Work for a Fortune 500, ~$100b company. Still understaffed. The greed never ceases.

Fair, and agreed. But that would be something I’d expect their supervisor to address, not a random customer. Again, the board would exist to process and interpret exactly things like this.

Hm…

1. You can get “drafted” by local retailers and you must complete 2x your remaining time? Or maybe you have to join the Job Corps or something?

2. My initial thought is something like where each infraction tacks on another week, maybe?

There’s a lot of red teaming and game theory work that would need to be done to tighten up exactly these kinds of questions. But it’s difficult because the entire point of the exercise is to try and instill some empathy into people, and it’s hard to do that without making it easy to game, and making it onerous defeats the purpose.

Like, if a woman went to college, then stayed and got her master’s, and was then on track to do her service and finish just before her 25th birthday but got pregnant, there shouldn’t be any punishment for that. Her time should just be tolled until she’s able to work again. Same thing with someone getting sick. But then you run the risk of something like people getting fake doctor notes and being perpetually sick to avoid it. I would want to make sure that everyone has to go through with it, regardless of financial or social status. No “senator’s son” deferments, ya know?

Thank you for your support.

Complaints would have to be about their actual conduct / job performance.

My thought project on the subject is actually a bit more expansive -

Before the age of 25, everyone must complete 1000 hours (~6 mo) in a customer facing position in one of the following roles:

• Retail

• Food Service

• Call Center

Service must be completed with under x number of verified complaints.

Age limit may have to be tweaked. There would have to be some kind of oversight board to prevent people from being assholes the whole time they’re there. Also, some kind of minimum service block to prevent doing it piecemeal a week at a time or something.

ETA - but, because everyone has to go through it so everyone knows the parameters, there would need to be guardrails against customers holding complaints over the employees head.

When I worked in call centers, we would always joke that management should give away “non-recorded call passes” as incentives. At any point in a call, you could place the caller on hold, head into a different room, and continue the call from there. No recordings, no repercussions, nothing - just a black box of account activity. You could tell the customer exactly what you think of their bullshit threat to cancel their service.

I tell that story to say that, with some tweaking, I think that could be worked into a way to prevent customers from gaming the system. If you knew that every employee got 1 free “punch a customer in the face” card per month, you might think twice before mouthing off.

While I’ve subscribed to this philosophy for decades at this point, there is a possible issue that was really hammered home by COVID -

there will be a non-zero number of people who will be even shittier because “I had to ensure endure it, so they should, too!”

Ah, I can see how shelving limits could cause problems. Most libraries I’ve gone to only fill each shelf about 3/4 full to account for that. Thanks for the insights!

This is essentially the same as in the US. But one question

When you bring it back, you scan the book again and leave it on the shelf by the returns scanner. Because the book was removed from the inventory, it wont have a place on a shelf yet.

Do you not have a classification system that determines where a book should reside? US libraries (and others, I presume) use the Dewey Decimal System, which groups books into categories and such, and then finally alphabetically by author. So every book would have a general place to go, and then the specific place would be determined by the author’s last name.

I’m my younger years, I got 3 $300+ speeding tickets in just under a year (speeding in Cali is an expensive lesson). This pretty much stopped my speeding habits. I use my cruise control constantly. It works down to 16mph in my car, so even in school zones. I fucking love it so much. Huge reduction in stress and anxiety.

And before anyone asks, I’m not the holier-than-thou asshole doing the speed limit in the fast lane. I stick to the right lane, move over to pass when I need to, and then move back.

Cool, but have you thought about using it for Tasker profiles?

https://youtu.be/2pzejOWQbWY

My version of this has always been 30 days before the holiday, or the day after the previous holiday, whichever is less.

First day showed for…

Valentine’s Day? January 15th

Easter? March 18th - March 25th (since Easter can be between March 22nd and April 25th, but can’t encroach on St Patrick’s Day territory on March 17th)

Thanksgiving? November 1st

Christmas? November 25th - November 29th (Turkey Day ranges from Nov 22nd to Nov 28th)

I’m with you on New Year’s Day not being January 1st and instead being a non-day.

Anytime this topic comes up, I reshare this blog post. With things being “that bad” over a decade ago, I can’t imagine how much worse it’s gotten.

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

Scams. If someone did get ahold of your phone and it was unlocked, it keeps them from texting “Mom” “hey, I’m stuck in [xx] and I need you to send me $1500. Send it to my friend’s venmo, because mine is messed up right now.”

Vague recollection of Rodney King & the LA Riots. After that would be the Northridge earthquake, because it woke me up.

Yeah, I typically use 1996 (unlikely to remember 9/11) to 2015 (in school for the pandemic).

Mostly lurk, so unlikely. Changing domains when lemm.ee closed down doesn’t help, either.

Eh, I think that his 2nd term kind of helps validate that view of his 1st. Because he was a political newbie, he allowed those around him to help make staffing decisions, so you got mostly run of the mill Republicans. Terrible, certainly, but not sycophants. That’s all out the window this time. Key positions are filled based solely on either fealty to the mad king or ✨campaign contributions✨ (bribes). Anyone who dares speak out gets the axe, and at least for now it’s a metaphorical one.

I finally let mine go last week. RIP 🪦