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FlyingUdonMonster t1_j7iibrd wrote

Reply to comment by notawight in Yuhp by QuiGonLogan

Nah, just let people keep running into it. It's doing the world a favor by at least temporarily taking people off the roads who probably shouldn't have driving licenses in the first place and giving wake-up calls to people who have just gotten careless.

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sirgoofs t1_j7ii8so wrote

Reply to Yuhp by QuiGonLogan

If only a thing existed that was concrete, about 6” tall, ran along the ground, and encircled the stop sign… like curbing.

They’ll figure it out sooner or later

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w1nn1ng1 t1_j7idf65 wrote

Reply to Yuhp by QuiGonLogan

Honestly, at this point, anyone who hits this sign should immediately be forced to surrender their license.

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Bunnylazersbacon t1_j7ickkh wrote

Reply to Yuhp by QuiGonLogan

My wife just said that there must be some form of hell mouth there we shouldn’t over look.

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PGids t1_j7iap4g wrote

> Unions have become huge bureaucracies, often totally out of touch with the needs and desires of their membership.

If you’re in a local with more than a hundred people, I can’t sit here with a straight face and say it’s incorrect. I’ve been in two IAM locals and currently in a USW local, there is more fuckery in this local I’m currently in than both of the IAM locals combined. Being unionized is almost always a good thing, but I can definitely tell in here who has and has not worked in a Union environment; it’s absolutely not all sunshine and rainbows like some people paint it as.

One day last spring one maintenance department got an unplanned, non negotiated, outside of contract $6 raise. This pushed their pay gap from the industry standard of $3-5 to almost $10. This was for all pay grades in that department. Roughly 290 days later the rest of maintenance got $2.65. I’m absolutely topped out as far as pay goes in my current position and someone can take a bottom rung trainee bid with the other department and be making within few cents of me. A level 1 trainee making virtually the same as a journeyman; while both are paying the same dues to the same local. That’s fucked up.

I’m rambling but point being: being organized does not make a workplace immune from stupid shit and nepotism

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DonkeyKongsVet t1_j7i9y3s wrote

Reply to Yuhp by QuiGonLogan

Maybe someday this pole will on its own take bad drivers off our roads. Then we can have reasonable auto insurance rates too.

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