Random Rants

[goosehd]

@steelworker The disconnect in corporate culture between profitability and humanity is definitely troubling. I really can’t condone the violence taken out on the insurance executive, but I do see why it’s happened.

Too many families, loved ones, and friends lives have been affected by policies written to enhance the bottom line that they’ve forgotten that people are on the other side of the equation.

The same is happening in the veterinary fields where clinicians are to meet profitability standards or else be disciplined or let go from their positions.

I don’t know what the answer is, but we need to start asking the question of how much is enough? Violence is not the answer, nor is it acceptable for people’s quality of life to suffer for profit.

The answer is much bigger than any one of us, but maybe we all need to ask the question.

[steelworker]

Oh, they know what theyre doing. They count on us to remain docile.

[Tago Mago]

@steelworker the internet is the great equalizer, in that everyone has all the information available at the click of a mouse. Unfortunately, most people don't know how to use the internet. Critical analysis and appraisal takes time and effort, and who has either?

[Tago Mago]

@Mister_Brue priorities!

[SKT]

@steelworker it feels to me like the days of obedience and compliance are about over

Edit: I could be wrong and people would rather just sigh and look back at their phone

[sabergirl]

Let South Korea be our guide! @SKT

[steelworker]

@Tago-Mago said in Random Rants:

@steelworker the internet is the great equalizer, in that everyone has all the information available at the click of a mouse. Unfortunately, most people don't know how to use the internet. Critical analysis and appraisal takes time and effort, and who has either?

Critical analysis? Met many Americans?

[Mizmazzle]

@Matt this made me laugh out loud

[Graeme]

I ordered a rucksack from the US in the Black Friday sales. Any imports into the country are tax and duty free if they come in under $1000 (Australian).

Somewhere along the line, someone declared its value to be just over $1000, which meant that I was due for about $100 in tax and $100 or so in customs fees.

I contacted UPS after they started hassling me for payment, pointing out that the goods are worth less than the threshold. Things got escalated up the chain of command, and my contact replied that the taxes have been waived, but I still need to pay the $100 customs lodgement fee, because that cannot be refunded.

Someone has made a mistake, possibly within UPS, and I'm responsible for paying for it. That doesn't seem fair.

[Giles]

UPS would not have declared the value of the goods, that would have been the sender surely.

[Brian]

Commercial cool rooms can fuck off or at least the sliding door they have
Was on a job yesterday and the bruise and pain I have from the idiot baker slamming the door open onto my back and the fuckwit didn’t even say sorry just a watch yourself

[Marty_funkhauser]

@Giles correct

[Graeme]

@Giles it could well have been at the vendor's end. I've dropped the company an email, and I'll see if they come back. Their site runs on the Shopify platform, so I'd guess that would do it all automatically.

Regardless of whoever made the mistake, it's annoying that I have to carry the cost.

[Graeme]

It turns out that the customs declaration didn't have the discounted price I paid on it, and the Shopify software was also doing something funny with prices.

[Mizmazzle]

@Graeme maybe you can get out of paying then?? Sure hope so.

[Graeme]

@Mizmazzle unfortunately the charge cannot be refunded by the Australian border force once paid.

[Giles]

But the shop that fucked up should refund you.

[mclaincausey]

@goosehd said in Random Rants:

@steelworker The disconnect in corporate culture between profitability and humanity is definitely troubling.

Elon Musk said something on Twitter to the effect of a CEO’s role being to maximize profitability and returns to shareholders at all costs and ruthlessly in relation to the assassination.

He’s too dumb to realize the logical takeaways from that statement. I won’t say what they are due to the no politics rule but it should be obvious.

[Graeme]

@mclaincausey and how well did that cost-cutting approach maximise shareholder value at Twitter/X?

I heard an argument that cutting public sector costs will be harder for Musk and DOGE because the sacked employees will remain on the government's books as social security recipients.

[mclaincausey]

Well they want to cut that too even though we paid into it. One of the ideas floated by Vivek was to base the firings on social security number prefixes and suffixes. That is an incredibly braindead idea for obvious reasons I won’t get into.

These are not serious people.