Temu is absolute cancer in terms of business practices so no surprise here at all.

It’s 2024 and we’re still looking into other people’s pants.

Universal basic income

Do eeeeet!

Don’t sweat the small stuff. Just let it go.

I am a UC employee, our union informed us that we’re currently not allowed to do a sympathy strike and that they are going to be fighting this contract clause so we could.

The con for me is that each individual school interprets the concept in their own way with no oversight. The one I was looking into for my kid many years ago was so strict with their rules it was scary. We did a trial day with my kid and we were instructed to not eat anything in the morning because breakfast is a very important part of the start of the day.

Breakfast prep with all the serving, singing and saying gratitudes took almost an hour, for a bunch of very small kids some of which had to get up at 5 am so that they could make it to school on time. It was excruciating to watch and they were clearly very hungry.

This ceremony approach continued through the rest of the day, with every little thing taking a lot of time and every kid was expected to religiously play along. It was enough for me to nope out and I didn’t look into it anymore.

When I had my first job as a receptionist, our fax still printed on thermal paper rolls and we had a particularly bright customer fax us a 50 page contract. I was almost in tears as I watched a newly replaced very expensive roll getting wasted in minutes. I called my supervisor to vent and he walked to my desk with a sharpie, wrote IMCOMPLETE across the roll and said “fax it back to them”. They were calling us back in less than a minute screeching on the phone to stop transmission.

Oh, my favorite one:

Management: Why is the graph going up and down?

Me: Market cycle

Management: We can’t show this at the board meeting! Fix it!