Bad Religion was one of my high-school favorites that has stayed a favorite since. I have every one of their albums saved on my phone.

Literally looped in circles over and over to avoid answering questions. It was so frustrating to listen to.

Dude was old and drove like an ass. I used to tell him he was gonna get his driver’s license taken away and he was gonna have to drive the forklift home on the shoulder of the highway every day lol

That depends on how the cops feeling. A guy I used to work with got pulled over for doing the speed limit in the left lane for “impeding traffic”

It’s because I said bad things about Biden, even though I was talking about politicians as a whole. But you can’t say bad things about Biden or be any kind of critical about the current administration without getting trashed on here.

I mean, you wouldn’t want the politicians to lose their legal bribes generous donations over acting in our interests instead of the corporations, would you?

Will someone please think of the rich folks pockets?

“Best I’ll be able to do is work a half day on the day of my funeral”

And even then, the mandatory overtime is gonna make me late to my own damn funeral.

It’s from 1986 and not insulated well. Between that and my wife keeping the thermostat and mordor temp, and opening the fridge for long periods of time not knowing it wasn’t working, it turned into a hotbox.

This is a great idea! But I will have to go with something other than meat. A fair amount of my wife’s side of the family is vegetarian. I’m also not that great at cooking lol one of my thoughts this year was to do some of my stencil spraypaints on canvas, as I have a huge stock of canvases and spray paint I never used when I stopped doing it years ago. I just wish I had more time to create some stencils.

No kids to take care of, but my fridge just went out today. This spoiled most of the food in the fridge as I can’t pick up a new one until tomorrow, and the of a new fridge and restocking my fridge pretty much cancels Xmas gifts for the family. I feel bad every year because they get my wife and I all kinds of cool stuff and it seems like every year I’m stuck telling them, “Maybe I’ll be less broke next year” Not quite the same, I know, but it still makes me feel aweful…

Meanwhile the owner of my company just bought a 5th wheel camper trailer and hitch for his truck in June because he felt like going camping, and is having a 6 bedroom house built for his son on his ranch because his sons wife is having a baby.

This world is fucked for the working class truly.

I agree fully with that. I use one of my credit cards for groceries just to keep padding in my bank account for on hand cash for emergencies (down payment on a car in case mine goes out as you stated, for example) I don’t feel like I should have to do that but here we are. There’s a fine balance I have to walk financially because of stagnant wages, which is a huge part of the problem.

I don’t either. I’ve already told the family Christmas is gonna be light. Other than what I can scrounge up, instead of the “buy now, pay later” model, I’ve adopted the “don’t buy what i don’t need, pay never” one.

Skyrocketting prices on everything means I use what i have until it is absolutely unusable/unfixable anymore. And my credit cards stay mostly clear except for emergencies.

It’s a lack of self control on a lot of people’s part, and financial institutions are loving it I’m sure.

The models vary between walk up and drive up already. But even so, half of the braile on an ATM are stuck on. They make us put these on when we install them. And we joke about the same thing.

This is 100% about pinching pennies. Gotta find new ways to post those “record breaking profits” every year.

I don’t think there is. But even if there was, it would be my bosses problem not mine lol

IBM is literally the example in the article lol

Maybe, I’ll bring that up to him. But they’ve done this to every department. Project managers are now trying to handle way more than they should and techs are either green as grass or completely overwhelmed with work.

They actually pay us now for the services that they did away with within their own company (whatever sense that makes), so he basically has the same job, just with us. We work with this company closely so we knew him pretty well already and honestly we were happy to bring him on. No training required lol I think he just wanted to get out before his life got turned upside down.

Reassigning people into jobs that they hate in hopes that they quit, to avoid paying severance packages.

We have a guy at the company I work for that just went through this. They did away with his division, reassigned him to a new department where you’re on call 24/7 working holidays and weekends. He jumped ship to us, but because they didn’t fire him, he got no payout because he wasn’t let go.

I feel that working 50+ hours weeks just to hit 50k with the overtime. Still have to budget fairly well to save anything.

I’m going to have to unsubscribe from the news community to stop seeing these stupid articles, aren’t I?

Stop giving these shitwipes attention!