Everyone going shopping on Black Friday, be aware of three things:
The retail workers are working 12 hours shifts. We are threatened with losing our jobs if we don’t show up unless we’re dying in the hospital. I had an assistant manager show up with fucking strep because he would’ve been fired otherwise. Yes, he did infect 7 and hospitalize 2 coworkers; who knows how many members of the public he infected.
The stores have, maybe, 5 of that special cheap thing you’re after. Corporate does this on purpose, and stores are not allowed to order enough. The prices aren’t even that much lower. They lie about how expensive something is to fool you into thinking you’re getting a discount. You aren’t.
Most of the workers you will come across will be new hires for the sole purpose of being bodies for about three months before they’re fired. They actually don’t know anything because they’ve been working there for maybe two weeks, and have had no real training. I was once hired at Staples a week before Black Friday and expected to know how to deal with phones, coupons, the online ordering site, and AS400 after five 6-hour shifts. This is the kind of person you will likely be dealing with at Black Friday.
Do me and my retail family a favor and don’t shop Black Friday. Any company that needs a sale day like Black Friday to get their sales out of the red doesn’t deserve to be in business.
This also goes for anyone that works shipment too. We’re suddenly expected to stay as late as they want you to even if they know you don’t have a car and rely on a ride to get you to and from work and know you can’t stay late. Shipment workers will suddenly start getting berated for not getting things done and it is by far the most stressful time to be a shipment worker for any store. Especially when they throw in new hires that don’t know how to process things and are expected to work at the same pace as the people that have worked there for a while.
Retail is shit around the holidays, especially Black Friday
ok fellow millenials, it’s time to kill black friday
Someone say obscure Mickey history? WELL LOOK NO FURTHER THAN PAL MICKEY! So what was Pal Mickey? Pal Mickey was an interactive plush that could act as a tour guide of the Disney Parks! I see your doubt but let me explain!!!
So Pal Mickey was a GPS enabled plush that actually knew where it was in relation to the Disney parks thanks to infrared sensors placed in the parks that would give him information. First available in 2003 Pal Mickey was touted as the magical talking Mickey Mouse toy that talked and gave you facts and information about the area you were in.
If you were near the Haunted Mansion Mickey would react to that accordingly and tell you about it. If you were near tomorrowland he would give you a joke about how pluto was his favorite planet and if you made your way to Space Mountain he would talk about that too! Over 700+ phrases were recorded and put into this little guy. He had the ability to tell you about parade times, and even if a character was nearby! Given all the tech inside him he wasn’t cheap either, he was around 50 dollars but you had the odd option of renting him for 8 dollars a day!
This little smart guy was a labor of love from Imagineer Eddie Sotto and had the ability to work at all 4 Disney World Parks! All in all a crazy idea for a plush and one that I wish that would still try to incorporate today! Sadly though the plush’s were no longer sold after 2008 Pal Mickey still worked in the parks due to the infrastructure still being there, that is until 2014 when they dismantled them all.
SO now he remains a piece of odd and interesting Disney History! If you would like to see what he looked like in action click the video below! Thanks for this piece of history and Happy 90th Birthday Mickey!
im not suggesting we immediately transition to full communism or whatever, but you have to admit that Bothov had a lot of good ideas
I’m not suggesting we immediately genocide our enemies, but I think we can all agree their time is ending.
tell me, which of Bothov’s teachings do you disagree with? I bet you don’t even know who he is.
You know, you’re right, I don’t know they guy, never read anything by him, but if his ideas promote communism they’re garbage and so are you.
You’re telling me that you’ve never heard of Bothov? Come on, just ask me if you’re not sure.
Bothov is basic dialectical materialist theory, I’m against Communism myself but you really have to read Bothov to be able to form an argument against Communist on a theoretical
Seriously, @tehgore if you want me to explain Bothov to you just ask, I’m always up to talk about one of my favorite subjects.
Could you explain Bothov
I’ve never read a whole lot about communism. Overall my understanding is everyone works according to their abilities, and receives according to their needs. I think many people have kneejerk reactions against communism because of Soviet Russia and cold war era stuff. Really it’s not a bad concept, but it’s all but impossible to implement on a large scale, and generally attempts at communism have failed due to corruption and bureaucracy. I think it’s socialism that promotes everyone getting a minimum quality of life guaranteed, with the ability to work to increase your QoL, but then “oh socialism is bad because Nazis” happens. Isn’t politics grand
How did you miss the joke it’s literally right there in bold sparkly flaming letters i’m in awe
The fact that every time it’s been attempted there was corruption I think says something about the concept itself. Maybe the True ideal of communism is good, but incompatible with humanity’s desires. Someone has to regulate the communist laws after all, and that single person isn’t likely to be perfect.
Agreed. Under communism the dikfer just can’t be balanced among all members of the population. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of the dikfer just ask, I’d be happy to explain, it’s quite fascinating
What “dikfer? ”
What’s a dikfer, you ask?
You see this?!? You see this horse shit?!?! This is why we can’t have proper discourse.
read the post again and you’ll realize it was never discourse in the first place
Look, ok, I see this come up sometimes, especially now, in light of recent events, but…
Someone who intentionally pursues other legal adults because they have very youthful appearances is creepy. Their patterns of attraction are concerning. If they seek out adult partners who, uh, do not look like adults, I am… deeply uneasy, and more vigilant in watching how they interact with actual children and teenagers.
However, lots of adults do look young. I don’t think “treat them like they’re actual minors” is good advice at all. As someone who is routinely mistaken for a 15 year old boy, I do not want to be infantilized by other adults who are perfectly aware of my real age (and may even be younger than me!). Absolutely nothing makes my skin crawl more than being hit on by adults who genuinely think I’m a minor, but, just as a 12 year-old who looks 22 is still a kid, I’m… still an adult theoretically capable of having consenting adult relationships. Just. Not with those particular people.
There are lots of reasons an adult might look much younger than they are. Some people just have large, wide-spaced eyes. Trans men often do not look their ages unless they’ve been on T for years. Loads of genetic and hormonal disorders result in the retention of neotenous features well into middle age. Must these people live loveless lives until their hair turns gray, for fear that, by dating them, any potential partner is therefore a pedophile? It seems absolutely demeaning and cruel to say so, but I keep seeing people implying exactly that.
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