HD firing isn’t really random. They’re just huge dicks about the attendance policy. You have a no-call/no-show unless you can convince an ASM to make it right it’s not going to be made right and you’d best be perfect. You show up 7 minutes late a day that’s fine, but if you do 9 times in 6 months your 10th is…

Dude, in ‘07 they paid people money. Electrical, in particular, frequently had a “Master Electrician” hanging around who was actually a certified Master Electrician. Those guys did not give up their businesses for an hourly under $20, and if they were hardball negotiators could get more like $25.

Probably a combo of poor management, and the fact really wealthy customers tend to treat retail workers like Amazon bots. Especially tech guys. To be fair, most of the tech guys actually want you to treat them like an Amazon bot back.

Dude it’s retail.

How poor is the area? Associate hours are determined by revenue. if you’re in a poor area, then most of the customers will tke one look at the product they really need and say “don’t you have one cheaper?,” which means lower revenue per customer, and thus fewer associates per customer.

Five-month-promotion is not common, but it does happen. One guy I work with came in less then 12 months ago, and went from flooring specialist to department supervisor quite quickly. They’re shifting him around. Litterally the second he figures out how his current department should be run, he’s moved. It’s impossible…

Pay attention to more business and Asia News. The Strait of Malacca is the one Singapore is on, and i’s on the most convenient shipping route from East Asia (so China/Japan/Korea) to the entire rest of the old world (Europe, India, Africa).

According to that article the fired baristas are getting the same deal everyone else who worked at that location gets: a job at another location.

Bessner’s a state trooper. Detroit cops said some pretty horrible things after the chase, but they didn’t kill the kid. That’s all on the state.

What you mean “will be relentlessly attacked”? He’s been under siege from the left since ‘92. He would have lost that primary except for the two-for-one argument.

Your town is built much differently then a peasant village. People have cars, so there are multiple places people spend time. It’s a complex economy, so there are people who work midnght, and other people who work mornings. In a peasant village there’s either a two-field system or a three-field system. Only one of the…

You ever tried to find privacy in apesant village? It’s muh hardet ehn you’d think. They’re roughly 1,000 acres, they have 25-50 families full of people, and all anyone has to do is gossip about Christie and Todd. If Christie and Todd are married that’s fine. If neither one has any enemies in the village they’re also…

Never said it was impossible. In fact in several of these I have mentioned that it happened. I’m saying it’s a lot less common then you think if you grow up in an environment that is not-anti-sex, thinks of privacy as a moral right, and really has nothing comparable to the Catholic Church Court system.

You ever worked a customer service job where part of it involves actually interacting with customers?

Like I said, I’m sure it happened. But you’re talking like every peasant woman would have known what head felt like, which guys gave the best, etc. That’s bullshit. That is something that happens when your society has multiple life stages devoted to encouraging people to try different partners, and different…

Have you considered the geometry of oral?

How would peasants do oral? That takes some privacy.

“Kirk” is not Gaelic. It’s Scots. Scots is (depending on your point of view of the Union with England) either a) a dialect of English or b) a sister-language to English. The term’s also used in Northern England. Both English and Scots were brought to the island by the Anglo-Saxons in the same immigration wave that…

The story says his financial aid expires Spring term, so his January-April classes were covered. The team says he was thrown off in November, but won’t say why, because student confidentiality is a thing. He says he left town for a family emergency, which caused the trouble, but has not gone into further details. He…

Don’t know where you get your infor from, but a) Princeton is one of several dozen US Universities that claim to be as good as Harvard, without being as good as Harvard on scant evidence, and b) Trump never went there. The schools he attended were in the “claim to be as good as Princeton” category: Fordham and the…