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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 05:27:16 JST 
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@Balzarharry Just thinking back on that time period and remembered a good example of how they'd force you out. Management set the schedule and a union shift leader would set your work assignments. One of my buddies got very close to the end of the probationary period so management tried to only schedule him on bad weather days and the shift lead would put him exclusively on cart/trash/outdoor stocking duty every time. -
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 05:27:03 JST
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@Balzarharry >Unionized retail
This isn't going to work out like they think it will. Myself and practically everyone at my high school worked for this one grocery chain that was unionized and it was an absolute joke. The trick is that the members build a wall around their pay and benefits by introducing a lengthy "probationary" period where you're stuck paying dues with none of the benefits. At this chain that period was 8 months and both the members and management did everything in their power to get you fired or run off before then.
Sure, Der Ewige Boomer working as a butcher made $20 per hour back when that was really good money but they were just as incentivized as management was to keep full union headcount down to a minimum lest they lose their fat paychecks and pensions in the next contract negotiation. Retail margins are thin, there is a limit to what labor can actually get away with before killing the business itself and unionized retailers all eventually find this stable equilibrium. What future Starbucks employees will wind up with is a privileged caste of the absolutely most insufferable "die hards" who have so little going for them in life that working as a barista for 40+ years is their life dream and being actively forced out of the job to an increasing degree every day they get closer to full membership in the union. -
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2022 20:23:57 JST
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Too lazy to go back and find the poast but I called that this would happen. The terms of the "deal" address absolutely none of the union's valid concerns.
C-c-c-collapse is back on the menu boys.
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Oct-2022 22:31:36 JST
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This whole article is just absolute gold.
>The state was warned repeatedly that its plans were too complex. SNCF, the French national railroad, was among bullet train operators from Europe and Japan that came to California in the early 2000s with hopes of getting a contract to help develop the system.
>The company’s recommendations for a direct route out of Los Angeles and a focus on moving people between Los Angeles and San Francisco were cast aside, said Dan McNamara, a career project manager for SNCF.
>The company pulled out in 2011.
>“There were so many things that went wrong,” Mr. McNamara said. “SNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.”
>Morocco’s bullet train started service in 2018.
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Sep-2022 12:23:03 JST
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Don't let your relatives donate their bodies to science. -
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Sep-2022 01:01:40 JST
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The Ikea MALM™ system is the most primitive of dressers, but, rest assured, this will be the sixth time I have compromised and built one and I have become exceedingly efficient at it. -
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Sep-2022 21:45:45 JST
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Focus on the energy markets, we can end Neoliberalism here, we can end it for all time. -
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Aug-2022 21:37:42 JST
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Lol, lmao
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 18-Aug-2022 10:14:36 JST
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RT: https://poa.st/objects/ab6cc079-4623-43a1-b5fb-aac62b6d7706 -
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 12:13:39 JST
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@grey They own 25 dogs. Everything about this is sick and twisted.
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 12:13:21 JST
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I think we can conclusively state it wasn't white women doing it all along. -
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 08:18:51 JST
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Captured M777 in immaculate condition on display at the Russian Military Expo lmao. -
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TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 08:14:41 JST
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@caekislove @Sunliver @Shadowman311 Lol, looked like the start of a low budget Cinemax porno.
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