#bad business

[emopainbrush]

evil yuri.......

[thebonesofhoudini]

Heard it through the grapevine that Twitter...oops...I mean X...is facing possible bankruptcy. So Elon Musk is rebranding as X and making it a seperate platform, and killing Twitter to force people to pay to use X. Hence the reason he has been putting emphasis on paid verification systems to ease people into accepting the concept. There aren't too many people who would ever pay a monthly fee to use a social media site that was free for over 15 years...and those that would...are suckers.

Elon Musk is essentially trying to make social media less of a democracy and more of a technofascist dictatorship/secret club that you have to pay to use. If there is someone that completely doesn't get it...it's him. No one wants to pay to use apps, websites or anything they've uses for decades for free. This man and his projects have been subsidized by the government for ages. Now that he can't get that type of funding to save his ass, he's covering up his own failures with this already failed rebrand. Hoping former Twitter users will foot the bill. It won't work.

[miraclethemagician]

"you're supreme, that's what everybody's telling me"

18x24 sharpie and ink pen on drawing paper

[roguekhajiit]

I recently fell for a job posting over the holidays that posted their job as full-time, will train, etc etc. I only wish I'd known then what I know now. It was a bait and switch.

The bait: It's full-time, with little to no experience needed, no special licenses or certifications needed. Will train and pay for certifications (CPR, First Aid) after hiring.

First red flag: The same day you have your first and only interview, you are asked to sign the new hire documents and go through orientation. You're hired on the spot.

Second red flag: The training is supposed to be 4 days of you driving/riding around with the trainer. It gets shrunk down to 2. The training boils down to the trainer, showing you how to push buttons in an app on a tablet and watching you drive for a day and a half.

Third red flag: All the other stuff you were supposed to be trained on; they ghost you on. It never happens. No CPR or first aid training ever takes place. They never approach you about it, and every time you ask about it, they dodge the question.

The Switch: Your 90 days is coming to an end, and they'll soon have to give you the raise you are owed.

Suddenly, they call you into the office a week before your 90 days is up, and they have a list of grievances against you; complaints from customers about your attitude and your driving. You're just not a good fit for the company, and they are going to have to let you go.

But they never once brought these concerns up to you over the past two and a half months. Every time you poked your head in the office to ask if they needed anything from you, they never bothered to mention these grievances then. But a week before your 90 days is up, there's this stack of complaints against you that just suddenly appeared, and none are specific. They're all generic; bad driving, bad attitude.

It's almost as if they just needed someone to fill in during the holidays while their regular drivers took their vacations and now that the holidays are over they no longer need you and want to issue you a termination letter while you're still within your 90 "probationary" period.

I've come to realize they did this because they knew if they listed the job as temporary, they would be less likely to receive applicants.

The worst part of the entire experience, though, has been how they have tried to twist this around to make it seem like it was my fault. My driving skills were to blame, and my attitude was to blame. Never mind that I consistently went above and beyond what a normal driver would do for the customers. From throwing down traction sand to make it safer for the customers to walk out of their own front doors, to helping them walk down their own steps. Never mind that I never once crashed or totaled the vehicles or caused damage to another person's property. Other drivers have more than once in the past two and a half months. Yet somehow, they worded it so that there was somehow fault with my driving and my attitude.

But in reality, they had me caught in a bait and switch the entire time, and they just no longer had any use for me. Don't fall for predatory employment tactics like I did. Protect yourselves. If they want to hire you on the spot but want you to subject yourself to any kind of probationary period with the promise of higher pay looming at the end for your "hard work and dedication," Walk away. It's not worth it.

[mafaldaknows]

Like this

But with cars

[Meanwhile … ]

[thecosmicinsanity]

shane ryan and steven you will begin to cough in 7 days—

[hazelgatoya]

Paywall Prome

Free him

[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

One thing my school does that I absolutely can't stand is how it makes money for the pta. Every holiday the kids send each other candy grams--- every single holiday.

It's like this stupid candy canes in Mean Girls. School charges the kids $1 a piece to send a miniature candy bar this size.

Sometimes it's even smaller. I've seen them charge a dollar for two pieces of starburst. Then these are distributed during advisory/study hall.

And of course the popular kids get a lot and the unpopular or the poor kids get none. And these are 9-year-old kids it's not like they can handle their feelings. It absolutely sucks. So every year I make sure I have a bag of candy and every single person in my room gets a piece of candy no matter whether they received one from their friends are not. I don't want anyone to be left out.

But that's for like 20 kids out of 400 and it's not fair and I think it's a really stupid practice. It is happening again tomorrow for halloween.

3 years ago I made a tick tock about this. Then I got really paranoid because I was showing my face and I was afraid they would fire me or something. But it's still pisses me off.

[emopainbrush]

not feeling like posting it on insta(yeah i wonder why 😒) but yeah anwyay is there any point of posting anywhere at this point 💖CRYING anyway live laugh love evil toxic yuri bc its the only thing keeping me sane somehow

[doodlee-a]

Sharing this again. These are DECEPTIVE practices companies use to make your life harder!!! Honest companies should never do this! https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/P214800%20Dark%20Patterns%20Report%209.14.2022%20-%20FINAL.pdf

[olivethedream]

BROTHER youre gonna get kidnapped 😭 snatched, stolen, even. They know who you aree 😔 tyen youll be forced tp be mind conyrolled anf stupid

I’m too good for them tbh😪😪😪

[miraclethemagician]

those are bad cops handcuffs... rough transcript beneath in case of handwriting

1: happy birthday bad cop! open it

2: uh, thank you, sir

3: bad cops bday last year. "uh, thank you, sir"

4: Xmas "uh, thank you, sir"

5: B's bday "mmmfmm mm mnn (uh, thank you, sir)"

[pennyfarthingdash]

AJP Replay 🎩 Trump once called Gen. Mike Flynn in the middle of the night to find out if a strong or weak dollar was better for the economy. Can we please stop saying Trump has a good business mind? We're not sure if he has anything in that huge melon at this point.

[nottawriter]

The one time deadnaming is acceptable

[leporcide]

Opened Bad Business up again to work on ch 3

[teethmafia]

But, if you’re a real freak, for 90 dollars we’ll let you roll around in the unfinished hyper-realistic bug-pit a whole 72 hours before everyone else.

In 2024 hyper realistic graphics are no longer impressive. You know what impresses me? A fully complete and functional game at launch