4. Perhaps, when having the “best financial results in our history”, not laying off 8% of your staff?

They are making more. They are making more then they ever have in their history.

I will say though - we have zero hills in Winnipeg. The most incline any of us face in the city is the occasional rail underpass and the Arlington Bridge. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the hills they have in Seattle with snow and ice.

My flight out of chicago was cancelled yesterday. And today. And tomorrow was booked. So I’m stuck until Saturday.

I’m not sure that calling it trolling really does it justice though. The difference between someone acting like a racist pile of festering mold because they are trolling and someone acting like a racist pile of festering mold because they are a racist pile of festering mold is... what?

Money can buy a shitload of young people’s blood to inject in to their veins.

At what point does a symbol created to be something become a symbol for that thing? That’s the question.

God I love Iceland.

I’ve often thought when eating eggs that they could use more sulphur!

Work harder? Who is going to pay you for the harder work? Certainly not businesses who are happy to get more work and not pay more. After all, real wages have been falling every year and productivity has been skyrocketing.

“People don’t use the web exactly the way I do - therefor they are wrong and this article is wrong for pointing out something that can help”

The extension is extremely useful for the use case described by the author. They describe why they have 70 tabs open, and why this extension would help with that. Bookmarking or managing a toolbar aren’t the same thing.

It’s almost like why is addressed in the first paragraph:

I’m inclined to give the people who have been working without pay for the last month a bit of leeway with not being 100% thoughtful with what they are saying. Bunches of them are likely taking second jobs in order to have enough money for gas to get to the airport, plus they are starting to be late on mortgage…

If you want to be a neighborhood hero - buy a snowblower and snowblow the neighbors walks/driveways/etc.

63,000 is based on an estimate - and the Fraiser Institute is a fairly conservative organization that receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Koch Brothers.

It’s a defined benefit of your employment. It’s no different then contributing up to the limit of your employer retirement plan matching (if you have it) - if you don’t do it you are leaving compensation on the table. The company sure as hell isn’t going to shed any tears about you, so why should you for them? It’s…

The problem is if they take their last day in October and get sick in December - what do they do then? And hey, they are maintaining coverage while still using their defined benefits so that’s even better.

So your company refused to accommodate an injured worker? That sounds like more of an indictment on your old company, the american work mentality, capitalism, and healthcare rather then on someone taking the days off that are provided to her, who got injured.

You do you - but my job has starting vacation of 3 weeks per year, and essentially unlimited sick days. Vacation days are for your vacation, and sick days are for when you are sick and can’t work or don’t want to spread your illness to everyone else (in fact - if you come to work sick management will usually send you…