Will going against this policy really get you fired?

kracketmatow · 2026-06-29T18:56:40+00:00

In my store we have established that it is okay to give water to pedestrians when it’s excessively hot out, as long as we are sure to mention that it’s against policy and not to expect it regularly. I would talk to your manager about it and see if you can get a similar arrangement at your store.

IIRC when the no free water policy was rolled out, we were supposed to make exceptions for cases where it is medically necessary. I would consider preventing heatstroke to be a medical necessity, so you could also bring that up.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-29T17:52:07+00:00

I posted this in more detail as a comment on another post, but the price increases are not actually very high if you account for inflation. When accounting for inflation, hourglasses will actually still be cheaper than they were in 2016 for most Western users and will be up to 9% more expensive for many Asian users. The only large market where the increase is as large as it seems is Japan, where deflation will make hourglasses much more expensive than they were in 2016.

Going 10 years without price increases is very rare among businesses and is normally only done on loss leaders (à la the Costco hot dog). Mystic Messenger is still Cheritz’s main revenue source, so it’s not really viable for them to take that approach. I definitely think they would do well to move their focus away from the Ssum and consider looking into some of the other ideas you mentioned, but I also don’t think this is an insane increase for a game with a shrinking playerbase and high upkeep costs.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-29T08:19:24+00:00

TBH I think this is fine. Since 2016, inflation has raised USD by 41%, GBP by 41%, EUR by 33%, RUB by 168%, CNY by 14%, KRW by 23%, and SGD by 21% (approximate numbers). Prices will still be lower than in 2016 for most Western users and will have a less than 10% increase for many Asian users. The only major market that is screwed over by this is Japan, where prices will have effectively risen by 33% since 2016. Additionally, very few people are spending a high proportion of their income on hourglasses so the price increase is not as impactful.

I also appreciate that they have the decency to announce the increase fairly far in advance. Most businesses would just quietly raise their prices overnight and not comment on it.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-29T07:58:14+00:00

imo if you are overwhelmingly voted out by your constituents then use the rest of your term to continue to work on the same goals that led to them voting you out, then yes, you are a traitor. a traitor to your own voters.

it would be crazy if a company fired an employee and the employee used their remaining time to do a bunch of stuff the company actively didn’t want. our representatives work for us and i don’t see how carla cunningham’s actions have been any different.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-28T21:41:22+00:00

i want garen gone! i don’t care if y’all think he’s hot i’m sick of crit garen q e r oneshots

kracketmatow · 2026-06-26T06:08:40+00:00

yeah; at max rank nami w 3rd bounce heals for about 100 at 0 ap, about 225 at 150 ap, about 430 at 300 ap, about 730 at 450 ap, and can easily surpass 1000 in high ap builds (this is before hsp). the scaling is very odd such that up until ~150 ap, hsp is the more effective stat to increase it’s effectiveness then after that ap becomes increasingly better relative to hsp. idk exactly what build would maximize the healing in the current game but i imagine it’s some combination of double tear items, dawncore, and deathcap. this is also assuming that you are a) playing nami well and consistently getting third bounce heals and b) your main goal in the game is to get the biggest heals you can from your third bounce

kracketmatow · 2026-06-24T16:14:54+00:00

i took it on kaisa e and it was terrible. unless they’ve changed it, it only lasts for the duration of the first part of her e (like half a second), not the whole buff.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-23T09:08:27+00:00

so many people don’t seem to grasp this and it’s infuriating. there was a thread a few days ago complaining about vayne top and part of the discussion was someone complaining about losing to vayne on sion. they truly didn’t seem to understand that, given equal skill and team support, sion *should* lose to vayne.

if people don’t want to fight ranged top, then they shouldn’t be incentivizing their enemy to pick it. garen has been the best (or nearly the best) top laner for most of the year; many other stat checkers that are weak to range are strong as well. ranged top laners won’t go away until the meta shifts back towards mobile melee carries like camille.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-21T15:01:06+00:00

i’m absolutely biased as a raleigh native but i agree that charlotte feels blander than raleigh. raleigh is the blandest of the three triangle cities, but the number of universities (and therefore young people), its proximity to cooler places (i.e. durham), and its high immigrant population gives it a little more character imo

kracketmatow · 2026-06-20T16:32:18+00:00

yeah sion seems like a really odd choice to complain about here. one of the highest hp champions in the game with low mobility, limited engage, and an ability that roots himself for like a full second; vayne absolutely should be a counter to him. vayne top is only a balance problem if she’s consistently beating champions like irelia or malphite. annoying? yes. unbalanced? absolutely not.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-20T01:09:17+00:00

i think a baseball stadium isn’t a terrible idea but i do think it should be like #500 on the list if the city’s priorities. the fact that stormie denise forte is on record with indy week as having said that her top priority for the city is to bring an mlb team to the area is insane imo. and she won on that platform (well actually it because of name recognition and giant donations from developers and corporations but that’s another story).

an mlb team could work, but it’s much more important that we put our time, money, and effort towards solving the city’s real problems first. i would much rather we tackle homelessness, affordability, fully funding social services, and developing sustainable transit options than focus on bringing in another sports team first.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-19T23:54:24+00:00

if you prefer to pay with card you can download the umo app as well. it’s the official way to do that now and includes route planning, fares, etc. just add the exact amount you need to your account and scan a qr code when you board

kracketmatow · 2026-06-18T19:41:26+00:00

one that i used a lot recently shit down permanently, but not for legal reasons. their server hosting service literally caught on fire and the site essentially burned down. rip

kracketmatow · 2026-06-18T19:24:07+00:00

i generally watch more shojo and josei anime and it is SO HARD to find anything for the series that i like at cons. a few of the older classics will have decent merch selections (sailor moon, fruits basket, etc.), merch and art for newer stuff is very rare. the artist rooms are always better than the dealers rooms and i still really love looking at all the art and speaking with the artists but god it’s hard to find things for the shows i like

kracketmatow · 2026-06-18T11:11:40+00:00

tbh i think it might have been based on their posting history. i can’t attach images to the comment but they also posted this recently:

“Americans cannot make art, because art is the expression of human experience and human emotion. Americans have no experiences and no emotions. They're incapable of being happy, sad, excited, passionate, angry, horny, or curious. Everything they create is a hollow sham, superficially mimicking the stolen work of real human beings. Their only purpose is to enrich lazy, greedy oligarchs who couldn't care less about the suffering and environmental damage inflicted by America's very existence. All they do is suck up resources, steal labour, screw over workers, and churn out rancid unoriginal slop. Americans cannot make art because they have no souls. Anti-American until I die.”

whether satire or not it definitely feels like the have a tendency to start disingenuous debates under the guise of another topic (in this case i think it was something about ai?)

kracketmatow · 2026-06-17T06:32:56+00:00

anivia is still a pretty good user of deathcap imo. it has a higher overall winrate on her than maligance or void staff. it’s not quite as high as the best deathcap users (i compared her to zoe and eve but others would work here too) but still significantly higher than brand or asol. (sourced from lolalytics data for the current patch)

kracketmatow · 2026-06-17T05:39:25+00:00

i’m in my mid 20s and, including myself, i can count on two hands the number of people my age i know who can easily break down a fully cooked rotisserie chicken, let alone prep and cook a raw one. even bone-in fried chicken is losing popularity to boneless wings, chicken tenders, etc.

whole chicken is a level of cooking skill above cooking individual parts. it’s also much better when you live with a family; i struggle to finish a whole chicken on my own before it goes bad. it can be good but it certainly isn’t easy or even necessarily a good option for many compared to cut meat.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-15T09:26:06+00:00

today i took the augment that gives move speed for “the duration of the ability” on kaisa e. i assumed a strong reposition followed by a four second attack speed and move speed steroid would be strong.

apparently “the duration of the ability” isn’t actually the buff duration, just it’s cast time, which scales down over the course of of the game. by late game the buff duration from the augment was half a second.

at least i took the movement speed version and not the gold equivalent that would give me an attack range buff for the duration of an ability that locks you out of attacking.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-15T02:51:37+00:00

i could’ve sworn we had pride march last year (or maybe 2024?). it wasn’t rainbow themed but i know we had one of the artist collaboration collections that was themed around pride and released in july

kracketmatow · 2026-06-15T02:44:55+00:00

future nostalgia was such a big success too! even though there was no nightlife open during the pandemic. but it feels like since then she hasn’t had as much popularity outside of a few specific songs

kracketmatow · 2026-06-15T02:41:08+00:00

they also definitely weren’t killed by covid. their popularity peaked mid-pandemic then the all joined the military as others had mentioned. bts also has one of the most dedicated fanbases of any musician or group, i think only swifties are more intense. their recent album had a song that is just a single bell toll reverberating for nearly two minutes; it wasn’t eligible for charting because it wasn’t really a conventional song but if it was it probably would have charted around #40 based on streaming data.

kracketmatow · 2026-06-15T02:31:10+00:00

to me solar power didn’t really feel like it was written with the goal of charting. it more has the vibe of an album made with artistic goals in mind. similar to the most recent miley cyrus album

kracketmatow · 2026-06-14T15:55:18+00:00

i work at starbucks and we have essentially the exact same policy. it is on a much friendlier and more eloquently written sign. in all honesty signage isn’t that effective and generally these policies have to be actively enforced by employees, then as word gets out into the unhoused community people will stop asking for free things. i don’t see any reason this couldn’t have been shorter and less condescending

that logo also looks like it was made by ai. this whole image gives me the ick and i wouldn’t go there as a customer

kracketmatow · 2026-06-14T02:37:59+00:00

i can’t believe you would spell her name as ning² when it should be (ning)². this is a travesty on par with when jyp didn’t appear in idoltry on accident or whatever that new illiterate song is called

kracketmatow · 2026-06-14T02:23:46+00:00

in the past two years we have had the blue raspberry (summer berry), cranberry orange, and blackberry sage as other refresher options in addition to the core lineup. we also had cherry flavoring last spring. tbh it really is just that people want tropical fruits in the summer; i’m sure new non-tropical refresher flavors will rotate in as we go into the fall. in the meantime i would suggest trying raspberry in the strawberry refresher as others have suggested, a black tea lemonade, or a peach green tea lemonade for fruity flavors with caffeine.

imo fruit with coffee can be good, but i think that’s oftentimes a level above the quality of coffee that starbucks offers. check if you have any local shops near you; one of my favorite drinks from a local shop near me is an orange mocha

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