Think of other topics and questions than work, Americans care too much about work outside of work.
Switch your phone apps to celsius and start your brain switching ASAP.
Knowing what country or region you're going to would help
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I once worked in a division of ~3500 employees, every year the division produced two profit forecasts one called "pessimistic" and another called "optimistic". My first year the division made $335 million MORE than the optimistic forecast so the division CEO approved every employee a $335 bonus.
The next year it happened again but only $285 million, so $285 bonuses that year.
Both times I scoffed and quietly pointed out to the delighted Boomers I trusted that it was less than one third of a percent of the total money.
The next year apparently the corporate office found out, fired said CEO and quashed the bonuses forever. Apparently the distribution of the crumbs was more than they could handle.
Lisbon's main plaza was a parking lot from the 1950s to 1997...
When I last visited Argentina Uber was using the official exchange rates which were just fantasy numbers. As soon as you match with a driver they'd message you and you'd negotiate the cash price. Then the ride in the app would be cancelled.
Uber didn't mind because they were still getting the ~$1 or so cancel fee for basically being a messaging app.
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"Have you tried applying on LinkedIn? Messaging recruiters or hiring managers on LinkedIn?"
"Oh no don't use LinkedIn, everyone ignores those because of bots, apply directly"
"Put keywords from the job listing in your resume so the algorithm will rank you hire"
"Oh no don't use words from the listing in your resume or you'll be flagged as a bot"
"Hire a headhunter to apply to many positions for you"
"Avoid headhunters because when they spam your resume, you'll get flagged as a bot"
"Complete a tedious and time consuming project for the company and post it on your personal site so they see you're not a bot already qualified"
"Oh they didn't even open the link to look at it? Well do one for the next company and the next and the next..."
Looking for a white collar job today is basically an arms race with the net result recruiters spend the bulk of their time weeding out bots, and applicants spend the bulk of their time trying to not look like bots. It's ridiculous and I kind of wish places just accepted in person applications again.
My point is that ad had reach because our corporate overlords wanted it to. It wasn't some organic grassroots movement, it was part of a billionaire agenda. Wage theft is something they don't want to have reach and behold, it doesn't.
In my state you can file a claim with the state labor commission. But they don't have the resources to investigate "small" reports and their website encourages you to just hire your own lawyer.
It's fascinating the imbalance, if you take $20 from your employer's till that's a crime, they can call 911 and within minutes police can respond and take the money back and possibly arrest you. You could have a criminal record that negatively effects your life for many years.
Your employer shorts your paycheck $2000 and it's a 'civil matter', the police won't even take your report. Instead you must file a claim with an understaffed beaucratic office that may not even open your email much less recover your money. If any recovery happens it will certainly take many, many months so hopefully you don't have bills due this month! The employer is free to continue stealing from your paycheck and anyone else's paychecks and is unlikely to face any meaningful consequences.
Fun fact, the "Crying Indian" ad and that entire campaign was created by Pepsi, Coke, and other companies to shift blame for plastic waste from producers (corporations) to customers.
Once single use plastics became common, littering exploded in America. Many cities and states started enacting laws to ban single use plastics because society largely blamed the companies that produced them.
Pepsi, Coke, and other companies preferred the more profitable single use plastics for their packaging, so they funded the Keep America Beautiful campaign to shift public accountability away from corporations and instead to individuals.
A similar thing happened when the first cars started killing pedestrians in cities, automakers successfully popularized the term "jaywalker" shifting blame for the murders from motorists to pedestrians.
But don't take my word for it, go look it up!
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I was once rear ended at a red light. I was knocked unconscious and the driver drove off. A few kind witnesses called police who took a report. They got half his plate imprinted on my bumper, but never tracked him down. I had State Farm, and I was even paying extra for the "uninsured driver coverage". They said they couldn't cover it because until they had another driver's information I was automatically at fault, even with the police report and witness accounts. They said it didn't count as uninsured driver because it's possible the guy had insurance. I was flabbergasted.
In the end I had a concussion and needed to take time off work for recovery and my short term disability insurance ended up suing State Farm because they didn't want to pay for my medical treatment. State Farm agreed to cover medical care but only if it was recorded as my fault and I paid my deductible. In anger I tried to switch insurance companies but found out they have a shared database and since it was recorded as a hit and run my fault, nobody else would take me. And State Farm jacked my rate up 30%...