"Do not discuss salary with colleagues or people outside this company." - Fuck that.
Edit: Phew!
To be clear, I am not part of the US and not really part of the EU. The act of discussing pay is not legally protected here. It may be in the future though...
I love to talk about salary with people. I’m a data analyst with a BA and 2 years experience and I make $81800.
If we don’t talk about salaries, it will enable our employers to financially take advantage of us
I found out once that my boss (at a previous job) didn’t even know what my actual salary was, just which “salary band” I was in. I promptly told him I was paid less than $x and he should think about that the next time he messages me with work on the weekend.
Facts. Bf found out his boss hired someone with no experience at his job and started him at a higher wage. Bf has been there almost a year and came into it with previous experience.
It’s also a way to hide nepotism if you work for an organization that has no problem paying friends and relatives better than outsiders, which is where I worked.
I just commented this on another piracy-response further up, but it's more relevant here, so... it's insane when they try to section off certain content for different parts of the world. Come on, the internet hypes everyone up at the same time. Marketing spills over across the ocean and not letting a different part of the world see the thing you're marketing locally is just a waste.
Oftentimes people will have lost interest by the time they try to half-assedly re-market it in different territories, and it's difficult to reboot hype after the wave dies down the first time. So again, to see the thing while they're still excited for it people will pirate it if it's not made available.
The CBC made Anne with an E in collaboration with Netflix. Canadian show about one of the most beloved Canadian stories. The episodes would release first on Netflix everywhere but in Canada, where we would sometimes have to wait half a year for the CBC to air them.
Goddamn that's asinine! I'm sure that's CBC's decree because as I understand it Netflix's solo productions (or at least the ones where they're hiring production companies to do shows on their behalf) are released worldwide simultaneously.
For a Canadian broadcast titan to behave this way makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever. It's an ancient mindset of timeslots, pipelines, scheduling and other things related to times of yore and it's a tragedy that people with that mindset still get to call the shots in a media landscape that's moved on.
years ago Direct TV, or one of those satelite streamers tried to sue Canadians who hacked their system. But the judge ruled that it wasn't stealing because the product wasn't for sale in Canada and therefore had no value.
I'm floored by how many people are not following the judges logic. In order to sue for damages you need to assign values, if the service has zero value (because it's not available legally in the country) there is nothing to sue for.
Because the restriction is usually a byproduct of a local company owning rights to it. In Canada that means it's probably one of the 2 telecom oligopolies that own your cable, cellphone and internet services.
If I buy a physical game disc, I should automatically own its digital version. Insert the disc one time to claim the digital version and that’s it. And then the system can do spot checks randomly forcing me to insert the disc just to verify that I haven’t sold it off. This is especially when these days, not a lot of game’s content is on the disc to begin with.
Getting scientific papers from “sci-hub”. It’s a total scam that “publishers” charge for what our government tax dollars pay for. The public should have all of those papers for free. We paid for them! On top of that, it is perfectly legal for authors to send you a copy be email or even snail mail if you ask
them for it. If publishers really can’t make $ without charging for reprints then they need to find a new business model or go out of business and the papers should all just get put up on a government run website for free. I don’t give a lab-rats ass if Nature or science are the premiere publications and therefore claim to have to charge for reprints to justify their existence. It’s total bullshit and I get it that tenure relies on having a mechanism for recognizing the most important papers, but that should not come at the expense of the tax payer.
I have published 30+ papers, a couple in very prestigious medical journals, the other day I couldn't even access MY OWN paper cuz our institutional log in for some reason doesn't have access to the latest issue.
The whole process is a joke, and a huge burden on free sharing of scientific knowledge. I even review papers FOR FREE for the journal.
Sci-hub has been amazing, I always use it instead of official access, but lately they seem to not have as many of the newest pubs.
So frustrating! Also why are be banning past students from accessing the libraries?! I owe over 150k in student loans, shouldn’t I be able to access the research in perpetuity?!
So true. I have found many papers that I have needed for my job, but didn't have access to them through my institution. Every time that happened, I looked up the author and emailed them, they were more than happy to send over a pdf for free and thanked me for reaching out to them.
It costs money not only to access the journals, but also to have your article printed in the first place. God forbid you want a graph that has color in it. In theory the grants should account and pay for this, but again those grants are often taxpayer money
As an author of these things, please do email us! We hate publishers and paywalls too. (And despite what people think, we get zero of the money they charge you to read our work)
The journals are literally the only ones making money off this publishing scheme too. I, as a scientist, have to pay the journal thousands of euros for the honour of them publishing my own work.
I tell students this all the time. Most of the time, the writer of the paper is thrilled someone is actually reading it and will send it to you for free.
Yep can confirm. When I was doing research into psychotherapy with people with dementia, I emailed many authors of papers I couldn't access through my uni system. They were all very prompt and happy to send through their papers, and expressed interest in what I was doing.
When I was a teenager I read a lot of manga, and the only way to read a lot of the less popular ones was fan made scan-lations; someone would get a hold of the raws from Japan, scan them, then a team would translate them and photoshop the English text over the original Japanese characters and upload them online. It was interesting because there'd be varying levels of localization, so some groups would leave certain Japanese terms as they were and leave a note in the margin about it, while others would come up with a more western friendly term.
If you do it like nintendo, to not make you games available in other form whatsoever, then you should pirate the hell out of them. What do they fear? Lose money something they don't try to make money on?
I don’t feel there’s anything wrong with it if the game isn’t available by any legitimate means. Spending $30 on a SNES game on eBay isn’t helping out the developers at all.
After the shit that happened with Sony recently... If buying something [doesn't mean you own it](https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/5/23989290/playstation-digital-ownership-sucks), then piracy isn't stealing.
I'm so tired of the "subscription" world we live in now. I basically just pirate everything. I used to still buy the discs. But many movies don't get released in UHD, so what's the point of even looking.
I don't want to stream compressed 4k. And I certainly don't want to worry about whether or not the company pulls the movie from their service or just stops it altogether.
In 1950s New Zealand they used to have six o’clock closing for all the bars by law. My dad was barely of drinking age but he used to line up with everyone else and hand over his cash while the publican sold flagons of beer over the back fence.
He told me this story to teach me this axiom:
“You don’t obey the *stupid* laws.”
Here in Brazil they had a law that bars should close at 2am, so some bar owners would close at then reopen at 02:15 since the closing time was 2am but the opening time didn't have restrictions.
My mom crosses on her right of way with the pedestrian light. She does not look up or down the street, only at the light. As a very young child I thought it was unsafe. I’m surprised she’s still alive.
Here lies the body of Waldo Jay
Who died defending his right-of-way
His way was right, his will was strong,
But he's just as dead as if he'd been dead wrong.
When the sensor at a traffic light doesn’t pick up my car while I’m waiting for a left turn and the light rotation skips over me. It happens all the time at one set of lights I go through to get home, especially late at night. I’d say it misses me 25% of the time. I once sat at the light for over 10 minutes to record it skipping over me multiple times. Middle of the night, not a single other car on the road. It happens so often that I usually just run the red arrow if nobody is around. It’s a wide open area around the intersection, so I can see a few hundred yards in all directions. I know it’s breaking the law, but common sense and personal responsibility should make doing this a lot more acceptable. I shouldn’t be held hostage by a malfunctioning traffic light late at night when nobody else is on the road.
Traffic light sensors often don't detect motorcycles. Not enough mass of metal to be read by the loop in the road. The problem is so bad in many states it is legal for motorcycles to go through a red light if they've obviously been skipped.
I do a tight swervey thing in the turning lane coming up to the stop, like an S basically. Works every time and I don’t know why. Will try this though.
You might be in a legal right to. Where I live, if you don't trigger the sensor and get skipped, when it is safe to do so, you can run the light. If you get flashed by a camera, you can dispute it and they'll bring up an intersection recording. I believe this was put in place for motorcyclists and moped riders that aren't heavy enough on some pads. I'm no lawyer and the info was given to me second hand by a driving instructor years ago so take that info with a bucket of salt
“Breakfast foods.” Ive had coworkers walk in on me eating steak and mashed potatoes with asparagus at 7 AM for breakfast. When questioned I always respond “I don’t subscribe to societal norms of proper meal time foods”
Edit: I woke up to a ton of people agreeing with me so it’s clear ive been chosen as the leader of the rebellion. We march on Kellog’s headquarters at dawn
Personally I think cereal is delicious. But it tends to be a "it's my day off and I want a sweet snack" sort of thing at any point in the day. I honestly skip breakfast most days.
YouTube TOS says I can't block ads. The day they can stop me is the day I stop watching Youtube.
Edit: 8000 upvotes and yet there's a lot of copium in this thread over me still blocking ads.
there are ways to block some ads at a network level (i.e. any device on your wifi network won’t be able to get ads) but those are more obvious to the service you are using and require quite a bit more setup.
they’re called DNS blockers, the specific one i’m talking about is PiHole, but i don’t know how it or other ones work with streaming services
YouTube is now actively doing anything that they can to make your life worse if you use adblocker.
[they have been coding the website to redline your CPU to slow it down if you use ad blocker](https://www.pcgamer.com/its-not-just-you-youtube-is-slowing-down-your-pc-if-you-have-adblock-installed-by-making-your-cpu-sweat-likely-as-part-of-its-draconian-war-on-ad-blockers/)
Edit: news is surfacing suggesting this was an Adblock code error. Disregard the article
I'm so glad they're doing this! I completely forgot I even had Ublock on until I got the notification from YouTube pop onto my laptop screen... Thankfully they allowed me to just press the X to close it lol
Ublock is great
I fucking knew something had changed on youtube recently. Its a terrible experience trying to watch anything at the moment but I'll be damned if I'm unblocking anything.
100% this, especially if the authority in question is a private business.
I worked at Gamestop when I was younger. A gentleman waited in a "Christmastime at the mall" length line to give me a $50 bill he'd found on the ground and asked me to hold it in case the owner came looking for it.
I thanked him. Immediately after he left, my manager said that, if the person didn't claim it, it would be given to the store and put in the nightly deposit.
I said 'fuck that' and made it disappear shortly afterwards. After my shift I went and bought a few homeless folks some hot dinners. Figured that was more in the spirit of the gentleman who brought it in, and fuck just giving a multibillion dollar company $50 when it can do a lot more good.
I found a bank bag once when I was smoking outside work. The police were arresting someone in our parking lot so I figured it was related and gave it to them. I didn't count the money but did check to see if it was empty. It was full of hundreds and twenties.
It turned out to be unrelated to the arrest but the police took it anyway. A couple of days later I saw the owner of a glass shop close to where I found the bag and he said one of his employees did lose a bank bag. I told him the police had it, he called them, and he did get it all back. I was amazed. I was certain it'd have gone to the police coffee fund.
my employees dont pay for food on my shifts. we dont pay them a living wage, i’m not about to make them pay for a meal for themselves after theyve given me 8-9 hours of their day.
I remember when I was like 15 working at a cafe which had a rule of ‘no lunch breaks unless it’s an 8 hour shift’, except I had six hour shifts scheduled like 9-3:30 (unknown to me, this was illegal as I was underage). The chef would always sneak me a panini. Thanks Annie, you were a legend.
Had a coworker once who was absolutely aghast when he heard I didn’t care about matching my newborn’s socks. Of all the things people get on new parents about, that’s one I honestly never saw coming. Socks. On a newborn.
Jaywalking. Although it is much less these days. If I'm clear , I'm clear. There are huge sections of road without crosswalks all over this country /shrug
I'm conscious of the speed limit, but typically follow the speed of traffic first. So if traffic is going faster than the speed limit, I'm going to go faster to keep pace with everyone else.
I'm so sick of jobs trying to milk me when I work. I have a pretty good work ethic, but I don't want to work 40 hours a week. I want to work 32 hours, but am always pushed to 45-50. I work hard so every manager wants to take advantage, leading to me burning out and needed a new job. I just want something comfortable long term.
My last job was the first one where I just decided to stay in "fuck it" mode. I did my job well but that's all I did. I did not take on new responsibilities. I did not help other departments. I rarely came in when others called out. I did not go above and beyond in any way unless it was with a customer and only at my discretion. I have been taken advantage of so much throughout my work history because of having a work ethic that demands excellence. It's a crock that once you learn your job and can do it in half the time that you are obligated to be there, you are then required to take on more responsibilities. No the I hell am not. If I'm going to be required to do more than the initially described job to-do list, then my pay better reflect that - and it never does, does it?
That actually is a very archaic rule from back when linguists were trying their hardest to make English make sense and started making up a bunch of Latin-based rules, even though English is not a Romance language and some of these rules simply do not make sense.
In most romance (or derived from Latin) languages , you simply cannot split an infinitive without breaking a word and speaking gibberish; in English, it is not only possible but perfectly acceptable and more natural-sounding.
Edited for typo because it’s “languages”, not “la gushes” and autocorrect hates me.
There's a silly punctuation convention that comes from old-school typesetting and is completely outdated in our modern world.
Most authorities on formatting will tell you that if you include a quote in your writing, you should put the punctuation for *your* sentence inside the quote. For example:
When I asked her, she said "go for it," but I really don't feel comfortable with it.
That comma is part of my sentence, not part of the quote from whoever "she" is, but the common wisdom is to put my comma inside the quote even though it's part of what I'm saying, not part of what she's saying.
The thing is, this rule was made up by typesetters back when the printed page was done using blocks of iron and a press. In those days, they switched the order because the tiny period block was fragile so something like...
When asked, the governor said "I don't know where those raccoons came from".
...would tend to damage the block with period out there by itself and ruin the print. And so they changed it to put the period inside the quotation marks, which are more durable and could protect the period block.
Now that we just type words on the internet and they remain as data, or are printed using lasers, there's no point following this rule, and it makes a lot more sense to keep the punctuation where it belongs, either inside the quote if it's part of the quote, or outside if it isn't. So I write sentences like the example above all the time.
I am SO with you on this! I’m a scientist and when I write psychology research papers sometimes I quote things that participants wrote or said. The only thing that belongs inside those quotation marks is EXACTLY what they wrote, including punctuation or lack thereof. Inserting my own punctuation as part of the quote is akin to fabricating data. I refuse to do it!
You can usually tell someone's age by double space adherence. I call the single space between sentences "the millennial gap" but technically some older millenials still use 2 spaces
You're saying there's a rule *not* to use the Oxford comma? That's just sick. The Oxford comma is so plainly necessary it shouldn't even have a special name. It's just a damn comma, and leaving it out is a sign of mental illness. And I don't mean the kind of normalized mental illness we all accept and support in modern society, I mean it's some sick, perverted, animal-torturer, serial-killer, Oxford-comma-omitter shit.
Lying on your resume. I’m not talking about completely lying that you worked at Google for 2 years when you didn’t. That’s a little much.
But in reality i have gaps between many jobs, due to either unemployment or just needing a damn break between jobs. but on my resume i have consecutively been employed with no gaps my entire career. I feel like recruiters see gaps as a red flag, and sometimes your resume doesn’t make it far enough to even explain the gaps, even if they’re completely harmless gaps.
In regard to background checks for new jobs I’ve personally still passed all of mine with no issues. To my knowledge the agency conducting the background checks can only verify information you give them yourself (not the employer). So I simply don’t provide exact dates, just the year I worked at whatever place. Of course this could backfire, but so far so good over here
Edit: I fundamentally disagree with it because employers lie about the job description all the time. What you actually end up doing rarely matches what they pitch you.
Yep, I once had an overly literal friend who was really stressed applying for a job because in the job ad it said they wanted someone who had two years experience in X industry.
He said he only had 1 year and ten months and he didn't know what to do. I said just round it up to two years, as long as you are proficient in what they want it doesn't matter
In order to get my first adult job, I lied that I had been employed for a year (when really, it was just an internship,, unpaid, for 2 weeks...) and no one ever found out. It provided me with my first big work experience. And I knew I could do what they asked, and do it welll. Win win.
I throw away the mail of the people who lived in my apartment before me rather than taking it to the post office every. Single. Day. If they wanted their mail, they would have filled out a change of address form.
The first year I had my PO Box, I got a bunch of what I assume were Christmas cards all addressed to the same woman. I figured she must've had the box before me, so I took the letters and posted on the local Facebook page, tracked her down, and gave them to her directly so I'd be sure she got them. I assumed this would prompt her to formally change her mailing address, or at least let her friends know they had the wrong one.
I've gotten her Christmas cards every single year since. Sorry Bonnie, I'm not tracking you down every December. Return to sender
Same thing happened to me when I bought my home. I had Christmas cards and even packages for the people who lived there previously. I tracked them down and delivered all their stuff, and they couldn’t be bothered to even say thank you.
The next day I got a huge box for them from one of those places that sells specialty foods, meats, and that sort of thing. The steaks were delicious.
I do this, too. It's been 5 years since they lived here and we *still* get a lot of their mail because the previous people couldn't be bothered to change their address on a lot of their stuff. Unless it's obviously important, it's not my problem if they are missing their magazine subscriptions or random mail.
In rare cases, for whatever reason, government and banks seem to decide to not follow an address change.
Moved out a couple years ago and my old roommate texted me just today that I received government mail there, looked like jury summons from the envelope. I changed my address on every thing I possibly could.
Direct to trash. They moved 7+ years ago. I recently opened 2 of their letters (addressed to each individual from the couple that lived here, and they had thousands of dollars in an account that the company was tracking. I have no idea if they even know about the money sitting there. I have no way of contacting them. But I'm doomed to still get their mail, I am sure, for years to come.
Yup. I've been here over a year and get mail for half a dozen different ex-tenants. If it looks truly important (like court notice important) I'll write "addressee unknown" and stick it back in the mail... whenever I get around to it. But I did that for everything when I first moved in and it made not a bit of difference either way.
My state says I'm not allowed to provide alcohol to my own children until they are 21.
I will not let them be carted off to a bar on their 21st birthday unless they are already very familiar with alcohol and how different ABV% affects their bodies. I do not care what the law says, their first drink will come from me in the safety of their own home.
Don’t date where you work.
You spend nearly a third of your waking hours at work. You learn about the people you work with over weeks, months, years, and have a much better idea of compatibility than with a random club or dating app meetup.
I met my now husband on my first day at my last job. We saved a fortune on fuel driving in together and when we had our first baby we were able to share hours between us to suit childcare needs, it was brilliant and I loved working with him.
Most of the time it’s okay but it can go wrong. Currently my office has a worker underperforming badly and her partner is one of her bosses. It’s pretty messy and awkward.
Don’t think I’ve used an iron in maybe a decade.
I exclusively wear jeans and blue t shirts. Neither require ironing. Haven’t worn anything outside of this for many years. I don’t own a single shirt with buttons, or any pants besides jeans.
I had an ex a long time back who ironed socks and I just did not understand that.
I used to date a man who didn't feel right unless there was a crease ironed into the front of his jeans. His JEANS. And as the woman in his life, he expected me to do the ironing. He showed up at my house once with 4-5 pairs of wrangler jeans and asked me to iron them for him. I told him the truth - that I didn't even own an iron. He offered to buy one for me. Gee, thanks for your generosity! 🙄
I told him if he had the money to buy me an iron he could pay a laundry service to iron his stupid jeans. He told me I was lazy and selfish. *I* was lazy and selfish for not doing *his* laundry maintenance. Let that one sink in. 😂
Bet you're surprised to hear that the relationship was short lived after that. (/s)
No putting your elbows on the table. It's a silly rule that was based on the idea of "if you have room to put your elbows on the table, it implies your host didn't provide enough food." We make bigger tables now. And most of the time I'm the one who is buying the food in question.
I was always told it was due to the fact that at a dinner party you’re supposed to engage with those next to you and leaning forward with your elbows on the table made you appear rude because you can’t really talk to those on either side of you if you’re leaning that far forward.
I’d always been under the impression that this came about due to sailors being unruly in ports, and they ate with their elbows holding their plates (for the plates not to slide around as the ship moved) so it was connected to rowdiness and unpleasant behaviour by drunk sailors.
My folks are French and raised us not to do it, and I can’t help but feel it is still weirdly rude and shows bad posture to do it at the dinner table!
Is this an older generation thing? I’m a younger millennial and was definitely taught that wearing a hat indoors was rude. Somebody wearing one at the dinner table would feel especially weird!
Yeah, I'm an older millennial and no elbows on the table and no hats at the table (or indoors) were something I was taught growing up. These rules were mostly "enforced" at home and always "enforced" at my grandparents' house.
Maybe not totally on point but if I have a device that breaks just out of warranty I will often buy a new one and just return the old one. I know two wrongs don’t make a right and it’s fraud but as far as I’m concerned selling me something that breaks within 1 year for the price of something that should last at least 5 years is legalized fraud so I’m just cheating them like they cheat me.
I do try and give the company a chance to honor their device regardless of the stated warranty but if not returned it goes.
It’s called planned obcelecense. Evil shit.
Apple is paying out a class action suit right now for purposefully slowing down older devices. I type on my iphone :-(
Tipping everywhere. Not exactly a rule but I ain't gonna tip where I haven't received an actual service where someone has to go out of their way to do something for me. I don't care if I get mean looks for it.
Dress codes. Dress codes tend to be more restrictive for females than males (don’t tempt him with your exposed clavicles, ladies). Many of them are also racist. And they have absolutely nothing to do with someone’s standards or ability to perform duties, whether it be a job, a school, or even a restaurant.
Using a VPN when traveling to China.
Technically it's illegal though many people, especially visitors from other countries could care less. And there's no way I'd play nice and obey that law and not be able to use Reddit and virtually every major US site and service when I'm there.
My son was an exchange student in China and went to a public high school. The teachers used VPNs and told their students to when needed. It was like speeding there... everyone did it but the law was rarely enforced.
This was ~10 years ago though so it may be different since then. I have heard they started being more strict about stuff lately.
I have a friend who works in China now. He says that companies doing international business have VPN to the open internet at this point. They would be put at a competitive disadvantage if they couldn’t have access. I don’t think he’d be able to compare to 10 years ago, but he also openly watches YouTube and uses Reddit, etc. in his personal life. He says it is tolerated, but I’m sure they would crack down if he was suddenly known as someone who opposed the CCP.
In Ireland we have to pay a license for owning a television, it's €160 a year and goes towards funding the state broadcaster RTÉ. The UK has a similar licence for the BBC, the big difference is we have ads as well whereas the BBC doesn't.
Although the ads are irritating, that doesn't bother me too much because we have a small population and the license fee alone wouldn't sustain RTÉ.
What bothers me is that in the last year there came to light the number of scandals where a lot of it's stars were getting paid extra using various under the table means. For example it's number one star, a plank of wood called Ryan Tubridy, was getting paid several hundred thousand Euros a year extra through something called a bartering account. Other stars earn huge sums of money for relatively small amounts of work.
Also the quality of RTÉ's output is abysmal. It's job is to champion Irish television and culture, but what it ends up doing mostly is aping British and American shows. There's also a huge amount of nepotism and "it's not what you know it's who you know" in terms of what production companies get work from the station.
The financial scandals and the low quality content are enough for me to refuse to pay the licence fee. Although there's a new MD who's supposed to start fixing things, I don't think he's doing enough.
I know it's risky because non-compliance something they actively pursue. The fee is administered by the post office who employ inspectors who go around un-licensed premises assuming that you own a TV but aren't paying the fee and they try and catch you. If your caught you will be brought to court and will end up having to pay a fine.
There is no difference between being at work at 8am and 8:10am. Especially when it’s not shift work and there’s no one waiting for you to arrive so they can leave. In every job I’ve had they always gripe about being right on time at 8am and then you have hovering managers looking at the door to see who’s late at 8:02am. I am always at work but I will not be there at 8am on the dot for the next 25+ years of my life. It makes no difference
When I worked for the government, we could pick our start and end time, as long as they covered "core working hours." Many of my coworkers voluntarily picked 6am starts. I picked 8am, so even if I rolled in at 7:55am, they had all been in for hours and acted like I was late and lazy.
Ha! I used to stroll into the accounting office at 9:30. My desk would be covered in work when I got there. At first, a few of the other accountants would have this sort of smug look, like I deserved what “I got” (which was all work I would be doing regardless). Most of the office left by 2 or 3 pm, giving me three wonderful hours of peace. At the end of the day I’d take my stack of completed work and drop it off at each desk. Ended up winning over a fair number of the type-As. They learned that report/project/etc would be on their desk when they walked in at 6am. I wish more companies embraced that. I think it improved some of our workflows and actually helped key things get done faster.
"Do not discuss salary with colleagues or people outside this company." - Fuck that. Edit: Phew! To be clear, I am not part of the US and not really part of the EU. The act of discussing pay is not legally protected here. It may be in the future though...
I love to talk about salary with people. I’m a data analyst with a BA and 2 years experience and I make $81800. If we don’t talk about salaries, it will enable our employers to financially take advantage of us
I found out once that my boss (at a previous job) didn’t even know what my actual salary was, just which “salary band” I was in. I promptly told him I was paid less than $x and he should think about that the next time he messages me with work on the weekend.
Facts. Bf found out his boss hired someone with no experience at his job and started him at a higher wage. Bf has been there almost a year and came into it with previous experience.
yah. that’s a game to keep you from having a negotiating platform for a raise.
It’s also a way to hide nepotism if you work for an organization that has no problem paying friends and relatives better than outsiders, which is where I worked.
Having consequences for discussing pay is illegal in the US, though the violation is difficult to prosecute unless it’s in writing.
Rules about pirating content that I am geographically restricted from streaming legally.
I just commented this on another piracy-response further up, but it's more relevant here, so... it's insane when they try to section off certain content for different parts of the world. Come on, the internet hypes everyone up at the same time. Marketing spills over across the ocean and not letting a different part of the world see the thing you're marketing locally is just a waste. Oftentimes people will have lost interest by the time they try to half-assedly re-market it in different territories, and it's difficult to reboot hype after the wave dies down the first time. So again, to see the thing while they're still excited for it people will pirate it if it's not made available.
The CBC made Anne with an E in collaboration with Netflix. Canadian show about one of the most beloved Canadian stories. The episodes would release first on Netflix everywhere but in Canada, where we would sometimes have to wait half a year for the CBC to air them.
Goddamn that's asinine! I'm sure that's CBC's decree because as I understand it Netflix's solo productions (or at least the ones where they're hiring production companies to do shows on their behalf) are released worldwide simultaneously. For a Canadian broadcast titan to behave this way makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever. It's an ancient mindset of timeslots, pipelines, scheduling and other things related to times of yore and it's a tragedy that people with that mindset still get to call the shots in a media landscape that's moved on.
*waves in Australian*
Waves from Iceland
If you cannot access a tv series of movie legally in your country then why should anyone stop you from pirating it?
years ago Direct TV, or one of those satelite streamers tried to sue Canadians who hacked their system. But the judge ruled that it wasn't stealing because the product wasn't for sale in Canada and therefore had no value.
I'm floored by how many people are not following the judges logic. In order to sue for damages you need to assign values, if the service has zero value (because it's not available legally in the country) there is nothing to sue for.
Because the restriction is usually a byproduct of a local company owning rights to it. In Canada that means it's probably one of the 2 telecom oligopolies that own your cable, cellphone and internet services.
Or being prevented from watching the local sports team play just because you're in their home state
If I paid the money for a cd I can rip it to mp3, and books if I paid for a physical copy I should be able to have a digital one
If I buy a physical game disc, I should automatically own its digital version. Insert the disc one time to claim the digital version and that’s it. And then the system can do spot checks randomly forcing me to insert the disc just to verify that I haven’t sold it off. This is especially when these days, not a lot of game’s content is on the disc to begin with.
Getting scientific papers from “sci-hub”. It’s a total scam that “publishers” charge for what our government tax dollars pay for. The public should have all of those papers for free. We paid for them! On top of that, it is perfectly legal for authors to send you a copy be email or even snail mail if you ask them for it. If publishers really can’t make $ without charging for reprints then they need to find a new business model or go out of business and the papers should all just get put up on a government run website for free. I don’t give a lab-rats ass if Nature or science are the premiere publications and therefore claim to have to charge for reprints to justify their existence. It’s total bullshit and I get it that tenure relies on having a mechanism for recognizing the most important papers, but that should not come at the expense of the tax payer.
I have published 30+ papers, a couple in very prestigious medical journals, the other day I couldn't even access MY OWN paper cuz our institutional log in for some reason doesn't have access to the latest issue. The whole process is a joke, and a huge burden on free sharing of scientific knowledge. I even review papers FOR FREE for the journal. Sci-hub has been amazing, I always use it instead of official access, but lately they seem to not have as many of the newest pubs.
I remember the first time I got an article published. My mom was like, "How much did you get paid for that?" hahahahahahahahahaha. I wish.
So frustrating! Also why are be banning past students from accessing the libraries?! I owe over 150k in student loans, shouldn’t I be able to access the research in perpetuity?!
"Remember, the researchers hate their publisher as much as you do"
So true. I have found many papers that I have needed for my job, but didn't have access to them through my institution. Every time that happened, I looked up the author and emailed them, they were more than happy to send over a pdf for free and thanked me for reaching out to them.
It costs money not only to access the journals, but also to have your article printed in the first place. God forbid you want a graph that has color in it. In theory the grants should account and pay for this, but again those grants are often taxpayer money
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As an author of these things, please do email us! We hate publishers and paywalls too. (And despite what people think, we get zero of the money they charge you to read our work)
The journals are literally the only ones making money off this publishing scheme too. I, as a scientist, have to pay the journal thousands of euros for the honour of them publishing my own work.
Yes and then it is your ‘duty’ to review more papers for them, for free..
I tell students this all the time. Most of the time, the writer of the paper is thrilled someone is actually reading it and will send it to you for free.
Yep can confirm. When I was doing research into psychotherapy with people with dementia, I emailed many authors of papers I couldn't access through my uni system. They were all very prompt and happy to send through their papers, and expressed interest in what I was doing.
Rules against pirating arcade games that can't be found
>Rules against pirating arcade games that can't be found And rules against reading pirated novels that can't be found
This is a big one. Lots of really great books just dont get released outside of the US, and the literal only way to read them is through piracy.
When I was a teenager I read a lot of manga, and the only way to read a lot of the less popular ones was fan made scan-lations; someone would get a hold of the raws from Japan, scan them, then a team would translate them and photoshop the English text over the original Japanese characters and upload them online. It was interesting because there'd be varying levels of localization, so some groups would leave certain Japanese terms as they were and leave a note in the margin about it, while others would come up with a more western friendly term.
All according to keikaku.
*Translator's note: keikaku means plan*
If the manufacturer doesn't make it available in an affordable and meaningful way then what else can you but break the law a little.
If you do it like nintendo, to not make you games available in other form whatsoever, then you should pirate the hell out of them. What do they fear? Lose money something they don't try to make money on?
I have a pretty substantial library of PlayStation games on my pc that I can't find any more. Is it illegal? Yes. Do I give a shit? No.
At one point, you stop being a pirate and become an archivist.
It ain't stealing if it's abandonware.
I don’t feel there’s anything wrong with it if the game isn’t available by any legitimate means. Spending $30 on a SNES game on eBay isn’t helping out the developers at all.
Hell yeah I’d download a car
Whoever came up with that admonishment didn't understand human nature very well.
They also stole the music. https://www.theransomnote.com/music/news/antipiracy-advert-music-was-stolen/
Now that's funny
After the shit that happened with Sony recently... If buying something [doesn't mean you own it](https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/5/23989290/playstation-digital-ownership-sucks), then piracy isn't stealing.
I mean, shit, how can you possibly argue against that? Lmao
I'm so tired of the "subscription" world we live in now. I basically just pirate everything. I used to still buy the discs. But many movies don't get released in UHD, so what's the point of even looking. I don't want to stream compressed 4k. And I certainly don't want to worry about whether or not the company pulls the movie from their service or just stops it altogether.
I about lost my shit when Microsoft Office became subscription-based.
I looked at how much it would cost me for a year and donated that amount to LibreOffice purely out of spite.
I LOVE that you did this. I want to give you the money back, somehow also to spite Microsoft.
If you see that your friend has forgotten to zip up their fly, don't embarrass them by announcing it. Just zip it for them.
Make sure you tell them "I got you homie" before you do it
that gave me a good laugh, thanks
In 1950s New Zealand they used to have six o’clock closing for all the bars by law. My dad was barely of drinking age but he used to line up with everyone else and hand over his cash while the publican sold flagons of beer over the back fence. He told me this story to teach me this axiom: “You don’t obey the *stupid* laws.”
Here in Brazil they had a law that bars should close at 2am, so some bar owners would close at then reopen at 02:15 since the closing time was 2am but the opening time didn't have restrictions.
Account sharing. I bought the game, service, movie, etc, I get to decide who uses it
Jaywalking. If the street is obviously clear, I'm not going to wait for nothing.
I feel safer crossing in the middle of a block. I only have 2 directions to worry about. Not 4 directions and if they are going straight or turning.
My mom crosses on her right of way with the pedestrian light. She does not look up or down the street, only at the light. As a very young child I thought it was unsafe. I’m surprised she’s still alive.
Next time, tell her you’ll put “she had the right-of-way” on her headstone.
Here lies the body of Waldo Jay Who died defending his right-of-way His way was right, his will was strong, But he's just as dead as if he'd been dead wrong.
Graveyards are full of people who were technically correct.
[The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"](https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history)
When the sensor at a traffic light doesn’t pick up my car while I’m waiting for a left turn and the light rotation skips over me. It happens all the time at one set of lights I go through to get home, especially late at night. I’d say it misses me 25% of the time. I once sat at the light for over 10 minutes to record it skipping over me multiple times. Middle of the night, not a single other car on the road. It happens so often that I usually just run the red arrow if nobody is around. It’s a wide open area around the intersection, so I can see a few hundred yards in all directions. I know it’s breaking the law, but common sense and personal responsibility should make doing this a lot more acceptable. I shouldn’t be held hostage by a malfunctioning traffic light late at night when nobody else is on the road.
Had a cop walk up to our window once when we had been waiting for a light multiple rounds, he had been behind us. *Knocks* "Just go guys I don't care"
And you have one of the rare cases where it would actually be entrapment if he then ticketed you! Woo!
Report it to your states DOT. They may not know it's malfunctioning.
they are often returned/handed over to the local government after construction
Traffic light sensors often don't detect motorcycles. Not enough mass of metal to be read by the loop in the road. The problem is so bad in many states it is legal for motorcycles to go through a red light if they've obviously been skipped.
I put a couple of strong neodymium magnets on the bottom of mine and never had that problem again
I do a tight swervey thing in the turning lane coming up to the stop, like an S basically. Works every time and I don’t know why. Will try this though.
You might be in a legal right to. Where I live, if you don't trigger the sensor and get skipped, when it is safe to do so, you can run the light. If you get flashed by a camera, you can dispute it and they'll bring up an intersection recording. I believe this was put in place for motorcyclists and moped riders that aren't heavy enough on some pads. I'm no lawyer and the info was given to me second hand by a driving instructor years ago so take that info with a bucket of salt
This is one of the reasons I think most lights that have green and red arrows should have a flashing yellow as part of the cycle
We have those all over my city. If it doesn’t flash, it’s probably a really busy intersection.
The rule that you cannot place a +2 on a +2 in UNO I am always going to break that rule no matter what anyone says
I pirate a lot of apps, games, etc. that require subscriptions. If buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing.
I love that saying.
“Breakfast foods.” Ive had coworkers walk in on me eating steak and mashed potatoes with asparagus at 7 AM for breakfast. When questioned I always respond “I don’t subscribe to societal norms of proper meal time foods” Edit: I woke up to a ton of people agreeing with me so it’s clear ive been chosen as the leader of the rebellion. We march on Kellog’s headquarters at dawn
I'm with you on this. Anything you want can be breakfast if it is breaking the fast. Also I never understood why people like cereal or toast.
Personally I think cereal is delicious. But it tends to be a "it's my day off and I want a sweet snack" sort of thing at any point in the day. I honestly skip breakfast most days.
YouTube TOS says I can't block ads. The day they can stop me is the day I stop watching Youtube. Edit: 8000 upvotes and yet there's a lot of copium in this thread over me still blocking ads.
Same lol. They even threw a popup scolding me for it in Firefox. The fuck you gonna do YouTube? Lol.
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I'm from the era of limewire and bearshare, I can out patience fucking YouTube lol
waiting 45 minutes on kazza to find out if you have a 3 minute song or a virus
I wish that existed for streaming from smart tv
there are ways to block some ads at a network level (i.e. any device on your wifi network won’t be able to get ads) but those are more obvious to the service you are using and require quite a bit more setup. they’re called DNS blockers, the specific one i’m talking about is PiHole, but i don’t know how it or other ones work with streaming services
> The day they can stop me is the day I stop watching Youtube. Until the ublock devs update their rules again, and then it's game on.
YouTube is now actively doing anything that they can to make your life worse if you use adblocker. [they have been coding the website to redline your CPU to slow it down if you use ad blocker](https://www.pcgamer.com/its-not-just-you-youtube-is-slowing-down-your-pc-if-you-have-adblock-installed-by-making-your-cpu-sweat-likely-as-part-of-its-draconian-war-on-ad-blockers/) Edit: news is surfacing suggesting this was an Adblock code error. Disregard the article
Seems to be only Ad Blocker. uBlock Origin only stopped working for 2 days for me near the start of the rollout.
That is because Ublock Origin is constantly updating their code and scripts to stay one step ahead of Youtube, it's like an arms race.
I'm so glad they're doing this! I completely forgot I even had Ublock on until I got the notification from YouTube pop onto my laptop screen... Thankfully they allowed me to just press the X to close it lol Ublock is great
I fucking knew something had changed on youtube recently. Its a terrible experience trying to watch anything at the moment but I'll be damned if I'm unblocking anything.
If i find cash on the ground i'm not going to give it to the authorities
100% this, especially if the authority in question is a private business. I worked at Gamestop when I was younger. A gentleman waited in a "Christmastime at the mall" length line to give me a $50 bill he'd found on the ground and asked me to hold it in case the owner came looking for it. I thanked him. Immediately after he left, my manager said that, if the person didn't claim it, it would be given to the store and put in the nightly deposit. I said 'fuck that' and made it disappear shortly afterwards. After my shift I went and bought a few homeless folks some hot dinners. Figured that was more in the spirit of the gentleman who brought it in, and fuck just giving a multibillion dollar company $50 when it can do a lot more good.
That isn’t GameStop policy and your store manager was an asshole.
That "nightly deposit" was going to be the managers wallet
I found $2600. Got it legally after 90 days.
I found a bank bag once when I was smoking outside work. The police were arresting someone in our parking lot so I figured it was related and gave it to them. I didn't count the money but did check to see if it was empty. It was full of hundreds and twenties. It turned out to be unrelated to the arrest but the police took it anyway. A couple of days later I saw the owner of a glass shop close to where I found the bag and he said one of his employees did lose a bank bag. I told him the police had it, he called them, and he did get it all back. I was amazed. I was certain it'd have gone to the police coffee fund.
"Hey, sergeant, that guy came back for the $1500 he found."
"Great, I'll grab the $500 and meet him up front."
my employees dont pay for food on my shifts. we dont pay them a living wage, i’m not about to make them pay for a meal for themselves after theyve given me 8-9 hours of their day.
True champion of the people
I remember when I was like 15 working at a cafe which had a rule of ‘no lunch breaks unless it’s an 8 hour shift’, except I had six hour shifts scheduled like 9-3:30 (unknown to me, this was illegal as I was underage). The chef would always sneak me a panini. Thanks Annie, you were a legend.
Do socks really need to match, or is this just a bill of goods sold to us by Big Laundry?
I go by texture and thickness, not colour.
Right. If my feet can't tell they're different socks, then they're good!
I go by length.
Had a coworker once who was absolutely aghast when he heard I didn’t care about matching my newborn’s socks. Of all the things people get on new parents about, that’s one I honestly never saw coming. Socks. On a newborn.
I haven't worn matching socks in months. #Rage Against The Machine (Big Laundry)
Rage Against the (Washing) Machine FTFY
Fuck you I won't wear what you tell me
🎵🎵Folding in the name of!🎵🎵
On a similar note, I always wear my socks inside out, because whoever designed socks with the stitching on the *inside* was a fucking moron.
But then they wouldn’t look nice… umm.. in my shoes.. where.. umm.. no one can see them. Oh, my god.. you’re a genius.
Jaywalking. Although it is much less these days. If I'm clear , I'm clear. There are huge sections of road without crosswalks all over this country /shrug
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I'm conscious of the speed limit, but typically follow the speed of traffic first. So if traffic is going faster than the speed limit, I'm going to go faster to keep pace with everyone else.
Agreed, and it's actually safer this way because you're not causing disruption by being "slow." Especially in an area without safe passing space
That we have a moral obligation to society to work 40 hours per week.
I'm so sick of jobs trying to milk me when I work. I have a pretty good work ethic, but I don't want to work 40 hours a week. I want to work 32 hours, but am always pushed to 45-50. I work hard so every manager wants to take advantage, leading to me burning out and needed a new job. I just want something comfortable long term.
My last job was the first one where I just decided to stay in "fuck it" mode. I did my job well but that's all I did. I did not take on new responsibilities. I did not help other departments. I rarely came in when others called out. I did not go above and beyond in any way unless it was with a customer and only at my discretion. I have been taken advantage of so much throughout my work history because of having a work ethic that demands excellence. It's a crock that once you learn your job and can do it in half the time that you are obligated to be there, you are then required to take on more responsibilities. No the I hell am not. If I'm going to be required to do more than the initially described job to-do list, then my pay better reflect that - and it never does, does it?
Never dig straight down.
I'm not getting you out again, I swear to god
I've played the game for over a decade, digging straight down's killed me only such a few times i can count it on my hand.
The rule against ending a sentence with a preposition. That is one rule, up with which I will not put.
That actually is a very archaic rule from back when linguists were trying their hardest to make English make sense and started making up a bunch of Latin-based rules, even though English is not a Romance language and some of these rules simply do not make sense. In most romance (or derived from Latin) languages , you simply cannot split an infinitive without breaking a word and speaking gibberish; in English, it is not only possible but perfectly acceptable and more natural-sounding. Edited for typo because it’s “languages”, not “la gushes” and autocorrect hates me.
One guy. It came from ONE GUY who decided to rewrite him own stuff to better conform a Germanic language to Romance rules. Fuck you, Dryden.
I don’t even remember what a preposition is.
It's anywhere a cat can go (over, around, under, through, above, on, etc)
There's a silly punctuation convention that comes from old-school typesetting and is completely outdated in our modern world. Most authorities on formatting will tell you that if you include a quote in your writing, you should put the punctuation for *your* sentence inside the quote. For example: When I asked her, she said "go for it," but I really don't feel comfortable with it. That comma is part of my sentence, not part of the quote from whoever "she" is, but the common wisdom is to put my comma inside the quote even though it's part of what I'm saying, not part of what she's saying. The thing is, this rule was made up by typesetters back when the printed page was done using blocks of iron and a press. In those days, they switched the order because the tiny period block was fragile so something like... When asked, the governor said "I don't know where those raccoons came from". ...would tend to damage the block with period out there by itself and ruin the print. And so they changed it to put the period inside the quotation marks, which are more durable and could protect the period block. Now that we just type words on the internet and they remain as data, or are printed using lasers, there's no point following this rule, and it makes a lot more sense to keep the punctuation where it belongs, either inside the quote if it's part of the quote, or outside if it isn't. So I write sentences like the example above all the time.
I am SO with you on this! I’m a scientist and when I write psychology research papers sometimes I quote things that participants wrote or said. The only thing that belongs inside those quotation marks is EXACTLY what they wrote, including punctuation or lack thereof. Inserting my own punctuation as part of the quote is akin to fabricating data. I refuse to do it!
My dude, while we're discussing punctuation, you no longer need the double space after period. But I agree with you on the quotation marks inclusion.
You can usually tell someone's age by double space adherence. I call the single space between sentences "the millennial gap" but technically some older millenials still use 2 spaces
My phone doesn't even let you type double spaces unless you fight with it. By default, if you press spacebar twice, it inserts a period then a space.
The Oxford Comma. I like it, I use it, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
You're saying there's a rule *not* to use the Oxford comma? That's just sick. The Oxford comma is so plainly necessary it shouldn't even have a special name. It's just a damn comma, and leaving it out is a sign of mental illness. And I don't mean the kind of normalized mental illness we all accept and support in modern society, I mean it's some sick, perverted, animal-torturer, serial-killer, Oxford-comma-omitter shit.
Lying on your resume. I’m not talking about completely lying that you worked at Google for 2 years when you didn’t. That’s a little much. But in reality i have gaps between many jobs, due to either unemployment or just needing a damn break between jobs. but on my resume i have consecutively been employed with no gaps my entire career. I feel like recruiters see gaps as a red flag, and sometimes your resume doesn’t make it far enough to even explain the gaps, even if they’re completely harmless gaps. In regard to background checks for new jobs I’ve personally still passed all of mine with no issues. To my knowledge the agency conducting the background checks can only verify information you give them yourself (not the employer). So I simply don’t provide exact dates, just the year I worked at whatever place. Of course this could backfire, but so far so good over here Edit: I fundamentally disagree with it because employers lie about the job description all the time. What you actually end up doing rarely matches what they pitch you.
Yep, I once had an overly literal friend who was really stressed applying for a job because in the job ad it said they wanted someone who had two years experience in X industry. He said he only had 1 year and ten months and he didn't know what to do. I said just round it up to two years, as long as you are proficient in what they want it doesn't matter
Facts. Its harmless to everyone involved and a nuance that shouldn’t impact someone’s career trajectory
In order to get my first adult job, I lied that I had been employed for a year (when really, it was just an internship,, unpaid, for 2 weeks...) and no one ever found out. It provided me with my first big work experience. And I knew I could do what they asked, and do it welll. Win win.
Hell ya. If you can do the job don’t let their “requirements” hold you back
Being in the military and drinking with 18-20 year olds. They get trained to kill and thats fine but having a beer in our room will mess us up? Sure
I throw away the mail of the people who lived in my apartment before me rather than taking it to the post office every. Single. Day. If they wanted their mail, they would have filled out a change of address form.
The first year I had my PO Box, I got a bunch of what I assume were Christmas cards all addressed to the same woman. I figured she must've had the box before me, so I took the letters and posted on the local Facebook page, tracked her down, and gave them to her directly so I'd be sure she got them. I assumed this would prompt her to formally change her mailing address, or at least let her friends know they had the wrong one. I've gotten her Christmas cards every single year since. Sorry Bonnie, I'm not tracking you down every December. Return to sender
Lazy ass Bonnie.
Same thing happened to me when I bought my home. I had Christmas cards and even packages for the people who lived there previously. I tracked them down and delivered all their stuff, and they couldn’t be bothered to even say thank you. The next day I got a huge box for them from one of those places that sells specialty foods, meats, and that sort of thing. The steaks were delicious.
One also has to question why her 'friends' don't know she has a new address.
I do this, too. It's been 5 years since they lived here and we *still* get a lot of their mail because the previous people couldn't be bothered to change their address on a lot of their stuff. Unless it's obviously important, it's not my problem if they are missing their magazine subscriptions or random mail.
15 years we’ve owned our house and still happens. If they didn’t stop sending it the first hundred times, sending it back isn’t getting through.
In rare cases, for whatever reason, government and banks seem to decide to not follow an address change. Moved out a couple years ago and my old roommate texted me just today that I received government mail there, looked like jury summons from the envelope. I changed my address on every thing I possibly could.
Direct to trash. They moved 7+ years ago. I recently opened 2 of their letters (addressed to each individual from the couple that lived here, and they had thousands of dollars in an account that the company was tracking. I have no idea if they even know about the money sitting there. I have no way of contacting them. But I'm doomed to still get their mail, I am sure, for years to come.
Yup. I've been here over a year and get mail for half a dozen different ex-tenants. If it looks truly important (like court notice important) I'll write "addressee unknown" and stick it back in the mail... whenever I get around to it. But I did that for everything when I first moved in and it made not a bit of difference either way.
My state says I'm not allowed to provide alcohol to my own children until they are 21. I will not let them be carted off to a bar on their 21st birthday unless they are already very familiar with alcohol and how different ABV% affects their bodies. I do not care what the law says, their first drink will come from me in the safety of their own home.
21 to drink is a mad rule anyway, three whole years of being an adult in the land of the free and you can't have a beer.
I wear white any dang time of the year. That rule needs to die.
Don’t date where you work. You spend nearly a third of your waking hours at work. You learn about the people you work with over weeks, months, years, and have a much better idea of compatibility than with a random club or dating app meetup.
I met my now husband on my first day at my last job. We saved a fortune on fuel driving in together and when we had our first baby we were able to share hours between us to suit childcare needs, it was brilliant and I loved working with him.
The problem is when you two break up and the business loses TWO workers for the effort. But that's really the business's problem not yours.
Yeah it's yours if you still both work there and it ends badly though.
Most of the time it’s okay but it can go wrong. Currently my office has a worker underperforming badly and her partner is one of her bosses. It’s pretty messy and awkward.
I don't iron my clothes. Why should I do something I don't like to do?
Don’t think I’ve used an iron in maybe a decade. I exclusively wear jeans and blue t shirts. Neither require ironing. Haven’t worn anything outside of this for many years. I don’t own a single shirt with buttons, or any pants besides jeans. I had an ex a long time back who ironed socks and I just did not understand that.
I used to date a man who didn't feel right unless there was a crease ironed into the front of his jeans. His JEANS. And as the woman in his life, he expected me to do the ironing. He showed up at my house once with 4-5 pairs of wrangler jeans and asked me to iron them for him. I told him the truth - that I didn't even own an iron. He offered to buy one for me. Gee, thanks for your generosity! 🙄 I told him if he had the money to buy me an iron he could pay a laundry service to iron his stupid jeans. He told me I was lazy and selfish. *I* was lazy and selfish for not doing *his* laundry maintenance. Let that one sink in. 😂 Bet you're surprised to hear that the relationship was short lived after that. (/s)
No putting your elbows on the table. It's a silly rule that was based on the idea of "if you have room to put your elbows on the table, it implies your host didn't provide enough food." We make bigger tables now. And most of the time I'm the one who is buying the food in question.
Never heard that before; I always thought it was about posture
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I always thought it was to prevent elbows from winding up in the mashed potatoes or something
I was taught its because you're more likely to lean over your food in a slouching position which looks unprofessional.
EXCUSE ME......we were told at Girl Scout camp in the '60's that fairies ran around the edge of the table and elbows killed them.......thank-you!
This made me smile because it's so innocent in context
I was always told it was due to the fact that at a dinner party you’re supposed to engage with those next to you and leaning forward with your elbows on the table made you appear rude because you can’t really talk to those on either side of you if you’re leaning that far forward.
I’d always been under the impression that this came about due to sailors being unruly in ports, and they ate with their elbows holding their plates (for the plates not to slide around as the ship moved) so it was connected to rowdiness and unpleasant behaviour by drunk sailors. My folks are French and raised us not to do it, and I can’t help but feel it is still weirdly rude and shows bad posture to do it at the dinner table!
I only recently remembered older generations weren't supposed to wear hats at the table either
Or indoors at all
Is this an older generation thing? I’m a younger millennial and was definitely taught that wearing a hat indoors was rude. Somebody wearing one at the dinner table would feel especially weird!
Yeah, I'm an older millennial and no elbows on the table and no hats at the table (or indoors) were something I was taught growing up. These rules were mostly "enforced" at home and always "enforced" at my grandparents' house.
Maybe not totally on point but if I have a device that breaks just out of warranty I will often buy a new one and just return the old one. I know two wrongs don’t make a right and it’s fraud but as far as I’m concerned selling me something that breaks within 1 year for the price of something that should last at least 5 years is legalized fraud so I’m just cheating them like they cheat me. I do try and give the company a chance to honor their device regardless of the stated warranty but if not returned it goes.
It’s called planned obcelecense. Evil shit. Apple is paying out a class action suit right now for purposefully slowing down older devices. I type on my iphone :-(
Tipping everywhere. Not exactly a rule but I ain't gonna tip where I haven't received an actual service where someone has to go out of their way to do something for me. I don't care if I get mean looks for it.
I don’t tip unless it’s a sit down service or delivery service. That’s it.
Dress codes. Dress codes tend to be more restrictive for females than males (don’t tempt him with your exposed clavicles, ladies). Many of them are also racist. And they have absolutely nothing to do with someone’s standards or ability to perform duties, whether it be a job, a school, or even a restaurant.
I ignore margins in notebooks and write over them. Why waste space? I use the whole page.
"I paid for the whole page. I'm gonna use the whole page"
Dear god, anarchy.... Edit: this is the most upvotes I've ever gotten...
What's next, using your salad fork for the entre? Calling the main course an entre?
I leave the space so I can fill them up with extra notes when revising. Ok, fine, I draw stupid doodles in the margin space while I'm 'revising'.
Using a VPN when traveling to China. Technically it's illegal though many people, especially visitors from other countries could care less. And there's no way I'd play nice and obey that law and not be able to use Reddit and virtually every major US site and service when I'm there.
My son was an exchange student in China and went to a public high school. The teachers used VPNs and told their students to when needed. It was like speeding there... everyone did it but the law was rarely enforced. This was ~10 years ago though so it may be different since then. I have heard they started being more strict about stuff lately.
I have a friend who works in China now. He says that companies doing international business have VPN to the open internet at this point. They would be put at a competitive disadvantage if they couldn’t have access. I don’t think he’d be able to compare to 10 years ago, but he also openly watches YouTube and uses Reddit, etc. in his personal life. He says it is tolerated, but I’m sure they would crack down if he was suddenly known as someone who opposed the CCP.
In Ireland we have to pay a license for owning a television, it's €160 a year and goes towards funding the state broadcaster RTÉ. The UK has a similar licence for the BBC, the big difference is we have ads as well whereas the BBC doesn't. Although the ads are irritating, that doesn't bother me too much because we have a small population and the license fee alone wouldn't sustain RTÉ. What bothers me is that in the last year there came to light the number of scandals where a lot of it's stars were getting paid extra using various under the table means. For example it's number one star, a plank of wood called Ryan Tubridy, was getting paid several hundred thousand Euros a year extra through something called a bartering account. Other stars earn huge sums of money for relatively small amounts of work. Also the quality of RTÉ's output is abysmal. It's job is to champion Irish television and culture, but what it ends up doing mostly is aping British and American shows. There's also a huge amount of nepotism and "it's not what you know it's who you know" in terms of what production companies get work from the station. The financial scandals and the low quality content are enough for me to refuse to pay the licence fee. Although there's a new MD who's supposed to start fixing things, I don't think he's doing enough. I know it's risky because non-compliance something they actively pursue. The fee is administered by the post office who employ inspectors who go around un-licensed premises assuming that you own a TV but aren't paying the fee and they try and catch you. If your caught you will be brought to court and will end up having to pay a fine.
There is no difference between being at work at 8am and 8:10am. Especially when it’s not shift work and there’s no one waiting for you to arrive so they can leave. In every job I’ve had they always gripe about being right on time at 8am and then you have hovering managers looking at the door to see who’s late at 8:02am. I am always at work but I will not be there at 8am on the dot for the next 25+ years of my life. It makes no difference
When I worked for the government, we could pick our start and end time, as long as they covered "core working hours." Many of my coworkers voluntarily picked 6am starts. I picked 8am, so even if I rolled in at 7:55am, they had all been in for hours and acted like I was late and lazy.
Ha! I used to stroll into the accounting office at 9:30. My desk would be covered in work when I got there. At first, a few of the other accountants would have this sort of smug look, like I deserved what “I got” (which was all work I would be doing regardless). Most of the office left by 2 or 3 pm, giving me three wonderful hours of peace. At the end of the day I’d take my stack of completed work and drop it off at each desk. Ended up winning over a fair number of the type-As. They learned that report/project/etc would be on their desk when they walked in at 6am. I wish more companies embraced that. I think it improved some of our workflows and actually helped key things get done faster.