BruceTwarzen

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[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago

I worked for basically Michael Scott at some point in my life. Everyone knew that he had the easiest job on the planet, and he still didn't do it, and we were all glad he didn't. He could talk to a room full of people for hours and explain his position in the company for so long that you forgot what you even asked.

If you think the connection to Michael Scott ends there, you'd be wrong. You would always know when he had a new girlfriend, because he would talk about her all the time. One time he connected his laptop to the projector and the first thing that opened was a picture of his girlfriend. He looked at it, said: OH. Made sure everyone saw her and then pretended to hurry to start his speech.

One day he came to work, sat in my car (i was on my way to a jobsite and had no idea why he was there.) i didn't want to talk, so i just took off. After some awkward silence, he said: i'm not even supposed to work today. I nodded, i had no idea. He asked if i knew why he's here. I said nope. He said he was supposed to get married today but his girlfriend fucked two dudes in the jacuzzi yesterday.

There are countless stories like that and all i could think about was: this guy makes 60k a year by working two days a week. And i don't mean because he was slacking off the rest, he was only employed 20%

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 20 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I heard many similar stories like that from friends and it's always a bit shocking to me. I'm no go getter or anything, i run my own business, but even then, i don't want to work more than i really have to. But i just really can't imagine what that must be like.

I had a friend who worked as a static engineer. He then worked for a company that made bearings for big machines, which wasn't his line of work but he liked it. The company got bought by another company who did something different and he just fell through the cracks. At first he was super anxious and just pretended to draw on his drawing board and had excel open on his computer. But no one cared, a lot of people switched jobs and suddenly he didn't really know anyone anymore and after a few month he told me that he doesn't really know what his job is.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago

Oh god, i only once worked in a company large enough where it felt like there were more middle managers than actual workers. The middle manger that was assigned to my team suddenly got sick. Like cancer sick and he basically stopped working within a week. They panicked, because there was no one to replace her. Some guy that i have never seen before told us that we just have to hang in there for 2 weeks or so until they found a replacement. They never found a replacement and i think they just forgot, because nothing has changed about our job, we did the same amount of work and everything. Legitimately the only difference was that they had one less paycheck to pay.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

People think i'm crazy when i tell them that. I think it's crazy to get ass blasted by ads. The only time i see an ad is when i'm at someone's home and the tv is running. I'm almost mesmerized by it because of how bad and frequent they appear.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

They find a medium

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I'm pretty sure they know they will never be able to "fix" the car, so they just hope that people give up.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Some reddit post

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 41 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I watched a video of a random streamer who ranted a bit about the elections. He had some great points, and he was basically saying what most people are thinking. He talked about voting and the people that refused to vote. He then added: how can you become president as a criminal but you are not able to vote as a criminal. And then continues with, he agrees that criminals shouldn't be able to vote, because they are criminals with bad intentions. Fucker, the system is designed that most people ARE criminals. You can go to jail because a copper doesn't like your face.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If i ever wan tto know what Natalie Portman ate for breakfast, i'll walk into the ocean

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

But he was already president for 4 years and everyone on the planet knows how incompetent he is and how little he cares. This isn't a: let's see if the fat pedo is a good president, it's a case of: we (should) already know he's incompetent but we also hate brown people just as much.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 35 points 8 months ago (13 children)

I feel like they know that they can't make people care for covid ever again. We're not better prepared if something like this happens again, quite the opposite, the next pandemic is gonna me a grade a shitshow. I work for a lot of different people, and a lot of them still can't wait to tell me their take on covid, and pretty much all of them are in agreement that they would never get vaccinated again.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

So he's just breaking? What a silly thing to claim. I bet he's not even regening a lot. When i ride up a mountain until my battery is down to 40% or so and ride down i regenerate around 1% or something. It might even be in the 0.6% or something

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