Post by pixy0stix on Sept 20, 2023 14:23:12 GMT -5
Update: I now have black dress pants, a nice button down shirt, and a black blazer. I would rather shove splinters under my nail beds than shop for another blazer. I need to get it tailored, but it will do for the interviews on Monday. Being busty/apple shaped is a bitch to fit.
As an aside, I now have 2 interviews on Monday. One is for a position that was a stretch apply for me, but that I'm REALLY EXCITED about (government position).
It's interesting....I didn't realize that you could "vote from the doorway" & I hadn't considered traveling. I also generally feel that a business clothes & shoes are more challenging for women. Look at all the grief Hillary got about her pant suits.
From Axios this morning.
You have got to start including links and not copying and pasting the whole article.
Has anyone had trouble booking appointments for kids at Walgreens or CVS? Both offer appointments when I enter my or my husband's birth date - tons of availability. But when I enter my kids (ages 8 and 11), it says there are no appointments. The websites say they vaccinate ages 3 and up. I was going to call Walgreens and ask, but I wondered if others had the same experience?
This is what I was running into. If your kids were moderna vaccinated, the roll-out doesn't appear to be happening until October.
Post by pixy0stix on Sept 19, 2023 16:50:16 GMT -5
I'm still stuck in the email. It's not hard to set up a Gmail account and then alerts for that account if you get an email, if you're worried about missing an email.
Or are people using work emails because they think Teams/Zoom won't work?
Post by pixy0stix on Sept 19, 2023 12:40:51 GMT -5
Hard no on the email. Work equipment... eh? Unless it's super obvious that you're at your other office job, in your office, using office equipment, all of which is again a hard no, then I think it's ok to use work stuff.
But that first chart still shows that overall, Boomers have the lowest mean approval rating for unions. Even if it’s divided by party, Boomers are more likely to vote Republican.
And for most of deregulation, when many of the pro-business/pro-Wall Street policies came into effect, Boomer support of unions was far below Gen X.
I think we've all gotten (aka Millennials [although I'm GenX]) really good about blaming Boomers for all our problems, but the fact is that they're on their way out. Millennials, should they choose to leverage it, could have MUCH more power than Boomers just by sheer population size. But Millennials aren't voting. They're seasoned adults now with adult voices, and they're choosing not to use them.
Michelle has a long personal history of family poverty thanks to corrupt union strikes saying offensive things and not reading the room so not surprising.
These aren't right wing talking points. This is from my lived experience. Just SOME of my lived experience with union corruption.
You were a kid, and your dad was a scab during a heated union strike. Your dad sold out and of course people were pissed. You have no idea what else was going on, just what your family told you.
This is giving me flashbacks to that one poster who claimed she was poor, but it turned out her family owned a business with employees.
It's surprising to me, given the overall leanings of this board, to see such mixed support of unions and worker benefits.
I think they are making a valid point-- if the company can afford to give executives 40% raises, then why shouldn't the workers see those raises too?
Also, average UAW wage is $18-32/hour. Which is $37-66k/year for 40 hours/week. Is that "a really good wage for their type of work"?
I also can't begrudge Boomers for enjoying their pensions-- that was a benefit that was offered/expected during the peak of their employment, at a time largely before the prevalence of 401ks, so the idea that they are getting it "for doing nothing" is bugging me.
Full disclosure: My H took a union job 3 years ago that has very significantly changed our lives for the better. They aren't perfect, but I will sing the praises of unions all day every day.
I made the comment about “doing nothing,” which was as much a dig at my ILs as anything. My FIL in particular is very peak Boomer about getting his due (god forbid anyone mentions taxing his pension), while grumbling about having to pay a nominal health insurance fee every time they go to a restaurant.
Hey, I’m glad they got their pensions so they can live in their 4000 sq ft house and collect a check that’s nearly four times the median wage in the U.S. today. If we’re lucky, that’s my kid’s inheritance. But my comment WAS in support of younger people wanting to have the same benefits. Being a teacher today is as hard as it ever was — if not harder — and we treat people as entitled for wanting the bare minimum. Meanwhile, the Boomers have totally drained our coffers. I mean, good for them, but which generation is overwhelmingly voting for anti-labor policies? Talk about pulling up the ladder behind you …
Post by pixy0stix on Sept 18, 2023 16:48:28 GMT -5
Moderna appts are finally starting to pop up in October for the kid. Nowhere near me, of course. The closest is 30 miles away.
Vaccine related, but not covid, I received a notification from the school district that my kid is way behind his vaccinations. Which freaked me out, so I called his doc office to review. They're going to get back to me, but the explanation I got from the desk person is that they're seeing discrepancies between the state database and their own databases. The school is pulling from the state, and not going from the vaccine record I provided when DS was enrolled. It's a mess.
Ok buds. You just keep doing other shit other than your jobs. Maybe it'll keep you occupied during the election season and a bunch of you will lose your seats.
AGAIN. This isn't about finding good deals, this is about being informed, thoughtful, caring, and conscientious consumers- and frankly, it's about raising a better generation than their parents.
People give zero shits. See also the posts of people breezing in about quality and how it's all good for them. No matter that a kid their child's age probably helped produce the very same product and lives in horrific conditions. As long as their own kid gets that Elsa costume!
Post by pixy0stix on Sept 11, 2023 10:42:29 GMT -5
I purchased a resume writing service. Yeah, all the advice saying don't do it is true. I actually received someone else's resume instead of my second draft, and it's formatted exactly like mine for a different field. Which, there's only a few ways to format a resume, but these are almost identical.
I think the prison system is awful and needs to be completely overhauled/abolished but at the same time, I can’t be too upset when a rich white serial rapist who takes no responsibility for his crimes gets sentenced to jail time.
The alternatives to prison work best when there is buy in from all parties. Even many prison abolitionists admit that there would probably always need to be some way to remove some people from general society in a way that is as humane as possible. There are always going to be some people who are going to be resistant to rehabilitation who are real dangers.
I am not optimistic there will be any major overhaul of the system (why would there when it is so profitable?) so I think it’s important to focus on parts of the problem and tackle them individually in hopes it can bring along systemic change. That’s why it’s so important to support public schools, libraries, social services, access to health care, programs in prisons that improve prisoner lives, etc. The whole issue around plea bargaining alone is massive and I’m not sure how to tackle that but that clearly needs to be done.
I agree with this. As for the bolded, there's also a lot of discussion about what is humane. There's research now that imprisoning someone for life is not as humane as executing them, especially in regards to mental health. It's decades long torture.
So to answer the OP question, I think I'm fairly progressive in that I believe the entire system needs an overhaul, but not progressive in that I believe in some instances we need to keep the death penalty.