“we forgot to charge that on another table, someone has to pay for it”

Da fuq?

I haven’t seen this. Name and shame this place?

That girl there, Daisy, she was a bedtime cuddler. She would climb into bed with me, tunnel under the covers, and sleep next to my feet and legs every night. She was also a light sleeper, and the moment she heard my key in the door after work, she would run to the door and be waiting there for me. Her brother, George, was a day cuddler. He would let you pick him up, snuggle him, and then he would just give you so many kisses. He liked to climb into the hood of my hoodie and just fall asleep in it while I went about my day.

Obligatory George pic:

So does this mean it’s non binary? Emo baby?

Well, people that buy and sell currency would need to sell the dollars they have all at once and flood the market with them. That’s one way I could think of.

Dear Canada, we don’t need any help in our race to the bottom.

I gotchu fam.

I wish I had learned to jump ship sooner instead of swallowing so much bullshit. The social contract is dead. Right to work cuts both ways bitches. Quit with no notice when employers haven’t done shit to earn your loyalty. The bridges we burn today light the path forward.

Up until Trump, Hitler really was the worst. 😉

Agree with this take 100%. Retaining employees also retains institutional knowledge. I worked in a call center for a vision insurance company. I lasted 5 years where most new hires lasted less than 1 year. By the time I left I had in-depth knowledge about materials used in eye-wear, wholesale costs, how prescriptions translated into the type of correction being performed and how that would impact lens thickness, claims processing, medicaid billing rules, HIPAA, and how the affordable care act worked. The company decided to pass me over for multiple promotions, had no raises, refused to allow me to take my PTO, get paid out for my PTO, or let my PTO roll over. Just got fed up one day and rage quit. I moved to a medical insurance company that paid 5$ more per hour, ($18 vs the $13 I was making at the first place,) to obtain all that knowledge. I learned even more at the new company, until they started pulling the same shit. So I rage quit again. All of that knowledge left with me, and I got a state job that comes with a pension, fuck tons of sick, vacation, and personal time that rolls over and no one questions when I need to use it, along with a $10 per hour raise, ($18 per our at the old place, $28 per hour at the state job.) I’m much happier and much less stressed now. What’s sad is that all it really would have took to make me happy at either of the first jobs was being able to take my PTO. I was willing to overlook a lot of the other bullshit like the lack of wage progression and growth. These bean counters are penny wise and pound foolish.

All your base are belong to us.

PTO = Prepare The Others

The discount you get at the self checkout is the 5 fingered discount.

Yes. Ferrets are the domesticated European polecat.

So glad I bought a new PC right after he was sworn in.

I’ve had ferrets for 20 years, (obviously not the same ferrets the whole time.) You absolutely should NOT bathe them daily. Bathing strips oil the oils out of their fur, and causes their sebaceous glands to go into overdrive, making them even more smelly. For issues with smelly ferrets, you have to clean the bedding regularly. On a weekly basis I would wash their blankies and all of their beds and stuffies. As they loaf around in their beds, the oil from their skin rubbs off on their bedding and accumulates which creates some stink. Another way to reduce odor is to clean the litter boxes 2-3 times a day, and promptly clean up accidents. These are high maintenance pets, but as long ask they have had the musk glands removed, they aren’t as stinky as they have been made out to be.

3, I am tired of everyone’s bullshit today.

LEROY JENKINS!!!

I thought her hand was empty. I feel like what looks like the pen is just the spoon/stick in the glass actually showing correct refraction through the liquid and glass. The cross eye is hysterical.

I finished my PhD in a STEM field primarily funded by the NIH in 2008. I did a post doctoral fellowship for 3 years where I was paid $10 an hour when you accounted for my fixed salary vs the hours I was putting in. At that time, we were in full austerity mode thanks to austerity forced by republicans because of the market crash and 9/11. Getting funding was an absolute bitch, and when you did get a grant award, they would come back to you and offer you half of what the award was. At the end of those 3 years, I realized I didn’t need a PhD to make $10 an hour, left the field and never looked back in 2011. It took 11 more years to land a job that has reasonable hours, pension, ample vacation/sick time, and a living wage ($28 an hour in Albany, NY.) My current job has nothing to do with what I studied for. I ended up using my publication experience from writing peer reviewed journal articles to get into medical insurance contracts/underwriting/customer service, and I now work in a position where I enroll state employees in benefits and have the opportunity to teach them how to use their insurance coverage without getting fucked over financially.

Loving that extra pinky on her hand.