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(Edit because there's so much discourse about this one specifically:
I think it does a good job at starting the conversation about how to better deal with long commute times.)
Greetings!
Happy Friday, to all who celebrate!
I hope the unpleasant obligations go quickly, and you can get back to what you need.
Just gotta say that I'd love to be able to lay down and read. When you have glasses... You kinda can't.
Remind me to never do this.
This might help!
I am guilty of this.
Yep.
I mean. It's cute.
Bah-dum-tsss!
Ok, so this movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows. It's not a good movie haha. But I like watching it.
Mrglrglrglrgl!
Would be hilarious to hear.
It's true!
Get in the robot, Shinji!
... Yeah, I'll go for this.
:D
Basically, yeah.
This is cool.
Gotta keep the sand nailed down, we can't have sand fog everywhere.
Awwwww little pepper!!!
Some people really need practice!
Sigh.
This would be awesome.
I hope today is a gentle day for everyone. If it is not, I hope there are gentler times ahead.
Also, reminder, you can click on an image and click the comment bubble to see what number an image is, and it even creates the link for you in the comment!
#memes #memedump #meemays #funny #void
duhqueenmoki
#6 sorry students, just gonna fuckin walk out of class and let my 6th graders fend for themselves while I calm down lol
AlexanderElcazorro
#1 Companies would only hire people who live close to the place of work, and would discriminate on their hiring based on how far you commute. People who live away from places of work, or areas of low population density would get screwed. Would be great if we could promote more working from home though.
thetinymonarch
#1 that's why I love WFH, I don't start till the second I'm on the clock
kittyfajitas
#20
EaNasirIsABastard
#1 that wouldn't encourage people to live close to their workplace. So bad for traffic and emissions. But a one hour pay at the start and end of your shift would win my vote. If you live more than an hour away, sucks to be you, plan your life better, if you are five minutes away, enjoy your free time.
TheDaharMaster
muthafuckers gon' be posted up in a Trader Joe's parking lot talkin bout "hella traffic out there today that's why my commute took 3 hrs"
PandaSan
#19 I post this message on Facebook every time I see these stupid quizzes. I’m told I’m being a curmudgeon and that this info is easily accessible anyway. 🙄
DigYourselfBaby
FB is the biggest payoff for data mining, is it not? People will often just do as they're told without question, like those ancestry kits where you send in a DNA sample. I'm not on FB & never have been. It sounds like you're beating your head against a brick wall there. :(
CaptainSkyhawk
#1 I was working a construction job and we had to park on a worksite lot and take the unreliable shuttle bus supplied by a third party into the work site, meaning you were either randomly late or you were waiting around for the starting meeting in the darkness for an hour. The supers and leads were able to drive right in to the parking garage where we had to wait, step out and start ordering us around. There was literally no reason everyone could not have parked there.
CitizenPrime
#3 I for one appreciate the Good Place reference
DuffyMx
Even here in germany the commute isn't clocked, BUT if anything happens between your doorstep and work (either direction), the company insurance takes over... so at least theres that
EaNasirIsABastard
Wasn't there a guy who fell down in his kitchen getting ready for work and his work insurance had to cover it?
Misora
When I started my job I had a 3 hour daily (round trip) commute BUT if you used any kind of carpooling or public transportation the agency paid all the costs for it; bus or train pass, van rental and gas. It helped a lot. Now we're 100% remote and getting that time back made a huge impact on my quality of life.
Rogahar
#20 Trust me, the people checking receipts at the door wish they didn't have to do that either - she was trying to stop the OP because she knows her supervisor is gonna give her shit for 'letting' someone leave without getting their receipt checked.
jethroismaxbaer5772
#15
MadamPuddifoot
#6 does not help when the state of your house is the cause of your emotional problem.
Gingeringeri
#3
nachosyndicate
#1 I worked at a place that changed my position to travel as needed between offices. I asked for gas reimbursement which they did for other higher up employees. They said " We're not paying for your transportation". This is the same place that furloughed workers and made them use their vacation time to cover it.
echonite
How to create a lawsuit, an illustration.
Blueb3
#1 when I changed to a work from home job 8 years ago I did the math: between fuel savings (no commute), food savings (cut out eating out for lunch), clothing costs (one wardrobe-comfy) I saved ~$5k a year, and got back 10 hours a week by not commuting
Lethous
Some remote employer is gonna read that and lower the pay but cite it as an "effective salary" of more due to benefits
Thornaxe
They can try. But in this economy they might fuck themselves royally.
DaBaDoop
Yeah, this is probably more the answer.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
#2 needs more plants, but accurate!
JRaven419
#1 Depends on the situation though. If I need to be to work at 10am, but I leave my house a 8:30am. I stop by the grocery and get some sodas and snacks, then I get petrol, then drop by the bank and pay my mortgage, then i see Gladys and jibber jabber for a spell, then I get to work, but my typical drive time is only 20 minutes. Should I still get paid from 8:30?
JanglesPrime
No, that is you running errands before work. If it were implemented you would probably be paid for the mileage from your house to you job, not the time you spend on the road. Mileage is probably easier to track.
PlanckEraWasMyBestEra
#19 in fairness to me, none of these have anything remotely to do with my passwords or password questions. I know that's not true for everyone though
MapleSyrupMafia
#23 At least if you lose your phone, you can be sure that no one will be able to access your stuff.
captainpizza
#1 People should absolutely be able to work from home for jobs where it is feasible, but this suggestion is utter nonsense. It doesnt make any sense if you think about it for more then 6 seconds.
JanglesPrime
It does make sense and some jobs do compensate you for your commute, usually in the for of a higher hourly.
echonite
It takes me about an hour to drive 25 miles. If traffic us bad, I literally lose money. I am only driving because I need to get to work. I am only driving because the job demands it...
Kezabee
#6 turns out, doing this during a meeting with the boss gets you in trouble. Really, it just proved my point that I wasn't emotionally safe...
Rogahar
#6 Doing puzzles or watching/reading something you arent already familiar with can help too, apparently. If your brain has to focus processor cycles on figuring out a Sudoku or wondering where this plot is going, it has to put "worry about ?????" on the back burner and will then forget to get back to that.
PragmaticPrimate
#6 Bruh, I'm not anxious about any imminent danger. I'm anxious about social interactions, if I'm actually loveable at all and whether I'll ever be able to find happiness during the rest of my life (or at least be able to treat my mental health) issues.
DigYourselfBaby
What do you mean by "find happiness"? Are you talking about a companion? If so, I really need to tell you its overrated. Friends that are temporarily part of your day or week or month are much easier on the stress scale than someone who is there ALL THE TIME that you have to walk on eggshells for. I had a high degree of success doing volunteer work, where I could be invisible if I wanted or get to know some folks with similar interests. The movies are lies. Relationships are HARD.
valicetra
My previous job had multiple work sites. You were primarily stationed at one, on occasion you'd get sent to another if they needed help Their policy was if you were sent to another site you would be paid for whatever time/distance beyond your primary.
When asked why they didn't pay for all commute time the response was that we are in control of how far we live from work.
Would sure be nice to be paid enough to live near work. Or at work as they were an apartment management company.
DigYourselfBaby
Around here, the goal is to make enough money to live on the lake, so all those little spots just outside town limits are where everyone ends up. The apartment buildings & rental properties are in town, so is the public transit.
cuttlesquirt
Excellent dump. Stole most. Gonna go find my little void criminals to provide me with dopamine now
DaBaDoop
Void criminals!
Mostlydeadpool
#2 there's entirely too much soft and books in this plcture to NOT have a cat.
DigYourselfBaby
I assumed the presence of a cat was understood. A given. :)
DaBaDoop
I think you're correct.
Thesaya
#28 I need this. I sweat like crazy at night, and am really warm. It's ok in the winter when I can have the window cracked and the room freezing, but it's getting warm now, and my chain duvet broke so I had to get a ball one. And even the chain blanket was too warm in summer. I guess it's time to learn how to weld.
vakler
This has been a game changer for me
Thesaya
I will have to look into it, thanks! Unfortunately, my budget might not allow for it, especially if it has to be shipped from another country. (Don't even want to think about the weight cost). I got my chain one through disability assistance, but they stopped offering them once weighted duvets got cheaper. Unfortunately, only one kind is really available for cheap enough commercially.
Thesaya
I checked it out, even if I had 309 dollar, they don't ship to Sweden. I guess I'd better start working on that chainmail. XD
vakler
Damn. Well if you ever do get the funds to get one (or they go on sale, they do spring cleaning sales where they discount everything that didn't sell the previous quarter btw) I will ship it to you! My postal account gives me a flat rate even on international shipments.
Thesaya
Aw, that's so nice of you! :)
SidewalkWidflower
#20 I didn't agree with this. I like the way I bag my own bags and to avoid personal niceties. I don't dislike the cashiers,I just prefer my own conversation.
DaBaDoop
Valid. I think the issue is some places are overly relying on it, sometimes.
TI99Kitty
Mostly, yes. because it's cheaper to have a bank of self-checkouts manned by one cashier than to have several cashiers each manning a single register. And to use the space for other things than lane after lane of registers that are unmanned because the company can't be bothered to pay anyone to run them.
Biggest complaint during peak times at every store I've worked at was "Why do you have 32 registers and only 3 cashiers?"
DaBaDoop
Damned companies being cheap!
DigYourselfBaby
I haven't been inside our local Walmart since 2017 or earlier. Horrible company I will not support.
fractalsphere
#1 working from home instead of commuting to an office downtown has saved me 2+ hours each day (roughly an hour each way) so YEAH, I feel like I got a raise just because I wasn't spending money money money on the commute. Gas, parking, train, time. It all factors in.
Nagant
Not quite the same, but I moved from my parents place 45-60mns from my job to my own place 10-15 mins away and its a fucking world of difference in time
Kiore
All this and in my case, because of the nature of my job, I'm perfectly willing to work through the time slots I would have otherwise been commuting - so my employer gets more value out of the arrangement as well. Not to mention the lack of time not wasted roaming the floors looking for an empty meeting room because so many of my calls are not suitable to have in open offices.
OtterlyMagnificent
Plus, charging companies for commute time might persuade them that they should be working to make their employees able to live closer. Like by paying them enough to live near work so they don't have to commute for 2 hours a day. (At $15/hr, that's $30 extra a day. Break-even on that would be paying an extra ~$4/hr. That's not unreasonable. But for someone who gets more, like my last job had me at $26/hr. And they decided putting me in a hotel at $40/night was more reasonable than paying me1/
OtterlyMagnificent
more to drive the 56 miles from my house to the jobsite every day.2/2)
ThisGuyPostingThings
There's a part of me that's envious since I walk to work (just a few blocks, tiny town), but congratulations, glad WFH is working for you.
SmollCashew
I live a 10 minute drive away from work. However, due to disability stuffs, I can't drive. This turns my 6.5hr shift into 9 hours away from home.
JackTorranceAtTheBall
I so don't miss taking the BART into the city... I've seen things on there no one should see.
somewhatparanoidpanda
Unpopular Opinion: don’t jobs that cost more to leave near pay more money
grhope
Typically, yes.
FlatPlutoSociety
Often yes, but not enough for it to balance out. If I wanted to live near the hospital where I go for work, my housing options would be live in a studio apartment, or triple my mortgage.
adrianontherocks
I would absolutely love this- however, because of how society works I am afraid it would just result in employers discrimination against someone who lives farther away. It would create a different set of problems so we’d have to be sure to have solutions ready to go for those before implementing it.
yesmaybenot
Not just that. All right, they would pay you for your commute. Now, instead of paying you $6.20 an hour, they are going to pay you $5.
Salticido
Employers already discriminate against people who live far away, assuming they'll look for another job with a shorter commute sooner rather than later. I've heard my own boss decline or hesitate to consider people for this. They still get interviewed, but they also get asked if they plan to move or how they plan to commute. The flip side, though, is that it will also incentivize employers to allow remote work for jobs that really don't need employees on site.
minepagan
It'd also reward people who choose to live out in the suburbs instead of closer to where they work.
ragnosdarth
It would result in poor employees having to live on company premises and pay the company for housing, and as long as you're living there, you could buy all your necessities at the company store. Since you're spending most of your money at the company store, we can pay you in company scrip. And where does that lead?
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go...
Merdock
I often work from home and my step dad asked me what I do with the time I used to commute. "Sleep in or walk the dog."
"But that's stealing from the company, that's company time" he responded. I blew up at him, partly because he is a business owner.
"If that's company time, they can fucking pay me for it. If they aren't paying me for a period of my time, I can do more or less whatever the fuck I want to with that time"
kaarbaakimgr
Well, which is it? Is it company time (op) or your time?
FluxSagrie
People need to break out of this company time mindset, if you are sitting there at your desk but at lunch and just chilling, still shouldn't be doing jack and shit for the company because.... YOU AREN'T BEING PAID!
Company wants something done, pay me, no pay no work, simple as that.
They have gutted worker rights AGAIN! so we should never give them a single calorie of effort on our part with out pay.
CheeseB0t
What kind of lead poisoned brain damaged boomer shit is this?
gitguuud
How did he jump to the conclusion you’re on company time? I don’t see how that could make sense in his brain. Does he think you’d just naturally work 10 hour days then, where those 10 additional hours per week would likely not get you paid more? Work is only part of life, not the end-all.
Merdock
His business often, but not always, requires his employees to drive relatively long distances (multiple hours one way). Depending on the length of travel, he pays for part or all of the commute. I think that in part is responsible for his thinking. Knowint him, I think it's easy for him to see himself paying for some commute time and thinking that he is owed all of the commute time. And from there, if you owe me commute time and you aren't commuting, you should be doing something else for me.
ShiftingPattern
Internalized capitalism mandates that we all feel guilty any time we aren't generating wealth for our masters.
forte10
How did he respond? Genuinely curious.
Merdock
I don't remember exactly what he said, other than doubling down on his position. We argued before deciding we weren't getting anywhere and so we had some drinks.
This is pretty typical for our relationship. He has a bunch of views and opinions I vehemently disagree with. He'll bring something up, I'll tell him why I think he's wrong, we argue, we get nowhere, we say fuck it, and we do something else.
BEARD3DBEANIEE
Step-Dad, How many times has he apologized to you when he fucked up? My guess is ZERO. Boomer age?
justworkdamnyou
Sadly we can't blame just the boomers for not having the self awareness to ever apologize when they're wrong. That's universal to every generation's group of assholes.
jacketyjack
It's nice to hear that all that disagreement does not drive (too big) a wedge in your relationship.
Merdock
Meh, I keep the peace as much as possible because the rest of my family likes him and my mom loves him. For example I've laid a flat "no politics talk" with me because I am absolutely done hearing about how trump won 2020 or how the virus wasn't real or anything else like that.
I worked for him for a couple of years and he told me I was a worthless piece of shit every day he saw me during that time, so I hate him. But according to my mom, he now likes me, partially because I stand up to him.
toolzgalore2
#28 this is amazing, I would make sure there are no sharp edges to catch other blankets on, because that would upset me
billiebitkiller
There should be a variant of weighted blankets that is this, sewn in a cotton or linen case, current versions mostly sew squares to hold glass beads that then transfer into other squares as seams fail & it suffers stress like washing. Leading to lumpy, uneven, weighted blankets that are nevertheless like million degrees.
PithyCommentBelow
Right up until a hair gets caught in it while you’re sleeping…
steviedrawsdinos
Maybe encase it in a thin sheet?
foreverinchains
I make chainmail, and getting butted rings closed so there's no sharp edges or gaps to catch on is arguably the hardest part.
I generally use stainless steel or sterling silver, and I weld all my rings closed. I recently spent 5 weeks making a bikini top for my girlfriend, and it's got around 20,000 rings in it. Making an entire blanket is almost unfathomable.
reverendfixxxer
When I was much younger and full of energy and hope, I made a hauberk with a 2-in-8 "king's mail" weave. Mid-thigh, long sleeves, 5/16 rings. I have no idea how many rings it ended up being, but it certainly helped drain me of my youthful enthusiasm. The idea of doing a whole blanket is... whew...
zimirken
This feels like a very mechanizable operation.
foreverinchains
It kind of is. There are machines that can make certain kinds of chainmail, but there are many weaves that just can't be made by a machine.
I've run machines that made a simple weave called European 4-in-1. We made sharksuits for Neptunic.
toolzgalore2
My buddy made a 6-in-1 bracelet. The look on the TSA agent's face when he told them he physically could not remove it with out bolt cutters was priceless
foreverinchains
I've worn my 27 pound stainless steel 4-in-1 shirt through airport security several times, and the only problem was how long they wanted to talk about how cool it was. I used to have seamless bracelets made of 24 gauge welded stainless 4-in-1. I cut them off after nearly having my arm torn off when one got caught at work.