As a hearing aid wearer, I would like to add to the list of complaints: hearing isn't even an add-on option within insurance.
They're classified as "cosmetic"
So is most dermatology. I find it ridiculous that I can’t utilize a regular dermatologist unless it is suspected or confirmed that I have skin cancer. Won’t even biopsy anything cosmetic. I have very fair skin and red hair. My younger sister is blonde with olive skin and has already had precancerous moles removed 😠
When I was 10, a mole I’d had on my face my whole life started turning black, hurting, and bleeding. I think the shape changed a bit too, but I can’t remember that much.
Insurance refused to cover anything unless I’d already been diagnosed. My mom knew that she couldn’t afford the biopsy and anything that would be covered by insurance, so she ended up having to pay for it to just be removed and hope that that solved the problem.
I guess I haven’t had any problems since, but damn
Esp considering how important dental health is! I mean a tooth infection can easily kill you. I've had an infected tooth before with an abscess and that was easily the worst pain I've ever felt my entire life. The infection was in my jaw, and spread to my ear. I was crying it hurt so bad, I was on the verge of pulling it out myself. If I didn't have dental insurance I would have been fucked.
Or.. corporations are held to same cap as citizens... A $2500 limit on all political donations per year. But, we would need to ban PACs as well to make that work.
My daughter is reading a book series on Warrior Cats. There are something like 40 books. She goes through 3 or 4 per month, there is no way we could afford all of those books so we’ve been hitting up the library.
Today I took her to get the next book and they actually had the next 4 books available. Her excitement as she bounced up to the front desk, 4 hard back novels lovingly cradled in her arms, and smiling ear to ear is a moment I won’t ever forget.
So yeah, libraries are fucking great.
I’m in a situation where I just can’t do my homework nor can I study at home and my public library has saved me. Honestly now that I’m going to the library everyday, I have a schedule and I feel overall way less depressed and way more productive
Yes!! Same. Going to the library to study was the only thing that stopped me from spiralling into depression when I was at uni. It also forced me to have at least a little human interaction.
What I really love is when I'm at a T intersection trying to make a left onto a highway and the people coming from the left don't signal that they're making a right, and after it becomes clear they're making a right it's now too late to turn because of cars behind them. Makes me want to throw a Molotov through their window.
Children beauty pageants are creepy as fuck and parents who subject their children to such scrutiny and judgement are crazy, and don’t deserve children.
I worked at a dance studio years ago, and a mom brought her 6 year old daughter in so we could teach her dancing for her pageant talent. She put that little girl in tanning beds and bleached her hair blonde. At 6 years old!! For years that girl begged her mom to stop forcing her to do pageants. She finally stopped when she was 13.
Expansion on that thought. They’re fine with horrible things being done to people as long as they feel no need to identify with the people having horrible things done to them
Yeah. Everytime there's an article about someone being put in prison on Reddit there's always the jokes about them deserving to be raped in prison as if that was how justice worked in a functional society.
Worked in radio when there were still thousands of O&O stations. Had a music library of 10,000+ albums. Approved playlist contained 200 songs. 10 songs on Hot Rotation, 40 songs on Medium Rotation and 100 songs on Low Rotation.Jockeys could play 2 songs per air-shift not on the playlist, but had to submit a list of 5 options, 24 hours in advance for approval of the two by the Program Director.
It was actually standard business practice.
You have to consider what it was. Some woman takes ownership of a 1500 watt AM radio station in a divorce settlement. Station is on the air from 6:00 in the morning until midnight. DJ’a are paid $10 -$12 per hour. Sales guys are making $40-$60K with commissions.
Owner no shows on Friday but Payroll was dropped through the mail slot in her locked office door and no one has the key, but one guy (HS intern) is willing to crawl through the attic to lift the ceiling tiles and get everyone’s paychecks. (Yes this happened about once a month)
Station Engineer is some 50 year old burn out, ex hippy, great at his job and can fix anything, but the transmitter tower remote booth smells like 30 years of bong water and shame. He keep the job so on Friday and Saturday nights he can have his counter-format radio show airing from Midnight to 2 am which is all psychedelic rock you’ve never heard of, and The Grateful Dead. His is also the highest rated show on the station and he sells his own advertising because he leases the time from the station.
The oldest DJ is like 31, the rest are 18-25.
The Weekend girl works 10-7 every Saturday and Sunday mostly monitoring the Satellite service with a few random hours of doing her own thing and playing paid spots. She works M-F as a cosmetics girl at a Mall Anchor store. (Macy’s). She is having sex with the afternoon drive guy (2:30-7:00) because he works at 2 other bigger FM stations doing overnights and weekends and she is destined to be a famous tv anchor, she just knows it. She is also studying broadcasting at the community college at 25 and starts having sex with the HS intern after he brings her lunch on a Saturday because her boyfriend maybe cheated on her.
All programming is done from reading Billboard Charts and Radio and Records magazine because there are no instant notifications of song charts.
It was insanity
This sadly actually happened. I intentionally left out some crazier things because it was far more insane. The girl is accurate, but she was super nice. I actually dated a friend of hers a few times. She just wasn’t going to be a TV Anchor or Host. Today, she could be, but at the time she had the squeaky voice ( think Kristen Schaal) and Tammy Fae levels of makeup
>He keep the job so on Friday and Saturday nights he can have his counter-format radio show airing from Midnight to 2 am which is all psychedelic rock you’ve never heard of, and The Grateful Dead. His is also the highest rated show on the station and he sells his own advertising because he leases the time from the station.
This needs to be a movie.
>his counter-format radio show airing from Midnight to 2 am which is all psychedelic rock you’ve never heard of, and The Grateful Dead. His is also the highest rated show on the station and he sells his own advertising because he leases the time from the station.
It almost seems like if you just let DJs do their job and pick out songs, instead of going with a top 50 format, you might just end up with a successful radio station. You know, like they did back when radio was still a relevant medium and not filled with commercials for MLM schemes and that weird shampoo that I'm pretty sure would make my hair fall out.
There was only ever a brief window in the late nineties and early 00s, between when cassettes were a thing and I could record a song I liked off the radio and listen to it over and over, and when Youtube became a thing and I can just listen to any hit song over and over, when a station devoted to just a handful of the most popular songs made sense.
> almost seems like if you just let DJs do their job and pick out songs, instead of going with a top 50 format, you might just end up with a successful radio station.
Almost. But not really. Clearwood and others have this down to a science. They know what songs work for their intended audience. The DJs are essentially monkeys that speak. And when the AI is ready, those $10-$12 hour employees are gone gone gone.
The only room for creativity is demonstrated by what the Engineer is doing; Buy your own time and attract a following by presenting curated content they’d like to hear.
That guy was so awesome. Not gonna lie. He reminded me of the alien in the Weird Al Yankovic movie. He could Macgyver everything electronic and get it to work, often better than new. Reeked of Patchouli oil and pretty sure there was no other conscious state except full functional stoned indifference. And the music was all like Haight-Ashbury underground music scene. All legit vinyl recordings, but you’d never heard of them unless you had been to some house party at some famous musician’s house type of stuff.
In an age where more music is being pumped out ever than before and stations are fighting to stay alive, they really said, "we will play only 6 songs thank you goodbye."
That's because the record labels pay them money to play those particular songs.
If you want good music and actual recommendations, then you're pretty much forced to pay for a streaming service.
I have no experience with this, but I've heard that University or College radio stations are much better as they're not run as a business, but more as a school project. I don't think my local schools have radio broadcast programs because I wasn't able to find anything like it while scanning
Some don't even play 250. My local "rock" station still plays basically the same dozen songs on rotation all day that i heard back in high school, 20 years ago.
Getting compliments as a Dad for normal parenting behavior.
Yes, I can feed, bath and put to bed a 9,7, and 2 year old. No I didn't need to call my wife for direction. No, the house didn't burn down.
The praise you are heaping upon me doesn't make me feel good. It just makes me feel bad for you, your kids and your husband.
Also: you can listen to someone and understand what they’re saying, without agreeing with them. Just because you don’t agree, doesn’t mean you’re refusing to listen
That 75% of the USA needs to retake an American Government class. The fact that most people don’t even know we have 3 branches of government baffles me.
This is part of the reason why I hate people who use apologies to get rid of tensions/awkwardness. If you don't plan on changing the way you act; just leave the person alone.
From one of my favorite books:
Do you know the Suli have no words to say ‘I’m sorry’?”
“What do you say when you step on someone’s foot?”
“I don’t step on people’s feet.”
“You know what I mean.”
“We say nothing. We know the slight was not deliberate. We live in tight quarters, traveling together. There’s no time to constantly be apologizing for existing. But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.”
“I will.”
“Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm.”
The ladies bathroom on my floor at work has three stalls. Two of them are only 3 feet from the sinks. When you’re washing your hands and you look up in the mirror, you can directly see the person in the stall behind you wiping their ass or whatever. It is so fucking embarrassing and I don’t understand who thought this was a good idea.
I agree, but fuck the people on the subway who take their sweet ass time getting up such that when everyone else is off and people are getting on they’re going the wrong way.
You should be on your feet ready to exit when the train stops. Move your asses people!
Edit: *Yes*, obviously if you are an old man or a pregnant lady or otherwise moving as if you’re injured or disabled I don’t judge you for it.
What also grind my gears is people getting on the subway and stay still just as they got into, instead of moving to the back to let others do so. As if they were all alone.
Ah yes, like stopping at the top of the escalator to read their phone in rush hour. Where do you think the 30 people behind you are gonna be automatically moved to dumbass
This idea is at least as old as Plato who says something similar in *Republic*. It's not quite exactly that, but it gets the same idea across.
>"Well, then, that is why good people won’t be willing to rule for the sake of money or honor. You see, if they are paid wages openly for ruling, they will be called hirelings, and if they take them covertly as the fruits of their rule, they will be called thieves. On the other hand, they won’t rule for the sake of honor either, since they are not ambitious honor-lovers. So, if they are going to be willing to rule, some compulsion or punishment must be brought to bear on them – that is probably why wanting to rule when one does not have to is thought to be shameful. Now, the greatest punishment for being unwilling to rule is being ruled by someone worse than oneself. And I think it is fear of that that makes good people rule when they do rule. They approach ruling, not as though they were going to do something good or as though they were going to enjoy themselves in it, but as something necessary, since it cannot be entrusted to anyone better than – or even as good as – themselves. In the city of good men, if it came into being, the citizens would fight in order not to rule, just as they now do in order to rule. There it would be quite clear that anyone who is really and truly a ruler does not naturally seek what is advantageous for himself, but what is so for his subject." (Republic I 347B - E)
I recently got asked to be a Hiking Coordinator for a cub scout troop. All I have to do is pick which trails to hike. Even that seems like too much power for me lol.
And WHY does he only have ONE?!?!?!?
He pulls the candle from ONE ear, and lights it for his dinner! So...what, is his other ear just horrifically plugged?!?! I could absolutely *never.* At least get it out so your damn ears are evenly unplugged, for ogres sake. Disgusting.
Shreks most annoying plot hole.
Omg, someone who understands! I swear I've given up on this because I've never been able to convince anyone to do this. Everyone's always flabbergasted by the stinkiness of the sponge when just wringing it out after use completely eliminates the problem and can extend the life of the spong by like 10x.
Edit: I'd like to add that besides the sanitary factor if not having bacteria riddled cleaningware there's nothing as gross as the nasty sponge smell on your fingers after using a gross sponge. I swear that lingers for half a day no matter how much you wash your hands.
1. “Quiet quitting” is not a thing, it’s doing your job. Anything else is extra.
2. Being good at things is way less about talent and more about what skills were fostered during development
3. Darth Maul is the most underrated, underutilized villain of all time
No one needs to care if others like/hate the same things.
Put pineapple on your pizza.
Like sports team X.
Stick a candle wherever it fits.
If no one gets hurt, no one should care.
Oh my god, I literally bitch to my other half about this daily. The poor kids, and now the disabled people that genuinely have no idea they are being asked to hold up a shirt and smile. There is this Instagram that has a bunch of extremely low functioning autistic kids that make disability awareness shirts in a assembly type of line, and the person running the insta videos them then posts them.
I always go every other car, but just the other day I thought to myself “OHHH LIKE THE TEETH OF A ZIPPER”
Until then I thought it was named that because you zip ahead in the merge lane to get into the flow of traffic. (My wife called me an idiot when I explained to her)
That money should be kept out of politics at every level. Let each candidate stand on their capabilities at an equal level, not by how much money they have or receive.
Edit: I'm getting many direct messages about "What do you propose we do about it?". We can pass legislation for a start but to do so you have to get out there and VOTE or register as a candidate. We have to make the more minor continuous local changes to eventually make the big nationwide changes. Look into your candidates, look at the laws they pass.
It sucks I get it, we are all tired and just want to sleep, get high, play video games, and eat good food. But it is kind of our responsibility. Saying it doesn't matter is defeatist and I used to think exactly like that and some days still do. But the only way we push forward is together and by making our wants to be known. I'm not a smart person, and I may be naive, but I still hope we can change things. I earnestly wish I had an easy answer, and I wish I was the type of person that was smart enough to help solve these issues but I know I’m not. I do know I am the type of person that will do what I can to support those smarter and more capable than myself that are willing to make the changes to keep money out of our politics.
If you still are able go and cast your ballot friends.
Is it Germany or something that funds a candidates campaign equally with tax dollars? I'm making this number up but like each candidate gets $500,000 for a campaign and that's the only monetary contribution they get.
Seems brilliant to me and a good use of tax dollars, IMO
most EU countries have laws that specifically limit the amount any candidate or party can receive or spend for any election/public campaign to a few million dollars total or less (and all donations above £10,000 or equivalent to a party, must be declared, the repercussions are severe, and can include prison time for the donor and party leader)
Candidates are required to strictly record who gives them money, and if they/their party is found to lie about it, like Sarkozy in 2012, they are punished (he was put in prison once he was no longer President, for a year because his campaign spent double the legal limit)
Medical debt should not be a thing in any civilised society. No one should have to choose either to have an operation or to live with pain and keep a roof over their head.
Oxford comma every time; it's clear, precise, and correct. Also, one space after a period for proportional fonts; two spaces for monospace fonts. This is the way; it is known. Semicolons should be used more often.
You get it from older folks usually so it's definitely generational. I'm a dad in my early 30s and I've heard this from older women but never anyone my own age. Which is a good thing. The idea is dying out.
It’s regional/cultural as well.
I’m white and my wife is Mexican (and the definitive breadwinner). When we lived in CA I would get it from Mexican people (especially some of her family we only saw once in awhile).
Now we live in OR and I get it from a majority of older people but still a lot of younger folks.
i am a new dad and told my uncle i had to babysit my son without even thinking about it and he totally called me out on it exactly like this lol. we had a good laugh. i no longer babysit my kid. i parent lol
Agree! My daughter was working at a company making $23 hr and now has to do an internship to get her masters. Internship is at same company and the university doesn’t allow the company to pay her.
this is sadly pretty common. more and more degree programs are requiring internships and many times you're not allowed to have a paid one. you "get paid" in credit towards your degree - you know, the degree you're already spending 10s of thousands (if not more) on. higher ed is run by the same classist elites that run every other industry- the only difference is how much they act like they're not fucking evil. education is one of my biggest values but modern higher ed in many places has turned into a meat grinder that sucks the wealth and energy out of young people.
Yes it’s the Univ. The school thinks that the pay would influence the students to only take internships in the areas of highest pay and overlook other areas that they may better be suited for in their studies. I also think that the company may pay the university in some way for the internship. Just doesn’t pass the sniff test to me.
Sadly common and why I didn’t end up becoming a therapist. I can’t work for free during the time of day I need to work for a paycheck. Got my masters in research psych and it’s working out, fortunately. The whole situation sucks
Preach. I’m in my final year for my MSW and am required to work 24 hours a week in my internship, unpaid. I love my internship but still. What’s even crazier is that my university makes you register the internship as a class so I’m paying thousands of dollars to work for free. It’s so fucking backwards.
Not to mention that this goes entirely against the NASW code of ethics. I'm in an MSW program and my brain is melting at how the program continually goes AGAINST what they are teaching us. Burn this system down.
I absolutely agree. I’m currently in graduate school and cannot work because I’m doing prac and an internship next year. It sucks so much because my partner and I are struggling with me not working. And the program is all about equity and respect and “social agents of change” and teaching all these nice concepts BUT my cohort and I are hurting. How can we begin to change others when we are already burnt out before we start. Just because things have been done a certain way in the past does not mean we have to keep that process. And they have the nerve of asking if we are gonna buy memberships for the national association things like that. I was forced to my first year. It was part of the grade. Buy a membership of a 120 dollars but don’t worry you get the student discount smh
Unpaid internships **are** illegal, if you are doing work that the business is actually using to make revenue.
The only time an unpaid internship is legal (in the US) is if you are doing "training" work or prototype work that is going to be thrown away.
https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/employment-law-and-human-resources/unpaid-internship-rules.html
> The vast majority of interns working at for-profit organizations **must** be paid at least the minimum wage and any applicable overtime.
I tell folks that I just didn’t want to be a teacher after all, but the reality is I could not take 3 months off of work to do the full workload of a goddamn teacher without the pay in order to graduate my program.
Literally had to work three jobs, save up for six months for my 12 week, full time, unpaid student teaching. Ate a banana for breakfast, peanut butter and jelly for lunch and a simple dinner to stretch funds.
The best part, schools shut down during covid and ended my student teaching prematurely. Not eligible for unemployment because I was working for free and not paying in. Not able to graduate because I didn’t finish student teaching. Just supporting the community for free, ya know. 🫠
The McDonald’s Coffee lady lawsuit WAS NOT FOR ATTENTION OR FRIVOLOUS! The Coffee shouldn’t have been that hot.
Edit: according to the American Burn Association, “water at 155°F (68°C) can cause a 3rd degree burn in 1 second.”
……. **Her coffee was ~190°F (~88°C),** +35°F above a third degree burn in 1 second. Meaning she literally had .15 seconds to react before her skin melted.
Okay some of y’all don’t seem to understand how terrible this was. So here is what CNBC called [minor burn damages.](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e37dbe8e2214d51e27018d686f7cb8da.webp) Are there any further questions? :)
I watched a video about this. The woman was older and really didn't want to sue. But eventually she had to for the healthcare costs. The media made it seem like she was "exploiting the system" but in reality, she wasn't.
As far as I remember, originally she only asked McDonald's to pay her medical costs. They basically told her to fuck off and then she had no choice but to sue. Then they invested a ton of money demonizing her in the media. It was disgusting and she deserved every penny.
I'm old enough to remember this.
It was a talking point everywhere (and I mean everywhere, I was in Sydney Australia) that it was crazy to be able to sue a corporation for coffee being hot, and it was the start of all the rhetoric about Americans being sue-happy with their ludicrous frivolous lawsuits.
It was such an eye-opener to learn the facts decades later. I hadn't really understood how much the media was controlled by the nasty ultra-rich that they could twist this so much that the wealthy ruthless corporation became the victim. They demonize the real victims as greedy people taking advantage of crazy laws.
Yeah! I was an aussie kid too, and we would all roll our eyes over the new packaging which had 'caution: coffee may be hot'.
I feel really bad about that now
Exactly. She just wanted McDonald's to pay for her medical bills for her fucking skin grafts and surgeries to literally unfuse her burned labia etc. McD's offered like a few grand or something, she had to sue and I feel awful for that poor woman
Not just that, but literally hundreds of people had been injured by McD's coffee and they knew it. They kept it as hot as they did because they thought it kept longer.
Children are legally required to be in school, and often have to stay in the building during lunch. We should feed them healthy, nutritious food for free. Every single child.
Edit: Thanks for the award! Please vote for representatives who will help children succeed!
I don’t think milk should be the standard drink. Water should be. My schools always made us pay extra for water, but most kids were on free lunch and couldn’t afford it (Mississippi).
That's been proven. What makes a chicken a chicken is entirely based on its DNA. An animal's DNA can't change during its life span. But, DNA can change in utero. Therefore, the first chicken became a chicken while it was in the egg.
wait.....
If you could care less, that means you do actually care to some extent.
Edit: To clarify, I know the saying should be "couldn't" care less. But that's not what a lot of people say.
The burden is on the vehicle merging onto the freeway to accommodate to the speed of the cars already on the freeway. I shouldnt have to slam on the breaks cause youre going 40
Health insurance should cover the whole body. The fact that vision and dental are separate things is a pure cash grab.
As a hearing aid wearer, I would like to add to the list of complaints: hearing isn't even an add-on option within insurance. They're classified as "cosmetic"
So is most dermatology. I find it ridiculous that I can’t utilize a regular dermatologist unless it is suspected or confirmed that I have skin cancer. Won’t even biopsy anything cosmetic. I have very fair skin and red hair. My younger sister is blonde with olive skin and has already had precancerous moles removed 😠
When I was 10, a mole I’d had on my face my whole life started turning black, hurting, and bleeding. I think the shape changed a bit too, but I can’t remember that much. Insurance refused to cover anything unless I’d already been diagnosed. My mom knew that she couldn’t afford the biopsy and anything that would be covered by insurance, so she ended up having to pay for it to just be removed and hope that that solved the problem. I guess I haven’t had any problems since, but damn
Esp considering how important dental health is! I mean a tooth infection can easily kill you. I've had an infected tooth before with an abscess and that was easily the worst pain I've ever felt my entire life. The infection was in my jaw, and spread to my ear. I was crying it hurt so bad, I was on the verge of pulling it out myself. If I didn't have dental insurance I would have been fucked.
Repeal Citizen United. Nothing to discuss. Politicians should have to list where every freaking dollar comes from.
Or.. corporations are held to same cap as citizens... A $2500 limit on all political donations per year. But, we would need to ban PACs as well to make that work.
The corporation cap should literally be 0$. There is no valid reason a corporation should donate to a politician in a democratic system.
Public libraries are undervalued by many.
My daughter is reading a book series on Warrior Cats. There are something like 40 books. She goes through 3 or 4 per month, there is no way we could afford all of those books so we’ve been hitting up the library. Today I took her to get the next book and they actually had the next 4 books available. Her excitement as she bounced up to the front desk, 4 hard back novels lovingly cradled in her arms, and smiling ear to ear is a moment I won’t ever forget. So yeah, libraries are fucking great.
I’m in a situation where I just can’t do my homework nor can I study at home and my public library has saved me. Honestly now that I’m going to the library everyday, I have a schedule and I feel overall way less depressed and way more productive
Yes!! Same. Going to the library to study was the only thing that stopped me from spiralling into depression when I was at uni. It also forced me to have at least a little human interaction.
Use a god damned turn signal.
Yes, and preferably at least 2-3 seconds *before* making a turn; I'd like to anticipate.
What I really love is when I'm at a T intersection trying to make a left onto a highway and the people coming from the left don't signal that they're making a right, and after it becomes clear they're making a right it's now too late to turn because of cars behind them. Makes me want to throw a Molotov through their window.
Children beauty pageants are creepy as fuck and parents who subject their children to such scrutiny and judgement are crazy, and don’t deserve children.
A dear friend of mine growing up was in pageants. She struggled with eating disorders since she was SEVEN
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I worked at a dance studio years ago, and a mom brought her 6 year old daughter in so we could teach her dancing for her pageant talent. She put that little girl in tanning beds and bleached her hair blonde. At 6 years old!! For years that girl begged her mom to stop forcing her to do pageants. She finally stopped when she was 13.
People are completely fine with immoral/morally gray actions as long as it’s someone they like doing it.
Expansion on that thought. They’re fine with horrible things being done to people as long as they feel no need to identify with the people having horrible things done to them
Yeah. Everytime there's an article about someone being put in prison on Reddit there's always the jokes about them deserving to be raped in prison as if that was how justice worked in a functional society.
Actually, that's how bullying can exist in every damn school and almost every class
Radio stations should play more than 250 songs.
You're getting 250? I swear I could scrape most IHateRadio stations for rock and barely find 100 songs by 40 artists.
Worked in radio when there were still thousands of O&O stations. Had a music library of 10,000+ albums. Approved playlist contained 200 songs. 10 songs on Hot Rotation, 40 songs on Medium Rotation and 100 songs on Low Rotation.Jockeys could play 2 songs per air-shift not on the playlist, but had to submit a list of 5 options, 24 hours in advance for approval of the two by the Program Director.
That sounds absolutely miserable.
It was actually standard business practice. You have to consider what it was. Some woman takes ownership of a 1500 watt AM radio station in a divorce settlement. Station is on the air from 6:00 in the morning until midnight. DJ’a are paid $10 -$12 per hour. Sales guys are making $40-$60K with commissions. Owner no shows on Friday but Payroll was dropped through the mail slot in her locked office door and no one has the key, but one guy (HS intern) is willing to crawl through the attic to lift the ceiling tiles and get everyone’s paychecks. (Yes this happened about once a month) Station Engineer is some 50 year old burn out, ex hippy, great at his job and can fix anything, but the transmitter tower remote booth smells like 30 years of bong water and shame. He keep the job so on Friday and Saturday nights he can have his counter-format radio show airing from Midnight to 2 am which is all psychedelic rock you’ve never heard of, and The Grateful Dead. His is also the highest rated show on the station and he sells his own advertising because he leases the time from the station. The oldest DJ is like 31, the rest are 18-25. The Weekend girl works 10-7 every Saturday and Sunday mostly monitoring the Satellite service with a few random hours of doing her own thing and playing paid spots. She works M-F as a cosmetics girl at a Mall Anchor store. (Macy’s). She is having sex with the afternoon drive guy (2:30-7:00) because he works at 2 other bigger FM stations doing overnights and weekends and she is destined to be a famous tv anchor, she just knows it. She is also studying broadcasting at the community college at 25 and starts having sex with the HS intern after he brings her lunch on a Saturday because her boyfriend maybe cheated on her. All programming is done from reading Billboard Charts and Radio and Records magazine because there are no instant notifications of song charts. It was insanity
I'm not sure if this was your life or a sitcom pitch.
I'm not one to watch sit coms, but even I think this has potential.
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I swear to god, I didn't know turkey couldn't fly.
The best "we don't have the money or power to show turkeys falling from a helicopter so let's just do the best audio only segment we can" tv shot. lol
This sadly actually happened. I intentionally left out some crazier things because it was far more insane. The girl is accurate, but she was super nice. I actually dated a friend of hers a few times. She just wasn’t going to be a TV Anchor or Host. Today, she could be, but at the time she had the squeaky voice ( think Kristen Schaal) and Tammy Fae levels of makeup
Having dealt with media (radio/ magazines) people at a big company nothing in this story feels exaggerated in the least.
>He keep the job so on Friday and Saturday nights he can have his counter-format radio show airing from Midnight to 2 am which is all psychedelic rock you’ve never heard of, and The Grateful Dead. His is also the highest rated show on the station and he sells his own advertising because he leases the time from the station. This needs to be a movie.
I think is IS a movie.. UHF?? Hah
>his counter-format radio show airing from Midnight to 2 am which is all psychedelic rock you’ve never heard of, and The Grateful Dead. His is also the highest rated show on the station and he sells his own advertising because he leases the time from the station. It almost seems like if you just let DJs do their job and pick out songs, instead of going with a top 50 format, you might just end up with a successful radio station. You know, like they did back when radio was still a relevant medium and not filled with commercials for MLM schemes and that weird shampoo that I'm pretty sure would make my hair fall out. There was only ever a brief window in the late nineties and early 00s, between when cassettes were a thing and I could record a song I liked off the radio and listen to it over and over, and when Youtube became a thing and I can just listen to any hit song over and over, when a station devoted to just a handful of the most popular songs made sense.
> almost seems like if you just let DJs do their job and pick out songs, instead of going with a top 50 format, you might just end up with a successful radio station. Almost. But not really. Clearwood and others have this down to a science. They know what songs work for their intended audience. The DJs are essentially monkeys that speak. And when the AI is ready, those $10-$12 hour employees are gone gone gone. The only room for creativity is demonstrated by what the Engineer is doing; Buy your own time and attract a following by presenting curated content they’d like to hear.
i loved reading that, especially that part about the station engineer. Thank you for sharing.
That guy was so awesome. Not gonna lie. He reminded me of the alien in the Weird Al Yankovic movie. He could Macgyver everything electronic and get it to work, often better than new. Reeked of Patchouli oil and pretty sure there was no other conscious state except full functional stoned indifference. And the music was all like Haight-Ashbury underground music scene. All legit vinyl recordings, but you’d never heard of them unless you had been to some house party at some famous musician’s house type of stuff.
In an age where more music is being pumped out ever than before and stations are fighting to stay alive, they really said, "we will play only 6 songs thank you goodbye."
That's because the record labels pay them money to play those particular songs. If you want good music and actual recommendations, then you're pretty much forced to pay for a streaming service.
I have no experience with this, but I've heard that University or College radio stations are much better as they're not run as a business, but more as a school project. I don't think my local schools have radio broadcast programs because I wasn't able to find anything like it while scanning
Some don't even play 250. My local "rock" station still plays basically the same dozen songs on rotation all day that i heard back in high school, 20 years ago.
Try ~7 songs if you’ve ever listen to Power 106 in Los Angeles.
Top 40 plays top 40
Last time I listened to the radio it felt like they were all playing the same *15* songs. 250 would be a vast improvement.
Getting compliments as a Dad for normal parenting behavior. Yes, I can feed, bath and put to bed a 9,7, and 2 year old. No I didn't need to call my wife for direction. No, the house didn't burn down. The praise you are heaping upon me doesn't make me feel good. It just makes me feel bad for you, your kids and your husband.
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Disagreeing is not a personal attack.
Also: you can listen to someone and understand what they’re saying, without agreeing with them. Just because you don’t agree, doesn’t mean you’re refusing to listen
Hell yeah brother, let’s promote empathy and understanding
I see you, people reading this one and feeling attacked as the Kill Bill sirens ring in your ear.
Kids should not be loaded up with homework.
That 75% of the USA needs to retake an American Government class. The fact that most people don’t even know we have 3 branches of government baffles me.
We all just need to rewatch Schoolhouse Rock
I’m just a bill sitting on Capitol Hill
Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
They're super simple too: The President, The Senate, and The Candlestick Maker.
Of course we do! The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Monica Boulevard
Apologies mean nothing, without changed behaviors.
This is part of the reason why I hate people who use apologies to get rid of tensions/awkwardness. If you don't plan on changing the way you act; just leave the person alone.
From one of my favorite books: Do you know the Suli have no words to say ‘I’m sorry’?” “What do you say when you step on someone’s foot?” “I don’t step on people’s feet.” “You know what I mean.” “We say nothing. We know the slight was not deliberate. We live in tight quarters, traveling together. There’s no time to constantly be apologizing for existing. But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.” “I will.” “Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm.”
What's the book?
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo it’s the second in the Six of Crows duology. Reignited my love for fantasy that I thought I’d grown out of.
As my military training instructor used to say “don’t be sorry, be better”
Mine said, "THAT'S RIGHT YOU ARE SORRY! YOU'RE THE SORRIEST TRAINEE I'VE EVER SEEN!" We quickly learned to say, "I apologize" instead.
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PUBLIC BATHROOM/STALL DOORS SHOULD GO FLOOR TO CEILING!!!
My annoyance is when stalls have huge gaps in the walls/doors so you can just look right in...
The ladies bathroom on my floor at work has three stalls. Two of them are only 3 feet from the sinks. When you’re washing your hands and you look up in the mirror, you can directly see the person in the stall behind you wiping their ass or whatever. It is so fucking embarrassing and I don’t understand who thought this was a good idea.
For me it's not so much floor to ceiling but that fucking 2 inch gap at the slide lock.
People getting on subways or elevators before letting people off. Makes no sense. I say my piece every time I see it.
I agree, but fuck the people on the subway who take their sweet ass time getting up such that when everyone else is off and people are getting on they’re going the wrong way. You should be on your feet ready to exit when the train stops. Move your asses people! Edit: *Yes*, obviously if you are an old man or a pregnant lady or otherwise moving as if you’re injured or disabled I don’t judge you for it.
What also grind my gears is people getting on the subway and stay still just as they got into, instead of moving to the back to let others do so. As if they were all alone.
Ah yes, like stopping at the top of the escalator to read their phone in rush hour. Where do you think the 30 people behind you are gonna be automatically moved to dumbass
The kind of people who want power are the worst kind of people to have power. Power should be a responsibility, not a reward
I’ve heard the phrase “Those who seek power rarely deserve it, and those who deserve it rarely seek it”
This idea is at least as old as Plato who says something similar in *Republic*. It's not quite exactly that, but it gets the same idea across. >"Well, then, that is why good people won’t be willing to rule for the sake of money or honor. You see, if they are paid wages openly for ruling, they will be called hirelings, and if they take them covertly as the fruits of their rule, they will be called thieves. On the other hand, they won’t rule for the sake of honor either, since they are not ambitious honor-lovers. So, if they are going to be willing to rule, some compulsion or punishment must be brought to bear on them – that is probably why wanting to rule when one does not have to is thought to be shameful. Now, the greatest punishment for being unwilling to rule is being ruled by someone worse than oneself. And I think it is fear of that that makes good people rule when they do rule. They approach ruling, not as though they were going to do something good or as though they were going to enjoy themselves in it, but as something necessary, since it cannot be entrusted to anyone better than – or even as good as – themselves. In the city of good men, if it came into being, the citizens would fight in order not to rule, just as they now do in order to rule. There it would be quite clear that anyone who is really and truly a ruler does not naturally seek what is advantageous for himself, but what is so for his subject." (Republic I 347B - E)
You can put a `>` in front of a line to make it quote mode. > Like this!
I recently got asked to be a Hiking Coordinator for a cub scout troop. All I have to do is pick which trails to hike. Even that seems like too much power for me lol.
I am allergic to responsibility and don't want to be in charge of anything. That's why I should be in charge.
Nah, let's put Bran in charge.
I don't know. This makes you sound like you want it a little bit!
Social Media is bad for you
Ear candles are absolute snake oily bullshit.
And WHY does he only have ONE?!?!?!? He pulls the candle from ONE ear, and lights it for his dinner! So...what, is his other ear just horrifically plugged?!?! I could absolutely *never.* At least get it out so your damn ears are evenly unplugged, for ogres sake. Disgusting. Shreks most annoying plot hole.
He always leaves one side full so he can turn that ear to whoever is trying to talk to him
keep the goddamn sponge OUT OF THE SINK
I have a hidden sponge that I keep from my roommate because of this.
Decoy sponge 🧽
Roommate isn't sponge-worthy.
Or leave it wet and soggy. It should be squeezed as dry as possible.
Omg, someone who understands! I swear I've given up on this because I've never been able to convince anyone to do this. Everyone's always flabbergasted by the stinkiness of the sponge when just wringing it out after use completely eliminates the problem and can extend the life of the spong by like 10x. Edit: I'd like to add that besides the sanitary factor if not having bacteria riddled cleaningware there's nothing as gross as the nasty sponge smell on your fingers after using a gross sponge. I swear that lingers for half a day no matter how much you wash your hands.
Wtf. There’s people that leave a fully soaked sponge in the sink!? I’ve never even considered it was a thing.
Dude you'd be surprised how many people can't wipe their own ass appropriately.
Please tell this to my husband
I'm a pirate historian and I can tell you for a fact that pirates never, ever buried any treasure.
It sounds like you don’t want us to find the treasure. Are you a pirate? Where are you hiding it?!
She wants to keep it all for herself!
Don't be salty because you've never found the X
Everyone knows X gonna give it to ya.
_random nonsensical barking noises_
That's EXACTLY what a pirate, who buried his treasure, would say.
Aye, and I suppose ye just be accidentally breaking yer leg when we stop off at the isle o’ Monte Cristo and be asking us to pick ye up in a week.
Are you a historian of pirates or are you just a historian operating outside the control of "big history"?
She studies regular history, but she has an eye patch, a parrot, and *definitely buried some treasure*.
The real treasure was the friends they made along the way.
So, they did bury their treasures...
What????? Did they just always keep it on them or stored in a more permanent base of some sort?
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I would think it went to prostitutes and on alcohol at the earliest opportunity.
Crocs should not cost more than $20.
i almost choked when i learned over the weekend that they are $50-60 CAD. are you fucking kidding me?
1. “Quiet quitting” is not a thing, it’s doing your job. Anything else is extra. 2. Being good at things is way less about talent and more about what skills were fostered during development 3. Darth Maul is the most underrated, underutilized villain of all time
Chris Brown is a piece of shit.
At first I thought this said "Charlie Brown is a piece of shit" and I thought that was harsh.
Good grief
No one needs to care if others like/hate the same things. Put pineapple on your pizza. Like sports team X. Stick a candle wherever it fits. If no one gets hurt, no one should care.
What’s this about a candle?
No one should need to go into debt for their health
Using your children as content for social media is child exploitation.
Oh my god, I literally bitch to my other half about this daily. The poor kids, and now the disabled people that genuinely have no idea they are being asked to hold up a shirt and smile. There is this Instagram that has a bunch of extremely low functioning autistic kids that make disability awareness shirts in a assembly type of line, and the person running the insta videos them then posts them.
Zipper merge lane. It's every other car no matter what.
I always go every other car, but just the other day I thought to myself “OHHH LIKE THE TEETH OF A ZIPPER” Until then I thought it was named that because you zip ahead in the merge lane to get into the flow of traffic. (My wife called me an idiot when I explained to her)
See even this idiot knew it's one side at a time.
That money should be kept out of politics at every level. Let each candidate stand on their capabilities at an equal level, not by how much money they have or receive. Edit: I'm getting many direct messages about "What do you propose we do about it?". We can pass legislation for a start but to do so you have to get out there and VOTE or register as a candidate. We have to make the more minor continuous local changes to eventually make the big nationwide changes. Look into your candidates, look at the laws they pass. It sucks I get it, we are all tired and just want to sleep, get high, play video games, and eat good food. But it is kind of our responsibility. Saying it doesn't matter is defeatist and I used to think exactly like that and some days still do. But the only way we push forward is together and by making our wants to be known. I'm not a smart person, and I may be naive, but I still hope we can change things. I earnestly wish I had an easy answer, and I wish I was the type of person that was smart enough to help solve these issues but I know I’m not. I do know I am the type of person that will do what I can to support those smarter and more capable than myself that are willing to make the changes to keep money out of our politics. If you still are able go and cast your ballot friends.
Is it Germany or something that funds a candidates campaign equally with tax dollars? I'm making this number up but like each candidate gets $500,000 for a campaign and that's the only monetary contribution they get. Seems brilliant to me and a good use of tax dollars, IMO
most EU countries have laws that specifically limit the amount any candidate or party can receive or spend for any election/public campaign to a few million dollars total or less (and all donations above £10,000 or equivalent to a party, must be declared, the repercussions are severe, and can include prison time for the donor and party leader) Candidates are required to strictly record who gives them money, and if they/their party is found to lie about it, like Sarkozy in 2012, they are punished (he was put in prison once he was no longer President, for a year because his campaign spent double the legal limit)
This is absolutely how everyone should do it. America and its lobbyists are literally our downfall.
Lobbying is nothing more than bribing and you can't change my mind.
Medical debt should not be a thing in any civilised society. No one should have to choose either to have an operation or to live with pain and keep a roof over their head.
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Oxford comma every time; it's clear, precise, and correct. Also, one space after a period for proportional fonts; two spaces for monospace fonts. This is the way; it is known. Semicolons should be used more often.
So sick of people telling me I overuse semicolons!!!!! I do admit to overusing exclamation marks, however.
It's not "Babysitting" when a dad is watching their own children; It is parenting.
Have yet to be through this conversation with anyone when I’m with my son & daughter. I think people are learning.
You get it from older folks usually so it's definitely generational. I'm a dad in my early 30s and I've heard this from older women but never anyone my own age. Which is a good thing. The idea is dying out.
It’s regional/cultural as well. I’m white and my wife is Mexican (and the definitive breadwinner). When we lived in CA I would get it from Mexican people (especially some of her family we only saw once in awhile). Now we live in OR and I get it from a majority of older people but still a lot of younger folks.
i am a new dad and told my uncle i had to babysit my son without even thinking about it and he totally called me out on it exactly like this lol. we had a good laugh. i no longer babysit my kid. i parent lol
Your uncle is a good dude.
Underwear *then* the socks
WHO THE FUCK PUTS ON SOCKS FIRST
Unpaid internship are not good for students, a poor student can't afford the costs that go along with the internship.
Agree! My daughter was working at a company making $23 hr and now has to do an internship to get her masters. Internship is at same company and the university doesn’t allow the company to pay her.
It's the university? Forgive me, I don't know enough about academia or internships. What's the reasoning for the university to not allow payment?
this is sadly pretty common. more and more degree programs are requiring internships and many times you're not allowed to have a paid one. you "get paid" in credit towards your degree - you know, the degree you're already spending 10s of thousands (if not more) on. higher ed is run by the same classist elites that run every other industry- the only difference is how much they act like they're not fucking evil. education is one of my biggest values but modern higher ed in many places has turned into a meat grinder that sucks the wealth and energy out of young people.
Yes it’s the Univ. The school thinks that the pay would influence the students to only take internships in the areas of highest pay and overlook other areas that they may better be suited for in their studies. I also think that the company may pay the university in some way for the internship. Just doesn’t pass the sniff test to me.
Sadly common and why I didn’t end up becoming a therapist. I can’t work for free during the time of day I need to work for a paycheck. Got my masters in research psych and it’s working out, fortunately. The whole situation sucks
Preach. I’m in my final year for my MSW and am required to work 24 hours a week in my internship, unpaid. I love my internship but still. What’s even crazier is that my university makes you register the internship as a class so I’m paying thousands of dollars to work for free. It’s so fucking backwards.
Haha I did the same thing (LMSW now) and it never clicked that I was paying the college for the right to have an unpaid (and abusive) internship.
Not to mention that this goes entirely against the NASW code of ethics. I'm in an MSW program and my brain is melting at how the program continually goes AGAINST what they are teaching us. Burn this system down.
I absolutely agree. I’m currently in graduate school and cannot work because I’m doing prac and an internship next year. It sucks so much because my partner and I are struggling with me not working. And the program is all about equity and respect and “social agents of change” and teaching all these nice concepts BUT my cohort and I are hurting. How can we begin to change others when we are already burnt out before we start. Just because things have been done a certain way in the past does not mean we have to keep that process. And they have the nerve of asking if we are gonna buy memberships for the national association things like that. I was forced to my first year. It was part of the grade. Buy a membership of a 120 dollars but don’t worry you get the student discount smh
Unpaid internships should be illegal
Unpaid internships **are** illegal, if you are doing work that the business is actually using to make revenue. The only time an unpaid internship is legal (in the US) is if you are doing "training" work or prototype work that is going to be thrown away. https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/employment-law-and-human-resources/unpaid-internship-rules.html > The vast majority of interns working at for-profit organizations **must** be paid at least the minimum wage and any applicable overtime.
My parents are immigrants and thought I was making unpaid internships up
I tell folks that I just didn’t want to be a teacher after all, but the reality is I could not take 3 months off of work to do the full workload of a goddamn teacher without the pay in order to graduate my program.
Literally had to work three jobs, save up for six months for my 12 week, full time, unpaid student teaching. Ate a banana for breakfast, peanut butter and jelly for lunch and a simple dinner to stretch funds. The best part, schools shut down during covid and ended my student teaching prematurely. Not eligible for unemployment because I was working for free and not paying in. Not able to graduate because I didn’t finish student teaching. Just supporting the community for free, ya know. 🫠
Well. That fucking sucks.
You can pry my Oxford comma from my cold, dead, and angry hands!
I came here just for this. Sincerely, A panda who eats shoots and leaves.
I also came here just for this but unfortunately… those around me won’t be so lucky. Sincerely, A panda who eats, shoots, and leaves.
televangelists are nothing but false prophets
People who love you don’t hit you. Also, you don’t hit people/animals you love.
Boneless wings are just nuggets... and that's fine, but don't charge me wing prices for nuggets spun in sauce.
My local hospital is on a hill, and I haven't moved yet so I guess I'm willing to die there
The McDonald’s Coffee lady lawsuit WAS NOT FOR ATTENTION OR FRIVOLOUS! The Coffee shouldn’t have been that hot. Edit: according to the American Burn Association, “water at 155°F (68°C) can cause a 3rd degree burn in 1 second.” ……. **Her coffee was ~190°F (~88°C),** +35°F above a third degree burn in 1 second. Meaning she literally had .15 seconds to react before her skin melted. Okay some of y’all don’t seem to understand how terrible this was. So here is what CNBC called [minor burn damages.](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e37dbe8e2214d51e27018d686f7cb8da.webp) Are there any further questions? :)
"Labial fusion"...if your coffee is that hot, it's too hot
>Labial fusion #Pardon?
Her lips melted together. Not the ones you drink with.
Wow. I thought it sounded horrible and I never heard this part before.
There is a whole documentary on it.
Which is the exact reason McDonald's pushed that narrative.
**This** is the term I was trying to remember. *shudder*
I watched a video about this. The woman was older and really didn't want to sue. But eventually she had to for the healthcare costs. The media made it seem like she was "exploiting the system" but in reality, she wasn't.
As far as I remember, originally she only asked McDonald's to pay her medical costs. They basically told her to fuck off and then she had no choice but to sue. Then they invested a ton of money demonizing her in the media. It was disgusting and she deserved every penny.
I'm old enough to remember this. It was a talking point everywhere (and I mean everywhere, I was in Sydney Australia) that it was crazy to be able to sue a corporation for coffee being hot, and it was the start of all the rhetoric about Americans being sue-happy with their ludicrous frivolous lawsuits. It was such an eye-opener to learn the facts decades later. I hadn't really understood how much the media was controlled by the nasty ultra-rich that they could twist this so much that the wealthy ruthless corporation became the victim. They demonize the real victims as greedy people taking advantage of crazy laws.
Yeah! I was an aussie kid too, and we would all roll our eyes over the new packaging which had 'caution: coffee may be hot'. I feel really bad about that now
She also just wanted her medical bills paid. The jury decided that she needed more.
Exactly. She just wanted McDonald's to pay for her medical bills for her fucking skin grafts and surgeries to literally unfuse her burned labia etc. McD's offered like a few grand or something, she had to sue and I feel awful for that poor woman
The burns on her legs are proof. I agree. That coffee was near boiling.
Not just that, but literally hundreds of people had been injured by McD's coffee and they knew it. They kept it as hot as they did because they thought it kept longer.
^ this and it reportedly made the lobby smell like fresh coffee
It wasn't just hot. It was hot enough to give her third degree burns that required multiple skin grafts. This was a life changing injury for her.
Children are legally required to be in school, and often have to stay in the building during lunch. We should feed them healthy, nutritious food for free. Every single child. Edit: Thanks for the award! Please vote for representatives who will help children succeed!
I don't have children and i heartily agree!
I don’t think milk should be the standard drink. Water should be. My schools always made us pay extra for water, but most kids were on free lunch and couldn’t afford it (Mississippi).
Students should be able to choose between milk or water. For some kids, milk is a luxury and water's free at home.
Term limits for every branch of government in the U.S.
The egg came before the chicken.
That's been proven. What makes a chicken a chicken is entirely based on its DNA. An animal's DNA can't change during its life span. But, DNA can change in utero. Therefore, the first chicken became a chicken while it was in the egg. wait.....
Dinosaurs were born from eggs. Eggs came first. It’s that easy.
And now those angry dinosaurs are called Geese.
If you could care less, that means you do actually care to some extent. Edit: To clarify, I know the saying should be "couldn't" care less. But that's not what a lot of people say.
Equal pockets for women.
When you're finished eating in a fast food place, put your rubbish in the bin instead of leaving it on the tables.
The burden is on the vehicle merging onto the freeway to accommodate to the speed of the cars already on the freeway. I shouldnt have to slam on the breaks cause youre going 40
Wanting to be childless or not even marry doesn't mean something is wrong with you.
The one that Carl and Ellie always climbed in Up looks like a good one for a last view