@GrowLifeBetter @CasuallyGreg ... Scanning groceries at self-checkout is not a difficult skill? I don't know of anyone who has ever failed at it and I'm not certain how you could.
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Sometimes Softly
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Sometimes Softly
@SometimesSoftly
"The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define." - C.S. Lewis
Katılım Mart 2018
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And yet people complain about scanning their own items at a self checkout (while also failing to do a task which requires ‘no skill’).
Unskilled is a lie told by people who have zero idea about what the work actually entails beyond seeing the finished product.
I’ve had to terminate people with degrees, construction workers, retired medical professionals, former pharmacists, and engineers for performance & skill issues because they came in thinking it would just be an easy job they could just breeze through while looking for their next career.
I challenge anyone who thinks there’s any such thing as an “unskilled job” to take one and last until their first review, do everything 100% correctly on time, and get an “exceeds expectations” on all metrics.
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No, actually. Unskilled jobs/labor is a descriptor. Those terms refer to jobs that don’t require specialized training, advanced education, or complex skills—things like fast food work, retail stocking, basic cleaning, or warehouse picking.
Faith🐇 🏳️🌈 🔞 18+@GeneralFoxxxy
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@BarneyFlames When I say that I've used Spirit a ton and got a lot of benefit, some people are weirdly hostile about it.
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Claim that there isn't demand for ULCCs in the US is ridiculous imo, there's a long tail of working class people for whom travel is only possible because of Spirit/Frontier/Allegient.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
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Why does everyone seem obsessed with the "class" valence of summer jobs anyway?
From what I remember of high school, all kinds of kids had jobs and all kinds of kids didn't. Kids with jobs were doing it because they wanted money and not as some kind of signaling maneuver.
Helen Andrews@herandrews
“Working for money during high school is low class.” Actually, the Department of Labor found the opposite. Teens from richer households are more likely to have summer jobs. dol.gov/sites/dolgov/f…
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My grandmother went back to college in her 60s for a certificate in teaching English as a second language. When my dad asked her about her professors she said "They seem like nice boys."
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Reading the Stranger. I know this makes me sound like an attention-span-atrophied millennial since it's a very short book, but it's taking too long to get to the point.
Partly it's just that I have a hard time caring about a character who doesn't care about things.
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@ASFleischman I agree that there is a theoretical level of required paperwork that would constitute a substantial burden. "Had to describe carefully" and "seemed tense" do not convince me that that level has been reached.
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@ASFleischman Describing a behavior "carefully" does not seem like a terrible burden for a doctor. A very common procedure is likely *easier* to describe carefully.
The other evidence given that the burden is excessive is that someone thought some other people "seemed tense."
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Georgia's draconian abortion laws make it less safe to have a baby here.
Hannah Cox@HannahDCox
Spoke with a woman last night who recently had a miscarriage in Georgia. She was terrified of not being able to get the treatment she needed. Said her female doctor worded her treatment plan very carefully and she could tell everyone was on edge in the process. Personally, I think a woman would have to be crazy to have a pregnancy in a state like Georgia where our legislature’s ridiculous heartbeat bill is putting women’s lives in danger and making pregnancy high risk even for people who want kids.
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I thought we agreed to move on from arguing red button/button to arguing one box/two box.
(Answer is one box, by the way).
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However, I also don't know if our presence helped the public school that much. It wasn't like we were doing some great service by existing. Also, we did leave for magnet school junior year.
Our family felt weird about exclusion via money, but not exclusion via math test.
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My parents deliberately chose to send us to the famously terrible public schools in our small Mississippi town rather than the county private school. I don't think this hurt us that badly (we were good students regardless and it's not like the private school was that great)...
Emily Gould@EmilyGouldNYmag
Putting my whole hand on the third rail here but if we really wanted to have a conversation about the minor moral compromises that people with “good politics” are out here making, we’d talk about who’s sending their kids to private school.
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@JAustinEDU I teach in a hippie charter school that proudly advertises that we don't deduct points for late work, and it results in me having to harangue students to finish things that were assigned three months ago because we're coming up on *our* deadline (submitting scores to the state).
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@adesertdryad I don't dress like conservative women dress on TV. I also don't dress that in the latest styles. That's fine, and in a world where stylishness hadn't taken on a weird political valence in the last two days in particular, I suspect you'd agree.
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@SometimesSoftly them i can forgive because they are operating within constraints. you need to probably dress better.
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hierarchy is real and important people when you say church lady clothes are not stylish
Sometimes Softly@SometimesSoftly
@adesertdryad A "constituency" is another word for a subculture, and yes, subcultures can have different standards of style and taste. So what? It's not a reason to take your own reaction of "ew, different" and launder it into "those people are actually *bad.*
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@adesertdryad Sure, according to current tastes which are arbitrary and don't make anyone a "slightly worse person." Have a good day.
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@adesertdryad And "deliberately making yourself uglier makes you a slightly worse person" is something conservative men say about, like, women with tattoos.
My not wearing skinny jeans during peak skinny-jeans years didn't make me "a slightly worse person." It just made me not that stylish.
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@adesertdryad These women do not think they are making themselves "uglier." They do not think they are dressing "ugly" to please their "constituency." They just have similar taste to their consistency, which makes sense.
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@adesertdryad Failing to perform beauty according to *your* standards is not a moral failing.
(Also, the woman in my profile pic is not at some public political event. If the press secretary wore a toga or flowers in her hair that would be odd-- though, again, not immoral).
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@SometimesSoftly and you know this, which is why your pfp is a decidedly *unfrumpy* woman
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This just translates to "look nice but not super sexy" which is a perfectly fine guide to dressing for a political event/news conference/talking head interview.
Juniper@adesertdryad
rw political women can’t really have style because they are trying to toe the impossible line of “look traditionally sexually appealing to men but also not sexually appealing because that is an indication that you are failing in the primary female virtue - lack of desire”
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@adesertdryad Why is "frumpy" so terrible for an adult woman? Chic-ness is not an actual virtue.
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@adesertdryad A "constituency" is another word for a subculture, and yes, subcultures can have different standards of style and taste. So what? It's not a reason to take your own reaction of "ew, different" and launder it into "those people are actually *bad.*
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