Pulse has been dope since it first launched.

I’ll take a 3.00 round trip over gas, insurance and maintenance any day of the week.

Last time I cooked Thanksgiving I took meal prep containers and made little thanksgiving meals. Turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, veggies. Then froze them for quick lunches or dinners. Loved having it every few weeks instead of every day for a week!!

I was literally referring to the people on a few Reddit subs about the end of WFH, not legitimate labor issues. There's a difference in having a complaint about being stiffed on your tips, or being asked to work off the clock, and the boss taking away the free coffee.

People can have valid complaints about employment at a variety of levels without declaring some of them “spoilt brats.” One person getting their leg broken doesn’t negate another person getting punched in the kidney, or a third person getting slapped in the face. Workers are mistreated and abused in a variety of ways in a variety of severities, and calling out employers for pointless mistreatment is how terrible jobs turn to shitty jobs and shitty jobs turn to ok jobs. You don’t just stop trying to improve things when you stop being literal slave labor.

imo i go to that exxon and mcdonalds pretty frequently and its fine. you're not going to get robbed but you will get hassled for cash (like 10% of the time)... that's like the most that ever happens.

Traffic only sucks there during rush hour.

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It really emphasizes how most US Citizens are whiners & spoilt brats when it comes to employment. The majority of the world lives in poverty & defacto-slavery, yet we have people who have a meltdown because they can't telework & pet their dog now that COVID is "over".

Right? I told my husband I ain’t getting her shit ever again 🌟

That’s kind of what we were going for, but our daughter is the only child in the whole group. His mom basically said she waits all year for us to buy gifts for her, it’s so weird. It’s a toxic relationship that probably won’t be tolerated much longer.

I've got a single ticket to see Kendall Street Company tonight (11/25) at the Broadberry that I can no longer use. Hate to see it go to waste! If you are interested, DM me. I will gift it to you!

This is an actual physical ticket, so you will have to meet me before 2PM to pick it up.

Where Qatar was during WC construction.

Where Qatar stands today.

My invoice is dated Nov 10. When I look up the serial number online from another device, it says it's not eligible for AppleCare. However, when I go through the AppleCare purchase process on the MacBook itself, it appears it's eligible. I don't know for sure, as I didn't complete the process.

Thanks! The James River Park System sounds amazing. When I lived in Charlotte there were a ton of green spaces nearby where I could walk my dog or take pictures and I definitely miss that.

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Came here to post this but you won! Nice reference!

If you *need* to be in that area, just going one block up to Vida East (20th & E Marshall) or the apartments at 21st and E. Broad would be safer. The downside is the noise from the Murder McDonalds travels uphill.

A man in Nepal learns from a recruiter that Qatar is hiring. The recruiter says yeah you'll make the equivalent of thousands of US dollars working in Qatar. Qatari companies & the recruiters don't pay for your transportation, so you have to sign a loan that covers those fees, pays for you to get a passport, processing of your visa to Qatar, etc which could cost you a substantial amount of your salary.

After its all signed you are on your way to Qatar. Upon arrival the Qatari company takes your passport and gives you a worker ID card. Now you are tied to the employer, if you lose your job you are an illegal immigrant because you don't have your passport. If you complain or protest too much you can be fired which means you have 72 hours to arrange your own exit or be arrested, if you are found on the street with an invalid worker ID because the company fired you can be arrested for being in the country illegally.

So when the company doesn't pay you, you are left with little options. You can keep working without pay in the hope they catch up with their arrears, walk off the job and become an illegal alien, or protest and the company fires you making you an illegal alien.

And these issues are outside of the working conditions themselves. For industries like construction heat is a big concern. A heat stroke death on the job only counts as a fatality if you die on the job site, if your body lingers to life for a few hours after the heat stroke sets it, and if they make it to a clinic or hospital or bed Qatar doesn't count you as a on-the-job fatality. Qatar will say there were less than 100 construction fatalities but countries like Nepal have received thousands of their citizens in body bags. Heat stroke isn't an instant killer for most that die from it and leaves survivors with permanent organ damage that could make future heat strokes ultimately fatal.

Now there have been some reforms, its now illegal for a company to hold your passport and tie your employment with them to your legal right to be in the country, but if your employer does things old school law enforcement isn't going to come down on the employer. There are supposed to be labor courts, but enforcement & follow through is a work in progress. Qatar has shown off newer worker housing to Western media, but those same media outlets find other existing foreign worker camps that are way less sanitary.

In many ways labor in China is similar to labor in Qatar, and I'm not trying to dismiss China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Thailand, etc… working conditions & lack of human/labor rights. The way recruitment works turns labor into basically an industrial system of sharecropping because the workers are put into debt to have the privilege of working, it's practically impossible to move from a bad employer to a better employer even if your employer doesn't take your passport because your worker ID is voided so you can't be found on the street and you just lost your employer provided housing, bad employers can be really bad in terms of non-payment, living conditions, worker safety protections, sexual harassment/assault of female labor is an issue, and 120+ degree temperatures is dangerously hot.

Modern day slavery? That's a bold proclamation, do you have data or sources for that claim?

I’ve been wondering the same! When I was a student they talked about the Qatar campus constantly it seemed like. Radio silence the last couple years.

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It's funny you say that because when we went to Kill Devil Hills this summer my son asked about the names so we looked it up and there were a bunch of speculative stories as to why they came up with the name and none of them really made sense so I made up my own reason lol

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Loved working on Thanksgiving. Gimme that double time, good food, less bullshit calls and we usually run a fire. I'm all for it.

How is this any different than the Chinese labor practices? China has defacto slavery, there people don’t have free-will, and a portion is prison/re-education-center labor. The Unites States and the majority of Europe has taken the moral high-road, but we still outsource everything to slavery countries. It’s a perplexing issue, sort of like when we stopped calling people “Negros”, but still actively exploited them. This is all above our pay grade, as this is orchestrated by world leaders