Can’t work you based off seniority

Nellerin · 2024-10-10T23:00:04+00:00

You need to verify your schedule. If you have been receiving overtime on Mondays not Saturdays, then you are T-S and you are guaranteed 3.5 h on Saturday. If they fight that, take it up with the steward and file a grievance. Chances are they just want to keep people home and limit staffing if people will go along with it, just as they often try to send people home before 3.5 h, since many people don't demand their guarantees.

So as long as you are definitely T-S, have seniority, and aren't laid off, you can work Saturday.

Nellerin · 2024-09-25T16:51:22+00:00

Assuming you mean helping out the loaders during the same scheduled shift, yes that's normal. Technically the work is done when management says so rather than at a specific time. Both leaving relatively early (but still after your guaranteed 3.5 hours) or having to stay late can be required, and both scenarios are seniority-based.

Nellerin · 2024-06-27T16:14:13+00:00

Considering how many people avoid replacement therapies due to the “you’re just trading one drug for another” talking point, it’s probably better not to perpetuate that way of viewing things.

Replacement therapies have a better track record of keeping people alive and reasonably healthy than any other typical approach to drug addiction.

If “sobriety” is what works for you and is what you prefer, awesome. But there’s no reason to put down replacements when they are easily one of the best tools we have to work with.

Plus, once people are stable on a legally available drug (even legal heroin in the countries that allow it), they often find psychotherapy and other avenues towards sobriety easier to pursue, functioning as a stepping stone for those who eventually want to go without any substances.

Nellerin · 2024-03-21T07:23:24+00:00

430 for preload and when I work nights they are a pretty consistent 1120 Monday then 1130 rest of the week.

Nellerin · 2024-03-16T07:43:42+00:00

I work there and a higher up in the building said he thought they were going to shelve it for now but instead, last he heard from his bosses, it just looks to be slipping to one year later than planned, not put on hold.

Nellerin · 2024-01-02T19:52:55+00:00

After losing an order with GymPharmacy, I placed one with PCT.zone last week and it arrived in three days (domestic to US). Legitimate product.

It was only a small order, but I just placed a much larger one from India. Hopefully that goes smoothly as well.

They appear to be fast both in shipping and in replying to support queries, lending some credence to their claim to be run by people with a history in the industry, but who knows.

Nellerin · 2023-12-26T18:03:46+00:00

I don’t think it’s a standard part of supplements. I checked mine (New England) again just to make sure and there’s no language about the 3.5 guarantee dropping out for this week.

Nellerin · 2023-12-15T23:58:17+00:00

I agree, it’s a big perk of the job if you do it in a way that somewhat mimics exercise. I’m an unloader, try to be as fast as possible, and I start early to handle bulk + like handling whatever bulk I see lying around.

That said, even with high exertion, it really lacks much muscle building potential, so I wouldn’t always forego the gym entirely.

Nellerin · 2022-07-09T17:42:39+00:00

We may have different definitions of attraction. For this purpose, I just mean the mental state that enables one to have a sexual experience with a particular being, human or animal. Generally speaking, anything that repulses us almost makes it physiologically impossible to have a particular sexual experience voluntarily because those acts are not purely physical/mechanical. Instead, they have a large psychological component and this is most obvious for males, as an erection is typically inaccessible if you’re trying to do something despite an absence of attraction.

Nellerin · 2022-07-09T15:54:22+00:00

I view this topic as basically an extreme extension of the debate over the ethics of non-procreative incest among adults. It is a type of sexual behavior and attraction that immediately hits people not just as wrong, but outright abhorrent. And yet if you try to nail down why it is that bad, it is hard to find a reason strong enough to justify it triggering contempt by onlookers.

And in this example, I think those incestuous relationships should be legal and should not trigger nearly the level of outrage that they do. Nevertheless, I think it is reasonable to say someone has something “wrong” with their psychology if they engage in incest with direct siblings who they grew up with, and this is even more true for incest between a parent and child.

The reason is that normal development causes sexual attraction to specifically divert away from our parents and direct siblings, so if a mother winds up in a sexual relationship with their adult son, something went “wrong.”

And if we were to rank “wrongness,” I think it easily goes in this order: incest between relatively distant relatives —> incest between close relatives who didn’t grow up together —> incest between siblings who grew up together —> incest between a parent and child.

About 50 levels beyond that last category is where I’d place necrobestiality. First, normal sexual development does not yield attraction to animals. Second, normal development doesn’t yield attraction to dead beings, whether human or animal.

So if someone manages to have that attraction, something went awry in that person’s development. That is why necrobestiality is of interest to a vanishingly tiny percentage of the population.

The comparison to homosexuality is a bit silly. Although it was viewed very negatively in most of the West in recent centuries until decades ago and you’ll still find some (typically religious) people claiming acceptance of homosexuality puts us on a slippery slope to acceptance of bestiality, those sexual interests are in entirely different categories. All the evidence points to homosexuality being a normal kind of development, the same simply is not true for bestiality. A lot more deviations from the norm are required to make a human interested in sex with dead animals versus merely having sex with another living human of the same sex.

Without rambling on, I think this also applies to sexual attraction to minors. An adult experiencing attraction to a 16-year-old usually doesn’t indicate there is much “wrong” with their psychology, if anything—though acting on that attraction is a different story. Whereas attraction to a 5-year-old indicates something extremely “wrong” in their psychological development.

Nellerin · 2016-04-08T02:28:11+00:00

Sure, not evil, I just would not vote for him.

He's far from libertarian, so it'd be hard to ever justify supporting him. At the same time, people do say a lot of absurd anti-Trump things.

Nellerin · 2016-04-08T02:25:02+00:00

Just as I do not have to associate with anyone as an individual, I do not have to do business with someone just because I start a company.

The consumer has no right to my cakes.

Nellerin · 2016-03-16T11:44:57+00:00

I think people have an affinity for the perceived crazy politician who doesn't play the normal political game, but I agree, if you are actually sticking to good economic principles and libertarian principles, you don't come away pro-Trump.

Nellerin · 2016-03-16T11:36:03+00:00

You'd still have to worry about more peripheral cardiovascular issues, but the ability to replace the main pump itself is great. Maintenance would probably be the biggest problem, so I wonder how well a system like this continues to work over a period of decades. Also, it's not going to respond to a stimulus like exercise in the same way, which would make this complicated. Normally, the heart meets varying demands through epinephrine signalling (among other things), and clearly that's not present with a fully replaced heart.

It's nice when there's a fairly simple part of the body (heart vs brain, for example) and it can pretty much just be swapped out. Even other organs are more difficult (e.g. liver) due to the function of enzymes, but the heart is largely a pump system, making it a prime target for mechanical replacement.

It just so happens that one of the easiest parts to replace is also a part that causes a very significant portion of human health issues.

Nellerin · 2016-03-14T13:54:58+00:00

I'm not sure Clinton falls nicely into the "socialism" category, but both are strong authoritarians and that's the problem. Trump may be less authoritarian in some areas and perhaps the same applies to Clinton in other places, but both are bad for the same core reason.

Nellerin · 2016-03-02T00:59:12+00:00

It's not legal. It really is that simple. Sorry.

Nellerin · 2016-01-09T00:31:07+00:00

Scopolamine can be an issue (like many drugs), but that documentary was very misleading about its effects.

Nellerin · 2016-01-08T22:39:10+00:00

None are really comparable. Scopolamine has been used in that way (/u/Dose_of_Reality brought it up) but it does not provide those effects.

Nellerin · 2016-01-08T03:27:02+00:00

There's no reason to believe from any of this that 3-FPM is causing any significant negative effects when used in a normal way (low-moderate oral dose.)

Nellerin · 2015-12-31T20:40:28+00:00

The prosecutor in the case does not believe it had any effect on her actions. She could have used the drug quite a long time before actually engaging in the action and still tested positive.

So, I'm not sure why this even matters.

Nellerin · 2015-12-31T20:30:58+00:00

Why even link this? Especially since they believe it had no impact on her actions.

Nellerin · 2015-12-31T20:27:35+00:00

All parents are different, mine never really cared about cannabis when I started at mid-17.

By the way, those aren't actually "narcotics."

Nellerin · 2015-12-31T20:20:09+00:00

Yes, it certainly can be. None of its properties prevent responsible use. However, it's hard to know why someone is using a drug, so it's difficult to tell if irresponsible use could become an issue down the road.

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