[-] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

You joke, but some people are actually that dumb.

I used to work in the oilfield, first day on a new rig with a new company. We were swabbing (pulling fluid samples, super laid back work) and had 2 guys on, 2 guys off.

Sitting in the doghouse our driller yells over to the rig asking what time it is, I check the clock and yell back "About twenty to four" dude puts his hands on his hips like Karen would and starts to glare at me. My push leans out the window and yelled "Two Four Zero" blew my fucking mind.

Few days later he was dropping people off and we were at a new site so he changed pick up time to quarter to six. But in his mind that meant 25 minutes before 6, or 5:35. Needless to say he got there and I wasn't ready, which as a new roughneck on a crew is a cardinal sin.

Got in the truck and we drove about a block and I apologized and said I wasn't expecting him so soon. Dude pulled over looked over his shoulder at me and said "How quarters in a dollar, retard?". I replied "Four?" "Wrong twenty five!"

Needless to say that job didn't last long for me.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Wouldn't this kind of be like drug addicts telling children why drugs are bad?

Very few ways to better learn why something is right than far reaching consequences for doing it wrong.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

$3/month really means nothing to me, considering I already $18.99/month for a YouTube music family plan.

My issue is them purposely attempting to make my experience worse and then selling what they have arbitrarily taken away back to me.

If you product is so valuable the only way a conpany can sell it is to attack your user's experience so you pay them to stop it really starts drawing too many similarities to a mob protection racket.

EDIT: In order to be fully transparent, apparently inflation made a fool of me, the YouTube premium family plan has increased to $22.99/month so the difference would be $4 per month, not $3.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

That's a very loose definition of the word "struggles"

[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And she takes her boebs out at a musical in front of children.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

I generally don't like the CBC, but I personally find their international political reporting top tier due to this kind of approach.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

But is has ~T~i~T~a~N~i~U~m~

[-] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

Can they at least not use a corpse nailed to some pieces of wood as a symbol.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

This is officially the second dumbest take on the value of a quarter.

I knew a person who thought quarter to six meant 5:35 because "how many cents in a quarter dumbass."

[-] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

This is the problem.

Framing this as the consumer doing something wrong and withholding wages from the servers is total bullshit.

The real fault is the industry underpaying their staff and leaving it up to the consumers to subsidize a significant portion of their income.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

Yaaargh mateys, you do be asking the wrong questions.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago

Doesn't this completely violate the terms of his release on bail?

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