The best thing for me, as an ex- Starbucks employee, is the horror that genuinely is the milk delivery when it’s only you and one other shift member. Though, I did end up learning how to carry six individual gallons of milk at once.
Also that change from Customer Service ™®© voice back to normal to informal joking-threats is amazing
Yeah the whiplash from “Hi welcome to starbucks how can I help you! :)” to “I’LL FUCK YOUR WIFE” killed me.
bilionaires are so cool. this guy founded venmo by the way
the so-called blood boy stigma
obsessed with the fact humans successfully made computers to do math so now we are making computers worse at math
[from @darkcomedies]
as 90% of desktop users have probably found out, today @staff released an update that for some insane reason COMPLETELY remodels the dashboard to replicate twitter's. this is of course in the wake of numerous other thoroughly hated changes and a continued refusal to fix any of the site's actual problems, half of which stem directly from site management.
HOWEVER, thanks to the power of jQuery, i was able to throw together a userscript that remodels the dashboard back to its original look almost perfectly.
here is my dashboard right now, with the script active:
ALTand here is the old dashboard in separate tab container that hasn't received the update:
ALTit's hardly perfect; i had trouble making it force reload to the fixed layout when switching between other pages and the dashboard, and it currently only fixes just the dashboard. it's also completely untested on browsers other than firefox, and chances are it looks a bit screwy on ultrawide monitors. but for now at least, it's a good fix.
the unfucker is a tampermonkey userscript. all you have to do to use it is install the tampermonkey extension, hit "create new script", and replace the default code on the page with the script (link here) and save it.
ALT
ALTTHANK YOU OP YOU ARE AMAZING!
If you, like me, had uBlock origin block the 'Radar' bit on the right hand side of your old tumblr, you can go to line 50 of the script which is currently the below:
$aside.children().eq(0).css({position: "fixed", width: "320px"});
And change it to this:
$aside.children().eq(0).css({display:"none"});
For me at least that’s line 56 of the script not line 50. And it needs to be straight quote marks for none, not curly. As in:
$aside.children().eq(0).css({display:"none"});
But yeah, now that I changed that, the stupid “Check out these blogs” and Radar is gone too!! The dash looks CLEAN again! Total fix!
Thank you!
Dear tumblr staff,
stop. its ok. you don’t need to do these things. just focus on functionality(like the video player). we don’t need these little updates when somethings(like the video player) need your focus. thank you for your time but really, tumblr looks great. try to fix more important things(like the video player) so that we can all properly enjoy the features of tumblr(like the video player)
This post is a decade old this year.
man, the way some of the reddit refugees talk about moving to tumblr is kinda depressing; they're saying stuff like "No one has belittled me on tumblr yet" and "people actually talk to me here."
We've got to rehabilitate these users so that they can see what it's like to have a non-hostile internet experience.
reddit’s pvp experience was unmatched. i didn’t realize how naturally defensive and ready to fight on the internet i was until i didn’t have to any more
how dare you hide this in the tags
“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy
Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.
Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.
After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.
The housing market is a fucking travesty.
Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....
From The Animation Guild on Instagram:
“Congrats to the WB and Cartoon Network production workers for filing an NLRB petition to unionize and demand voluntary recognition! Show your support to help them get the representation they deserve! #unionstrong #weare839 #production strong”
copying and pasting the comments i added to the disney tva prod unionization efforts post because this time, IT'S US, BABY!
if you're not in this job, you would never know how intense, involved, and straight up complex animation production is, but because it's mainly administrative, behind the scenes, and most skills are taught, production staff are often viewed as highly replaceable and unimportant. not everyone is nice to us, and more and more studios are stripping production personnel of our "corporate" status, meaning if the show ends or gets cancelled, studios aren't required to relocate us to another one. when this happens to artists, the guild protects them, but production will lose all benefits and will need to file for unemployment until they can find a new job (which isn't easy in the animation industry these days!). remember, a season of a show takes only about a year and a half to make. losing all benefits and having to file for unemployment every year and a half is NOT a way to build a career nor is it a stable and sustainable way to live!
because our roles in animation are rarely talked about, here's some of what production staff does:
STORYBOARD AND ANIMATIC
RECORD
DESIGN AND SHIPPING
POST
CONTRACTS
LEGAL, TRACK READ, TIMING, CHECKING, EXECS, ACCOUNTING
and this is all in addition to very stereotypical secretarial work like taking notes at meetings, managing the showrunner and producer's calendars, and maintaining a pleasant atmosphere for the crew (coordinating game nights, decorating the office, organizing parties or lunches, etc.). production is expected to know everything, what's going on at all times, and how to fix it, which is a lot of work and often, a lot of pressure!
tl;dr:
we're going to fight the good fight, so
I hope this wave of of strikes pushes the veterinary industry to unionise. As corporations like VCA and Banfield (both owned by MARS, yes the chocolate company) continue to buy out independent clinics, the industry is shifting away independent businesses founded and owned by DVMs to corporate franchises.
Working conditions in the industry have been abysmal for years. But everyone working under the same company + significant staff shortages (in canada both DVM and RVT positions typically take 6+ months to fill according to a report by the CVMA) does provide opportunity both for community-building and an advantage for bargaining or, if necessary, striking. Staff are not easily replaced.
We all know we're being overworked and underpayed. It's time to fucking do something about it. Talk about your wages with your coworkers, make sure you're being reimbursed for overtime, see if you're getting enough vacation days. Find out what you want and take it.
Some clinics have already unionized, I hope more will soon.
As a pet owner who uses the vet often for preventive and specialized care, and goes through a chain veterinary clinic because that is where the team I trust implicitly is and you don't mess with that when you have a complicated case, I desperately want all y'all to be paid so much more, and I wish I could do more to help efforts at this point. I appreciate and rely on you and you are not adequately compensated for that, and it makes me ill.
somehow instead of saying “as a treat”, I’ve started using the phrase “for morale”, as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I’m not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
sorrelchestnut
jkrockin
Right Americans, I need an explanation. What on Earth are these kids doing wrong? Surely this is normal?
You're meant to open a tab. The bartender keeps your card, and everything you order gets added to your tab. Then, before you leave, your tab is closed, your card is charged for everything at once, and you get your card back.
That seems like a useful way for bars to take advantage of folk who are absolutely plastered.
It just seems much easier to tap your card on a machine than wait for some big tally at the end of the night.
What machine? The bartender/waitress usually has to go to a POS machine and close out manually. Plus how are they supposed to tally tips properly? Stiffing the waitstaff and causing more work is rude!
The card reader, and yeah go to the POS machine, enter the drinks and make them tap a card? Doesn’t seem totally outlandish.
People can pay with cash tips or they take a percentage of the transaction?
Or even better bars can pay their staff properly?
I’m not against tipping but it shouldn’t make up the majority of someone’s wages.
Hang on, in the US you hand your card over??? That seems like a recipe for fraud. Like, if my card was copied and used for a fraudulent transaction then my bank wouldn't compensate me if I had handed my card over to a stranger to hold on to.
It is. The US credit industry just expects a certain level of fraud. Sometimes they will reimburse you, sometimes not. The banks built a leaky bucket and adjust their profit projections accordingly.
The way the US banking system has evolved in a totally different way than most of the rest of the world (cheques instead of money wires, credit cards instead of debit cards, all the different technology things) is a unsolved mystery to me. I've tried to find out an explanation googling around a bunch of times and no one seems to even talk about it.
I’ve left my card at the bar before and gone back to get it the next day and still no fraud. 🤷🏻♀️
wait wait
It's not like that in any way. Service workers are as honest as everyone else, and by default I consider the average USian a couple of points above of your average spaniard (or any of our southern european siblings, you know what I'm talking about, portu-italo-greek-balkan-turks) in any honesty scale.
But it's... odd. As someone else says in the notes, it's like handling the waiter your wallet full of cash so they can take it away and take whatever money they need from there. Or telling me that in your town people don't use keys on their house front doors and all it's fine. I'm sure it's ok, but when you come from a place where you lock your door every night before going to sleep, it feels crazy.
Like, some years ago there were some cases here where people installed card readers over the actual card slot of ATMs, with a small camera pointing to the numeric keyboard, so they could clone your card. Banks are always reminding you to not let anyone see your PIN number, and, generally speaking, be ultra careful with your cards.
So handling them to someone you don't know so they take it away from you to pay without you really being in front of them and manually confirming with your secret passcode ... it's pretty mindblowing
The first time my dad was presented with a card reader at the table in Europe, he was a bit aghast. He didn’t like the idea that they could see him confirming everything and easily watch whether he tips or not. He has since gotten used to it the more my parents visited me, but it’s just a difference of understanding.
For us, it’s normal to hand off your card because unless you are actually involved in the fraud or were immensely irresponsible, you won’t be liable for the charges. And having not handed off my card for a long time, thinking about it now even makes me a bit nervous. But obviously, there is nothing a person can do about it unless you demand to follow the waitstaff to their computer and watch everything happen. It is slowly, slowly changing, but I emphasize: slow.
There is a certain level of trust you have to have in your server, and they also know that if there is theft of someone’s card or card info, they may be investigated first. But I don’t think at all it’s unreasonable to not want to hand you card to anyone you don’t know, service employee or not, because as soon as it leaves your sight, really your hand even, there’s a potential for trouble. But it’s just another weird thing about the US, and I’m sorry that there isn’t a universal standard of how these things work. Both for myself and everyone else.
ok, I'm going to take us in a little detour, but what you posted has reminded me of something on my own work-life.
Some years ago, I was working for a certain US company (ahem) that offered premium plans on a product. You could only pay on a year-by-year basis, and me and a bunch of other folks around the world considered this crazypants.
In the discussion about why we should have also monthly plans (which are less profitable for the company for both higher payment fees and early cancellation), our main argument was "but why anyone would pay FOR A YEAR of a product they haven't used before?", and the response from some USamerican colleagues was "well, if they don't like it, they can cancel it within the first month and we refund them the entire fee".
And that. There. That was the point of breakage. USamericans trusted, quite blindly, that a company would return you the entire fee, as they said, if you cancelled the plan during the first month. The rest of us? not in a million years would trust a company to do that, even if they advertise it, even if they give it to me signed on a contract, even if they are obliged by law.
I don't know why, I don't know how it happened, but it looks like USamericans' level of trust (that a company or a person would do "the right thing") is waaaaaaay above the rest of the world. Hence "giving the card to someone to hold it for you" doesn't sound crazy to people from the US, while sounding absolutely nuts to most of everyone else.
Also:
Running your card for every single transaction puts an absolutely HIDEOUS amount of credit card transaction fees on the business. Every time your in your card, the POS system owner gets a cut. If, however, you run it once at the end of the night, they get only one — a bigger cut, yes, but only one. Most bars in America expect that you’ll hand your card over to open a tab, so they usually have payment schemes set up with the POS owner to benefit them more if they have fewer transactions.
Source: I was a bartender and am a small business owner.
Please only run your card once at the end of the night! OR PAY CASH. Cash is preferred, especially for tips.
