The United States does not have a universal background check system for firearm sales. And even if it did, that wouldn’t be enough because people would get through that barrier.

The stance is that everybody should have a barrier between them and a gun and that, unlike the policy document says, therapists shouldn’t be telling cops shit. Being mentally ill should not be criminalized.

Please, star.

The kids, as a whole, are extremely wrong about some parts of their “platform.” I’m thinking particularly about the part about tracking people’s mental health histories and deregulating reporting standards in order to allow mental health professionals to snitch on their patients more freely. Sorry, but the privacy of…

And ketchup is a vegetable, even though tomatoes are fruits.

If Reagan taught us anything, it’s that trees cause more pollution than automobiles.

Oh, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office finds that the Affordable Care Act redistributed an enormous amount of wealth—$16 billion annually—from the 1 percent to poor Americans?

My best boss ever was for a retail jewelry store. She ran an extremely tight ship (she had a reputation for turning “bad” stores around and won multiple awards for her management skills), but also treated her staff like human beings. She took a genuine interest in our lives and scheduled around them whenever possible.…

LOL relying on government inflation numbers? Gas is 4x as expensive as 20 years ago. Nobody except the rich are making 4x as much as 20 years ago.

That’s true!

Don’t worry, the tax cut bill will fix that problem, trickle up economics at work.

Oh, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office finds that the Affordable Care Act redistributed an enormous amount of wealth—$16 billion annually—from the 1 percent to poor Americans?

It also seems to me that people on a regular schedule that doesn’t change much day to day are just generally in a better state of mind. Sleeping consistent hours with a usual wake up/bedtime, knowing reasonably far in advance when you’ll need to be at work so you can schedule appointments/errands/adult life…

Or better yet, “Associates.”

I worked in fast food when scheduling was done by hand by the store manager and it’s remarkable how much of a different feel it was when we had a predictable schedule, especially at the shift manager level, because it meant restaurant standards were maintained consistently. If it made that much difference at a goddamn…

I expect this study to get filed in the same bin as all those studies in the sixties which told Southern businessmen that the dollars of African-Americans were just as green as anybody else’s.

Filed under: NO DUH.

I mean, file this under “Duh.” But also watch how no company actually takes this information and uses it, choosing instead to continue to treat their employees like so much garbage.

Another benefit of workers knowing their schedule is that they end up socializing more with co-workers and getting to know other areas of the store since they don’t arrive and leave in a mad rush. You can always tell a store that manages time properly by the fact that its salespeople can direct you to where a product…

Nah, it’s easier to just call employees “team members” as an empty gesture and then treat them like shit.