I don’t think weaponizing Karens is a good idea...

Won’t solve it. The culture is rotten and internalized misogyny is only going to metastasize in that environment. Like all others who enter the force with the best intentions, the ones with scruples will get drummed out or corrupted and only the cool-girl/pick me-types will survive.

I love how a girlfriend’s highly specific and unprompted statement, corroborated by a lawyer who also represented the alleged bomb builder, that the guy was building bombs in an identified location is seen as insufficient for a warrant to search said location, but...

In a retail operation, money flows through the cash register. Nobody will need to do inventory or pay the electric bill if those baristas aren’t moving the coffee. Also, I’ve worked way more places where someone had to do work way above their pay grade to cover a manager’s vacation than I have places where upper…

No to both. For the first, the company is public and Lin Qi only had a 24% stake - ownership remains with its owners. For the other, escheatment only happens when the estate remains unclaimed for a long enough period, as happens in most other countries too. That’s the case in both China’s old 1985 and new 2021…

I was referring more to within a given organization. The people who make your food get paid minimum wage, the people who spend all their time in meetings and then telling the cooks that they aren't working fast enough get paid way more. Regular consumers don't give a shit what middle management is up to.

I know you're being sarcastic, but I'd be 100% fine with this.

Yep. Office Space was a huge out of nowhere hit  for exactly this reason--it pointed out that we’ve designed a society where entire economies are based on pointless busywork until another economy based on buying up assets and stripping them to their components comes along and devours it.

His food taster was home with a stomach ache.

I think the current work culture has been tending more and more anti-employee regardless of what company or job you have and the only course of response is to do things to insulate your position. I’m an electrical engineer and regardless of what company I work for, they miss the intrinsic good of the mission for the…

Just because some work needs to happen doesn’t mean everyone needs to be doing it all the time.

There is work that needs to get done, but frequently the work that actually needs to get done isn’t the work that’s well compensated. We’ve flipped the compensation/necessity scale, which leaves the people doing important work poorly compensated and burnt out.

Yeah, first book was a slog for me, I really wanted to like it. Not sure I’ll ever be able to motivate to read the last two. 

I failed at teaching Wiley cat to stay off the desk, but at least he seems to be learning he only gets pets in his spot here (not on the keyboard or blocking the monitors)

I found New Mutants to be surprisingly good, all things considered.

Yes, it was an amateur effort at best.

...and now he’s dead, apparently.

Exactly. Joe prided himself on “bipartisanship” with conservative bigots. Except moving towards your opponent’s end of the spectrum while your opponent stays put is not bipartisanship. That’s caving. They’re letting you think you’ve compromised, but you haven’t.

Yeah, but *grumble grumble* I paid my debt already so everyone else should have to pay theirs too. My life was hard, everyone else should have hard lives. A bear ate my sandwich, it’s only fair if bears eat everyone else’s entire homes!

Wow, Benioff & Weiss' being involved in a project is both literal and figurative poison now.