@The_Almighty_Kek@Hoss@Quentel@Red_Hat@Turdicus I don't know why any company hires employees when they can hire contractors who are given a task, a deadline and a price to do the task by the deadline. It ain't even illegal or unethical if you really let them decide their means and methods.
Fuck open offices. I hated that more than anything. They thought it would keep me working knowing I always have eyes on me, but all it did was increase my anxiety to unsustainable levels and I spent more time concerned with looking busy than actually working.
The sociopathic bean counters can't grasp that a work environment which grants the wagies a few moments of unsanctioned slack on the clock is more efficient than keeping the entire office paralyzed in fear under the managerial panopticon.
@Hoss@Red_Hat In their work culture, the first person to leave the office is saying "FUCK YOU" to everyone still there. Even the people who took an hour long nap in their cube at 3.
Everybody I've talked to in the corporate world who worked an assignment overseas in Japan has the same story about the weird looks they got from everybody else in the office when they left at 5 pm.
@Red_Hat@Hoss Low wages, long hours, open racial discrimination against non-Japanese.
Unless you have very specialized skills and experience, it's easy to get trapped in an English teaching bubble for decades and wake up one day at age 50 still earning the equivalent of minimum wage.
It's undeniable that the food is excellent and the women are beautiful, however. For many, the tradeoff to enjoy that full time rather than just on vacation is worth it.
California is okay if you limit your doses of exposure to under 2 weeks. Not LA though, leave the city limits as soon as you land. It's like one of the hot zones in Fallout but with poz instead of rads.
@Hoss I don't know what's real or parody in California anymore. I absolutely can imagine some brown politician saying that it would be racist not to let the criminals know at what threshold they will actually be arrested when they commit crimes.
@Hoss@Dagnar@caekislove It's not just Breitbart, either, this photo came from the AP and is a blatant Photoshop. I look out my window and see none of the things described on the news. I go around town and see none of this. It doesn't actually exist: it is a media fabrication. And people that will gladly reject media fabrications always, for some reason, ignore eyewitnesses and evidence when the media fabricates something they want to believe.
It is fine if you are compelled to shit on California, but if you could do it somewhere else so that you discourage communists from attending college in this state (and voting while they are here), that would be ideal. it-s_a_shitty_photoshop_it-s_not_real.png
@maxmustermann@Dagnar@Hoss@caekislove It's 4 a.m. I have posted a lot of photos of the outside, I posted a video when the kids from the art school were protesting. (They were just sort of marching down the sidewalk, trying not to get in the way; it was funny to hear a crowd that was mostly guys chanting "my body, my choice". It was smaller than the "QAnon" protest that happened in Hollywood, though.)
You want to see the area where I live, I hear Google has taken a large number of photographs of the streets. (That's actually how I found out that photo was bullshit: I opened it up and zoomed in to try to see what part of town it was and there were only two street signs, and they came from different parts of town.) Tell the streetviewTM that you want to see the place starting at the intersection of Atlantic and Garvey and follow either Atlantic north or Garvey in either direction, or say Valley and Garfield and follow Valley east, those are places I go to when I go out somewhere, that's roughly my neighborhood. Where I was renting office space, that was in Old Town Pasadena, and following Colorado Blvd gives you an idea what that area's like. Most of these places, you veer a little off the main drag and it looks nearly suburban. I lived at Atlantic and Hellman for a while, and you can see how close that is to both Garvey and Valley, but you would be able to tell if you're standing in the yard at one of those places.
I have literally no reason to lie about this, the media does. I would, in fact, prefer if there were far *fewer* people here. People for whatever reason are really invested in slandering the place, though. When I get to my desk, I have been tagged by both @Hoss and @ceo_of_monoeye_dating out of nowhere with complaints about California. I do not care if anyone believes me, I am just disappointed that people that know how much bullshit the media spews are somehow unable to believe that the media has spewed bullshit about this, too. IMG_2743.JPG babby.JPG carnie_life.jpg damn.jpe pyrocumulus1.JPG pyrocumulus2.JPG westla_parking_meter.jpe
> How do you cope with the fact that an earthquake can happen at any time with almost no warning?
Sudden awful stuff can hit anywhere at any time with no warning. You could have an aneurysm. Phineas Gage shit. Lightning bolts. A drunk driver that is also senile plows through the front of the cafe where you are sipping tea. We have bobcats here, despite the proximity to downtown, and they don't attack people but anything can get rabies. Nukes could land, a nuclear dirty bomb could go off, I could have a heart attack, I could step on a snake's tail and get a couple of poisoned punctures as retaliation, some "WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH?!" motherfucker could jump me like they did with Dan Rather. None of these things require a coping mechanism: if you cannot do anything about something, if you cannot influence it one way or the other, what's the point worrying about it?
You know, there was that woman in the midwest, a meteor falls through her roof, lands on her, breaks her hip, then the government shows up, declares that they own the meteor, and refuse to pay for her medical bills or roof repairs. How does anyone cope with anything?
It helps that I cannot die, nor can I ever be killed, but you know, most people don't die suddenly without warning.