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[Truean]

Please do not quote:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/06/05/defunct-for-profit-career-school-aci-admits-defrauding-students/OQSnsQrz9pXoX0KK5u5aYO/story.html#comments
http://nypost.com/2016/06/06/my-employees-hate-me-can-i-fire-all-of-them/

There's something drastically wrong with the world.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=68850.msg7035506#msg7035506

Actually no, there is no reason and even his backers have called on him to drop it, because there isn't. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/06/us/politics/ap-us-gop-2016-trump.html?_r=0 Believe whatever you want. I don't care.
Please do not quote:

[Frumple]

... within ~40 minutes, the same load of clothes will have been washed for the fourth time in the span of <24 hours. It should have been once! But no, someone decided putting pissed on clothes in during the last ~five minutes of a wash cycle was a good idea. It could have been twice, but go figure, washing pissed on clothes with a set of mostly clean ones still leaves a smell after they dry. It would have only been three times, except the person I explicitly told to wait (and that I was waiting) until the morning to wash the things (because I wasn't staying up till midnight to dry them, and they end up smelling sour if left in wet overnight before drying), went ahead and soaked 'em before they went to sleep to let them start to goddamn mildew instead.

This cannot be good for my clothes

Also we're now out of washing detergent. Going shopping in a few hours and'll be able to pick more up, but bloody hell. How in the name of the nonexistent gods do people turn washing bloody clothes into a friggin' clusterfuck? I could understand back in the heyday when this stuff was a lot of work and effort, but this is literally pressing some buttons and not being bloody stupid, and it's somehow turned out poorly!

[hops]

Apparently my old forum game was mentioned two years ago by escaped lurker as a good example for pixel ISG environment. Despite it being, y'know, me being a lazy tool.

[Akura]

@Truean: The first one almost sounds a little like the community college I worked for; the one that has a very thinly-cloaked policy of discrimination against men. I wouldn't be surprised if it was bad as well.

The second one, first of all, is from the New York Post, a conservative mouth-breather-piece. Secondly, it's... kinda spot-on actually. Unless you're under an employment contract, you can, for the most part, quit whenever you damn well please and your employer can terminate you for just about anything, including nothing. In most cases the employer is generally unwilling to fire employees out of hand; after all, they have to have employees to make money, and it usually costs more money to find, hire, and train shiny new asskissers than it is to correct problems with existing employees. The example given the article, the grad student being hired before informing her employer she's going back to school is an interesting case. Even though the author is clearly an idiot(September is already fall), that actually was a dick move on the employee's part, not employer, but the choice of response given by the author is good, let her stay on if she's actually good at her job, dump her if not - there's little time to try and improve if she's not.

[TheBiggerFish]

Apparently my old forum game was mentioned two years ago by escaped lurker as a good example for pixel ISG environment. Despite it being, y'know, me being a lazy tool.

It doesn't look like you were being a lazy tool from what I saw of it.

[hector13]

@Truean: The first one almost sounds a little like the community college I worked for; the one that has a very thinly-cloaked policy of discrimination against men. I wouldn't be surprised if it was bad as well.

The second one, first of all, is from the New York Post, a conservative mouth-breather-piece. Secondly, it's... kinda spot-on actually. Unless you're under an employment contract, you can, for the most part, quit whenever you damn well please and your employer can terminate you for just about anything, including nothing. In most cases the employer is generally unwilling to fire employees out of hand; after all, they have to have employees to make money, and it usually costs more money to find, hire, and train shiny new asskissers than it is to correct problems with existing employees. The example given the article, the grad student being hired before informing her employer she's going back to school is an interesting case. Even though the author is clearly an idiot(September is already fall), that actually was a dick move on the employee's part, not employer, but the choice of response given by the author is good, let her stay on if she's actually good at her job, dump her if not - there's little time to try and improve if she's not.

't ain't that much of a dick move. Assistant could've decided not to give two months notice, which is more than enough time to find a replacement.

No, a dick move would be to work for someone and not tell them your work visa was expiring, and then disappear from the country before they found out. Which is something that happened twice at my previous job, much to my amusement.

[Rolan7]

I think sometimes you're obligated to give notice?  But that'd be a contract thing.

[hector13]

Usually a contract thing. Doesn't mean you have to give it though, depending on how you want that bridge burned.

[TheBiggerFish]

Usually a contract thing. Doesn't mean you have to give it though, depending on how you want that bridge burned.

Yeah.

[Truean]

@Truean: The first one almost sounds a little like the community college I worked for; the one that has a very thinly-cloaked policy of discrimination against men. I wouldn't be surprised if it was bad as well.

The second one, first of all, is from the New York Post, a conservative mouth-breather-piece. Secondly, it's... kinda spot-on actually. Unless you're under an employment contract, you can, for the most part, quit whenever you damn well please and your employer can terminate you for just about anything, including nothing. In most cases the employer is generally unwilling to fire employees out of hand; after all, they have to have employees to make money, and it usually costs more money to find, hire, and train shiny new asskissers than it is to correct problems with existing employees. The example given the article, the grad student being hired before informing her employer she's going back to school is an interesting case. Even though the author is clearly an idiot(September is already fall), that actually was a dick move on the employee's part, not employer, but the choice of response given by the author is good, let her stay on if she's actually good at her job, dump her if not - there's little time to try and improve if she's not.

't ain't that much of a dick move. Assistant could've decided not to give two months notice, which is more than enough time to find a replacement.

No, a dick move would be to work for someone and not tell them your work visa was expiring, and then disappear from the country before they found out. Which is something that happened twice at my previous job, much to my amusement.

Yes, and I agree with the columnist saying it was at will so the employer can shut up. That boss wants undying loyalty from employees but wouldn't give them any security. He flat out said the assistant wouldn't have been hired if she said she was even considering school.

So to review: "Become awesome by going to school and paying for it yourself by getting a job, but even an assistant job won't hire you if you go do." <-- unreasonable. So get a job and improve yourself and these things being made impossible shouldn't stop you right?

Same deal with the first boss. They specifically asked for a 360 review and for honest feedback. They got it and lo and behold it was honest and they didn't like it. Careful what you wish for. You just might get it. "Shouldn’t I be able to have a staff that supports me? " That depends, are you supportable, because it sounds like this might be one of those "bad bosses" that certainly don't exist.... What this boss really wanted was his butt kissed some more under the guise of being "legitimate." That's sad.

[Sergarr]

For some reason, Homestuck is still listed as [IN PROGRESS].

[itisnotlogical]

Idunno if there's an active thread that would be more relevant, but this is a WTF and I wouldn't want to derail an existing thread with something that might be obvious.

Why do people like Captain America!? He is such a self-righteous fratboy tool.

Spoiler: misc Marvel film spoilers (click to show/hide)

Tony Stark released Ultron and had his share of cockups. But in Civil War, he realizes that maybe, just maybe, oversight might be a good thing sometimes, because sometimes unlimited power results in third world countries being devastated.

But Captain America just does not give a fuck about anybody's notions of "personal accountability" or "doing a better job on not killing dozens of civilians next time". He refuses to even acknowledge that the civilian deaths at the beginning of Civil War might have been preventable. He has this nonchalant "Eh, sometimes civilians die, watcha gonna do" attitude that makes him so incredibly punchable. And his "I'm right so fuck your rules" approach causes yet more civilian damage by starting a fight at an airport, destroying planes, rendering a runway unusable, and (of course) harming any civilians that may or may not have been around.

I wish Civil War was an Iron Man movie where Iron Man was inexplicably right about everything and vindicated of all wrongdoing. :/

[Dorsidwarf]

Who made this

why

[Rolan7]

Sollux Captor I assume.
Does it really matter, it's beautiful!

[EnigmaticHat]

Idunno if there's an active thread that would be more relevant, but this is a WTF and I wouldn't want to derail an existing thread with something that might be obvious.

Why do people like Captain America!? He is such a self-righteous fratboy tool.

Spoiler: misc Marvel film spoilers (click to show/hide)

Tony Stark released Ultron and had his share of cockups. But in Civil War, he realizes that maybe, just maybe, oversight might be a good thing sometimes, because sometimes unlimited power results in third world countries being devastated.

But Captain America just does not give a fuck about anybody's notions of "personal accountability" or "doing a better job on not killing dozens of civilians next time". He refuses to even acknowledge that the civilian deaths at the beginning of Civil War might have been preventable. He has this nonchalant "Eh, sometimes civilians die, watcha gonna do" attitude that makes him so incredibly punchable. And his "I'm right so fuck your rules" approach causes yet more civilian damage by starting a fight at an airport, destroying planes, rendering a runway unusable, and (of course) harming any civilians that may or may not have been around.

I wish Civil War was an Iron Man movie where Iron Man was inexplicably right about everything and vindicated of all wrongdoing. :/

Civil war is half of an Iron Man movie.

Spoiler: actual spoilers click at own risk (click to show/hide)

Specifically, the first half.  Every Iron Man movie is one part "the worst day of Tony Stark's life" and one part "Tony gets his shit together."  Civil War is an entire movie of everything going wrong in Tony's life WITHOUT him ever fixing it.  There's a moment where he does realize that he's fucked up and it looks like he might fix some things, but his attempts to do so just result in more suffering.  Mostly his own.

Makes me wonder if this just a larger setup for yet another Tony Stark epiphany in a future movie.