I'm not working there anymore. They also had us work 16-20 hour shifts without breaks and no overtime pay for 60-80hr work weeks. They only had like 7 employees(whom were all labeled independent contractors to dodge taxes) but worked with hundreds of actual independent contractors. I was super desperate for money at…

I've been told not to reproduce because one of my parents is disabled at work. I've been told mixed race people are ugly at work (I'm mixed race). Gotta love small businesses with no HR department.

For some people it's less about the fact that their beliefs seem silly and more about their track record.

That's good advice. I read scenario 9 and got to thinking: If you've never met her in person, and she asks to see your penis she could be anything, even a guy. I've seen this happen to a few friends. When they talked to "her" on the phone, the voice happened to be a friend/sister/etc and pictures sent were pulled off…

Now if only India would try to do something about the men that immolate their wives so they can claim it was a kitchen accident and not be charged with murder. Last I checked less than 5% of cases are looked into as murder and some aren't even officially reported. Unofficial reports estimate over 100,000 fire-related…

Eh, I don't really mind when people ask me my ethnicity straight out, but the round about ways just get frustrating as I generally don't read too much into words in everyday situations. The following is the type of situation that gets annoying after a while:

I think there's an important distinction when a loanword is being used. It doesn't always have the same intended depth of meaning when used by non-native speakers. Not to mention some just being used completely out of context like バイキング(viking=buffet).

Not sure, but most of the jobs I've had have broken several laws. No overtime pay or lunch breaks for back to back 20 hour shifts twice a week (80/wk). Classifying employees as independent contractors to force them to pay both sides of the payroll fees and avoid giving full-time employees benefits. Asking employees to…

I'm working a day job in a warehouse with no A/C in a place where the entire month is supposed to be above 100 degree highs for $2/hr above minimum wage.. Thankfully they let us wear T-shirts and shorts and tell us to take a break and drink water if we start to feel off. It's also the second job I've had that doesn't…

It's about control. People don't like to give up control and power. Considering the corporate money behind some of these bills, I wouldn't be surprised if it was somehow about money too.

We need more progressive influence at the State level of politics. All these insane policies are the fruition of a long conservative push to gain control of State-level politics.

Many of the GOP bills have come from ALEC, which is the poster-boy for streamlined policy. AUL, an offshoot of ALEC, formed specifically to promote a "pro-life" agenda.

The context of my post is implied to be about Japan and Japanese culture considering the title of the article is "Japan's Army of College Student Clones." People with tans are often considered to be from a region where a lot of farming is done, and they're usually believed to be dumb/low-bred/etc. I know people who…

I think there are two separate issues here which is why you're seeing such a hostile response.

The culture definitely doesn't value originality. They have a saying that roughly translates to "the nail that sticks out will be hammered down" which refers to people and their behavior. I guess I just think "clone" is too strong a term.

Some people just have an irrational hatred towards some things. My dad used to call me a faggot when I would try to hug him. He would sometimes punish me by locking me down in a wrestling grip that caused me to become claustrophobic as I got older. Of course he has no memories of doing this; he still dislikes "the…

They do like their cats though (and who wouldn't love kitties.) The LOLcats stuff started there with their "Caturday" Saturdays on /an/ (animal board), and there was the case of Dusty the Cat where they gathered evidence to get a kid convicted for posting a video of cat abuse online. Other than cats though, its a…

They look similar, and they do conform, but they don't look anything like clones, unless we have different ideas of what a clone is.

Back when I was trying to get over my social anxiety a bit over a decade ago I tried branching out through the internet. Being from Los Angeles I was shocked at some of the ideology out there that I had only ever read about in history textbooks. If you ever want to feel depressed about humanity you should drop in the…

I think it's more that, in the Western world, Men's stuff is considered "normal" whereas Women's stuff is considered "feminine." If a woman likes male-themed things shes just being "normal" instead of being "feminine" where if a man likes female-themes things he's being "feminine" instead of being "normal." Kind of…