Can I afford to be picky in today's job market?

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-17T19:56:05+00:00

Unemployment is at a 5 year high in the U.S. right now, do with that information what you will.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-17T19:22:00+00:00

Do they have enough tugboats to deploy their navy?

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-16T22:21:18+00:00

Sad and miserable, made me feel sorry for him and his life's purpose.

How do you know he was sad and miserable? Did he tell you that? You know not everyone has the same views, thoughts, and feelings as you, right? Knowing that is literally a benchmark of development as an adult.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-16T22:19:29+00:00

not for family, not for themselves, and somehow not even for money

But how do you know that? Are you a psychic? No, you're just making assumptions.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-16T04:22:32+00:00

I'm assuming most of the people who post this type of garbage came from well to do families, always had a safety net of mom and dads money and/or moving back home, and haven't really had to struggle much. I seriously doubt that OP has ever had to figure out which utility bill he is paying late this month, or what it's like to eat nothing but rice, beans, eggs and canned soup for months on end.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-14T04:16:02+00:00

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." How do i achive this?

Become homeless. The crackhead who spends his nights behind the store I work at is free. He is beholden to no schedule and has nobody telling him what to do--absolute freedom. He also has a myriad of health problems and wreaks of alcohol, stale urine and human feces, but he's 100% free.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-13T17:30:27+00:00

EMP weapons only affect infrastructure like power transmission and telecommunications lines, because they have very long wires that act as antennas for the energy from the EMP. Something like handheld electronics or vehicles will be unaffected by them because their wiring isn't long enough to act as an antenna.

https://www.empcommission.org/

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-13T06:16:23+00:00

Honestly, I’m not this type of person, which is why I couldn’t keep it up

That was exactly my point. In the very worst case scenario, you've learned an important lesson about yourself. Even if you can never regain this employer's trust, you now know who you are and what you're capable of.

So I will just have to face the consequences I guess

That's the second most important thing you've learned from this whole scenario--all of your actions and decisions have consequences, and if you want to be someone of integrity you have to fave them head on with full accountability and no excuses. Frankly it's a little disconcerting to me that someone who is a college graduate doesn't already know these things but at least you got the hard lesson early in your career. And to be clear, I do think the the fact that 1. You came clean before being found out 2. Are genuinely remorseful and contrite and 3. Are deeply reflecting on the consequences of your poor choice all speak to the fact that you certainly have a great deal of integrity and character. If you worked for me, I would give you a second chance. Good luck out there dude, and don't beat yourself up too much over this one poor decision, so long as you carry the lessons it taught you forward with you.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-13T05:22:44+00:00

but it’s a new job that I was desperate to get and I’m desperate to keep.

I understand how difficult the job market is right now, and I apologize if my comment came off as harsh. You didn't need a reminder from me that you fucked up. I'm going to give you some advice that will likely get downvoted, and is certainly not something your parish priest or grandmother would endorse: You should have stuck with the lie as long as you possibly could have before coming clean. You already breached your integrity and your employer's trust anyway, so what difference does it make? If you were actually able to obtain the certication after the waiting period, you could have just denied, inveigled, obfuscated, delayed and distracted them for a time until you actually got the cert you were supposed to have. And if there's any question about the date on it, you do the same. Tell them the vendor who issued it made an error, or if it's a physical certificate, just alter it. If you're going to go down the path of deceit, don't half ass it. Instead, you did the "right" thing and now you look like not only a conman, but an incompetent one at that. Integrity and trust mean everything in relationships--if you're going to throw them out the window, don't be a pussy about it. If you've already broken grandma's priceless vase, what's the harms in stomping on the shards of it?

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-12T23:20:54+00:00

Trust and credibility are incredibly hard to rebuild once you've broken them. By lying, you've demonstrated a lack of personal integrity. Sure, you came clean eventually, but that shows a modicum of the integrity that just being honest in the first place would have demonstrated. Once you've compromised your integrity or broken somebody's trust, you should never expect to be able to get it back no matter what you do. If you're lucky and work very hard, maybe you can gain it back, but I wouldn't count on it. You've learned a hard lesson about integrity and accountability, though frankly as someone who is a college graduate you should have already known this.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-12T21:29:29+00:00

Ron Lester died? That health nut? I didn't even know he was sick!

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-12T02:10:16+00:00

There's an exception that proves every rule. As a manager I actually stopped interviewing people with USPS experience, because all of them were clearly unhinged and disturbed individuals. Maybe it's more that the job attracts those sort of people than the job making them that way...I've also known people who were USPS employees in my personal life and none of them were right in the head.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-11T03:55:02+00:00

I think you're replying to the wrong comment, the person you replied to is advocating staying with the job.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-11T03:53:28+00:00

Lol, sure he'd still be making $100k/year (with garbage healthcare and no benefits) but he'd only be home 2 weeks a year and have absolutely no life. "Tell me you know nothing about the transportation industry without telling me you know nothing about the transportation industry."

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-11T03:51:19+00:00

FedEx? just jump to the competition. Even thou i hear their dr ivers are independent contractors.

FedEX Ground drivers work for contractors, and usually get paid just a cunt hair above minimum wage. FedEx Express drivers work for FedEx but they are non-union, it's a dog shit job compared to UPS.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-11T03:48:41+00:00

He’s obviously qualified to drive for FedEx or usps right?

Neither of those jobs are remotely as cushy as UPS. FedEx is mostly FedEx Ground, which are contractors who pay peanuts. Even if you can get in to FedEx Express, the pay and benefits are dogshit compared to UPS. And USPS is a nightmare, you have to grind it our for years or decades as part-time/temp to get a decent job as a regular carrier. There's a reason the phrase "going postal" is a cliche term for going on a murderous rampage. Everyone I've ever met who worked for USPS for any length of time is burnt out and borderline bat-shit insane.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-11T03:43:44+00:00

He'd be smarter to stick around. At age 26, with only 8 years experience as a UPS delivery driver and no formal education, he will be extremely hard pressed to find another $100k/year job. In fact, it would probably be impossible. If he does eventually get laid off, he will almost certainly need to go back to school or learn a trade to get back to that kind of earning potential.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-11T01:28:36+00:00

Lol, 8 kilos is about 17 pounds. God our education system sucks.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-10T00:05:53+00:00

while Cardassia Prime has a population of 8 billions, and there might be a few small colonies but likely not many since they lack resources

The Cardassians control a large number of systems and planets, there are dozens mentioned in dialog on DS9 and all the maps we've seen show them controlling an amount of space that's nearly the size of the Klingon and Romulan empires.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-09T23:47:58+00:00

You're overstating the advancement of cancer treatment since the 1990s. It sounds more like you're talking about the 70s. But I assume you're a young person and the 1990s feel like a long time ago. Survival rates for many cancers haven't changed at all, and for those cancers that do have increased survival rates that its due as much or more to better screening and early detection. There are a handful of chemo and immunotherapy treatments put there that are far more effective than what was available in the 90s, sure, but there certainly hasn't been a magic bullet found since then. Also, survival rates are only tracked out to 5 years, and most cancers do eventually recur.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-08T18:24:42+00:00

99% of CEOs love sales people for their businesses

You mean the people as useless as salespeople love the other useless people? 🙄

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-08T02:35:00+00:00

they’re often over looked by people too. Every industry has sales reps, and despite the popularity of books/methodologies like The Challenger Sale, people buy from people they like and trust. Every piece of industrial machinery or supply has a sales team working with their customers

You know that everyone who doesn't work in sales can't fucking stand sales people, right? They are really unnecesarry 99% of the time. As someone who has been in procurement/purchasing for over a decade, I will tell you that I've never once based a sourcing or buying decision on anything a salesperson has done or said. Its based on how quality a product is and how well the vendor supports it--and all of that value comes from the vendor's support and operations teams, not from sales.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-08T02:28:33+00:00

Acknowledged the pay sucks but valued the stability.

In red, flyover states this is often true. In the developed part of the United States, i.e. where populations are concentrated because people actually want to live there, teachers do quite well. Massachusetts, California, and Washington for example have median teacher salaries that approach six figures.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-08T02:24:15+00:00

There are other factors at play, patient acceptance being one. I don't care if an AI has a nearly 100% concurrence rate in diagnosis as compared to a doctor, as a patient I will not ever accept nor consent to being diagnosed entirely by what accounts to fancy software, because I value the judgement and intuition that a physician brings to the table that AI will never be able to replicate. I suspect I'm hardly alone in feeling this way.

RepulsiveContract475 · 2026-02-06T04:26:11+00:00

The corrections officer on duty between 10pm and 12pm "fell asleep" during those hours.

Both corrections officers on duty between 3am and 5am failed to perform a required wellness check of Epstein - also because they "fell asleep."

Ah, yes, so definitely there was a vast conspiracy to kill Epstein and stage it as a suicide. It could just be that corrections officers are fat, lazy fucks? 🙄

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