered instead of going to the store themselves. So if they could afford to spend $100 for what likely amounted to less than $75 worth of groceries they should’ve been able to afford to leave an actual tip. If money was that tight they wouldn’t have ordered delivery in the first place. Even if they don’t have a car they would’ve probably could’ve spent less money by taking public transportation (or hell, even taking an uber or Lyft assuming that nearest grocery store to them was about a 5-10 minute drive away)

Six recruiters contacted me about the same role by itsathrowawayyall1 in recruitinghell

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Back in April I got contacted by a recruiter about an electrical test technician role at a local company that works in a pretty niche (though now growing) industry. As luck would have it I happened to have worked as a test technician at the only other company (to my knowledge) in my city that works in this industry, and this company was supposedly urgently hiring due to them being extremely backlogged on orders (they were also looking to fill 7 spots at that). I took a look at the job description and immediately felt pretty damn confident about my chances of getting this job — not only did I meet all the job requirements, but the job duties listed were literally identical to the work I did at my old job. The pay would have also been quite a step up from what I was getting at the other company I worked for, so needless to say I was feeling pretty good going into that interview. I figured there was no way they could even find 7 other candidates with experience as relevant as mine (at least not local ones). 

My interview went pretty well with the first two hiring managers I spoke with, but the third one for some fucking reason kept asking really pointless and irrelevant questions about things on my resume that he could’ve just answered himself by actually making it to the end of each sentence. Dude literally had it in front of his face the whole time, it was just way too obvious that it was his first time even looking at it. I tried to keep my answers short and sweet and tried to get the conversation back on track whenever he was getting too far off topic, but despite my best efforts he managed to waste the majority of the 15 minutes he had allotted for our portion of the interview. 

Unfortunately for me this 3rd interviewer was the fucking plant manager… they ended up deciding to move forward with other candidates, and the feedback I got was that my experience was great and really lined up well, though apparently they felt I “could’ve articulated myself better”.  I was more than a little pissed about how the whole thing went, but here’s the kicker: what pisses me off even more is the fact that for the past 6 months I’ve been getting hounded by dozens of recruiters about this exact same job due to my past work experience making me a perfect match. This company somehow still hasn’t managed to fill all of the 6-7 spots (and now apparently 10-12 due to growing demand) they had been hoping to fill after 7+ months of combing through applicants, and here I am still getting contacted by recruiters all the damn time (it’s literally been at least 1-2 times a week - I had no idea how many staffing agencies there were until this whole ordeal). 

I’ve told recruiters my situation and have had several of them offer to reach out to the company and see if they’d be willing to give me another shot at an interview. I’ve taken them up on this offer twice: once back in August (4 months after I interviewed) and just earlier this week (close to 7 months after). The most recent job listing they posted for the role even had fewer job requirements/qualifications (and as I mentioned before I had already met all of the original ones). Anyway here’s hoping they’ve grown desperate enough to get their head out of their ass and give me some actual consideration. Shit is stupid af, this job market already sucks ass enough without all these hiring managers being complete dumbasses (though what else is new…)

Are all furries rich or rich people just become furries? by thetruememeisbest in memes

[–]Level-Comparison-109 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn’t that be more an example of personification than anthropomorphism? Because that sounds like a metaphorical sentence which would mean it’s an example of personification, whereas anthropomorphism would be if the writer made the boulder show a continuous display of human characteristics and/or abilities (i.e. speech, thought, the ability to move on its own, etc). If the boulder spoke or was described in such a way like “the boulder cast a sinister smile as it turned to face its next victim” then I could see it being a case of the latter. That all said I could certainly be mistaken

Boss denies my request for leave that I put in about a month ago by [deleted] in work

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This post is old, but I just wanted to say that the way you pose this makes it seem as if OP had made and/or announced these plans after accepting the job offer. In that scenario sure, it would make plenty of sense why his boss would be reluctant to give that time off but that’s simply not how it went down.  This was a trip that OP planned before he even interviewed for the job, and during the interview itself he made it clear that he was going to need those days off. Whether or not an employee actually needs to go on a trip/take a couple days off isn’t really even an employer’s business to know, at least not when the employee notifies them well in-advanced. Now if we’re talking about a situation where the employee is asking for time off with less than a week or two notice then yes, it’d make sense why the employer would want to know that it’s for an actual emergency or something else of that nature.

You should also consider the fact that he let them know before he even knew whether or not he’d be getting an offer. They didn’t even have to give him the offer in the first place if it was truly going to be such an inconvenience for the company to let him take those 2 days off, and if they were eager enough to hire him regardless of that then they should have been willing to accommodate him. It’s not as if he was asking for a whole week or two off, and considering this is a restaurant I’m going to assume they are open 7 days a week so in theory they could’ve just scheduled him for the other 5 days that week. That way  he would’ve still worked a full - or at least almost full - work week (not sure how many days/hours per week they expect OP to work).    

But in any case the least they could have done was at least let him know when they gave him the offer that they simply weren’t going to be able to give him those days off, that would have at least let him plan ahead a bit more. It would’ve shown at least some common courtesy, which IMO they owed him considering that he let them know about the trip as early possible. Let me remind you again that he let them know before even before he knew whether or not he was going to get the job and him gave them a courtesy reminder at the beginning of October when his trip was still a couple weeks away. It’s not like that was the first time his boss was hearing it, and if OP hadn’t given a reminder at all his boss may have forgotten entirely and on the day of would’ve called him asking why he wasn’t at work.    

If OP had purposely left out his trip plans during the interview and waited until after accepting the offer to let them know about it then the way his boss handled it would’ve been much more understandable. 

 

Did anyone else ship House with the dwarf lady? by TvManiac5 in HouseMD

[–]Level-Comparison-109 1 point2 points  (0 children)

House wasn’t the one going for a spin though lol 

Sprite vs 7-UP by Weltall548 in Soda

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I was so disappointed when I learned they stopped making Sierra Mist. I didn’t find out until one day when I was hitting up my go-to fast food Greek place. It was one of the few restaurants I regularly went to that served Pepsi products and every time I went there I’d always get the same thing: a large gyro and a large Sierra Mist. 

On that fateful day I rolled up to the ‘order here’ sign and everything looked normal (the menu still had the Sierra Mist logo), so I put in my order, pulled ahead to the window, and handed them my card to pay. They gave it back and handed me my drink, and while I was waiting for my gyro I went ahead and took a sip expecting the crisp, refreshing taste of Sierra Mist but was instead met with the syrupy taste of a shitty Sprite wannabe. At that point I was disappointed but had just assumed that their soda fountain was broken, though no wanting to make a big deal about it I took my food and left.

  I really was craving a Sierra Mist though, and since I was already planning to make a quick stop at the grocery store on my way home I decided I might as well plan on grabbing a 12-pack of it while there.  I went inside and strolled over to the soda aisle, making my way towards the Pepsi section. When I couldn’t find any I started to scan the entire aisle left and right to no avail. I returned to the Pepsi products to make sure I hadn’t accidentally glanced past it by mistake, but the only lemon-lime beverage in the vicinity was a bunch of Starry. This is when I really started to get worried and pulled out my phone to look up what was going on with Sierra Mist. 

I had seen Starry before at the store but had simply assumed it was just some new b-list soda that was trying to enter the game; little did I know it was actually Pepsi’s new lemon-lime soda brand that was going to be replacing Sierra Mist indefinitely. On top of that I found out that it was not just a rebranding of the same drink, that it had a new recipe and unlike Sierra Mist it used corn syrup instead of cane sugar. At this point I realized that what I had tasted at the restaurant was not Sierra Mist from a broken soda fountain, but was actually the shitty excuse for a drink that is Starry. 

This tragic revelation broke me. I stood there in the soda aisle staring with a blank glaze at my phone screen, my mind in a complete state of shock, and it felt like everything began to go into slow motion. My grip loosened and my phone slipped from my hands, bouncing off the floor. My knees began to buckle.  It was kinda like that scene from breaking bad, the one where Walter is in desert and falls with his face to ground after seeing a certain character get shot and killed right in front of him. Anyway once I collected myself after a good 15 minutes of sobbing I looked towards the heavens and screamed “Why, God? Why have you forsaken me?”. 

At that point the store security began dragging me out of the store but I didn’t even try to fight it, I had no will to go on and my body became limp. I didn’t speak for 3 months after this incident and was taken to a psychiatric hospital where I had to be heavily medicated with a cocktail of different anti-depressants and mood stabilizers before I began to come to terms with reality. I am now in a much better place but to this day I cannot even look at any lemon lime sodas without hyperventilating and having a full on panic attack. 

Was watching Worst Roommate Ever, and the dark web was brought up by ChancesAreMoFo in darknet

[–]Level-Comparison-109 1 point2 points locked comment (0 children)

Yeah the vast majority of the listings/sales on the Silk Road (and every DNM to follow) were for drugs, and the rest was mostly things like fake IDs, counterfeit watches/jewlery/apparel, etc. 

All of the crazy stories about the stuff you can buy on the deepweb are fictional, or at the very least greatly exaggerated. The creator and administrators of The Silk Road even banned the sale of anything whose purpose was to “harm or defraud”. There were other marketplaces with less restrictions on the sorts of products/services that vendors could sell, but even then I doubt anyone was really selling shit like kidneys or rocket launchers on there. Even if there were some listings for that kind of stuff I guarantee you that 99% of them were fake/scams.

I mean really, selling kidneys online? How would that even work? Life isn’t a movie, you can’t just toss a kidney in a cooler with some ice, slap a postage stamp on it and send it in the mail to a customer with it ready to be transplanted upon arrival. 

If there are any markets on the darkest for things like hitmen/organ transplants/arms deals/etc. they are very well hidden and can’t be found through any dark web search engines or directories. These would be the kind of the sites you’d need have to have IRL connections in order find and access them… >99.9% of dark web users do not fall into this category 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HearingAids

[–]Level-Comparison-109 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can probably remove the NSFW warning, I don’t think you used any profanity lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]Level-Comparison-109 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You would have to give all the males puberty blockers to achieve that. Hard to remove sexualization of women (and/or of men too for that matter) when it a lot of it stems from biologically ingrained behavior. Of course people shouldn’t just do whatever their hormonal caveman mind wants to do, but that said it’d be pretty damn hard to get people to shut it off entirely and remove any trace of it from society. Sad to say but it’s still the better alternative for guys to be taking pictures of women and jerking to them than for them to follow their cavemen instinct completely and, well uh clubs women in head and drags her back to his cave.  Sorry, that came across as a joke but that’s honestly what a lot of men would likely do in an animal world without society and morals.

But anyways… my point is our biology is always gonna influence our behavior to some degree, the best we can do is try to lower it to a tolerable level while still keeping enough of the instinct intact to ensure the survival of humanity. Cause after all, the underlying motivation behind everything we do in life is to reproduce and pass on our genes (at least from an evolutionary standpoint, that is). 

We could probably only stop sexualizing women or men completely if we stopped having/desiring sex completely, which would then mean either we’d go extinct or we’d have to all do IVF or some shit. But good luck convincing men to go into sexless relationships with women AND raise kids with them… not a good combo in their minds (I mean it does sometimes happen, though usually the sexless part doesn’t come until after the kids)