Welcome to Chicago!

You’re doing the Lord’s work.

I really can’t tell what is real and what is irony anymore.

If justice were real, Jean Smart would have a shelf or two full of statuettes.

I’d buy that.

LOL

Holy shit, I just watched that for the first time.  That is a fucking masterpiece.  Thank you for turning me on to that!

It’s... fine, but mostly just makes you want to watch the original.

What’s more, I remember when Blockbuster was swallowing up the independents back in the day.  Before you knew it, everything was either Blockbuster or Hollywood Video, and hopefully you were going there to rent one of the Ten Big Movies because all they carried was 137 copies of each.

Yeah, I’m old lol. We didn’t have Internet in those days, but we did have BBSes. So one could download barely-recognizable dithered low-res images at 300 baud (or later, when I switched to a PC, 1200! so fast!), but they weren’t exactly fap-worthy.

I didn’t live near any woods, so that sucked. And I couldn’t just go rent stuff, because in those days you needed a credit card to rent, and debit cards weren’t a thing.

There’s actually a great Doctor Who comic where the Doctor ends up in our universe at a convention and is horrified to see all the people wearing Dalek shit.

You do know the other two ships weren’t Evergreen ships, right?

That was my approach for a few decades, but it got so horrible that I needed out, and I could only see two ways to do it: divorce, or...

That’s for damned sure. We didn’t have cable, but we did have an OTA pay TV service called OnTV that required a set-top box. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, they ran a couple of hours of softcore (think Skinemax) flicks.

The surprising news would be if a union conducted a survey of a workplace and the results were “everything is great here, no room for improvement.”

With the possible tiny exception of industries where it is extremely difficult to find qualified employees, most corporations in any field treat their employees like crap.

Exactly so. Because at the end of the day, senior management answers to the board, and the board answers to shareholders, and shareholders are idiots who don’t give a shit about anything except what the next 10Q shows. (Not that most of them read a 10Q; they care about the quarterly earnings as announced on a useless…

However as other companies have demonstrated, it’s easy to put out statements. Actually making changes that employees are able to experience and then confidently say that things are getting better seems to be where most of these companies are faltering.

Thank you for this marvelous article. It brought back a lot of memories.