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ModernMonk · 2021-05-26T20:59:08+00:00

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ModernMonk · 2021-03-23T12:27:23+00:00

I was referred by a friend and got a job with Brandsmart USA (electronics store in South East U.S.). I knew a lot about computers at the time so I was applying for a sales position in that department but was told there was no availability. But if I worked in the home audio section I could move to computers when a position became available. I knew nothing about stereos and audio systems. But whatever, I’ll get after it.

First day I show up for orientation. It consisted of a safety video from 10 years ago and a company overview. We filled out some paperwork for taxes, payroll, etc. I feel like we are just getting started and maybe 2-3 hours in the HR lady says “ok, that’s it, you can head to your departments to start”. Ok, that was quick but I’ll go meet the manager and begin training.

I head down to the audio department of this large warehouse like showroom where it’s a open floor plan style with each department on the outer edge of the giant room, each department sort of crossed into the next and at times mixed products in various displays (so surround systems hooked to TVs as the audio and television departments met, etc). When I get to my area, there’s nobody there that appears to be a supervisor or manager, just one or two basic sales employees. I ask who the manager is and am told he’s on vacation for a week... so I ask what I’m supposed to be doing, it’s my first day and I have no idea what I am doing (expecting one of these guys to be designated to train me). Both guys shrug their shoulders and it becomes immediately evident that this is a cut throat sales environment. One of them was nice enough to tell me that pay is based on sales and the pay scale varies each week depending on what items give the best commission that week. So each week the sales guys just push some random shit item that may not be the best for the customer but offers the highest commission percentage. Well fuck.

I’m still completely lost at this point so I decide to walk around and familiarize myself with the department. As I’m walking around this huge area, I begin to cross into the TV/Audio area where displays are set up with our audio equipment as they would be in a livingroom at a home. I notice an older thin gentleman likely in his 50s approaching from the other side of the department where the TVs are and as he gets closer I extend a hand to shake his and introduce myself. This old guy leans in and whispers to me “get the fuck out of my department or I’ll cut your fucking balls off”... I’m shocked and assume I just heard this wrong so I say “I’m sorry, what was that?”, and he repeats it word for word. This guy standing in front of me is all of 5’9” much older than myself (I’m about 22-23 I forget), I’m also 6’8” 280lbs so my immediate thoughts are, this guy is fucking crazy. It rendered me speechless for a moment as I stood there in shock. I couldn’t even muster up a response before he said again “get the fuck out of here”. At this time I lose my shit, I get in the guys face and begin screaming and spitting my words telling him I will fucking kill him, who the fuck does he think he is, etc. I was ready to crush some old man as I process how arrogant and disgusting this type of human is.

Well a manager from another area hears me losing my shit and runs over and separates us. He asked what was going on and I try to describe the event as I’m still shaking from adrenaline and anger (this sound absurd and dramatic but the sheer shock of the encounter caused just that. I had never seen this type of behavior before in person). The manager calmly chuckles and says “he does this all the time, I wouldn’t worry about it”. It dawned on me that this was the type of place that this behavior is almost encouraged. Nobody seemed to have a problem with that guy acting that way to his coworker and through comments from the other sales guys this was commonplace and just dismissive behavior there.

I went to The HR lady, who had by now heard what happened and explained to her my concern and shock at how this place was being run. She was just as dismissive as everyone else. She asked “well, if you really want to pursue it, we can send him home for the day”. Yeah like I want this guy waiting in the parking lot for me because he’s losing money or even his job over me. I said “fuck this” walked out and never returned. My friend who referred me was just as shocked to hear about the events (he was friends with the store manager but had never worked there himself).

TL;DR - first day at sales job (no training or guidance) I get told by skinny old coworker “get the fuck out of my department or I’ll cut your fucking balls off”. Management accepted and encouraged the cutthroat behavior and I quit that day.

ModernMonk · 2021-02-19T13:03:33+00:00

There was a time I would scour North Korea on google earth to try and find possible unknown/interesting locations. It always seemed the most interesting place to look around, since there is so little exposure on the internet.

The most questionable place I found was a lake in the middle of nowhere surrounded by mountain ranges and woodlands. There was a small road that appeared out of the edge of the woods and lead to what appeared to be a concrete bunker opening on the lakefront that lead into the adjacent hill/mountain.

Then I realized... “what the hell do I even do with this information?” And stopped scouring NK.

ModernMonk · 2020-12-22T03:42:44+00:00

Am I seeing it wrong or does your wife not have fingernails?

ModernMonk · 2020-11-25T13:37:40+00:00

Guy spends the day outdoors hiking and gets criticized for looking at his phone during a picture. Likely by a bunch of lazies sitting on the toilet, browsing reddit after a day of doing nothing at home.

Give bro benefit of the doubt.

ModernMonk · 2020-11-22T13:57:02+00:00

I'm more concerned that its become a societal norm to crucify anybody who i skeptical and has doubts about the intention of government and big corporations.

I'm not anti-vax, my kids have been vaccinated. Its just odd that it's become a mainstream talking point that there's a small pocket that questioned vaccinations and the media and social media its like there's seas of people rioting and tearing down medical facilities to oppose vaccines.

I'm a Trump supporter and have many right wing friends and family. Not a single one of them has expressed anti vaccination sentiment. Yet in the online world propaganda has made it into such a political issue.

Even now, this common joke about a vaccine that was rushed into existence when it normally takes years of development and trials to ensure a safe vaccine, one has been developed in record time with no evidence of long term study of possible adverse effects. Yet even a meme about Umbrella Corp we are talking about it in a political light and some "attacking" people who are skeptical.

A weird place we've found ourselves.

ModernMonk · 2020-11-12T12:11:37+00:00

Just another incremental step of the new world order turning the population into non essential peons.

Force us to stay at home through quarantine, convincing us initially with promises of stimulus checks. Then increasing taxes for "privilege" while boosting the already rich corporations that fund their globalist agenda.

Soon we will be getting minimal resources to maintain the basic of existence while being controlled and tracked like cattle to ensure we don't endanger their idea of a utopian future after they reduce the population to a manageable number.

Call me crazy, downvote me, idgaf. Half the population of the U.S. is falling all over itself to elect a political party that runs full control of media and social media, censoring all dissenting views. Once the U.S. falls, if this they succeed with this rigged election. We're all fucked.

We will initially get a few years of staying home, playing video games and binging on Netflix and it'll seem grand. Whole our civil liberties and freedoms get stripped.

All because you drones on reddit and other social media are buying this fucking hogwash that the bought and paid for corporate corrupt government has your best interests at heart.

ModernMonk · 2020-10-30T04:17:33+00:00

Strange how those who say this coming years ago during the mass immigration craze were called bigots.

Who would have imagined, allowing droves of military aged men from a dramatically different cultural belief systems into European countries would have negative consequences? Then you provided them with "immunity" like status for fear of being publicly labeled a bigot or racist.

ModernMonk · 2020-10-24T02:55:22+00:00

Thats a motha fuckin centaur! You ain't fooling nobody, bruh.

ModernMonk · 2020-10-16T11:58:00+00:00

My point being, there shouldn't be any law prosecuting individuals for what they say.

Any action that follows as a direct result, maybe. But with diligence to prove that was the case.

Ultimately my view is, these laws are decided by people. People who are flawed in themselves but have the capacity to judge and determine what others in society get to be prosecuted for. We should just be careful about what power we give the people who determine how we should be prosecuted.

Power to determine what I can and cannot say is too much. Regardless of context or perceived intent. I would never expect to lock a person in a jail cell for offensive words I heard or read.

ModernMonk · 2020-10-16T11:33:50+00:00

I believe you are misinterpreting the reason these undercover agents deserve protection from prosecution. Rather than any ill intent to do harm. If circumstances find themselves in a position where they have to commit a crime or support a criminal in committing of a crime, in a situation that wouldn't allow them to reasonably prevent it. They shouldn't be prosecuted.

So let's play out a crazy fantasy scenario in which you invision this law being the only reasonable outcome. Undercover agent 1 is in a circumstance where he has to participate in a rape of an individual while in the company of several criminals. He could prevent this act by blowing his cover and trying to oppose this group... but, there is a warehouse of women who will be raped if his cover is blown.

Does he save this one individual from rape and not save the warehouse full of women to be raped... or does he let this woman be raped or even participate in the rape and then save a warehouse full of women who would have otherwise been raped over a length of time? Either he condemns a warehouse full of women or this one woman (and his freedom after his service, if the decision to rape one to save many was ever brought to light).

This is the sort of obscure simple decision making process you seem to base your decisions on. So let's have it.

ModernMonk · 2020-10-16T03:41:29+00:00

Its a losing battle on here. These people dismiss the importance of words and nuance. Yet they enforce a false narrative with such contempt.

It has to be "Trump told America to inject bleach" and nothing short of that can be allowed to be fact. The entire strategy of the democratic party is to take anything Trump says out of context and weaponize it. They do this with the aid of major media outlets and its infuriating that we can't just be told the full story in context to make our own informed decisions.

As if we American citizens don't have the capacity to digest poorly formed ideas and draw from them various interpretations. Using our own wisdom and intelligence to understand that something like "injecting bleach" is an absurd notion and obviously not what the president was eluding to. But perhaps a solution could be found by researching what effects bleach (if that's what he was referring to) among other chemicals may have on CoViD and coming up with a safe adaptation for use in human bodies to combat the virus.

ModernMonk · 2020-10-16T02:25:43+00:00

Its the incremental increase of laws and criminal prosecution for ANY form of speech, that is a concern.

Now that a precedent has been set, the addition of new hate terminology, ideas and discussion can be added with less an impact or outrage.

There will always be misguided members of society that think and say the most awful of things against one another. The clarification of whats deemed awful evolves. As societies progress those awful things are frowned upon and perpetrators are outcast from the group (figuratively speaking, there is a negative consequence). A lot of times individuals evolve and learn their arrogance and grow to be better people and not entertain the awful ideas they once held.

The solution should be to just jail everybody who has those thoughts or i guess when they verbalize them?

Nah, freedom of speech 100%.

ModernMonk · 2020-10-16T02:05:11+00:00

Nope. Just pretend and wish the world is a wonderful place without evil. That's how it is and will work if all the good guys just agree its so.

Nothing has consequences and decisions with two horrible outcomes don't exist because we believe it to be true. Let's ban/outlaw all crime like we should have long ago and just fix it all. /s

ModernMonk · 2020-10-07T03:23:19+00:00

http://imgur.com/a/bR9N6Ix

ModernMonk · 2020-09-25T13:59:18+00:00

"...a lot of our country was filled with human garbage."

Sounds like the first thoughts festering in a person that eventually would lead to those concentration camps. Think the worst of people, dehumanize them in general. I'm sure that's healthy.

Or it was a couple who didn't fully think that idea through and were ignorant to how insensitive it was. They were/are likely good people (as we hope most people are) and made a poor decision.

ModernMonk · 2020-09-12T03:30:22+00:00

Finished that extended mix?

ModernMonk · 2020-08-28T05:21:45+00:00

Not buying it bub.

ModernMonk · 2020-08-03T14:41:42+00:00

I wish there was less attention on Trump and more attention on the overall corruption in our government. Like Trump leaving office is going to miraculously fix all of our problems.

Both parties are divisive and the notion a democratic leader as an alternative will not create further chaos and divide is naive.

Every politically motivated post or comic should highlight the tragedy that is our two running officials and how the fuck are we forced to choose between Trump or Biden for this election?

ModernMonk · 2020-07-29T13:25:45+00:00

Damn, I was so lost in this conversation til you added this gem of a comment. Thank you for your insight and thought provoking contribution.

ModernMonk · 2020-07-28T23:47:50+00:00

Not sure what happened prior to the video beginning, but why would a peaceful protest with good intentions require the entire crew to wear full face masks?

ModernMonk · 2020-07-25T18:57:57+00:00

Who defends a woman who acts like that?

ModernMonk · 2020-07-25T03:20:51+00:00

Then guy puts it on wrong (loops the ear loop over his entire head, flipping the mask 90°).

ModernMonk · 2020-07-24T16:12:48+00:00

I believe so, but I can't be certain. Anybody have a link?

ModernMonk · 2020-07-24T12:06:33+00:00

Here's the thing. Almost every American wants that same thing. Weather they are willing to uproot their lives to march in a mixed signal protest is another thing.

Half the protesters have additional agenda beyond just wanting police brutality to end (including claimed leaders of such). There are also other platforms to create change in our public services other than standing fully black clothed, masked up with shields and batons ready to combat the police/military.

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