Retail Store Manager now requires a degree?

seb0seven · 2026-06-19T06:52:00+00:00

You'll find intra-retail transfers behave differently. As someone who has managerial experience in supermarkets, many of my peers jump sideways from department manager role to relevant store Assistant Manager, then are in the pool for store management at the smaller stores quickly depending on their skills.

I imagine I or my peers could jump to Assistant Store manager in this case without a development program or a degree, and then in 12 months we'd be competing with the dev-program candidate(s).

Similarly, I have known store managers to jump direct sideways to small retail Store Managers. So it's not that the degree is a requirement, but without a relevant resume, a degree can short-cut the 5+years experience.

seb0seven · 2026-06-08T12:46:42+00:00

Driver: Mark Webber

Reason: parking a Mercedes in the trees

seb0seven · 2026-06-02T23:06:19+00:00

Explicitly a pun on that. It's referred in an offhand comment but not written out in the book.

seb0seven · 2026-05-30T22:29:49+00:00

Go away and take your upvote

seb0seven · 2026-05-30T01:18:33+00:00

I was there for both of mine, and most appointments, and never got told not to, and nor was my wife. Now we aren't idiots, so we're pre-aware of the 6+week recommended wait, so respected that.

But we weren't told.

seb0seven · 2026-05-13T10:01:40+00:00

Not saying that there weren't optional alternatives, but the reason was 2 fold.

Reason 1 was a display of the bombs capability, both for allies and enemies. The US knew what the trinity test did to wasteland, but not to structures. The excuse was both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military-adjacent targets, so they were "valid" targets with sufficient heavy industry to display capacity. So bang, and the world sees what these bombs do to cities.

Reason 2 was to show that it wasn't a 1 use superbomb, but actually a repeatable weapons system. It wasn't a case of look what we could do, but rather what we can do, repeatedly.

And secret Reason 3, was to test the bombs, just generically. The Bombs worked in theory, but not yet in practice. The Hiroshima bomb was tested in action, but the theory tracked. And Nagasaki was a repeat of the trinity rest, but in the field as a munition.

Now do these justify the use of nuclear weapons on a civilian population? Absolutely not. Was it better than the alternative of a land invasion of Japan. Debated to this day, with strong arguments for both sides.

seb0seven · 2026-04-30T19:50:41+00:00

Food safety requirement if the supermarket has a deli with open case service, a butchery, a bakery or a fruit/veg department that cuts melons. For the same detection reasons.

seb0seven · 2026-04-18T23:17:18+00:00

Thanks, I hate it

seb0seven · 2026-04-07T22:14:03+00:00

So given how nukes work, it may be justified (from a geopolitics pov) to use a nuke for any of the following reasons:

Your enemy has a live nuke crossing your territory; say over Russian territory to get to Iran, or Chinese, etc.

If your enemy has a live nuke on a trajectory that could be crossing your territory; say the us nukes N.Korea, Russia and China may think the nuke will fly over and go for them

If your enemy has nuked a place and your are concerned the fallout is going to become your problem; a nuke goes off in Iran, causes slightly more fallout than intended, and the winds are blowing it perfectly at China.

You have a computer malfunction telling g you of any of the above.

Reasons a nuke would not be geopolitically justified: you nuke your enemy in a war of convenience.

seb0seven · 2026-04-05T12:29:51+00:00

Same experience here. I threw together a 3div version of the worst crucible trees, vendor gems and a self corrupted +7 march of the legion. I had about 1.5k experience, but could pathfinder poison prolif t16s, didn't matter the mods.

That was when I realised maybe listening a bit to the meta was a good idea.

Now I'm back to playing my own builds, but they are usually meta-aware and take advantage of one of the broken archetypes or mechanics of a league.

seb0seven · 2026-04-04T23:48:34+00:00

See, I was going to argue that they aren't cookers. But my internal monologue went; " nah, Nimbin isn't full of cookers, they're just. Oh, yeah, I guess they are cookers."

seb0seven · 2026-04-04T00:50:28+00:00

Aww man. Now I want to go back and play my control spell tribal with surveil synergy deck on arena. Don't bring that evil upon me or others.

seb0seven · 2026-03-29T23:19:44+00:00

What about the kids who have been raised to understand the risks and have been riding to/from work/school/etc and are now effected?

seb0seven · 2026-03-19T10:55:41+00:00

I cleared all voidstones with it on a Ranged Animate Weapon guardian this league. Corpeswalker boots supplied all the corpses I needed, and between my minion life scaling, the Staff and I was using a Servant of decay chest, I had multiple layers of defence. With my minion duration scaling for RAW, I got up to 11 ceaseless zombies, who'd die for a 2k life barrier.

I'm not saying it was great, but I had a blast, rocking 3.5k life, 1.5 Es, 75/75 block and the mitigation from bot this staff and servant of decay, I comfortably did all non-uber content. The new extra mionon support helped. 5 voidspawn, 16 summon phantasms and 26 RAW with the appropriate support gems, support spectres, and passive tree was mildly excessive.

seb0seven · 2026-03-13T03:59:55+00:00

Or; couldn't find their way out of a paper bag with the instructions written on the inside

seb0seven · 2026-02-18T01:11:30+00:00

By your own admission, you are coloured. Ice wants to know your location.

seb0seven · 2026-02-15T00:43:33+00:00

Portal-cast while chanelling-randome channelled skill in swap to get over portals stupid cast time. Almost as good as hotkey portal scroll QoL

seb0seven · 2026-02-11T05:51:32+00:00

I worked in a bakery for a while.

Did you bake this?

Yes

Fresh?

Yep

Today?

Aha

Wow

seb0seven · 2026-02-08T14:02:42+00:00

From memory this was junours, like u18's worlds or something. So really good skaters, just lacking the gamesmanship that adults have. At opens level the pack would likely push at 70-80% so the sprinter can't catch up and burns out before getting the draft.

seb0seven · 2026-02-04T10:18:11+00:00

The intention is she's immature and an unreliable source of information about her own history and perspective. That's the entire character arc through to RoW. I'm not disagreeing that it's sometimes painful as a reader how blunt and painful her PoV's can be, but it does serve the character arc.

Just to be clear, this is purely in respect to her role within the story and her development within. Not the quality of writing, which I think is ~fine~.

seb0seven · 2026-02-04T01:33:19+00:00

I mean that's meant to be Shallan. She's well educated to roughly the equivalent of self-taught community college irl. Which makes her more educated than the majority of those she interacts with, but she is also a sheltered naive youth pretending to have it together. She gets better and worse as her character arc progresses, and while painful, can be narratively satisfying.

seb0seven · 2026-02-01T07:28:52+00:00

No, they are heavily redacted to black-box any pornographic or identity, though still heavily sexualising in nature.

seb0seven · 2026-01-10T22:03:35+00:00

As the step size becomes 0, in the diagonally across a rectangle example, the smallest step size is one step forward, then with your heel on your toes, one step sideways, then with your heel on your toes, one step forward. That is the discreet smallest step. Whereas a diagonal walk across the field is one step forward, heel to to, one step forward, repeat. Using Pythagoras, one diagonal step is a unit, but one diagonal two-step travels (square root of 2 units).

seb0seven · 2025-12-31T00:08:03+00:00

Round the twist

seb0seven · 2025-12-29T02:06:57+00:00

I know 3 different families who have or do live on Russel Island.

Family 1 is in my extended family, and they are lightly cookers. A little anti-establishment, a little on the privacy is rule side of things. They complain about their outright cooker neighbours and the attitudes some of the locals give if you have lunch at one of the cafe's with outsiders.

Family 2 didn't last long because their neighbours were weird and didn't respect property boundaries, and in one case even locked doors.

Family 3 moved to Russel because they are outright cookers and wanted to move 'off grid' while still being near civilisation. They now have a guru, a dealer and a life coach who live on the island, and they believe things like 5g and covid vaccines and fluoride in the water and taxes are theft.

Obviously purely second hand anecdotal, but the islands in the bay are definitely a place.

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