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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • A friend of mine got fucked by a local pizza place after the waitress changed a tip by adding a comma and a few zeros.

    Pizza place refused to refund, credit card company wouldn’t cancel the transaction because it was too large. We had to start a social media campaign to shame the place into refunding him. They turned a $15 tip into a $1,500 tip.

    So I definitely appreciate stuff like this





  • That’s a weird take. The shopping part is provided to you for free for your convenience. Not returning the shopping cart means you are creating a nuisance for other people who are coming to the store to get the things that they need. It is blocking parking spots, potentially going to damage somebody’s car, and no longer in a centralized location.

    Not returning it is inconsiderate in multiple ways.


  • They are notoriously bad. And they don't get fixed. Got my Subaru and

    1. The radio defaults to SiriusXM every time I turn on the car, even though I do not pay for it and do not want to.
    2. Android Auto and Apple Car Play would cut out regularly
    3. Eventually the entire system would just randomly crash and reboot frequently throughout a trip.
    4. Found out there was a TSB out on the radio for frequent issues, and had to get it warrantied.
    5. Even with the new radio, I have occasional issues with Apple Car Play freezing
    6. I can't have both an android and iPhone connected at the same time, because I won't be able to use Android Auto, I'm forced into Car Play

    And on the new cars Subaru made the screen narrow and tall. This effectively reduced the amount of screen space for Android Auto/car play in comparison with prior years.

    Add to that the entire display is now needed for HVAC, heated seats, etc and do you really want to depend on a glitchy computer that frequently crashes?






  • The thing is I spent a LOT of time in voice chats playing games as a kid. It always worked well then. It hasn’t changed at all. I don’t need to be on a video call. I jump into a voice chat channel and hang out. People come and go, and are quiet for the most part.

    Having come from an office environment where everyone worked in cubes, it truly is no different. I don’t need to be face to face with coworkers, because I wasn’t face to face for most of the conversations we had in the office. We’d stare at our screens and talk over the walls.

    When we were looking at each other’s faces, it was in the conference room. Those formal meetings are effectively replaced with video calls - and more often are effectively replaced with emails like they should be.

    This probably largely depends on your field. But for me, my productivity is higher working from home, because at least at home I can choose when to tune out the noise. In the office, management was personally offended by me listening to music while working alone. I was told to focus on my paycheck if I needed help focusing.





  • Worked at a company where I built their entire Amazon sales channel. Literally brought in millions in revenue. Dealt with a lot of shit throughout, and didn’t get paid nearly enough.

    They had been dangling the promise of a bonus structure or commission in front of me for a year.

    Boss flipped out over stupid shit regularly.

    Throughout COVID, they expected us to be in office. This went as well as could be expected and the office became a huge transmission vector.

    But what finally did it was being brought into the owner’s office and getting told “We just bought this company. We need you to learn their 3PL system, learn their website backend, and manage their inventory levels. If this goes well, you might even get a raise in a few months.”

    I was gone within a month.