I usually feel pretty invested in my characters because I use my imagination and determine who they are and what their motives are. Voice acting makes that impossible. It takes the RP out of the RPG.

I’m not looking forward to meeting Lucille.

I worked for a family-owned company for nine years. Famously, the owner invited employees to a holiday party at his mansion...and then had them parking cars for the actual guests. His wife showed up at work in a brand new luxury car the same week he announced layoffs were necessary due to a drop in revenues.…

A lot of people were not ok with him playing the part and were not ok with the performance. Just because he got awards does not mean trans people and allies signed off on it.

Chris Lilley having multiple television series where he performed in blackface and brownface is proof of this.

Really don’t like the comparison to blackface, especially calling this the “modern” equivalent. Um, blackface is not a thing of the past. It's still very much a problem.

I spent years consulting with an ad/PR agency, and since no one else seemed able to work with Keynote or PowerPoint, I often got saddled with the responsibility of making new business presentations conform to a template.

I’ve seen good slide presentations but if you’re just doing a list of things you’re going to read, they’re pointless. A slideshow that works as a true presentation is a whole other story.

A good union will negotiate a better company policy. Contracts can cover anything and everything about your working conditions, if your union can back is demand up with a strike or if management is willing to trade your right to recycle cans or receive gift cards for something else.

The union contract is part of “company policy,” and it can cover a lot more than just wages. And yes, it is possible to fire a unionized worker for cause, but you'd better believe the process isn't this arbitrary.

I absolutely understand the situations the policy is in place to protect (and it sounds like your workplace does a much better job about reducing waste than my previous and current ones), I just think that, while a common policy, considering all waste store property, including cans and bottles (which are not even…

And why they’ve since been all but eradicated.

If they don’t want their employees digging through their trash to redeem cans, they should consider paying them a living wage.

...and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why unions were invented.

Odds are the managers just wanted any excuse to fire him because of his history. Small minded people like that seem to always find a job as a service industry manager. No real power in life so find any excuse to torture the few people you are in charge of.

I suspect they just wanted to fire him and manufactured a reason to do it.

And this is the kind of stuff the red-staters in fly over country are willing to die to support. Funny thing is they often work for the same wages under similar conditions.

I think that’s why researchers chose to do the study at a buffet - no food scarcity, so no one has to worry about sharing.

I like it, but I do see it generating less revenue because the “gotta get it now” urge is quite strong for the majority.

Why take out the core? The core is the best part!