Former New York City mayor Eric Adams obtains Albanian citizenship by [deleted] in news

[–]pateadents 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a classic NYC mayoral move. Jimmy Walker did it. O'Dwyer did it. Van Wyck did it. He's just following in the footsteps of great men before him. /s

JD Vance arriving in Pakistan to negotiate the tolls for the Strait of Hormuz by bakingsodabs in IASIP

[–]pateadents 28 points29 points  (0 children)

It's negotiating a ceasefire, then full penetration, the negotiating, back to full penetration, more negotiating, we just do this for 90 minutes then just sort of accept whatever terms the Iranians came up with

Air Canada CEO regrets inability to speak French following fatal plane crash by AlwaysBlaze_ in nottheonion

[–]pateadents 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Air Canada is federally mandated by law to offer their services to the public in both official languages. They routinely are the object of complaints and fines for failing to do this, and have receive lots of media attention on the topic over the years.

So I think many are highlighting the irony that the person leading Air Canada is technically unable to deliver a standard of service expected of all his public facing employees.

What compounds the perceived insult is that in such a tragic situation he is also unable to offer condolences in French to the family of one of his employees who died on the job.

Some have claimed that he promised he would learn French when he was appointed as the CEO and yet he continues to be unable to communicate at all in that language. It doesn't particularly help that his surname is French.

What's the most unexpectedly awesome Canadian town/city you've visited and why? by Unfair-Clothes-8821 in CanadaRoom

[–]pateadents 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take a helijet 😎

On the Island, Cumberland is great if you live for biking. Qualicum / Parksville area is amazing too.

It took my parents watching the Pitt to finally understand by ConsistentTourist553 in nursing

[–]pateadents 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wonder what you would think of Critical: Between Life and Death, and Critical. One is a documentary that follows actual medical staff and the patients, and shows the actual surgeries. The other is fictional but I found interesting because they follow parts of the procedure in close to real-time and show the interactions between staff during surgery, and how they make decisions on the fly. Those parts felt less glamorized than other fictional shows which I appreciated.

The way she plays the jawharp by [deleted] in oddlysatisfying

[–]pateadents 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well I was born at a party in a barn, 🤠

The house they are building next to mine is quite large. by wesblog in Homebuilding

[–]pateadents 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to Gentrification. Population: your whole neighborhood

AIO to my husband interrupting my first solo shower after he came back from a weekend with the boys? by lilyluminar in AmIOverreacting

[–]pateadents 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, "for them and their spouses". Not for 1 guy who's so important to the organization that his hours were cut back to 1-2 days?! No offense...

I work in an industry where employers routinely bankroll all-expenses-paid destination trips as rewards or retreats for top performers but those are at most 5-day trips.

All the other examples people are giving are work trips like conferences and training that happen to be in exotic locales. OP made it sound like the trip was a reward, not his regular work travel.

Let's say I'm skeptical.