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Workers are 'rage quitting' their jobs as a tightening labor market(businessinsider.com)
27 points by a3n 5y ago|57 comments
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by a3n 5y ago
Oh, boy.
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by a3n 5y ago
Yep, I misread.
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by a3n 5y ago
I kind of don't think local van delivery drivers are DOT regulated. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=do+you+need+a+cdl+to+drive+for+Ama... The people under Amazon's purview that are DOT regulated would be CDL holders d
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This has been a news theme for some years. A few years ago the problem got some attention, as problems periodically do. I remember Home Depot and a lumber mill featuring. They had enough candidates for the jobs they had, but rejected many f
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It's a new class of employee in the UK. From their FAQ: The Finance Bill, 2017 created the concept of "employed for tax purposes" and "inside Off-payroll rules". These terms are a complicated way to describe the No
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> For example, some systems automatically reject candidates with gaps of longer than six months in their employment history, without ever asking the cause of this absence. It might be due to a pregnancy, because they were caring for an i
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by a3n 5y ago
This is why cops on Interstates will target out of state plates. People just want to get on to their destination. And not being a state resident, it makes it harder for them to fight after the fact. [citation needed]
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I recall an episode of COPS where the Sheriff (?) of Multnomah County Oregon was grinning into the camera, declaring how good he's going to look driving around a pickup truck that they'd just confiscated. Multnomah County featured
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No, it's not an aberration. Cops in various departments around the country take classes to do this most effectively. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=asset+forfeiture+classes&t=lm&ia=w...
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by a3n 5y ago
Any property can be seized. Put it in a financial institution, and dispose of it as you see fit at your destination.
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by a3n 5y ago
And the Veterans Administration puts the "pretend" in "care." Source: Watching news articles over decades of the VA denying "service related" for injuries and poisoning, so the government isn't held respon
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One thing about processed foods is that they're usually based on refined grains, i.e. preprocessed carbs. Your body sucks up these carbs too quickly, resulting in insulin resistance and pancreatic failure. Look down the aisles of a sto
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Regolith installed, via PPA. Don't forget "sudo apt update." I forgot. Commence fiddling in three ... two ... one ... EDIT: One thing I like immediately is the little shortcut hint menu on the right. I first expected to be ab
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Originally SW dev, most recently SWQA. I rage quit my last job over a conflict with a dev manager. No one else was interested in me. Been driving three years and change. I mostly like it. I've never had a meeting, standup or otherwise.
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by a3n 5y ago
I used to use Awesome. And I3 before that. My young adult son would sometimes ask to do something quick on my laptop. Hilarity ensued. Now I'm a truck driver. Bought a new laptop awhile back. Don't have time to fiddle (drive, eat,
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by a3n 5y ago
And don't build a house inside a reservoir. How One Houston Suburb Ended Up in a Reservoir https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/22/us/houston-ha...
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You may have run across Thomas Nagel via his What is it like to be a bat? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nagle+%22to+be+a+bat%22&t=fpas&ia=... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_
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"This."
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Truck driver. Besides Walmart (my major shopping store, because you can park a truck up in there), truck stop convenience stores are chronically short of things in the last N months. I know, the irony ... Unflavored half and half single ser
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by a3n 5y ago
So do cows, eventually. :)
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As a truck driver, just about every day is just about the same, so I lose track. But I am sometimes reminded that it's Mother's day (the actual Sunday), when I'm in a Walmart on a Sunday morning (maybe I parked there the nigh
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That's how you know they love you.
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Which (may) highlight the fact that now one never has to think of her.
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GoDaddy? Their first choice was GoDaddy ?
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> A site that explicitly encourages people to narc on their neighbors by revealing privileged medical information seems to be in pretty clear violation of those standards, one might think, which is exactly what prolifewhistleblower.com d
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This sub-thread is better than a Vim thread. :)
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Yeah, that "updating your resume" in your parent is a pretty big employer foot gun. Makes you that much more exit-ready.
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> So too bad, had a better offer to advance elsewhere and their interest in me was clear. "Their interest in me was clear." Exactly this. Enlightened and effective leadership would pair a "not this time" response wit
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by a3n 5y ago
I wonder if internal rejection should be seen as similar to being put on a PIP: a drawn out layoff.

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