I hired a lady that asked if she could further participate in the company’s ERG Program during the interview. Its a DEI initiative. She’s not a they/them, her spouse is. He’s one of those Vets that transitioned as a way to deal with PTSD. Yes, that’s really a thing.
Will I regret this? Probably. The next best candidates were a Hispanic guy that explicitly stated he was looking for an easy job to slip into retirement, and and another lady that said she was taking a downgrade because she really does like auditing (LOL). I’m just really tired of doing my old job and my new job at the same time.
At any rate, ¡enlaces!
Mexico elects a woman. Nothing else across two continents, billions of people from the Spanish and Portuguese speaking world occurred over the weekend worth noting by the corporate press.
No, nothing at all. Except maybe this. There is also this one from Al Jazeera. We do rag on them for being hilariously biased towards Jihadists, but nobody else had the dolmas to run with this headline in their editorials.
In case you needed another case how were just turning into Brazil.
Apparently the algos for Riven and I crossed. It happens.
I mean, he did say he was going to “Dollarize” the economy not go full Bukele.
I haven’t played Megadeth in a while, why not?
I’d First that for a dollar.
I suspect you have.
As Mexico now prepares for a new administration, it is safe to assume that violence, official corruption, and impunity will remain the name of the game.
Meet the new boss…
The next best candidates were a Hispanic guy that explicitly stated he was looking for an easy job to slip into retirement, and and another lady that said she was taking a downgrade because she really does like auditing (LOL).
Yeah those two sound better.
You don’t understand. I work in healthcare, and I’m surrounded by socialists that I had to explain MCR (Medical Cost Ratio) when they were upset the company took in Billions in revenue but could only give us a 1.5% raise.
This is an inevitability that I won’t be able to avoid.
Well good luck remembering to use they/them pronouns. It’d be easier to avoid talking about her husband if she didn’t also ask about the ERG.
Its extremely easy for me to keep conversations at work about work by being an asshole at work.
mexican sharpshooter:
Hell, very few of my coworkers know the girlfriend’s name. Even less have any idea what I look like.
Is your MS Teams Avatar an I❤️Beer sign?
What is this “raise” you speak of?
mexican sharpshooter:
It’s just the default Microsoft using my initials. When I was looking for a job several hunts back, I realized that I should probably change my Google avatar that I was using for submitting resumes and the like away from this avatar. There was a noticeable uptick in responses.
” She’s not a they/them, her spouse is. He’s one of those Vets that transitioned as a way to deal with PTSD. Yes, that’s really a thing.”
Sad.
Sydney Watson did a video about “trans widows”. The wife of the Mr. Beast sidekick being one of the more famous examples.
Also, “transitioning” to non-binary doesn’t make sense. I think it’s mostly a way for the kids these days to identify as trans.
Sydney Watson did a video about “trans widows”. The wife of the Mr. Beast sidekick being one of the more famous examples.
The socially acceptable way to abandon your family and live selfishly.
Now that you mention it, that’s actually brilliant in the same way gay Catholics join the Seminary to reconcile their faith and avoiding marriage to a woman.
Wouldn’t just coming out of the closet as bi/queer be easier and less expensive?
Well, actually transitioning costs money. Merely identifying as non-binary doesn’t cost anything.
We are also in the age of nonsensical transitions. Even ignoring the huge horrible atrocities being committed on children. There are example like Dylan Mulvaney, who got FFS, but not hormones, facial hair removal, or a name change.
We’re talking about people who want to shake the responsibilities of marriage and family life. Slapping a wig on and taking hormones is easy enough to get back to single life.
No matter which Latin American country elects a woman, they won’t be as famous as Eva Peron. Unless this Mexican can turn her administration into a musical.
Having Madonna play you in a movie is probably not a good thing these days.
It’s only good if you want moths flying out of your theater like they fly out of her vajayjay.
That one.
You didn’t have access to her performance evals.
Ohhhhhhhhhh.
Topic adjacent, in the past 2 days I’ve been asked to apply for 2 wildly different jobs off Indeed. One of them, I would kill to have, and I was sooooo excited about being contacted, but at this point in my life, I’m in a position where I need to keep my days free to help my mom.
You just need to make a digital twin.
I’m still waiting for my Purchasing Manager, Supply Chain Manager, and Processing Manager jobs to all come in. Each said I can make up to $143,567/year!
Having been a supply chain manager, you can look forward to 14 hr days, and being on call 24/7.
Of more than 23 million Indigenous people in Mexico — nearly 20% of the population — well over half live in poverty, according to government data from 2022.
Indigenous people one country to the north have high poverty rates too, compared to the population at large. Maybe that points to culture.
It’s kind of stunning how no matter where you look, where people are getting handouts, there is poverty and misery. You can look at the reservations to Palestine to the ghetto. Where government steps into help, it creates perverse incentives.
But politically makes sense. Great Society and LBJ’s pronouncement.
‘Course once a program gets started it must grow. If you don’t progress you regress.
I have seen this movie several times. And it often has a happy ending for the villains.
Yes, we already know about Hunter’s laptop.
Speaking of Hunter – could Sen. Graham possibly be a bigger asshole?
LOL
“More than two dozen candidates were assassinated ahead of the June 2 polls”
Were these presidential candidates? Or people running for town council somewhere?
To be fair, how many political candidates were murdered in the US in the 2022 electoral cycle? Nowhere near two dozen.
Rookie numbers. We need to get those up.
– “I’m just really tired of doing my old job and my new job at the same time.”
Can relate. A long time coworker of mine quit last Friday and I think my workload is going to increase dramatically. Actually, it’s already begun.
I sent an email to HR this afternoon requesting a 25% pay increase. I doubt it will go anywhere but no better time than now.
Never hurts to ask
Great things come to those with the balls to ask.
Jobz?
God dammit
Twenty years ago today, one guy decided that he’d had enough.
Bit of a counterpoint. Sounds rather like the guy was more nutso than fed up with the local government to me.
I imagine the real story is somewhere in between. Also don’t meet your heroes may have applied here.
But who among us hasn’t thought about something similar…
They kind of missed the point: the city approved a construction project that not only cut off the access road to Marv’s biz (and wouldn’t approve a new one), the project cut Marv’s place off from the sewer system. Then they fined him.
Nah, fuck them. People are quick to fetishize small towns but they can be every bit as corrupt as the big ones. RIP, Marv.
Classic count dankula summary
https://youtu.be/Xmr6jIpXSmg?si=B7c6WcHsoKZDfWy6
Thanks. That was quite good!
I like the shopping at the end
Who else wants to join me in the IDGAF ERG?
Are you offering a bowl of alphabet soup?
Chef Boyardee
I guess I should claim a win. My weedeater never was quite right from Day One. I always had to cheat the choke closed a little bit to get it to run WFO. The other day, when it pretty much did not want to run at all, I finally decided it was time to start fucking with the carb adjustment. Haha, not so fast. Thanks to our egghead betters in that big state which runs most of the way up the Pacific coast, Husqvarna doesn’t just use high and low speed adjustment crews with slotted heads in them. Oh, no. It’s some bastard 0.152″ 21-splined masterpiece of fastener engineering, buried in a protective enclosure designed to keep the rabble from even measuring, much less tampering with it. I discovered this after some fiddling around and youtubing and process of elimination and educated-guess-work on Amazon.
So- one $6 fancy screwdriver later, it seems to be running like a champ. I have rivulets of dried blood on my arm from clearing out the tall grass around the bases of the little apple trees to prove it. It looks like somebody went after me with a rake.
I should go mix up a batch of Agent Orange for all the places I don’t want anything to grow.
Try Brawndo, it’s got electrolytes.
In my motorcycle days I had to drill out brass plugs on the carb mixture screws. Also richened up the idle jet size by 1. World of difference.
Careful with that Agent Orange. And I hear blood stains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR8UcVruNgE
Comment *Is that a cry for help. Kev?
Yes. The world has gone ad.
The lack of adjustment is EPA, not CARB.
But she’s a climate scientist!
Speaking of ERGs, we have an “Interfaith and Spiritual” group.
I really don’t know who this one is for.
Unitarians?
The summer campification of the American workplace is both horrifying and hilarious. At least I can watch from a distance now. I’m just subjected to email invitations for virtual pride parades and puppy therapy.
I can’t wait!
Alec Baldwin, wife Hilaria and their 7 kids to star in TLC reality series: ‘We’re inviting you into our home’
So, will they film in the prison?
Oh for fuck’s sake.
There’s no such thing as bad press, KK.
This might be a shot in the dark, but I’ll bet the show goes off with a bang.
Swiss is going to aim a narrowed gaze your way if you keep going off half-cocked like this.
*narrows gaze*
How long before Alec forgets the cameras are on and really goes off on one of the kids or wifey poo?
Yeah, but who’s gonna shoot it?
What about the 8th kid, the one he called a thoughtless pig?
My earworm is now yours. Thank me later.
Needs more
Russian Ballerinas.
Keep it together for the Russian dancers.
Shocking
On Monday, Rubio’s confirmed that it had closed 48 of its California restaurants on Friday — more than a third of its already slimmed-down chain of 134 restaurants.
Rubio’s, in a statement Monday issued by media strategist Sitrick & Co., attributed the closings to the rising cost of doing business in California.
The company did not elaborate on the closures, which stunned some workers, but said they were “underperforming.” The move came two months after the state’s $20 an hour minimum wage took effect for fast-food employees.
The company statement said the decision came after a “thorough review of its operations and the current business climate.” A Sitrick spokesperson said no Rubio’s executive would be available to comment.
What are the odds there are legal repercussions for specifically blaming the new wage law?
Suddenly I crave a fish taco.
Let me preach to the choir.
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
“This is known as ‘bad luck.’
Let me preach to the choir
Think I’ve only eaten at the one in the NEX on NASNI North Island.
The employees are better off without jobs than being exploited by greedy capitalists.
Just reading another thing about Elon’s Tesla pay package. Blah blah blah, whatever.
What I have not heard, anywhere, is anyone talking about what happened to his voided stock. Did it revert back to Tesla’s balance sheet? Did it just go *poof* to Stock Heaven? How does anybody account for this? Does Elon get a tax loss carryforward to spread over the next thousand years?
We’ve all heard about the flight from blue states to places like Florida and Texas.
Now the flappyheads are getting in on the game too.
In the long run the policies you choose shape who is attracted to your country.
Gee, that’s shocking.
I’m happy to have the Oilers in the SC finals, though. ‘Oh, Canada’ is the anthem every country should strive for.
Right? It’s one of the better ones out there.
Not as awesome as this one, though.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has filed charges against Kenneth Chesebro, James Troupis and Michael Roman, three former campaign officials for former President Donald Trump, in relation to the fake elector scheme aiming to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state to Joe Biden.
Each person was charged with a felony count of forgery. All three are due in Dane County Circuit Court on Sept. 19, according to court records. They each face one felony count punishable by up to six years in prison and fines of up to $10,000.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/coastal/news/2024/06/04/trump-allies-chesebro-troupis-roman-wisconsin-charged-fake-electors
Probably candidates for a pardon from president Trump
I wonder why Trump just can’t find good help?
I don’t remember the details of that. My foggy impression is that they were alternate electors, not fake ones.
After what I have been seeing this has the feel, to me at least, of a sweep/roundup of political opposition a la third world tin pot thug style.
Am I wrong on that? did these guys really engage in some kind of chicanery?
*Dunno why but I have been waiting all day for a chance to use the word ‘chicanery’.
A 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda on Jay Leno’s Garage.
Boing.
Even though my truck is faster, I’ll take that.
Woot!
Gunsmith got the frame back to me in less than a day for $85! Plus it’ll let me write that I didn’t screw up the installation — the disco was oversized and needed filing down. I consider that price an absolute steal to not have to engage in such tedious work — apparently it needed eight iterations before it functioned reliably.
It does not have an audible reset, but it’s still tactile. Plus he deep cleaned it. I don’t know if it was the degunking or the new disco or general polishing, but the trigger seems lighter now. It is now bordering on too light. I’ll see how it runs on Thursday.
Good job, picking the right vendor!
Removing material from a disconnector + screwy reset + lighter trigger pull… Be very careful here. Among other things, the disconnector is what keeps the gun from going full-auto. If it were me, I’d plan on shooting my backup gun at Area 8.
Some bureaucrat complained today about an outdated document from our archive website showing high up in Google search results. So I updated the document on our live website, added some SEO keywords to the title and text, and put the page in Google’s queue to crawl and index.
That was yesterday. This morning, bureaucrat says that the old document is still the top result (not even 24 hours later), and isn’t there something we can do about that? And I realized he probably thinks that any bureaucrat can just command Google to do their bidding, after all the Tweeter files, etc. I really think he thinks that.
It’s only someone that has “The White House” on their stationery that can do that, sir. Your lowly ass in a half-baked agency ain’t got the clout, despite the Esq after your name.
Jeezus tapdancing Christ I hate DC and its denizens.
A 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda on Jay Leno’s Garage.
When I was in high school, one of my friends’ brother had a 440 six-pack four speed convertible. ’71 or ’72, I’d say. That thing could lay down black marks.
The balls on this girl.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/transgender-athlete-complains-about-lack-sportsmanship-from-fellow-runners-after-winning-girls-state-title.amp
Awesome. Washington, fucking crush every single girl’s record, including hoops and softball. Wait until the L’s need to watch their sports get burned to the ground for encouraging transgender athletes.
Listened to this today.
FIrst, she’s shockingly poised for a 24 yo. Second, I learned details about this shit that made me even angrier. Third, wood chipper time.
Speaking of which, that car would be worth a bloody king’s ransom today.
I’ve noticed that a lot of those have been softening on BaT. Not rare ones, of course. What’s shocking is the price of 80s and 90s Jap cars.
Also 911s. The 80s SCs are insane.
The balls on this girl.
Sore winner.
So they’re blue balls?
I am watching a western film called “Quick Gun Murugun” about a vegan cowboy going after evil meat eaters. It’s an Indian film. With songs.
Oh… RJ… I’m just going to leave this here for you (doesn’t look to ever going to free, but it’s only $5).
I only want to play Journey To The Center Of Hawkthorne.
Sad
Following Thursday’s historic conviction, phone numbers and addresses for Cohen’s wife and children were posted Monday on a site that has been used to target other figures involved in Trump’s sprawling legal battles, said Advance Democracy, a nonprofit research group, according to NBC News.
In a statement to The Hill, Cohen said it’s sad that the doxxing occurred.
“What sad times we are living through when people resort to this type of doxxing stupidity to redress their grievances,” Cohen’s statement said.
It’s sad they wouldn’t want to stand shoulder to shoulder with a proud patriot like you.
I had no idea Herbie Hancock is the original and current owner of Shelby Cobra #6.
https://youtu.be/oSa1ImVdoT4?si=cDFzODkH2Nc6LkLA
Also a big car guy.
Did I miss it – or have there not been any posts about today being the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests.
RIP Tank guy
https://x.com/OliverJia1014/status/1798013564978180563?t=Rk19Vzm6Rp7GD7LTlg-hjQ&s=19
https://x.com/VoCommunism/status/1798006058062893255?t=sHcNthyeHK9eMbcC4rjFTw&s=19
– if you really want to raise your BP, read the replies to this one.
CCP doing themselves plenty of favors…
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1797800394015576413?t=UwbFCfB2Qe0iPKq0SclQTA&s=19
No one is proud of that anymore.
No one is proud of that anymore.
Insurrectionism is bad.
Also 911s. The 80s SCs are insane.
People who got priced out of the early cars. Now they want to do the long nose retrofit.
There was a car show in my neighborhood last weekend. Some beautiful cars, but only one of the owners looked younger than me. I’ll bet there were more dudes in their 80s than 40s. Sad.
There was a gorgeous 69 (iirc) Cobra Jet that was owned by an absolutely wonderful dude. I had seen the car around town, so we had a great chat about the car. The sound of that motor is sublime.
Time to get the youngsters into the car world. Little fuckers can’t buy a house, so why not say fuck it and buy a classic car!
Time to get the youngsters into the car world. Little fuckers can’t buy a house, so why not say fuck it and buy a classic car!
They need to experience the coolness of rear wheel drive.
I saw a Volvo wagon on BaT the other day and thought of you. It was even a four speed.
Haha!
I follow all of them. I will buy one eventually. There have been some gems lately.
Someday (they will all be gone by then) I aim to own a Volvo 850 T5-R.
Also, I noticed that the Tracker Testarossa does not have ABS that I can see.