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kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 15:50:06 JST kaia so annoying :angry_cirno: -
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on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 16:00:53 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ @kaia ... there are shops that close at 5? kaia likes this. -
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kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 16:05:05 JST kaia @lain not long ago you lived in Germany, yet you already forgot :mukiSigh: -
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「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 16:09:39 JST 「セル」cell (سل) @kaia is this the case for most stores in germany? here...only the german shop closes at that hour :blobcateyes: kaia likes this. -
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Critical (critical@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 16:11:58 JST Critical @kaia
Want to visit your bank? Forget it.
Want to contact customer support? Hope you have enough time at lunch break.
Haircut? Hope they work on weekends.
Visiting your doctor? Haha, take the day off.
Doing any government-related stuff? Surely you have yearly time off left, right?kaia likes this. -
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sim@shitposter.world's status on Friday, 10-May-2024 16:23:59 JST sim @critical @kaia Sounds relatable to where I live. Haha. kaia likes this. -
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kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 16:24:52 JST kaia @sim @critical same! had to skip an uni lecture to go to local resident registry or get fined :angry_cirno: -
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Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 16:29:49 JST Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @critical @kaia Taking the day off for the doc? Fear to lose your job because "your performance metric tanked" (if you get a reason at all).
I literally have friends in this exact situation. 😔
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sim@shitposter.world's status on Friday, 10-May-2024 16:31:46 JST sim @kaia @critical Took a half day off just to visit my doctor... Smh. kaia likes this. -
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Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 22:29:40 JST Angry Sun @mrsaturday @kaia When I was a small child my town still basically closed down on Sunday, incidentally. I don't think even McDonald's was open. If you drove through town on a Sunday night, the only business lights on were the gas station. This is only tangentially related but it's interesting to think about how attitudes about business hours changed so much in my lifetime. -
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John Fediverse (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 22:29:42 JST John Fediverse @kaia We used to live under the assumption that people were in couples and one stayed home or worked part time, making it so small shopkeeps could keep "business hours" and not have to opt out of society in order to stay open. That went away and now they haven't adjusted.
On the other end of the spectrum, you get the US, where shops are expected to be open 13 hours a day, 7 days a week, and advertise being the people open on Christmas like it's a good thing.kaia likes this. -
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John Fediverse (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 22:45:28 JST John Fediverse @sun @kaia I knew we'd hit the point of no return when I saw that not only did no one close on Easter, but stores were absolutely packed. That was unthinkable as a child. Cultural relativism and diversity have been amazing for service industry execs, I'll say that much.
We had an opportunity to return to having attitudes like that, but spoiled old assholes started bawling about how no one wants to work instead.Angry Sun likes this.
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