My company did a voluntary "virtual breakroom", where we were apparently invited to "virtually sit down and have a chat with each other" about whatever. You should have seen how fast I failed to sign up for that.
I'm still in college, but largely I feel video meetings are pointless. Most video calls can be replaced with a decently made power point presentation, an email, or a pre-recorded video. Any way would be more efficient and effective. But I guess some profs just want the feeling of actual teaching, which I can respect, but there are days when I spend 7.5 hours just staring at my screen in Zoom meetings. Drives me crazy and drains all my energy.
Y'ever just wanna stand up on your desk and shout for the world to hear that the corporate mentality is fucking stupid?
Our cat’s obsession with wet food has gone off the rails. Now, she is CHOOSEY, demanding it one second, then turning her nose up at the same flavor the next. I find myself, an avid cat hater, grocery shopping for a fucking animal that I’d love nothing more than to punt over a fence. Yesterday, my gf and I were arguing over a grocery list (over the course of this pandemic, we’ve run out of things to talk about, so we’ve invented things to fight about,) so in a huff, I went shopping. Came back an hour later, and as she’s assessing what I bought, she notes that the cat doesn’t like the flavor of cat food I bought. Conversation went like this:
Ugh, worst job I ever had was working as a produce clerk in a Walmart "Neighborhood" Market (a smaller, grocery centric walmart), and every single day, the manager called us all into the break room to have a meeting. The subject? "So yesterday, the meat department brought in 5.62% more profit than the same day last year." *golf claps* Every single department, every single day.
Begs the question: what were the meat department employees doing to merit such arbitrary praise? Because as a +40 year carnivore, I've never been "sold" in any store's meat department. Meaning I've never gone in looking for hamburgers and been upsold waygu steak via a shrewd butcher's sales tactics. Was anyone ever fired over LACK of sales? Was any Walmart butcher ever let go because he didn't crunch out a half smoked cigarette and straighten his tie to sell a rack of ribs to the soccer mom looking to buy an 8-pack of hotdogs?
It wasn't that the meat department was special or anything, it's just that these meetings covered all of the departments, so it would be meat, pharmacy, produce, front end, etc., and not just profits, but tare and losses and all the other dumb fucking percentile shit that totally matters to the people making about minimum wage.
That's hilarious. My gf's son is 16, fully capable, but his mother has doted on him so much all his life (only child,) if it requires anymore than a 2-step process, he won't make his own food. He'll scramble an egg, or boil some ramen, but asking him to do anymore, you might as well ask him to build a Mars rover. Meanwhile, his much younger cousins, whose mother has four children and has long since decided "raise yourselves," can be found clambering around in the kitchen like monkeys (literally climbing on counters as lack of height necessitates) making multi-course meals.
My kids are seven. I'm not ready to do the teaching cooking thing yet. They can make their own cereal easily and sandwiches if pressed, and if they want snacks I remind them there's a fruit bowl.
Not insinuating anyone should teach children too cook at that early an age, just marveled by how differently they can respond to the task. In my case, this 16-year-old (who has a driver's permit and will be eligible to vote in another year; God help us all) should be a lot more self-sufficient than he is. He walks back and forth between his bedroom and kitchen eating junk food until his mother gets fed up watching him pace and makes him something substantive while her younger nieces and nephews could probably survive in primitive hunter/gatherer societies with ease. Oh, his latest out? He used Uber Eats to order a single cheeseburger from McDonalds, not even fries; I think the delivery fee was more than the food.
